Snarky smirker : William Kristol, currently the editor of the rightwing’s Pravda-esque Weekly Standard – and formerly Vice President Dan Quayle’s brain – is the winner of this week’s “GOP Hypocrite of the Week,” from Buzzflash:
But Kristol just uses a ten-dollar vocabulary to mouth the same basic Republican message points and platitudes that slip off of Bill O’Reilly’s prostituted tongue. So now Kristol, FOX News, and the entire right wing echo chamber are claiming that investigating treason, perjury and the obstruction of justice is a trivial waste of time.
Kristol’s Karl Rove/Frank Luntz focus-group tested charge is that Patrick Fitzgerald is part of an effort to “criminalize politics.”
Forget that Fitzgerald is a Bush appointed U.S. Attorney who was assigned by Bush’s justice department to investigate TreasonGate. Forget that it was the Republicans who unrelentingly abused the judicial and Congressional process to try and impeach a Democratic President over an act of fellatio. Forget that it was Kristol and his cohorts who told America that their only concern was the consistent application of the rule of law when it came to Clinton.
Actually, don’t forget it. Remember it well.
To hear the liver-lipped combover, Bill Kristol, complaing about the “criminalization” of politics is about as absurd as listening to an old whore bemoan promiscuity in our society. When Bill Clinton was president, the GOP turned a private real estate investment that Clinton entered into 14 YEARS BEFORE HE BECAME PRESIDENT, into an eight-year witchhunt that ended up criminalizing sexual conduct between two consenting adults. If Bush didn’t have the longest criminal rap sheet of any president in history and two-time drunk driver Dick Cheney had a shred of common human decency, these charges might have some merit. Since they don’t, I say, “Suck it up Repugnicans! If you can dish it out, you damn well better be able to take it.”