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October 23, 2005
Republican Hypocrisy, Exhibits 23,409,898 A and B
Couldn't help but notice a whole bunch of hypocrisy floating around the Republican party in the last week. Not that this is really newsworthy, of course -- kind of like blogging about another smog day in L.A. or that a gangsta rapper has a song out about his "bitches and hoes" and fronting about what a bad-ass he is -- but there were two cases this week so laden with irony that I had no choice but to mention them.
1. Bush calls for UN hearing on Syria. Let me see if I get this straight: In 2003, George W. Bush and his administration violently removed a sovereign regime's leader in the Middle East from power, based on that leader's perceived hostility to his own nation's agenda and interest. Bush ignored the UN through this whole process, except for the times when he or his administration were insulting it.
In 2005, Syria apparently violently removed a sovereign nation's leader in the Middle East from power, based on that leader's perceived hostility to Syria's agenda and interests. In this case, Bush is wailing and gnashing his teeth and calling for the suddenly-relevant-to-him UN to hold hearings on Syria's involvement?
Okay, neither Saddan Hussein nor the Syrian regime are the kind of folks you'd invite to your neighborhood barbecue, true. But for George W. Bush to call for UN meetings over one nation's involvement in the violent overthrow of another's government in the Middle East... well, that's like OJ Simpson complaining about justice not being served in the Robert Blake murder case.
2. Tom DeLay wants his judge removed. Gee... Tom DeLay can't intimidate the judge hearing his case, and the durn ol' judge appears intent on actually going through the legal process... so of course, DeLay wants no part of him. He's calling for that judge, Bob Perkins, to be dismissed on the grounds that Perkins is a -- gasp! -- Democrat.
First of all, the "evidence" presented by DeLay's lawyers is close to flat out perjury. They're claiming that Perkins bought an anti-DeLay t-shirt from MoveOn.org... only MoveOn's not selling any such t-shirt. But let's pretend for a moment that this isn't just a case of a slimy, criminal, cockroach of a man who knows he's pinned to the wall and is doing anything he can to wriggle free. Let's pretend for just one second that DeLay is right -- that he's been targeted for prosecution by a zealous partisan political opponent intent on undoing through court proceedings what elections have not done.
Consider it deferred karmic payback for Ken Starr, you sanctimonious, bombastic, slimy, self-righteous piece of fascist crap. Burn in hell, and enjoy your sentence sharing a cell, the weight room and a communal shower with Razor, Snake, and Buzz.
