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Republican Plame Out

3.20.07 @ 12:01AM

KEEPING UP WITH THE WILSONS
Re: John Tabin's Did Valerie Plame Lie?:

Regardless of whether Plame lied, or consciously left out "inconvenient" facts, Republicans will fail to act on or publicize them. Why? Because, they have no spine for any kind of political fight. They let their nominees twist in a political wind which they have no idea of the direction. We watch the painfully obvious from flyover country: Republicans stumbling all over themselves to "make right" with the media and Democrats using the U.S. Attorney firing to mask that; THEY HAVE NO AGENDA in Washington.

As we watch each arm of the executive become politically compromised by careerists that will undercut any elected officials they disagree with, we will see government get worse and less functional (if it can get any worse) until it Reagan's memory is truly regarded as an "anomaly of history" by even the most objective historians, while the delighted inheritors of the Bob Michel-Bob Dole Republicans (without those noisy Tom DeLay types around) hope for a golf date with the Dems' House or Senate Leader.
-- P. Aaron Jones
Huntington Woods, Michigan

With Democrats in the majority in Congress, there is little chance Mrs. Wilson-Plame's testimony will be pursued. An avenue of inquiry that could yield the true facts would be a civil suit by Libby or a public service law firm against the CIA Discovery might yield the names of those in the CIA, the Democrat Party and the media who helped Mr. and Mrs. Wilson advance their false claims and expose the fraudulent means used to accomplish their goal of painting President Bush as a liar.
-- Howard Lohmuller
Seabrook, Texas

Of course she did, under oath -- as did Mrs. Bill Clinton, Mr. Bill Clinton, Webster Hubbell, "Hamilton" Berger, and countless other Clinton luminaries, and yet only Libby is under looming sentence of prison. This will be Bush's red badge of shame until he pardons Libby. Each day he hesitates confirms the lack of principle at the heart of his administration.
-- J.R. Wheatley
Harper Woods, Michigan

Really, does it even matter any more? If she did, the Democrats and liberal wouldn't pursue it. Their mouthpieces in the mainstream news media -- wait, that means all the MSM -- would ignore it. And the conservative press, such as TAS, would just get lambasted for being on a witch-hunt.
-- C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

Question: Did Valerie Plame Lie? Answer: Who cares?!?!?

Whether or not Valerie Plame lied in her testimony last Friday is utterly irrelevant. She probably did, and she'll probably get away with it.

Why? Simple, Because the leaders in the Republican Party (if we can call them "leaders"), including the White House, will do nothing to make her pay for her lies, the lies told by her husband, "007" Joe Wilson, and the lies told by the Democrat Party during this entire fiasco.

But this is really nothing new. The Democrats learned a valuable lesson during the Clinton Impeachment, that lesson being that the Republican Party does not have the intestinal fortitude to play hardball with them on any issue. In addition, the Republicans are terrified of the mainstream media's ability to make them look bad to readers of the New York Times.

So Plame, like Clinton, and Sandy Berger, will go free. In fact, she'll probably be anointed a new Hero of the Left for her lies, like Daniel Ellsberg before her. Meanwhile, Scooter Libby will go to jail, Al Gonzales will be forced to resign, and the President will be forced to answer for rats at Walter Reed Hospital.

So I don't care whether Valerie Plame lied. I can't. I simply have no energy left to invest in either this President, or this Party. They have proven repeatedly that they are unworthy of the loyalty of the millions of Americans who sent them to Washington in the first place.

The years between 2008 and 2012 are going to be very difficult.
-- Gavin Valle
Peapck, New Jersey

Miss Valerie Plame's conflicting testimonies about how her husband was recommended for the Niger work for the CIA raises the question: Is there a policy regarding nepotism at the CIA? If there is, did Miss Plame violate the policy? Was nepotism investigated? If she violated the policy was she punished for any misdeeds? Has an investigator (read congressman), asked the CIA about this?

I find it interesting that Miss Plame denied nepotism in the incident. I don't recall reading the word nepotism in any articles about this topic. She apparently is sensitive to the issue. She should be, she shares in the treasure her husband reaps from his efforts: the pay for the trip, the subsequent payments for op-eds, books, movie rights.

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