Sometimes, we don’t even need to add snark
Posted on September 30th, 2005 by
On Tom DeLay and Ronnie Earle, the Wall Street Journal writes:
The Majority Leader also deserves the presumption of innocence because of Mr. Earle’s guilty past. A liberal Democrat, he has a history of indicting political enemies, Democrat and Republican, on flimsy evidence that didn’t hold up in court.
[…] Without his [DeLay] prodding, the House would never have voted to impeach Bill Clinton in 1998. [Emphasis added, obliviousness to irony in original.]
Politically-motivated indictements of enemies that don’t hold up in court. Hmm, how did that impeachment thing turn out again?
I love all the faux pearl-clutching and horror the Republicans have discovered at the prospect of DIRTY POLITICS! Mercy, no!
Give me a break. These guys invented and perfercted the “politics of personal destruction”, and NOW they need to fetch the smelling salts? I mean, they are such BABIES. Who are these people? When did America harvest this bumber crop of whiney pricks?
Mebbe the WSJ is phoning it in on purpose. The (to us) glaring contradiction is their way of obliquely saying “Yeah, he’s crooked – nail him,” without looking like turncoats to the rabid Right.
Or not.
Jon Stewart: “You never hear about the laws Tom Delay doesn’t break…”
Also, it’s indictments, not “indictements.”
Nailed, c0b4gz.
Ahem
On a completely unrelated topic… WTF is up with John Cole? He used to be a fairly decent commentator, but in the past couple weeks, he (and his site) have gone down the shitter? It amazes me how often he can’t make a simple arguement anymore (like when he implied that Dems possible Presidential aspirations may have played a role in their voting against Roberts, then denied he implied it) or misses the obvious (people are bashing Bill Bennett because he needlesly used race in his now-infamous comments).
like when he implied that Dems possible Presidential aspirations may have played a role in their voting against Roberts
Well, he’s pretty much right about that. In all honesty, I think people like Evan Bayh would have voted for Roberts if they didn’t feel the need to build ties with the party’s grassroots.
It wasn’t that I had a problem with, it was his outrageous denial that he had made the connection afterward.
It wasn’t that I had a problem with, it was his outrageous denial that he had made the connection afterward.
I’d have to read it. Even when I strongly disagree with him, I like Cole because, unlike the vast majority of bloggers out there, he doesn’t take himself too seriously and is actually willing to admit error.
But yeah, I completely disagree with him on FEMA’s foul-ups, not to mention his contention that Indian sports mascots are inoffensive.
Even when I strongly disagree with him, I like Cole because, unlike the vast majority of bloggers out there, he doesn’t take himself too seriously and is actually willing to admit error.
He seems to have dropped that part of his act. Sorry.
How quickly the bullies fold under pressure. How little pressure the MSM places on bullies.
Even the NYT is asking whether DeLay is being persecuted – at least in the op-ed you don’t have to pay to read
However if you want to read Frank Rich’s column defending the persecution, uh, prosecution of DeLay, you have to pay
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