consistency, take two

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Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, and I. Lewis Libby Jr., who is Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, have been advised that they are in serious legal jeopardy. Other officials could also face charges in connection with the disclosure of the identity of an undercover C.I.A. officer in 2003.

On Sunday, Republicans appeared to be preparing to blunt the impact of any charges. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas, speaking on the NBC news program "Meet the Press," compared the leak investigation with the case of Martha Stewart and her stock sale, "where they couldn't find a crime and they indict on something that she said about something that wasn't a crime."

Ms. Hutchison said she hoped "that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn't indict on the crime and so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation was not a waste of time and taxpayer dollars."
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-the new york times

just so i get this straight: the republicans that spent 40 million dollars investigating bill clinton for real-estate misdeeds, which turned into investigating him for shagging an intern, which, finally, turned into investigating him for perjury; it's these same republicans are now fretting that one of their own might get tagged for perjury after being investigated for outing a spy and endangering all of her old contacts in other countries? now we get to the "take two" part: what a collection of fucktards.