I wasn't born yet - but looking back, yeah, his ass belonged in jail for it.
Pierce was bad too.
But Fillmore was a lying fuckface before that.
Seriously though 240, a large part of the Democratic "MO" is scientific reasoning.....listening to what the "experts" have to say on a subject, and then using that to provide the greatest good to the greatest number of people.
That is one part of Liberalism an "anti-religious right" conservative like me can believe in.....listening to the advice of people who've devoted their entire life to a subject over what the bible or other arbitrary ideology has to say on the topic.
Bringing up "Bush did it too" is totally irrelevant IMO. The "assholes on the right" are supposed to ignore science to further their agenda. The left is supposed to use science over ideology to better serve the people.
If the left lets things like this slip by, then a major foundational principle of their base is pointless.
What is an independent athiest/scientist supposed to think after something like this?