The Death of an American Hero

Rest in peace, Rosa Parks.

October 24th, 2005

It's not a lie when WE say it...

Now, usually Sunday morning is just spent digesting the events of the week past and gearing up for the week ahead. I enjoy doing this by watching the talking head shows, drinking like 20 cups of coffee and enjoying a nice big bowl of corn flakes. I used to include smoking about 10 cigarettes in there, but I quit, so I can't do that anymore. I'm just thrilled about that.

So of course on the morning when I'm cigarette-less and have run out of coffee and my milk went sour that Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson decided to lose her shit on national T.V. and make me wonder what sort of bizzaro reality world we've slipped into.

It all went down on Meet the Press and, let me say, Sen. Hutchinson did Texas proud. Russert made the mistake of actually asking her a question and she responded...well, just read it:

"I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn’t indict on the crime so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation were not a waste of time and dollars."

What. The. Fuck?

Since when was perjury a technicality?

Now, while Sen. Hutchinson certainly is a handsome woman for her age, she's not less than five years old, therefore one can only assume that she lived through BlueDressGate like the rest of us. Was she crying technicality then, since perjury was what they were supposedly trying to impeach him on?

Hypocracy, thy name is Kay.

Indeed, Hutchinson spouted off about Clinton and his "technicality" after voting to impeach him on charges of perjury. From the Congressional Record, February 12th, 1999:

"If only the President had followed the simple, high moral principle handed to us by our Nation's first leader as a child and had said early in this episode `I cannot tell a lie,' we would not be here today. We would not be sitting in judgment of a President. We would not be invoking those provisions of the Constitution that have only been applied once before in our Nation's history."

So, if a Democrat lies, it's a crime, but if a Republican does, it's a "technicality"?

Dumb, Kay, real dumb.

I'm sure Jack Chick will have a tract about this shortly.

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