Kay Bailey Hutchison

[tulsakatz]

Remember on Meet the Press, Kay Bailey Hutchison said that she did not consider perjury to be a crime........that it would be better if the original crime were prosecuted. Tucker Carlson said a similar thing this week on Real Time. He said he didn't think someone should be prosecuted for something other than the original crime.

This kind of thinking is not the way the law works!

For instance, let's say I get stopped for a traffic violation. Let's say I run a red light and a cop pulls me over. When he pulls me over, he discovers I don't have insurance. Is there any cop in the world who would only give me a ticket for running the light? No! He's going to give me a ticket for not having insurance too! Plus they would probably even suspend my license too!

It's a little strange to hear a politician suggest an outcome that goes against the law. By not prosecuting for perjury as well as everything else they find is the way every court in the country operates!!

[bigbrother05]

1. What a statement

we have laws, but they don't apply to the have's, only to the have nots.

[ClintonTyree]

2. But Bill Clinton's case was completely different..........

right? :eyes: I'm 55 years old and my mind isn't what it used to be but I seem to remember Repiglicans having a shit fit about Clinton "lying under oath". Am I right about this, or is my old mind playing tricks on me?

If they DID have a shit fit about it that would mean that the Repiglicans are HYPOCRITES! :wow: Who would have ever thought that the Repigs would be less than honest about something like this. My gosh, they're the party of HONESTY and INTEGRITY! She must have been misquoted, that all I can say! :sarcasm:

[mac56]

3. Bear in mind at all times:

Republicans are less troubled by hypocrisy than normal people are.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. She's a hypocrite. She said the opposite in 1998

What a difference a few years makes for Hutchison

Sen Hutchison in 1998: "Willful, corrupt, and false sworn testimony before a Federal grand jury
is a separate and distinct crime under applicable law and is material and perjurious if it is 'capable' of influencing the grand jury in any matter before it, including any collateral matters that it may consider." I vote `Guilty' on Article I, Perjury. I vote`Guilty' on Article II, Obstruction of Justice."

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/10/23.html#a5514

[Missy M]

5. Not to mention the only thing that keeps some people telling the...

truth is the fear of perjury. Can you imagine how many more lies would be told in the court room if there were no punishment for perjury.

[liberal N proud]

6. She didn't see it that way when they were prosecuting Clinton

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5141932

[acmejack]

7. KBH is an idiot (& an embarrassment)!

Fortunately, we have a really good candidate to replace her.

[DawnneOBTS]

8. She is a stupid bitch...

I'd be ashamed if I lived in Texas to have to see her ugly ass face on television. I sure hope that there is a good Dem candidate to defeat her (providing that election fraud can be overcome).

[underpants]

10. Separated at birth or a timeline?

[No Exit]

9. Kay Hutchinson should've shut her mouth before she put her

(no doubt expensively-clad) foot in it. Her remarks from the Clinton era--in which she describes perjury as essentially on a par with infanticide--give the lie to what she babbles now.

[underpants]

11. I was half listening to MTP--THAT should have been a "cut her mike" moment

Russert should have pulled an O'Reilly and said,"Okay that is beyond even what I can stomach. Cut her mike she doesn't deserve to be heard ever again on public airwaves"