Hutchison Flip-Flops on Importance of Perjury
Yesterday, offering a hint of the attack White House allies will launch on special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald if and when he announces any indictments, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison dismissed the possible felony indictment of perjury as a mere “technicality”:
Ms. Hutchison said she hoped “that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn’t indict on the crime and so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation was not a waste of time and taxpayer dollars.”
On February 2, 1999, Hutchison stood with a bipartisan group of senators at a press conference announcing a resolution to open the Senate trial on the impeachment of President Clinton. At the time, Hutchison said it was vitally important to prosecute on perjury charges because telling the truth is the lynch pin of our criminal justice system:
[S]omething needs to be said that is a clear message that our rule of law is intact and the standards for perjury and obstruction of justice are not gray. And I think it is most important that we make that statement and that it be on the record for history.
I very much worry that with the evidence that we have seen that grand juries across America are going to start asking questions about what is obstruction of justice, what is perjury. And I don’t want there to be any lessening of the standard. Because our system of criminal justice depends on people telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That is the lynch pin of our criminal justice system and I don’t want it to be faded in any way.
Sen. Hutchison, what kind of message is it sending to grand juries to say that an indictment of perjury is not a crime, just a technicality? And what does that do to our criminal justice system?
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I didn’t realize she was such a hack. Should have figured since she was from Texas
October 24th, 2005 at 8:40 amHutchinson is so swarmy. She makes my skin crawl.
October 24th, 2005 at 8:40 amWar crimes would be better but I would be happy to see anything at all.
October 24th, 2005 at 8:42 amPerjury and obstruction are the only charges possible when all involved in a conspiracy lie.
Perjury–a crime or mere technicality?
October 24th, 2005 at 8:45 amIn proper perspective it’s easy to see;
a crime–you know–when done for a blow,
but not for treason when done for good reason!
“…our rule of law is intact and the standards for perjury and obstruction of justice are not gray. And I think it is most important that we make that statement and that it be on the record for history.”
On the record for history indeed.
And on the record for the present as well.
October 24th, 2005 at 8:52 amHas anyone ever seen Kay Bailey Hutchison and Phyllis Schlafly in the same room? If not similar in their looks, they do share that same arrogant, millionairess, ignorant, conservative philosophies.
All hypocrisy, zero integrity.
October 24th, 2005 at 8:57 amwhy settle for one standard when you can have two, right Senator?
October 24th, 2005 at 9:19 amHack, I condemn thee. Next!
October 24th, 2005 at 9:19 amWhat do you expect from an Texan. All the RIGHT WING TEXAN REPUBLICAN are arrogant, corrupted, and there is a double standard for them. They have got caught in many lies and are trying to spin this. Just like Tom Delay smearing Earle.
October 24th, 2005 at 9:20 amWas that her husband Asa who said that?
October 24th, 2005 at 9:20 amAs she was saying this yesterday on MTP, I was thinking about how she delt with Clinton’s perjury case. My thinking was right I see.
October 24th, 2005 at 9:55 amSen. Kay Bailey Hutchison dismissed the possible felony indictment of perjury as a mere “technicalityâ€.
I’ve known more than one person that’s done time for perjury.
October 24th, 2005 at 9:59 amThe feds don’t take kindly to being lied to.
I think Sen. Hutchison needs to be reminded of her hypocrisy via an email blitz. Send your emails to her at http://hutchison.senate.gov/e-mail.htm; don’t forget to make up an amusing hometown in Texas for yourself on the form!
Of course, she won’t pay attention, but at least someone in her office will have to deal with the consequences of this hypocrite’s foot-in-mouth disease…
October 24th, 2005 at 10:14 amdon’t know who is to blame - hutchinson or your copy editors - but the word is LINCH pin… tho in this context, LYNCH is strangely the word we want!! LOL!
October 24th, 2005 at 10:19 am#13 - I just e-mailed the Senator posing as Dusty Walker from Molehill, TX.
October 24th, 2005 at 10:27 amLet’s see, Big Hair Kay is a senator. Senators can introduce legislation. If perjury and obstruction of justice and conspiracy et al aren’t crimes, she can introduce a bill to repeal the laws that make them crimes. She could introduce one to make money laundering legal too to help out her old friend Tom. I’m sure a lot of drug delaers, gun runners, cigarette smugglers and mobsters would be glad to support such a patriotic effort.
October 24th, 2005 at 10:27 amWell what else do you expect from a REPUBLICAN SENATOR FROM TEXAS?
