Excellent Article by Ann Coulter on Democrats' double standard

[DougMD]

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Lewis Libby has now been found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice for lies that had absolutely no legal consequence.




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It was not a crime to reveal
Valerie Plame
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' name=c3> Valerie Plame's name because she was not a covert agent. If it had been a crime, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald could have wrapped up his investigation with an indictment of the State Department's Richard Armitage on the first day of his investigation since it was Armitage who revealed her name and Fitzgerald knew it.
With no crime to investigate, Fitzgerald pursued a pointless investigation into nothing, getting a lot of White House officials to make statements under oath and hoping some of their recollections would end up conflicting with other witness recollections, so he could charge some Republican with "perjury" and enjoy the fawning media attention.
As a result, Libby is now a convicted felon for having a faulty memory of the person who first told him that Joe Wilson (http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&p=%22Joe%20Wilson%22&c=&n=2 0&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw][/url]news, http://yahoo.capwiz.com/y/bio/?id=7954][/url]bio, http://yahoo.capwiz.com/y/bio/keyvotes/?id=7954][/url]voting record) was a delusional boob who lied about his wife sending him to Niger.
This makes it official: It's illegal to be Republican.
Since Teddy Kennedy walked away from a dead girl with only a wrist slap (which was knocked down to a mild talking-to, plus time served: zero), Democrats have apparently become a protected class in America, immune from criminal prosecution no matter what they do.
As a result, Democrats have run wild, accepting bribes, destroying classified information, lying under oath, molesting interns, driving under the influence, obstructing justice and engaging in sex with underage girls, among other things.
Meanwhile, conservatives of any importance constantly have to spend millions of dollars defending themselves from utterly frivolous criminal prosecutions. Everything is illegal, but only Republicans get prosecuted.
Conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh was subjected to a three-year criminal investigation for allegedly buying prescription drugs illegally to treat chronic back pain. Despite the witch-hunt, Democrat prosecutor Barry E. Krischer never turned up a crime.
Even if he had, to quote liberal Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz: "Generally, people who illegally buy prescription drugs are not prosecuted." Unless they're Republicans.
The vindictive prosecution of Limbaugh finally ended last year with a plea bargain in which Limbaugh did not admit guilt. Gosh, don't you feel safer now? I know I do.
In another prescription drug case with a different result, last year, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&p=%22Patrick%20Kennedy%22&c=&am p;n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw][/url]news, http://yahoo.capwiz.com/y/bio/?id=524][/url]bio, http://yahoo.capwiz.com/y/bio/keyvotes/?id=524][/url]voting record) (Democrat), apparently high as a kite on prescription drugs, crashed a car on Capitol Hill at 3 a.m. That's abuse of prescription drugs (BEGIN ITAS)plus[/i] a DUI offense. Result: no charges whatsoever and one day of press on Fox News Channel.
I suppose one could argue those were different jurisdictions. How about the same jurisdiction?
In 2006, Democrat and major Clinton contributor Jeffrey Epstein was nabbed in Palm Beach in a massive police investigation into his hiring of local underage schoolgirls for sex, which I'm told used to be a violation of some kind of statute in the Palm Beach area.
The police presented Limbaugh prosecutor Krischer with boatloads of evidence, including the videotaped statements of five of Epstein's alleged victims, the procurer of the girls for Epstein and 16 other witnesses.
But the same prosecutor who spent three years maniacally investigating Limbaugh's alleged misuse of back-pain pills refused to bring statutory rape charges against a Clinton contributor. Enraging the police, who had spent months on the investigation, Krischer let Epstein off after a few hours on a single count of solicitation of prostitution. The Clinton supporter walked, and his victims were branded as whores.
The Republican former House Whip
Tom DeLay
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' name=c3> Tom DeLay is currently under indictment for a minor campaign finance violation. Democratic prosecutor Ronnie Earle had to empanel six grand juries before he could find one to indict DeLay on these pathetic charges -- and this is in Austin, Texas (the Upper West Side with better-looking people).
That final grand jury was so eager to indict DeLay that it indicted him on one charge that was not even a crime -- and which has since been tossed out by the courts.
After winning his primary despite the indictment, DeLay decided to withdraw from the race rather than campaign under a cloud of suspicion, and Republicans lost one of their strongest champions in Congress.
Compare DeLay's case with that of Rep. William "The Refrigerator" Jefferson, Democrat. Two years ago, an
FBI
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' name=c3> FBI investigation caught Jefferson on videotape taking $100,000 in bribe money. When the FBI searched Jefferson's house, they found $90,000 in cash stuffed in his freezer. Two people have already pleaded guilty to paying Jefferson the bribe money.
Two years later, Bush's Justice Department still has taken no action against Jefferson. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&p=%22Nancy%20Pelosi%22&c=&n =20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw][/url]news, http://yahoo.capwiz.com/y/bio/?id=447][/url]bio, http://yahoo.capwiz.com/y/bio/keyvotes/?id=447][/url]voting record) recently put Rep. William Jefferson (http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&p=%22William%20Jefferson%22&c=& amp;n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw][/url]news, http://yahoo.capwiz.com/y/bio/?id=275][/url]bio, http://yahoo.capwiz.com/y/bio/keyvotes/?id=275][/url]voting record) on the
Homeland Security
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' name=c3> Homeland Security Committee.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&p=%22Harry%20Reid%22&c=&n=2 0&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw][/url]news, http://yahoo.capwiz.com/y/bio/?id=370][/url]bio, http://yahoo.capwiz.com/y/bio/keyvotes/?id=370][/url]voting record), Democrat, engaged in a complicated land swindle, buying a parcel of land for $400,000 and selling it for over $1 million a few years later. (At least it wasn't cattle futures!)
Reid also received more than four times as much money from Jack Abramoff (nearly $70,000) as Tom DeLay ($15,000). DeLay returned the money; Reid refuses to do so. Why should he? He's a Democrat.
Former Clinton national security adviser Sandy Berger literally received a sentence of community service for stuffing classified national security documents in his pants and then destroying them -- big, fat federal felonies.
But Scooter Libby is facing real prison time for forgetting who told him about some bozo's wife.

