posted on March 7, 2007 04:59:11 PM new
When demo's lose an election, they claim they were robbed. When they win, the clain it was "the peoples choice".
SHOOTING ELEPHANTS IN A BARREL
Wed Mar 7, 6:41 PM ET
Lewis Libby has now been found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice for lies that had absolutely no legal consequence.
It was not a crime to reveal
Valerie Plame's name because she was not a covert agent. If it had been a crime, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald could have wrapped up his investigation with an indictment of the State Department's Richard Armitage on the first day of his investigation since it was Armitage who revealed her name and Fitzgerald knew it.
With no crime to investigate, Fitzgerald pursued a pointless investigation into nothing, getting a lot of White House officials to make statements under oath and hoping some of their recollections would end up conflicting with other witness recollections, so he could charge some Republican with "perjury" and enjoy the fawning media attention.
As a result, Libby is now a convicted felon for having a faulty memory of the person who first told him that Joe Wilson (news, bio, voting record) was a delusional boob who lied about his wife sending him to Niger.
This makes it official: It's illegal to be Republican.
Since Teddy Kennedy walked away from a dead girl with only a wrist slap (which was knocked down to a mild talking-to, plus time served: zero), Democrats have apparently become a protected class in America, immune from criminal prosecution no matter what they do.
As a result, Democrats have run wild, accepting bribes, destroying classified information, lying under oath, molesting interns, driving under the influence, obstructing justice and engaging in sex with underage girls, among other things.
Meanwhile, conservatives of any importance constantly have to spend millions of dollars defending themselves from utterly frivolous criminal prosecutions. Everything is illegal, but only Republicans get prosecuted.
Conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh was subjected to a three-year criminal investigation for allegedly buying prescription drugs illegally to treat chronic back pain. Despite the witch-hunt, Democrat prosecutor Barry E. Krischer never turned up a crime.
Even if he had, to quote liberal Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz: "Generally, people who illegally buy prescription drugs are not prosecuted." Unless they're Republicans.
The vindictive prosecution of Limbaugh finally ended last year with a plea bargain in which Limbaugh did not admit guilt. Gosh, don't you feel safer now? I know I do.
In another prescription drug case with a different result, last year, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) (Democrat), apparently high as a kite on prescription drugs, crashed a car on Capitol Hill at 3 a.m. That's abuse of prescription drugs (BEGIN ITAS)plus a DUI offense. Result: no charges whatsoever and one day of press on Fox News Channel.
I suppose one could argue those were different jurisdictions. How about the same jurisdiction?
In 2006, Democrat and major Clinton contributor Jeffrey Epstein was nabbed in Palm Beach in a massive police investigation into his hiring of local underage schoolgirls for sex, which I'm told used to be a violation of some kind of statute in the Palm Beach area.
The police presented Limbaugh prosecutor Krischer with boatloads of evidence, including the videotaped statements of five of Epstein's alleged victims, the procurer of the girls for Epstein and 16 other witnesses.
But the same prosecutor who spent three years maniacally investigating Limbaugh's alleged misuse of back-pain pills refused to bring statutory rape charges against a Clinton contributor. Enraging the police, who had spent months on the investigation, Krischer let Epstein off after a few hours on a single count of solicitation of prostitution. The Clinton supporter walked, and his victims were branded as whores.
The Republican former House Whip
Tom DeLay is currently under indictment for a minor campaign finance violation. Democratic prosecutor Ronnie Earle had to empanel six grand juries before he could find one to indict DeLay on these pathetic charges -- and this is in Austin, Texas (the Upper West Side with better-looking people).
That final grand jury was so eager to indict DeLay that it indicted him on one charge that was not even a crime -- and which has since been tossed out by the courts.
After winning his primary despite the indictment, DeLay decided to withdraw from the race rather than campaign under a cloud of suspicion, and Republicans lost one of their strongest champions in Congress.
Compare DeLay's case with that of Rep. William "The Refrigerator" Jefferson, Democrat. Two years ago, an
FBI investigation caught Jefferson on videotape taking $100,000 in bribe money. When the FBI searched Jefferson's house, they found $90,000 in cash stuffed in his freezer. Two people have already pleaded guilty to paying Jefferson the bribe money.
Two years later, Bush's Justice Department still has taken no action against Jefferson. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) recently put Rep. William Jefferson (news, bio, voting record) on the
Homeland Security Committee.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record), Democrat, engaged in a complicated land swindle, buying a parcel of land for $400,000 and selling it for over $1 million a few years later. (At least it wasn't cattle futures!)
