There is currently a special prosecutor investigation going on in Washington that's hard to follow. In any event, it looks like indictments may be handed down this week that will name at least one Republican in high places. Karl Rove, advisor of W, is in the cross hairs.
So......
You have to listen to Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison on Meet the Press this morning doing damage control. She stated that she hoped any indictment wasn't based upon the "perjury technicality". (Video, which is 2:45 long, in here)
What? Republicans now say perjury is no big deal?
But wait, didn't she vote to impeach Clinton for perjury in the Senate? Yep. This is what she said in 1998: "Willful, corrupt, and false sworn testimony before a Federal grand jury is a separate and distinct crime under applicable law and is material and perjurious if it is 'capable' of influencing the grand jury in any matter before it, including any collateral matters that it may consider." I vote `Guilty' on Article I, Perjury. I vote`Guilty' on Article II, Obstruction of Justice."
Amazingly, she also said on Meet The Press that Clinton faced "more charges" in the Senate than just Perjury and Obstruction of Justice. That's a lie.
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10.23.2005
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There is currently a special prosecutor investigation going on in Washington that's hard to follow. In any event, it looks like indictments may be handed down this week that will name at least one Republican in high places. Karl Rove, advisor of W, is in the cross hairs.
So......
You have to listen to Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison on Meet the Press this morning doing damage control. She stated that she hoped any indictment wasn't based upon the "perjury technicality". (Video, which is 2:45 long, in here)
What? Republicans now say perjury is no big deal?
But wait, didn't she vote to impeach Clinton for perjury in the Senate? Yep. This is what she said in 1998: "Willful, corrupt, and false sworn testimony before a Federal grand jury is a separate and distinct crime under applicable law and is material and perjurious if it is 'capable' of influencing the grand jury in any matter before it, including any collateral matters that it may consider." I vote `Guilty' on Article I, Perjury. I vote`Guilty' on Article II, Obstruction of Justice."
Amazingly, she also said on Meet The Press that Clinton faced "more charges" in the Senate than just Perjury and Obstruction of Justice. That's a lie.
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I don't think Republicans say perjury is no big deal. I think Kay Bailey Hutchison is a total scumbag. Rove should be in the cross hairs. I wish they would get her in them somehow.
Not a huge fan of Kay either.
She has to be advising DeLay in some form...what is the old adage about birds of a feather? Hope all the local repubs are proud of their lying two-faced senator.
oh now Condoleesa - Kay would have trouble finding something to wear if she was gonna be in a target...
..let's see red, blue or white...and reckon the teeth need a bleaching?
Remember how she hung onto Phil Gramm? He made every camera in Washington cringe.
There is just no such thing as a "perjury technicality"...unless the perjuror is on your team apparently. Delay either lied under oath or he didn't. It's just that simple, and it's not subject to interpretation or a "technicality". That's what I hate about politics. If our side does it, it's just a technicality, but if their side does it, guilty, guilty, guilty. When she made that statement about perjury during the Clinton situation, she stated the correct definitation of perjury. The definition hasn't changed, only the party of the accused. Folks, we are going to see what she's made of. This may be a character defining moment for her if she has to vote on this in in the Senate. She better vote guilty if it comes to that with Delay, like she did with Clinton. I just thank God she decided not to run to Governor of Texas. I think she sways which ever way the wind blows and has little or no character of conviction.
I completely agree with anonymous 2:40, however I think she was attempting to address Plamegate rather that Delay. It was confusing when she mentioned two grand juries. She comes across as a real airhead.
I like Kay...at least she doesn't vote the straight party line like that idiot John Cornyn does...but she sure screwed this up. Perjury is a big deal. My dream is that they hang Rove out to dry. He is one big lying jerk.
Not everyone can be as honest and forthright as Edward Kennedy.
I think most of these posters recognize this issue touches both parties and both sides of the aisle. Thankfully, not everyone is as biased, single minded, and lost in the past as anon 6:10.
Hey, 6:10, did you read where Edward Kennedy recently rescued someone, putting his own life in danger? I guess you could add brave and courageous to your list. Which proves there is some good in all of us. It is a shame that some people focus only on the bad in others. He did a horrible thing about 40 years ago, but certainly has done alot of good since. Do you judge Laura Bush by the same standards?
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