mysteryman wrote:kickycan wrote:This is not a partisan issue. It should piss everyone off on both sides. It should show us just how corrupt our government has become. People in positions of power can break the law and then be let completely off the hook right in front of our faces, and all we can do is bicker about partisan bullshit. It's both sides. It's our government being corrupted further and further right before our eyes. And we seem to be okay with it, unless it's the other side doing it. What these fatcat assh*les are doing is blatantly pissing all over the law, no matter how you look at it.
Our government has no ethical compass anymore. Ah, screw it. It's good entertainment watching our government eat itself from within.
What makes you thin Libby was "let off the hook"?
He still has to pay a huge fine,he will lose his law license and therefore be disbarred,he will lose his right to vote,and he will be a convicted felon and therefore ineligible for many jobs.
That sure doesnt sound like being "let off the hook" to me.
Bull crap. His legal defense fund raised over 5 million from rich Republicans, you don't think they will pay his fine as well? C'mon.
And, what's more, none of what you say will actually happen. He won't lose his license, he won't be ineligable for anything. Because Bush will just wait until the end of his term, and pardon Libby.
He was let off the hook, completely, and you know it. Paris Hilton did more jail time then Libby, who was convicted of perjury and Obstruction of Justice.
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But Clinton wasn't punished. Indeed, apart from the impeachment, no criminal charges were filed.
They should have been. But, instead of pursuing that route, the Republicans chose to go for impeachment in the Congress, and failed.
Actually, I'm not sure that criminal charges could have been filed; can you charge a sitting president with such crimes?
Not that it matters. This 'Clinton Equivalency' game is nothing but bullshite and you know it, George. Two wrongs don't make a right.
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