Reid also received more than four times as much money from Jack Abramoff (nearly $70,000) as Tom DeLay ($15,000). DeLay returned the money; Reid refuses to do so. Why should he? He's a Democrat.
Former Clinton national security adviser Sandy Berger literally received a sentence of community service for stuffing classified national security documents in his pants and then destroying them -- big, fat federal felonies.
But Scooter Libby is facing real prison time for forgetting who told him about some bozo's wife.
Bill Clinton was not even prosecuted for obstruction of justice offenses so egregious that the entire Supreme Court staged a historic boycott of his State of the Union address in 2000.
By contrast, Linda Tripp, whose only mistake was befriending the office hosebag and then declining to perjure herself, spent millions on lawyers to defend a harassment prosecution based on far-fetched interpretations of state wiretapping laws.
Liberal law professors currently warning about the "high price" of pursuing terrorists under the Patriot Act had nothing but blood lust for Tripp one year after Clinton was impeached (Steven Lubet, "Linda Tripp Deserves to be Prosecuted," New York Times, 8/25/99).
Criminal prosecution is a surrogate for political warfare, but in this war, Republicans are gutless appeasers.
Bush has got to pardon Libby.
Ann Coulter
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.George S. Patton
posted on March 7, 2007 06:20:55 PM new
Hahaha Talk about grasping at straws !!!
Bear the first and second sentences are such blatant lies I couldn't read any farther ! LOLOL!!!!
And as to the first sentence I guess the same could be said of the big to-do about Clinton's sex life trial !!
Sad that you condone an act of treason against your own country ...but that's you neocons!
AND YES, his lies PROVE there WAS a leak of a UNDERCOVER agent from the White House.....
Yes, they may get away with it....
But they and their followers are all lying treasonous scumbags......working to bring down America....siding with our enemies by exposing covert agents....
posted on March 7, 2007 06:33:32 PM new
1. Valerie Plame was undercover until the day she was outed in Novak's column. She did not even have the protection of a black passport, which is a diplomatic passport. If she had gotten caught overseas, she could have been executed.
2. Rush Limbaugh admitted that he was addicted to pain killers and went into rehab. He was not obtaining prescription meds illegally for back pain.
3. The jury determined that ol' Scooter did not have a memory problem. He committed perjury, which, the last time I looked, was illegal. He was also convicted of obstruction of justice--also illegal.
4.Patrick Kennedy should have been prosecuted if there was evidence of a crime. Talk to the Washington PD or DA.
5. Jeffrey Epstein's lack of prosecution seems more related to his wealth than the fact he is a Democratic contributor. He is a slime bucket.
6. Ronnie Earle, the DA who indicted Tom DeLay has prosecuted many more Democrats than Republicans. I don't think money laundering is considered a minor campaign finance violation.
7. Jefferson is still being investigated, but has not been convicted. Ask the Bush administration why he hasn't been indicted. He was re-elected by his constituents (?) and unless or until he is convicted--he is innocent.
8. Teddy Kennedy was undoubtedly given special treatment and did not own up to what he did. I have never felt the same about him, although he has been a hardworking and effective senator.
9. Ann Coulter is a whiny wuss who doesn't even have her facts straight. But truth is at crosspurposes with her goals---make more money, get mor attention.
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posted on March 8, 2007 03:40:00 PM new
Looks like bear is taking up the parrot position of screaming "double standard" about everything on the planet !
We may have double standards but you neocon/repugs have NO standards whatsoever.....you believe there's nothing wrong with treason IF YOUR side does it.......how anti-American can you get !
posted on March 8, 2007 05:07:18 PM new
If you read my post, there were several points where we were not that far apart in opinion (God help me.) However, Coulter's article is riddled with lies, half-truths and exaggerations, as per her usual MO. Just one lie--Valerie Plame was not undercover--LOL. She was so far undercover, she didn't even have the protection of a diplomatic passport. If she had gotten caught, there would not have been anyone who could defend or help her. That is a highly dangerous situation in which to be outed. Regarding old Scooter--there was testimony from many witnesses which proved to the jury he was not forgetful. It was a purposeful act. If his memory were that bad, how the heck did he hold an important job in the WH, a job where there are hundreds of details and pieces of information to be dealt with every day?
