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October 24, 2005
Kay Bailey Then and Now
From her statement on the Clinton impeachment:
...If only the President had followed the simple, high moral principle handed to us by our Nation's first leader as a child and had said early in this episode `I cannot tell a lie,' we would not be here today. We would not be sitting in judgment of a President. We would not be invoking those provisions of the Constitution that have only been applied once before in our Nation's history.But we should all be thankful that our Constitution is there, and we should take pride in our right and duty to enforce it. A hundred years from now, when history looks back to this moment, we can hope for a conclusion that our Constitution has been applied fairly and survives, that we have come to principled judgments about matters of national importance, and that the rule of law in American has been sustained.
And from yesterday about Plamegate:
SEN. HUTCHISON: Tim, you know, I think we have to remember something here. An indictment of any kind is not a guilty verdict, and I do think we have in this country the right to go to court and have due process and be innocent until proven guilty. And secondly, 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 and so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation was not a waste of time and taxpayer dollars. So they go to something that trips someone up because they said something in the first grand jury and then maybe they found new information or they forgot something and they tried to correct that in a second grand jury.I think we should be very careful here, especially as we are dealing with something very public and people's lives in the public arena. I do not think we should prejudge. I think it is unfair to drag people through the newspapers week after week after week, and let's just see what the charges are. Let's tone down the rhetoric and let's make sure that if there are indictments that we don't prejudge.
Posted by Lyn Wall at October 24, 2005 12:51 PM | Permalink
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She was against perjury before she was for it.
Posted by: PDiddie at October 24, 2005 01:22 PM
"She was against perjury before she was for it. "
LOL. Kay Bailey the self appointed chearleader of the president.
Posted by: John Cobarruvias at October 24, 2005 01:46 PM
Now everyone go to http://hutchison.senate.gov/e-mail.htm and call her on her hypocrisy!
Posted by: Lyn Wall at October 24, 2005 01:55 PM
Here's my note to Kaybelly Hutchison, that great supporter of truth and justice for some (as PDiddie pointed out):
Re your appearance on television on Sunday, October 23:
Were you saying that it's all right for a Republican to lie under oath and claim he just has a defective memory when you said at the time that it was wrong for President Clinton not to claim George Washington's fabled stance about lying? Is there such a thing as committing just a little perjury if you're a Republican and being allowed to get away with it?
It's this kind of hypocrisy, Senator, that's responsible for the deaths of our men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan. You can claim if you like that it's all right to lie a little for the right ideology, but it's never all right to be a hypocrite. Constituents learn fast whom to trust.
Posted by: Muriel Stubbs at October 24, 2005 08:28 PM
What a difference a lie makes? Depends on whose lie it is! Welcome to the club, doesn't feel good does it? I feel sorry for people who can't keep their lies straight. Perhaps you can learn from your mistakes. I hope so, for your are so lacking otherwise.
Posted by: ann lewis at October 25, 2005 10:31 AM
On Sunday, by the way, Sen.Hutchison was doing what the White House has decided to do at this stage of The Waiting Game: She was trying to make perjury sound like a not-such-a-much "technicality," as opposed to the real crime of outing a CIA undercover agent. According to someone at The Washington Post, this is the latest tactic in the WH's attempt to save Karl Rove's and Scooter Libby's and who knows who else's asses. So the Good Soldier Hutchison, OUR senator, OUR representative in the Holy City, no doubt told to get out there and lie like the proverbial dirty rug, got out there on national TV and did it. It's not enough that she and that brainless, clueless ninny John Cornyn embarrass us every day just by being in the Senate in our names. Now she has to say that the perjury she and her rotten Repug cohorts made a cross out of so they could crucify Bill Clinton on it has become, magically and just in time to maybe save some real Repug criminals, a "technicality."
Be damned if I'm buying that, folks. Amy Branham's boy and Cindy Sheehan's boy and the rest of our 2000 real Good Soldiers didn't die so Republicans could lie their way out of their latest crimes by pretending that Republican lying--which smells just as bad as any other kind--is somehow not prosecutable. It's time that Democrats grabbed some ankles, shucked some socks and shoes, and held some nasty Repug feet to a good, hot fire.
As soon as Fitzgerald delivers his verdict, Howard Dean needs to get on the tube and deliver a little Democratic Party hellfire and brimstone right up to the White House front door.
I'm writing to tell him so. Would anyone care to join me right after you've signed John Conyers'
petition?
Posted by: Muriel Stubbs at October 25, 2005 07:20 PM