What was that saying, forgot when it was used, but surely fits today - HAVE YOU NO SHAME?
Of course not I am a christian republican and therefore am rightous always even when I lie, steal or kill.
October 24th, 2005 at 10:35 amHey, they got Martha Stewart on a Hutchinson technicality.
I would be happy to see bushlandia get 5 months in prison, all of them.
This puke whore is an alky who does not know what she says or means and wakes up in the strangest of places.
October 24th, 2005 at 10:42 amHutchinson was in favor of perjury prosecutions before she was against them.
October 24th, 2005 at 11:01 am[…] In the coming weeks, it appears like that there will be some discussion of the importance of perjury and obstruction of justice. Just to be clear, I stand with Eddie Izzard, the Executive Transvestite, on this issue: Oh, yeah! So, perjury, you know! If you commit perjury, I don’t care, don’t give a shit. I don’t think you should because you grade murder. You have murder one, murder two; you realize that there can be a difference in the level of murder, so there must be a difference in the level of perjury. Perjury one is when you’re saying there’s no Holocaust when 10 million people have died in it, and perjury… nine, is when you said you shagged someone when you didn’t. [link] […]
October 24th, 2005 at 11:19 amThis is the letter I wrote to MS Hutchison: My issue is the same as the Bush administrations’(and yours theoretically) and that is MORALS. Where I am having a problem, as usual, is with people who claim to be ‘good Christians’ BUT who in the name of ‘politics’ feel anything goes.
In specific,I am refering to the statements you made regarding the previous president’s (who JUST HAPPENNED to be a Democrat) perjurious statement regarding a private sexual encounter which in my opinion was nobody but his, Hilary and Monica’s business and should not have even been asked. I know of very few if any men or women alive, who to safeguard their marriages, having committed an indescretion, would not ‘lie’ to try to mitigate the damage and spare their loved ones pain. However, your position at the time and I am supposing that you have never lied, was to state MOST strongly that impeachment based on the heinous crime of perjury (lying) was definitely the proper course to take to safeguard our country as “TELLING the TRUTH IS THE LINCH PIN OF OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM”
Am I to take it that your position has changed? Imagine my surprise to see that NOW perjury has become a minor technical misdemeaner, hardly worthy of any attention and certainly not worthy of prosecution in the case of certain politicians and/or appointees who JUST HAPPEN to be Republicans as you are,and their handling of the outting of CIA agent, Ms.Plame.
Is this the new Christian morality? Does Jesus have a different criteria for Republicans than for Democrats? SHAME SHAME… No wonder some Christians today are almost ashamed to admit their faith, when our leaders blatantly use it to justify political acts that are at best questionable. Again SHAME SHAME
As for me I say in the Plame situation, *something needs to be said that is a clear message that our rule of law is intact and the standards for perjury and obstruction of justice are not gray. And I think it is most important that we make that statement and that it be on the record for history.
Very sincerely yours,in Christ,
Margaret Forsell
* not to be mistaken for a plagarist, these words are a direct quote of a 1999 statement made by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison
October 24th, 2005 at 11:22 amMZ Hutchinson has never once swerved from the party line.
October 24th, 2005 at 11:52 amEach and every time I email or write her it is the same ol same ol..*I back the president 100%*
I’ts a waste time the Texas house and senate are as corrupt as roadkill full of maggots.
And don’t forget, leaking the names of CIA NOCs is hardly a “technicality”.
Since NOCs (CIA agents under nonofficial cover) usually work at companies set up by the CIA itself as fronts, other employees of Plame’s front company were probably also NOCs, doing work similar to Plame. If that were true, the damage done by leaking Plame’s name would be vastly multiplied, as all the other NOCs would be compromised. And their contacts in the countries where all these NOCs worked would also be put at risk.
And remember, these were NOCs working in the area of WMDs. For an administration that claims to think about 9/11 every day, they sure don’t act like it. (FEMA is another example where peoples’ deeds hardly match their words.)
October 24th, 2005 at 11:54 amHypocrisy - plain and simple.
October 24th, 2005 at 12:05 pmOf course it is too much to expect the talking heads to research this and peg her on her mendacity. That’s the sad thing. No, that’s the OTHER sad thing.
October 24th, 2005 at 12:16 pmHutchison’s office number is 202-224-5922. I keep it on speed dial (along with Cornyn’s) for just such moments.
October 24th, 2005 at 12:17 pmI just sent her a brief note after hearing Franken eviscerate her on Air America, for her double-standard on perjury.
