Friday, July 16, 2004
Let's twist again...
Chubby Checker
Remember that old adage, "keep your friends close and your enemies closer"? In an effort to honor that sage advice, I've kept myself on an email loop consisting mostly of conservatives. These aren't just any conservatives, either. The vast majority of these people are dyed in the wool Bush supporters. Short of Bush being videotaped naked in the street firing off rounds at the Capitol in broad daylight in front of 100 witnesses, these guys will vote for Bush no matter what.
With the Senate report essentially calling Joe Wilson a liar now in their sights, the proBush email group is all a twitter.
In my response to this I noted to the group, "Even if Wilson is a liar, what difference does it make? Two senior Bush Administration officials outed a covert CIA operative's name to multiple reporters. That's not Wilson's fault. So what's the dif?"
And so they linked me to this blog.
One Hand Clapping proffers the claim that it doesn't matter that Valerie Plame was outed to reporters because by golly....her status didn't meet the legal definition. Also it can't be illegal unless those who outed her knew she was covert.
So with this twisted yet effortless "logic", the Justice Department has undertaken a very expensive, long investigation in which the President of the United States, the Vice President, their most senior aides/advisors and various other folks are interviewed...and there's practically no way that there's criminal wrongdoing. Brilliant, eh?
And how do we reach this incredible conclusion? The Senate report which attempted to completely absolve the President of wrongdoing on WMD says that contrary to what Wilson said..his wife got him the Niger gig.
What the folks at What Hand Clapping appear to be overlooking is that if their conclusions are correct...this makes Justice look completely inept. They take a case in which there's no possible outcome of wrongdoing... and spend millions of dollars and hundreds (or thousands) of man hours investigating it..?
LOL it's gotta be tough to be a Bush supporter nowadays.
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Remember that old adage, "keep your friends close and your enemies closer"? In an effort to honor that sage advice, I've kept myself on an email loop consisting mostly of conservatives. These aren't just any conservatives, either. The vast majority of these people are dyed in the wool Bush supporters. Short of Bush being videotaped naked in the street firing off rounds at the Capitol in broad daylight in front of 100 witnesses, these guys will vote for Bush no matter what.
With the Senate report essentially calling Joe Wilson a liar now in their sights, the proBush email group is all a twitter.
In my response to this I noted to the group, "Even if Wilson is a liar, what difference does it make? Two senior Bush Administration officials outed a covert CIA operative's name to multiple reporters. That's not Wilson's fault. So what's the dif?"
And so they linked me to this blog.
One Hand Clapping proffers the claim that it doesn't matter that Valerie Plame was outed to reporters because by golly....her status didn't meet the legal definition. Also it can't be illegal unless those who outed her knew she was covert.
So with this twisted yet effortless "logic", the Justice Department has undertaken a very expensive, long investigation in which the President of the United States, the Vice President, their most senior aides/advisors and various other folks are interviewed...and there's practically no way that there's criminal wrongdoing. Brilliant, eh?
And how do we reach this incredible conclusion? The Senate report which attempted to completely absolve the President of wrongdoing on WMD says that contrary to what Wilson said..his wife got him the Niger gig.
What the folks at What Hand Clapping appear to be overlooking is that if their conclusions are correct...this makes Justice look completely inept. They take a case in which there's no possible outcome of wrongdoing... and spend millions of dollars and hundreds (or thousands) of man hours investigating it..?
LOL it's gotta be tough to be a Bush supporter nowadays.
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