At the Plamegate hearing on Friday, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson, a registered Republican, expressed outrage at how the House and Senate Republicans are defending Karl Rove. He said he wished that a GOP lawmaker would have the courage to stand up and "call the ugly dog the ugly dog."
He went on to say, "Where are these men and women with any integrity to speak out against this? I expect better behavior out of Republicans."
Amen. To be a "good Republican" today, you have to defend Karl Rove. You have to defend the outing of a CIA agent in an act of vengeance to discredit her husband who presented facts that were inconvenient to the Bush administration's war agenda. You have to defend the ongoing justification of war with transparent lies -- an unnecessary war that thus far has cost over 1800 American lives. And you have to defend selfishness, greed, and war profiteering.
During Watergate, Republican lawmakers stepped forward to tell Nixon that he had crossed the line. Where are they now?
If something like this had happened during the Clinton administration, imagine the outrage! But, of course, this time around it was just a matter of compromising national security and endangering our brave CIA agents and their contacts, and smearing those who would challenge the lies used to justify a war. After all, it's not as if anyone got a blowjob, so why worry about it?
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