—————
Senator Hutchison,
You just got ripped a new one, you hypocrite, as Al Franken played side-by-side your statements on perjury at the time of the Clinton investigation, with the BS you spewed on the Sunday talk shows. Have you no integrity!!?
BushCo is going down, and hopefully you will be ensnared in the Abramoff-Delay-TRMPC net!! The GOP Culture of Corruption and the BsuhCo House of Cards are crumbling under the rule of law!
October 24th, 2005 at 12:42 pm#27- Buckfush, Maximus, john deaux,
Why should we post it elsewhere as you seem to be doing a good job of SPAMMING us with it in every new subject? Thanks for the SPAM. Appreciate it. Go Away Dennis Bauer.
October 24th, 2005 at 12:55 pmNobody died when Clinton lied.
2000 servicemen and women are DEAD because of this corrupt chickenhawk administration.
Get these animals out of Washington! They make Richard Nixon look like Mahatma Ghandi.
October 24th, 2005 at 2:23 pmanother conservative flip-flopper… just call her “Slick Bailey”
October 24th, 2005 at 3:07 pmUnless Bush is indicted along with the rest, none of it will matter. He will pardon everyone immediately.
The Bush/Cheney machine needs to be brought to justice for taking us into war with LIES.
October 24th, 2005 at 3:42 pm“on the record for history” indeed…
what a hypocrite
October 24th, 2005 at 4:35 pmPlease do not post quotes without posting a link to the source. The Hutchison quote from the Feb. 2 1999 news conference is useless without a link.
October 24th, 2005 at 4:56 pmhey, senator kay bailey hutchison is nothing but a hack. how could anyone say they didn’t get it until now? she was created by the bush machine in texas to be the hack in the senate they could always count on. and yesterday’s performance as the actor first launching the opening of the bush wiggle, giggle and jiggle show to defame fitzpatrick and trivialize any indictments he brings agaisnt rove, libby et al is a classic kay bailey hutchison performance.
today, all of abc disney hate radio was carrying the talking points that no doubt consipirator karl rove issued in the past few days.
October 24th, 2005 at 4:56 pmI love the Senator with all my fart.
October 24th, 2005 at 4:58 pmWhat, more flip-flopping from Republicans? My, how their thinking on prejury changes in 6 short years. From DKos today….the moral hypocrites strike again:
Sen. Frist: “There is no serious question that perjury and obstruction of justice are high crimes and misdemeanors…Indeed, our own Senate precedent establishes that perjury is a high crime and misdemeanor…The crimes of perjury and obstruction of justice are public crimes threatening the administration of justice.” [Congressional Record, 2/12/99]
Sen. Kyl: “…there can be no doubt that perjurious, false, and misleading statements made under oath in federal court proceedings are indeed impeachable offenses…John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States, said `there is no crime more extensively pernicious to society’ than perjury, precisely because it `discolors and poisons the streams of justice.’” [Congressional Record, 2/12/99]
Sen. DeWine: “Obstruction of justice and perjury strike at the very heart of our system of justice…Perjury is also a very serious crime…The judiciary is designed to be a mechanism for finding the truth-so that justice can be done. Perjury perverts the judiciary, turning it into a mechanism that accepts lies-so that injustice may prevail.” [Congressional Record, 2/12/99]
Sen. Talent: “Nobody else in a position of trust, not a CEO, not a labor union leader, not a principal of a school could do half of what the president has done and stay in office. I mean, who would have said a year ago that a president could perjure himself and obstruct justice and tamper with witnesses… and stay in office.” [CNBC, “Hardball,” 12/19/98]
Sen. McConnell: “I am completely and utterly perplexed by those who argue that perjury and obstruction of justice are not high crimes and misdemeanors…Perjury and obstruction hammer away at the twin pillars of our legal system: truth and justice.” [Congressional Record, 2/12/99]
Sen. Voinovich: “As constitutional scholar Charles Cooper said, `The crimes of perjury and obstruction of justice, like the crimes of treason and bribery, are quintessentially offenses against our system of government, visiting injury immediately on society itself.’” [Congressional Record, 2/12/99]
Sen. Hutchison: “The reason that I voted to remove him from office is because I think the overridding issue here is that truth will remain the standard for perjury and obstruction of justice in our criminal justice system and it must not be gray. It must not be muddy.” [AP, 2/12/99]
Sen. Craig: “There is no question in my mind that perjury and obstruction of justice are the kind of public crimes that the Founders had in mind, and the House managers have demonstrated these crimes were committed by the president. As for the excuses being desperately sought by some to allow President Clinton to escape accountability, it seems to me that creating such loopholes would require tearing holes in the Constitution-something that cannot be justified to protect this president, or any president.” [Congressional Record, 2/12/99]
Sen. Brownback: “Perjury and obstruction of justice are crimes against the state. Perjury goes directly against the truth-finding function of the judicial branch of government.” [Congressional Record, 2/12/99]
October 24th, 2005 at 5:01 pmSenator Hutchison’s opponent, Barbara Ann Radnofsky, issued a press release:
Texas Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Barbara Ann Radnofsky called on her Republican opponent to resign if she tolerates perjury. “No elected official should tolerate or excuse perjury. I call on Kay Bailey Hutchison to renounce perjury. She should resign if she tolerates it,” Radnofsky said.
