It’s Only a “Technicality” in a Culture of Corruption

If you ever doubted how deeply the “Culture of Corruption” has seeped into the very marrow of the Republican Party, you just had to listen to Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison on Meet the Press. When asked about the looming possibility of Plamegate indictments, reportedly for perjury or obstruction of justice, she poo-pooed them as “technicalities.”

Senator Hutchinson’s absurd utterance was another GOP trial balloon intent on trying to mute public outrage. Fox and the rest of the right-wing echo chamber has been beating this drum ever since “lawyers close to the case,” (probably Rove and Libby’s), leaked that indictments were coming not for the felony charge of outing an undercover agent but for lying about it to federal investigators. You have to at least hand it to these guys, when they’re handed lemons, they try their damndest to make lemonade. “Gee, there’s not enough evidence to actually convict the highest-ranking members of the White House and the office of the Vice President of treason, just perjury and conspiracy. Is that so wrong?”

The party that said they won the last election because of their stand on moral issues doesn’t have a leg to stand on. Nothing shows how out of touch Republicans now are with the values of the American people.