“Unleash the Weasels,” quips ReddHedd at FireDogLake blog. And, it seems we have weasels in both parties. ReddHedd gives us this mouthful (!) for starters:
“He’s a vile, detestable, moralistic person with no heart and no conscience who believes he’s been tapped by God to do very important things,” one White House ally said, referring to special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. – New York Daily News
Chase that with this apertif from the Wall Street Journal:
Even before the CIA leak investigation has ended, Democrats and Republicans are planning public-relations campaigns. […]
Republicans, meanwhile, have started complaining about prosecutorial overreach.
For their part, Republicans are trying to focus attention elsewhere — on coming elections and their legislative efforts, for example — while playing down the significance of any charges. They also are trying to train some fire on retired diplomat Joseph Wilson, the husband of Valerie Plame, the Central Intelligence Agency operative whose identity was disclosed. Mr. Wilson charged that the White House leaked the name of his wife to undercut his criticism of the administration’s war policy. The Republican National Committee distributed to some politicians talking points titled, “Joe Wilson’s Top Ten Worst Inaccuracies and Misstatements.”
During weekend television talk shows, some Republican lawmakers even floated the idea of perjury and obstruction of justice charges amounting to little more than legal foot faults.
That may be a tricky path to pursue, in part because of the Republicans’ record of attacking the Clinton administration for not being truthful. Democrats yesterday quickly circulated a recap of Republican outrage over President Clinton’s misleading comments about his relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky. “Republicans: Against Perjury and Obstruction Before They Were For It,” read the document’s headline. Republicans also may have to maneuver without their master strategist, White House political adviser Karl Rove, who is one of the likely targets of the investigation.
The Democrats? Well — Jesus, people! Chill, will you?!
“It’s not in the Democrats’ interest to go nuts,” said Mark Corallo, a media consultant and former Justice Department official under Attorney General John Ashcroft. Their thinking, he says, should be: “Our enemy has set himself on fire. Instead of pouring gasoline that can blow up and burn us all, why don’t we just step away and let them burn.”
Raw Story has Democratic leaders “privately planning ‘indictment’ strategy. Whew.
The WSJ piece adds, “The Democrats’ talking points begin: ‘The White House leak case is about how the Bush administration manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to bolster its case for war in Iraq’.”
Okay, that sounds like a start. Now I just pray that you don’t make “We were duped!” a main theme because you’ll look like idiots. After all, we the lowly were able to figure out that it was all lies, and you couldn’t or wouldn’t. So, begin with an apology! Please. We might forgive you (?).
And don’t miss pateacher’s new diary, “Shameful Republican Hypocrisy.”
