Yeah, this is going to happen. Not. I don't know where this is coming from, it's either due to the 1600 Crew'sinking poll numbers, or Unka Karl, who's always thinking, is getting out ahead of the story by winding up Simple Arlen and going for another snow-the-media spin-a-thon.
President Bush and Vice President Cheney need to explain what classified information was authorized to be leaked to reporters in July 2003 and why, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said yesterday.
"I think that there has to be a detailed explanation precisely as to what Vice President Cheney did, what the president said to him, and an explanation from the president as to what he said so that it can be evaluated," Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) said. He was referring to last week's revelation in a court document that Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, testified that Cheney told him Bush approved leaking parts of a classified document about intelligence estimates of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
I wonder if Arlen will call Darth Dick up to the Hill and have him lie not under oath. After all even if the orchestrated "hearing" has Darth Dick offering to take the oath, Arlen will turn him down using the Abu Gonzales Precedent for Lying.
For added effect, Lynn can show up and weep, a la Mrs.Weepy Scalito, and then call the Pat Leahy a "bad, bad man". Because if it works once, it works twice...right?
posted by Jo Fish on 04.09.06 at 09:39 PM
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Similar to the crap they pulled over domestic warrantless eavesdropping... harumph, we'll have hearings harumph... o.k. no need for further concern... harumph... now go away.
The problem is, as the presidential poll numbers keep dropping, and the only "credibility moment" available concerns the Congress (though not Arlen himself, who's in till '10)... being a Congressional enabler of Chimpco is just not going to be the greatest career move come November...