On October 23, Kay Bailey Hutchison said in televised comments concerning the Plame investigation that, “I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn’t indict on the crime…”
Ms. Radnofsky is the real deal, I hope she can get all the support she deserves.
October 24th, 2005 at 5:04 pmI called both her DC and her Texas office TWICE each. Everyone here ought to do the same. I don’t care if it’s only her flunkies on the receiving end, they ALL deserve to be tongues lashed…they deserve PUBLIC STOCKS and ROTTEN TOMOATOES to tell the truth, so tongue lashing is the LEAST citizens can do.
DO IT, NO EXCUSES!
NUMBERS
Dallas - 214-361-3500
DC 202-224-5922
Call and ask why the hypocrite BS artist is quoted in today’s NYTimes as declaring “technicalities” are not enough to levy against the Plamegate criminals when she voted to impeach Clinton on technicalities. Now that the ENTIRE Bush administration is under fire for lying us into war and then retaliating against whistleblowers by outing covert CIA agents (which is TREASON) she’s singing a different tune.
CALL! LET THEM KNOW KAY IS THE POSTER CHILD FOR BULLSHIT ARTISTS.
October 24th, 2005 at 7:26 pmTexas Republican(N)-Hack, party functionary, a fundametally dishonest polictician that confuses lobbyist/PAC money with the will of constituents. A politician willing to say or do anything and compromise any principle in order to be elected all while pretending to be honest, God fearing, Christian, and compassionate.
See also: Shameless, inveterate liar, selling of soul
See also: Washington whore, crony, flunky, dupe and knave.
October 24th, 2005 at 7:40 pm[…] Tonight on MSNBC, Tucker Carlson took issue with Hutchison’s remarks — not because it was false, or transparently hypocritical, but because the White House “should have done that a long time ago.” […]
October 24th, 2005 at 8:18 pmjust another rotten example of lack of integrity. She may parade her hairspray with dignity, but the truth is that she a just a gumflapping hypocritical liar with no integrity. Yukk… really disgusting
October 24th, 2005 at 8:39 pm[…] If you follow the link above to KOS, you’ll see all the legions of Republicans who felt that, at least for Bill Clinton, spending $50 million on an investigation, and only coming up with perjury was just fine with them and was also a serious, serious crime that did severe damage to the country. So what did Hutchinson herself say back then? Surely she had similar thoughts about Bill Clinton’s perjury? That maybe Ken Starr couldn’t indict any crime, so he just went with a perjury technicality just to show that his years of investigation wasn’t a waste of time and taxpayer dollars? Well, let’s just take a look, shall we? Here’s what she said, from Think Progress: [S]omething needs to be said that is a clear message that our rule of law is intact and the standards for perjury and obstruction of justice are not gray. And I think it is most important that we make that statement and that it be on the record for history. […]
October 24th, 2005 at 10:25 pmREPUBLICANS ENDORSE PERJURY? It is comforting to know that over half of our country’s leaders may have no qualms about lying to our other leaders, lying to our judges (under oath), and lying to our faces.
October 24th, 2005 at 11:45 pmJust another Texas politician that should be taken to the woodshed and beat to within an inch of their life. First in line, of course, should be the bug man.
October 25th, 2005 at 12:10 amwhen they condone perjury one wonders.
Have they themselves been committing perjury? Why else would they say it is a mere technicality? If they really believe lying under oath is fine, imagine how much lying they are capable of, when not under oath!
October 25th, 2005 at 1:19 amSen. Hutchison was extremely critical of Bill Clinton a number of years ago since he “didn’t have an exit strategy for Kosovo”.
