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November 6, 2005
The Tonya Harding School of Politics
Remember Tonya Harding, the skater who could only compete with rival Nancy Kerrigan by having some thugs injure her knee? It seems the Democrat Party does, having apparently adopted the motto, "If you can't beat them, sneak up from behind and break their legs."
Ronnie Earle is a case in point. Does anyone even know what law DeLay allegedly broke? Yet thanks to Earle, Dems have managed to remove him from his majority leader position, if only temporarily, and have cast a pall over his reputation, which is as valuable to a politician as healthy knees are to a skater. Obviously justice has nothing to do with Earle's grand jury-shopping crusade. It is the political equivalent of sneaking up on him with a metal baton.
Patrick Fitzgerald also studied at the Tonya Harding school. The media spin him as an objective seeker of justice, very much in contrast to their portrayal of Ken Starr. Yet Libby was indicted not for the bogus outing of Valerie Plame charge, but for getting snared in a perjury trap. If Libby did lie, he needs to take his medicine. But all the same, the whole situation was a political ambush.
It's clear to all that goons like Harry Reid were hoping for bigger game than Libby, and probably still dream of entangling Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, or even the President himself in this absurd non-crime. What people may not know is that the whole Plame canard was planned as an October surprise:
"I wish the truth had come out one year ago," said Bob Shrum — campaign manager to presidential loser John Kerry — on MSNBC's "Hardball" Thursday night. "Because as Patrick Fitzgerald said, he would have indicted in October of 2004, and you wouldn't have a [second] Bush administration."
Announcing the Libby indictment on Friday, Fitzgerald made it clear that he wanted to spring his Leakgate October Surprise a year earlier — at the eleventh hour of the 2004 presidential campaign:
"I would have wished nothing better that, when the subpoenas were issued in August 2004, [that] witnesses testified then, and we would have been here in October 2004 instead of October 2005," he told reporters.
Ironically, Fitzgerald blamed "the New York Times and other media outlets for not cooperating in an expeditious manner, which delayed his investigation beyond the presidential election."
No wonder Judith Miller is persona non grata at the NY Times. Better luck next time, guys. But I'm sure Tonya must still be proud.
Hat tip: Museum of Left Wing Lunacy
Posted by Van Helsing at November 6, 2005 8:22 AM
Comments
Scooter is charged with not remenbering a minute detail of a conversation he had on the run.
The strategy is to separate Tom DeLay from the Senate, separate Karl Rove from the President, and Scooter from the Vice President. The question of what laws were broken is immaterial. The separation itself creates suspicion and is the value the opposition wants to wring from the situation. Plus the Dems thought the President would be lost without his "brain". They were wrong. George can operate quite nicely, thank you very much, without his "brain". You would think the Democrats would have known that since they've been saying it for years.
Posted by: Indigo Red at November 6, 2005 6:48 PM
I'd go as far as to say that Rove has been a moderating influence on Bush.
Whether I'm right or wrong is immaterial. If the lefties can spout their baseless rubbish, why not me?
Posted by: Archonix at November 6, 2005 9:15 PM
The left is working real hard to make sure Bush doesn't get elected again.
Posted by: Josh at November 7, 2005 12:30 PM
Give their recent performant I don't know if they'll even be able to manage that.
And yet, somehow I can see why it might appeal. The chance of beating Bush in an election would be too good for them to pass up. No doubt they'll start by proposing a bill to remove the two-term limit on a sitting president...
Posted by: Archonix at November 7, 2005 2:03 PM
