All in the Family

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In his column today, E.J. Dionne exposes one of the central ironies in the Fitzgerald investigation: the fact that the same Republicans who righteously argued they weren't interested in sex, only in "perjury and the obstruction of justice" and the "rule of law" when a special prosecutor went after Bill Clinton on Monica Lewinsky, are now screaming about the politicization of justice.

There are many other ironies in this case, of course, yet, amazingly, one has been overlooked: the White House,s use of nepotism as a club when it suits the Administration's political purposes, and its embrace of nepotism when, well....when it suits its political purposes.

Allow me to explain: Whoever leaked Valerie Plame,s name did so in an effort to persuade reporters that former diplomat Joseph C. Wilson IV had been sent to Niger not on the basis of his own credentials, but because his wife suggested his name. Nepotism, pure and simple (although it,s not clear why a trip to a place as bleak as Niger was considered a "boondoogle," as some have described it). The aim was to discredit him because he didn,t get his assignment based on merit.

Flash forward to Bush World 2005, where getting important assignments based on connections, not merit, is the norm. Disgraced FEMA director Michael Brown did "a heck of a job" during the Katrina disaster. Harriet Meirs is "the most qualified" woman Bush can find to replace Sandra Day O,Connor as associate justice of the Supreme Court.

http://warrenreports.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/10/18/205525/49

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1. good point. but then, hypocrisy has always been the rw's strong suit....

:rofl:

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2. Time to move beyond the "Let me explain" phase. eom