Ok. So this is just ridiculous. Did anyone else read the NY Times story today about how the Republican leadership plans to fight back if Rove and Libby are indicted for perjury rather than anything that actually has to do with their giving up the name of a CIA operative?


Here's a quote from Senator Hutchison of Texas, she hopes, says the Times, "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."

If any Senatorial or House republican that held office in 1998 follows this theme, assuming that is what plays out, it will be the single greatest hypocrisy of these two decades. Bill Clinton was only the second ever president served with articles of Impeachment and nearly tossed out of office for "some perjury technicality where they couldn't indict on the crime."

In this particular case, I'd much rather see some sort of charge that directly relates to the CIA individual, but that simply isn't the point of this post. The point is that I do NOT want to see such an obviously hypocritical display from the individuals in control of the nation.