I’m still trying to catch up on the news after being in the hinterlands among people who are more worried about the lack of rain for this year’s sweet corn harvest than they are worried about politics.\u00c2\u00a0I figured that the Libby thing would be played out by now, but\u00c2\u00a0being among real people made me\u00c2\u00a0forget that Republican transgressions are always much more serious than those of the Democrats\u00c2\u00a0– well, for the media and the Congressional Democrats anyway.<\/p>\n
I dipped in my toe this morning by watching Fox News Sunday which had my idiot, pussy, partisan Congressman Chris VanHollen<\/a> as a guest. And so I can always count on him to get my blood pressure up – because it reminds me of how stupid my neighbors are for electing the moron to Congress. He was one of the first to\u00c2\u00a0pile on the Army over the conditions at Walter Reed, then when the Army tried to speed up construction of the new Walter Reed facilities in Bethesda, VanHollen stepped in to delay construction because it’d disrupt his commute in the morning.<\/p>\n So I jumped over to the Fox News website and watched Hillary Clinton call the Libby pardon “cronyism”(Video<\/a>). Cronyism? Can she be serious? Or does she forget that we can google a search of her husband’s pardons<\/a> – he pardoned murderers, terrorists\u00c2\u00a0and drug dealers as well as cronies. In fact Clinton, pardoned more people on January 20th, 2001<\/a> than President Bush has pardoned in the last six years.<\/p>\n Clinton pardoned contributors, disgraced cabinet members, Susan MacDougal who kept his secrets in prison (unlike her husband who mysteriously died when he was about to tell what he knew), Clinton’s own drug dealing half-brother, a disgraced CIA director who\u00c2\u00a0was under investigation for\u00c2\u00a0pilfered national secrets. But pardoning Libby is “cronyism” – despite the fact that Libby wasn’t the criminal the special prosecuter was looking for, or\u00c2\u00a0involved in the incident<\/a> that the prosecutor was investigating.<\/p>\n This extent of partisanship probably borders on Democrats being criminally partisan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"