October 25th, 2005 at 2:07 amHer hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Larry
In Kay Bailey Hutcinson’s sworn declaration on 2/12/99, she said “Willful,corrupt,and false sworn testimony before a Federal grand jury is a separate and distinct crime under applicable law, and is material and perjurious if it is capable of influencing the grand jury in any matter before it, including any collateral matters that it may consider. See Title 18, Section 1623,U.S. Code, and Federal court cases interpreting that section.” Perhaps a few gentle taps with a cattle prod would “jolt” her memory. My goodness Kay, What Would Jesus Say ?!?
October 25th, 2005 at 5:34 am[…] If Cheney told another story to the Grand Jury - under oath - about how he learned of Valerie Plame’s name and position within the CIA, then that’s perjury. And in spite of what that joke of a U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison would have you believe, perjury is a crime. […]
October 25th, 2005 at 8:27 am[…] With indictments looming over the White House, Senator Hutchinson (R) doesn’t believe perjury to be a crime, that is, unless your name was Clinton. […]
October 25th, 2005 at 9:50 amHello,
This is the letter I faxed to my Cristocratic Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison on Monday.
Thanks,
Charlie C.
Dallas TX
Dear Senator Hutchison,
Did you possibly have an “apparent failure of memory” of what you said in 1999 REGARDING THE IMPEACHMENT OF BILL CLINTON or is it just that YOU ARE SO PATHETICALLY PARTISAN OR MAYBE A “FLIP FLOPPER? “
The “CIA Outing of Valerie Plame” is not a “technicality!” Outing a covert- CIA operative is treason and it has “blown the cover” of a whole world-wide CIA operation now making nearly impossible to recruit new CIA operatives world wide since “No One Can Trust The U.S. Government Anymore!” WE ARE NOW LESS SAFE THAN BEFORE 9-11 !!
The GOP seems to think that the only 2 Moral Issues are “Abortion and Gay Marriage.” So tell me Senator Hutchison what makes the following MORAL:
1. Lying to take the U.S. To War in Iraq?
“Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” AfterDowningStreet.org is a coalition of veterans’ groups, peace groups, and political activist groups, which launched on May 26, 2005, a campaign to urge the U.S. Congress to begin a formal investigation into whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war. More About Us….
2. Killing over 2000 U.S. Soldiers, 1000’s of Iraqi Citizens, not to include the soldiers who were wounded and later died (not reported) which probably is now between 6000-8000 dead soldiers that have come through Dover Air Force Base ….ALL OVER A LIE ????
3. Slander and “Character Assasination†if one is “telling the truth†and you can’t stand the fact of hearing and knowing the truth ?
I learned the following having been reared in the Lutheran Church what God tells us in The 10 Commandments:
Lying, Stealing, Cheating, and Killing “Break God’s Law!†But apparently, the GOP since 2000 thinks it’s above the Law including “God’s Law,†and a Republican “Can Do No Wrong! †“IT’S OKAY TO LIE, STEAL, CHEAT, AND KILL AS LONG AS YOU ARE A REPUBLICAN !â€
“DO HONESTY, INTEGRITY, ETHICS, AND HAVING A MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU SENATOR HUTCHISON?
Charlie C.
October 25th, 2005 at 12:38 pmDallas TX
[…] […]
October 25th, 2005 at 12:56 pm[…] First, during the Clinton impeachment, she said perjury was important to prosecute because “our system of criminal justice depends on people telling the truth.†[…]
October 25th, 2005 at 1:25 pmwhy doesn’t anyone take a deep breath for a minute and crticize mr. russert for booking this tried and and not so true pitball mouthpiece for the bushs. she has appears so frequently on the talking head circuit that one wonders if she collects a separate pay check for this seemingly near full time employment. sure it got russert a story, but what else do you expect when you book huthison except the party line no matter how this weeks bush talking points contradict her earlier statements about perjury when the talking points on the right went the other way.
only good part about listening to her, is that you get to see how dumb she acutally is and that she and geroge would appear to be sharing the same non-funcitoning brain cell.
another argument in favor or more federal funding for stem cell research!
October 26th, 2005 at 12:13 amHutchison’s behavior is SOP for the GOP. They have spent much of the last decade inventing rules and then breaking those rules when the rules don’t benefit them. Hypocrisy 101.
