The Criminalization of Politics" Ha ha ha - what utter Bullshit

[progressoid]

It the criminalization of, well, CRIME!

This is great. They can't blame this on Democrats. Nor the media - god know they've ignored this for a couple years. Blaming the special prosecutor is wearing thin, so now they're trying to find some nebulous entity that caused this. Somehow, somebody made politics is a crime. SHEESH. I wonder how that happened??

I guess they are banking on most peoples memories being too short to remember that the nebulous entity was the president's father. I'd love to hear these neocon gasbags tell GHW Bush that the law he signed to protect CIA agents was "criminalizing politics". Oh my god, how far off course have we gone to make me defend GHW Bush!

Thinkprogress.org had a nice summary of their tactic

Conservative defenders of Karl Rove and Scooter Libby have settled on their No. 1 talking point: the grand jury investigation into the CIA leak scandal represents the “criminalization of politics.”

In other words, they say, the outing of a covert CIA agent in a time of war to punish a whistleblower is just everyday “politics” — nothing out of the ordinary, certainly nothing criminal. In fact, according to conservatives (as articulated by the National Review), the “criminalizing of politics” is actually “the most dangerous fire of this ordeal.”

To spread this talking point across the nation, the right has received a major assist from Fox News. According to a database search, every single television reference to the CIA leak scandal as the “criminalization of politics” in the last 30 days has been on Fox. Even more stunning: on every occasion, the phrase was introduced into the segment by a Fox News anchor or correspondent, never by a guest.

Watch:
http://streaming.americanprogress.org/ThinkProgress/2005/Criminalization-Politics.320.240.mov.html

[longship]

1. But it's correct.

The Repugs have criminalized politics. They've turned politics into a criminal endeavor.

[progressoid]

2. The ultimate irony of their argument!

edited for speling eror.

[rock]

3. Why does 99% of Republicans being criminals

have to spoil it for the whole lot?

[progressoid]

4. Ha ha - true.

[JerseygirlCT]

5. Delay's been singing the same song. Nice try to them all

Pretty feeble.

[librechik]

6. yeah what they were doing was merely hardball politics

and that's the politics they want decent Americans to accept as normal from now on.

NO WAY, SCUMBALLS!

and the way we stop them is by pointing out that what they are doing is distatsteful, immoral and ILLEGAL.

RULE OF LAW!

[progressoid]

8. Yep, I heard some blowhard on the teevee saying that Scooter

was just trying to defend themselves from an untrue story! In one comment he mananged to lie and use a feeble excuse for breaking the law. Sad.

[tlsmith1963]

7. If This is the "Criminalization of Politics"...

...then I guess it applies to what they did to Clinton too, right?

Tammy