Hearing the comments by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas trying to downplay potential upcoming indictments against White House officials in the Valerie Plame outing case brings out the hypocritical nature of conservatives and it was so hypocritical that even the press had to cover it.
"I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment . . . 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," Hutchinson said in 2005.
Gee, does that mean Hutchison disagreed with Ken Starr when he was doing something just to show his years of investigation was not a waste of time and taxpayers dollars.
"I do think . . . that 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,"Hutchison said in 1999.
Her comments were so bad that she had to clarify them, having her spokesman say "She was expressing her general concern that perjury traps have become too common when investigators are unable to indict on any underlying crime."
That a conservative is a hypocrite should not be surprising. In 2000, afraid that Al Gore might win the electoral college while getting less votes than Bush, some in the GOP prepared talking points about the Electoral College's essential unfairness -- a massive talk-radio operation would be encouraged."
The goal would be to challenge the Electoral College and Gore's election. Instead Gore won the popular vote and was ahead in the electoral college until the Bush brothers worked out Florida and all of a sudden it was fine to lose the popular vote but win the electoral college.
So basically there are two sets of rules. One for Democrats (play fair) and one for Republicans (anything goes) and don't you dare suggest that Republicans play by the Democrats rules.
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