Poisonous Politics
How many people thought Democrats were really going to do positive things for the country when they put them back in power last year? If they did think anything like that, they should have known better. I'm guessing only the most rabidly partisan could ever be satisfied with what the Dems have done with their power.
Investigations is the name of the game now in congress. The partisans afflicted with Bush Derangement Syndrome spend all of their time scheming about new investigations they can launch that might embarrass the President. For the most severly afflicted, fantasies abound that if they investigate long and hard enough, they might actually find something they could use as grounds for impeachment.
So the endless investigations continue, widening the bitter divide between the rival parties while accomplishing zero in terms of improving the security, freedom, and prosperity of the nation.
Scooter Libby got convicted for lying about something that was never a crime to begin with. He says he just had a faulty memory. But he got convicted and sentenced to prison, not for exposing the identity of a covert CIA agent, as Democrats and their friends in the media desparately want us to believe; but for making statements to investigators in the case that did not match with the statements of reporters interviewed in the same case.
Maybe he lied because he didn't want his name plastered all over the papers as the person in the white house who exposed Valerie Plame. Maybe he didn't know that he wasn't the source, and the investigators already knew who identified her to Robert Novak. Maybe he just had a bad memory as he claims, mixing up which conversation he had with which reporters on which days. Hey, maybe the reporters were the ones who lied.
The silliness continues. At present, the Dems are investigating the firing of a handful of US Attorneys. Since the fundamental truth here is that the US Attorneys can be fired by the Administration at any time and for any reason, it might occur to someone to ask them what exactly are you investigating? To what end?
The answer is pretty obvious. They're pretty sure the firings took place for political reasons, but fantasize that just maybe they were to take out people who were prosecuting friends of the White House. So they're going to court to fight over access to internal administration communications, which the White House is (rightly) refusing to give them.
The cop shows on TV taught us that there has to be something called "probable cause" to search people. Regardless of the reason for the firings of these attorneys, unless a specific case can be found against a Bush crony that was dismissed or settled by the fired attorneys' replacement, there is no probable cause suggesting anything more than a political consideration was involved in the firings.
Investigations continue unabated. In search of any evidence that can embarrass Bush. Investigating the Iraq war over and over again and finding nothing new since the first 50 investigations. Investigating the Attorney General to see if they can find any evidence he lied about anything.
Of course, there are no investigations of guys like Jefferson, caught with bribe money stashed in his freezer. Or Harry Reid's real estate deals. Or Jack Murtha's corrupt quid-pro-quo's. Or Ben Nelson's earmark for government grants to his son's software company. Or Pelosi's husband's contracts. I suppose that if there's actual corruption taking place with somebody who happens to be a Democrat, no investigation is required.
Maybe the best way for a corrupt Republican to avoid prosecution is to simply announce he's decided to switch parties.
The only thing the Democrats take time out of their busy investigations to do is introduce more bills on Iraq. They keep trying to force a surrender. I wonder how many times in history the superior combatant that was clearly winning the fight just suddenly decided to quit and go home? It looks like that's likely to happen soon with Iraq.
Investigations is the name of the game now in congress. The partisans afflicted with Bush Derangement Syndrome spend all of their time scheming about new investigations they can launch that might embarrass the President. For the most severly afflicted, fantasies abound that if they investigate long and hard enough, they might actually find something they could use as grounds for impeachment.
So the endless investigations continue, widening the bitter divide between the rival parties while accomplishing zero in terms of improving the security, freedom, and prosperity of the nation.
Scooter Libby got convicted for lying about something that was never a crime to begin with. He says he just had a faulty memory. But he got convicted and sentenced to prison, not for exposing the identity of a covert CIA agent, as Democrats and their friends in the media desparately want us to believe; but for making statements to investigators in the case that did not match with the statements of reporters interviewed in the same case.
Maybe he lied because he didn't want his name plastered all over the papers as the person in the white house who exposed Valerie Plame. Maybe he didn't know that he wasn't the source, and the investigators already knew who identified her to Robert Novak. Maybe he just had a bad memory as he claims, mixing up which conversation he had with which reporters on which days. Hey, maybe the reporters were the ones who lied.
The silliness continues. At present, the Dems are investigating the firing of a handful of US Attorneys. Since the fundamental truth here is that the US Attorneys can be fired by the Administration at any time and for any reason, it might occur to someone to ask them what exactly are you investigating? To what end?
The answer is pretty obvious. They're pretty sure the firings took place for political reasons, but fantasize that just maybe they were to take out people who were prosecuting friends of the White House. So they're going to court to fight over access to internal administration communications, which the White House is (rightly) refusing to give them.
The cop shows on TV taught us that there has to be something called "probable cause" to search people. Regardless of the reason for the firings of these attorneys, unless a specific case can be found against a Bush crony that was dismissed or settled by the fired attorneys' replacement, there is no probable cause suggesting anything more than a political consideration was involved in the firings.
Investigations continue unabated. In search of any evidence that can embarrass Bush. Investigating the Iraq war over and over again and finding nothing new since the first 50 investigations. Investigating the Attorney General to see if they can find any evidence he lied about anything.
Of course, there are no investigations of guys like Jefferson, caught with bribe money stashed in his freezer. Or Harry Reid's real estate deals. Or Jack Murtha's corrupt quid-pro-quo's. Or Ben Nelson's earmark for government grants to his son's software company. Or Pelosi's husband's contracts. I suppose that if there's actual corruption taking place with somebody who happens to be a Democrat, no investigation is required.
Maybe the best way for a corrupt Republican to avoid prosecution is to simply announce he's decided to switch parties.
The only thing the Democrats take time out of their busy investigations to do is introduce more bills on Iraq. They keep trying to force a surrender. I wonder how many times in history the superior combatant that was clearly winning the fight just suddenly decided to quit and go home? It looks like that's likely to happen soon with Iraq.
posted by Dan S. at 11:34 AM
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