Locke and Load

Plame Game

Okay, just like the Harriet Miers story, this has taken a while to hit my radar screen. Maybe it was the glee in the reporters voices that kept me away. Or maybe the fact that it was all just supposition based on supposed leaks. Maybe it's just been a tough week. But the Plame Game finally has my attention.

As for Miers, I hope Bush nominates the most conservative, most highly qualified person - male, female, black, white, brown, off-white with a touch of beige - with the most verifiable background, that can possibly be found. Then I hope he looks at the Republicans in the Senate and says "Here you go, now you get her approved". After all, this is already only about Roe v. Wade, as the Republicans helped frame the debate. The conservative voice of the Republican Party has been heard. Will the spineless take heed?

But about the Plame Game, I'm pretty much just pissed off. This whole affair began as an investigation of whether the White House outed Ms. Plame, a "covert" CIA agent, as retribution on her husband Joe Wilson. After almost two years, we get an idictment against Cheney's Chief of Staff for perjury.

NOT the outing of a CIA agent, which Fitzgerald waxed elegantly about in his news conference. To the point that I later heard a news reporter put it just that way. Perjury. In a case where apparently no crime was committed. After all the crap he said about saying nothing about anyone not charged, I guess once you charge them with something you can accuse them of being a child molester too. If he broke the law then charge him for it, or shut up.

And to you anti-war libs trying to make this part of your case against Bush's "illegal" war - you are contemptible maggots. You just made the Vice President's Chief of Staff resign over some trumped up crap in a time of war. Your rhetoric is reprehensible, your support for our military is non-existent, and your behavior is infantile.

And to my point, on the same day this hits, this story is in the news.

Yep, a banner day in the cesspool of D.C.

posted by The Man @ 6:49 PM