Bill Clinton
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' name=c3> Bill Clinton was not even prosecuted for obstruction of justice offenses so egregious that the entire Supreme Court staged a historic boycott of his State of the Union address in 2000.
By contrast, Linda Tripp, whose only mistake was befriending the office hosebag and then declining to perjure herself, spent millions on lawyers to defend a harassment prosecution based on far-fetched interpretations of state wiretapping laws.
Liberal law professors currently warning about the "high price" of pursuing terrorists under the Patriot Act had nothing but blood lust for Tripp one year after Clinton was impeached (Steven Lubet, "Linda Tripp Deserves to be Prosecuted," New York Times, 8/25/99).
Criminal prosecution is a surrogate for political warfare, but in this war, Republicans are gutless appeasers.
Bush has got to pardon Libby.
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[alsaqr]

The problem is thatthese far out left and far out right political shills forget that their party has done some really bad stuff. Crazy Al Franken never mentions the crookedness in the Democratic party.


Seems like the Bulimic Blond Bimbo forgot to mention that DeLay was censured by the House ethics committee. Rep. Hefley (R)was fired from his job on the ethics committee by Hastert because he dared to vote for the censuring DeLay.Of course, she forgot to mentioncrooked ness ofDirty Duke Cunningham, Rep. Ney, or that despicable Rep. Foley.

Near as i can tell there is no one out there who will tell the truth onthe shenanigans of BOTH political parties in DC. You either get the biased left wing view or the biased right wing view.

[Sliverflicker]

Ever notice "IT" has an Adams Apple? She is a Cancerous Tumor in the Mouth of the Republican Party.

[DougMD]

She makes a lot of sense. Sure, there are republicans who did bad things, but she didn't mention them because the dems were right in going after them. I think her article was excellent in pointing out the democrats' double standard.

[Mizzouhunter]

Both parties are full of hypocrites. Whenever the opportunity presents itself, either party will label the other as unethical or corrupt. Thats what the minority party does. They throw insults. There are crooked politicians in both parties. Ann Coulter certainly isn't the most impartial observer either.

[BenGarrett]

There are some good points in that column. But, frankly, she has no credibility as far as I'm concerned.

[Charlie P]

but she didn't mention them because the dems were right in going after them.

Your not serious are you?

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[BillyMack]

ORIGINAL: Mizzouhunter

Both parties are full of hypocrites. Whenever the opportunity presents itself, either party will label the other as unethical or corrupt. Thats what the minority party does. They throw insults. There are crooked politicians in both parties. Ann Coulter certainly isn't the most impartial observer either.

Exactly. But evidently the entire Democratic party gets a free pass on everything they do. [:'(] Get real.

Doug have you ever noticed a trend in politics? Here it is: If Dems are in power, Reps do EVERYTHING they can to "find something" to bring them down. When the Reps are in power, Dems do EVERYTHING they can to "find something" to bring them down. But, I guess I still forgot, Reps are still the ONLY one's to get convicted or even charged for that matter. Funny. Do the Dems have a monopoly on EVERY court in the land or something? As a matter of fact, there's a Representative from NC getting ready to face prison fron illegal campaign contributions. Guess what, he's a DEMOCRAT!!!!!!!!!! []

[DougMD]

It goes both ways to some extent, but those points she makes are dead on (Kennedy versus Limbaugh, for example, or any measure whatsoever of getting info on republicans, but zero privacy imfringement for potential terrorists), and the liberal media is right behind the democrats every time.