October 26th, 2005 at 2:27 am[…] “offering a hint of the attack White House allies will launch on special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald if and when he announces any indictments, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison dismissed the possible felony indictment of perjury as a mere “technicality”” […]
October 26th, 2005 at 3:03 pmI just sent a message on http://hutchison.senate.gov/e-mail.htm (thanks for the link):
” I applaud your views on perjury, madam Senator, when you said (and I quote you from February 1999) “…something needs to be said that is a clear message that our rule of law is intact and the standards for perjury and obstruction of justice are not gray. And I think it is most important that we make that statement and that it be on the record for history.
I very much worry that with the evidence that we have seen that grand juries across America are going to start asking questions about what is obstruction of justice, what is perjury. And I don’t want there to be any lessening of the standard. Because our system of criminal justice depends on people telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That is the lynch pin of our criminal justice system and I don’t want it to be faded in any way.”
Bravo indeed. Perjury is not a gray and faded thing, or a technicality, or a waste of time. Bravo for standing up for what you believe in and not flip-flopping on the issue. At all. Ever. ”
The GOP is undergoing the same fate of the British Conservative Party. Taking a country to war and using that to win an election, internal power squabblings, scandals, and now Libby is invoking the Maggie Thatcher “I don’t remember a frigging thing” defense. I should add that the ‘Tories’ in Britain have not been in power for nearly two decades now because of their spin, lies and weasel-like behavior.
October 29th, 2005 at 7:14 amThis is the letter that I wrote to KBH. Actually, I mailed it to her since she is my senator.
Dear Senator Hutchison,
After viewing your appearance on Meet the Press this past Sunday, I felt compelled to write and note how proud I am to be represented by such a brave and principled woman.
Too often in society, people are cowed by peer pressure to not stand up for their principles. By stating that, “I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn’t indict on the crime,” while defending the Bush Administration staff you showed loyalty - certainly an admirable trait. Then I remembered several statements during the time of the Clinton impeachment hearings in which you said: “The concept of equal justice under law and the importance of absolute truth in legal proceedings is the foundation of our justice system in the courts.” And to explain your vote on the impeachment you said, “The reason that I voted to remove him from office is because I think the overriding issue here is that truth will remain the standard for perjury and obstruction of justice in our criminal justice system and it must not be gray.” These quotes taken together show that you are willing to take a stand for hypocrisy - the principle of having no principles at all.
Children need role-models willing to stand up for difficult principles - like hypocrisy - even when they are unpopular. No doubt, future generations aspiring to political leadership will look to your performance and profit greatly by your example.
And for that, I thank you Senator Hutchison.
Sincerely,
OK… so it’s not really sincere. And satire is usually lost on the GOP. But I just can’t resist.
October 29th, 2005 at 1:47 pm[…] In August of 2000 candidate George Bush said “Americans want to be assured that the next administration will bring honor and dignity to the White House.” He also said “Americans are tired of investigations and scandal”. It is interesting to listen to the GOP try to spin the indictment of Scooter Libby. Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson said that perjury was a mere technicality. Funny, in 1999 Sen. Hutchinson thought perjury was quite a bit more serious and so did many fellow GOP congressmen. Sounds like a bunch of flip-floppers. They are all talking about the criminalization of politics, but one has to wonder, did they forgot about Ken Starr? Did they forget about a Whitewater investigation that lasted years but only turned up a lie about a blowjob? There is no indication if there will be more indictments. There is a lot of speculation that Karl Rove and even Dick Cheney will be the next targets. […]
October 29th, 2005 at 3:26 pmRE #56: Maggie Thatcher went to war after Argentina invaded UK territory, and the reason for war was never lied about. While victory made her more generally popular, it was not a campaign theme -she didn’t go around calling herself a ‘war prime minister’- and she won by a landslide anyway. In Argentina the defeat led to a military junta being replaced by a democracy.
The scandals were mainly sexual in nature, not lies and abuse of power. The tories have been out of power for 8 years and may be back in soon, as many people are fed up with the lies and spin culture of the current Labout government, that seems to have been adopted from the US.
December 9th, 2005 at 7:19 pm[…] Unfortunately, all of that hairspray and “sweet little Texas girl” fluff would melt under the glare of any sort of debate, even one at a high school level. Hutchison has made it clear that, like the rest of her Republican cronies, she will be talking out of both sides of her mouth to whoever her audience happens to be. Talk about flip-flopping. […]
September 3rd, 2006 at 1:52 pm[…] the “corruption†the only charge filed was for perjury, which Republicans today claim is just a technicality. You would think after a REAL partisan like Ken Starr (unlike Patrick Fitzgerald who even Bush […]
February 27th, 2007 at 3:15 pm