6 December 2016

Bob Dole, once a Presidential candidate and respected Senator,
sold his soul to put Taiwan’s national interests above America’s

Now we know who arranged Donald Trump’s provocative (and, I would say, ill-considered) telephone call with the president of Taiwan. It was, reports the New York Times, 92-year-old Bob Dole, a hero of WWII, once a U.S. Senator from Kansas and Republican candidate for President, and now a buckraking Washington, D.C. lobbyist and foreign agent for the government of Taiwan.

His firm’s fee for whoring for Taiwan? One-hundred-forty-thousand dollars.

Apparently, Dole’s reprehensible conduct was legal. But it shouldn’t have been. Former members of Congress and officers of the cabinet should be barred for life from working for a foreign government. What did did was not just greedy and unwise, it was downright unpatriotic. He should be ashamed of himself.