Thursday, March 15, 2007

Sure, people in Meehan's and Lynch's districts have a combined score of 9, but the folks in Nancy Pelosi's district sneak in at 7. That's for 2006; in 2005 people in Weehawken (NJ), Compton (CA), Skokie (IL) and Springfield (IL) crushed us all with a big, fat ZERO. That's right, two Senators and a Representative with not a single point from the Club for Growth. Y'all in Cambridge gotta catch up.

Thanks,
-V.

LMAO, thanks for the giggles.

Wonder where Meehan's successor will fall? I guess in my next interview of a candidate, I should ask them what their Club for Growth score goal will be...might be a good measure of a candidate. ;)

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Pardon me, Patrick Fitzgerald...
But aren’t we getting the short shrift here, or is this simply the way of special prosecutors investigating presidential corruption? Is it simply a professional obligation to misdirect your prosecutorial powers and energy? It appears so. It seems that you and your colleagues spend the bulk of your time and federal tax dollars either chasing cases that don’t exist—a la Mr. Starr—or shying away from the ones that do. Richard Armitage divulged Valerie Plame’s identity, he did so repeatedly on tape before Libby had ever thrown his hat in the ring, and he knew he could get away with it, because he knew a Democratic partisan such as yourself, after all the rhetoric of justice and the rule of law, would back down from an administration that has thrived off of intimidation tactics for the last six and a half years.
Democrats have enabled Bush’s vigilante cabinet from the start by bowing meekly, and this episode follows the same trajectory. And I sincerely hope Libby gets his pardon during Bush’s eleventh hour, not because I think he’s a “decent guy at heart” or even a “fall guy.” Instead I hope Bush walks him to shame you. I hope he sends a clear message: my guys at the top figured they could get away with this, and they were right. And as is typical in these matters, Democrats have leapt on the straight-talk bandwagon after a Bush administration extralegal coup.
After Fitzgerald declared the Plame matter closed, then Democrats in Congress cried foul and demanded Armitage’s head on a platter—just in time for it to mean nothing at all. And this feebleness dates back to the earliest ripplings of Iraq hysteria. After the resolution steamrolled its way through Congress in 2002, then Democrats crept gingerly out of their foxholes and suggested that perhaps the Pentagon had “deceived” them. After Tim Russert blessed pullout initiatives this winter with the Excalibur of policy debates—prime-time opinion polls—then Democrats began calling for withdrawals from every lectern and every barstool on the 8th St. corridor.
Their policy (that’s yours, Mr. Fitzgerald) has remained constant throughout the post 9/11 era of Republican hegemony on defense issues (now perhaps on the wane, but one never knows):
Let the bull run roughshod over the antiques, and then tap-dance on the shattered china, or at least tip-toe over it with tremulous grins like sorority girls sneaking out for initiation night—
Then say all the right things when everyone sobers up.