The link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/AR2005061601570_pf.html
“[The Democrats] pretended a small conference room was the Judiciary Committee hearing room, draping white linens over folding tables to make them look like witness tables and bringing in cardboard name tags and extra flags to make the whole thing look official.”
Really? I mean, really?
“The dress-up game looked realistic enough on C-SPAN, so two dozen more Democrats came downstairs to play along. The session was a mock impeachment inquiry over the Iraq war. As luck would have it, all four of the witnesses agreed that President Bush lied to the nation and was guilty of high crimes -- and that a British memo on "fixed" intelligence that surfaced last month was the smoking gun equivalent to the Watergate tapes. Conyers was having so much fun that he ignored aides' entreaties to end the session.”
Yup, really.
Now, just because I didn't blog about it, don't think I didn't hear what Dick Durbin said. I'm aware what the guy said, I can't even begin to believe it, and it makes me want to crawl into a dark hole and die. Honestly, I prefer this story. The Durbin story is horrible, because he's basically just attacking his own nation for no good reason, he's lying, hyperbolizing, and generally being a scumfuck, and it's not even funny. It's just sad and destructive. This mock hearing is also destructive and stupid, but at least it's comically retarded, and transparently foolish. The Democrats agenda is clearly to do as much damage to the nation as they can manage, and then blame it all on Bush. My only hope is that they do even more damage to themselves in the process, and finish the job a Dean nomination should have started; namely their much needed implosion and disappearance.
But what's really mind blowing about all this, the question that's been sitting in the back of my mind this whole time, is “since when is lying an impeachable offense?” Not “lying under oath.” Just “lying.” Like, if they find a tape, tomorrow, of Bush saying “boy, I can't believe these idiots are gonna go to war. I made up a lot of lies, and I know it, and we're gonna go to war, and boy oh boy, what a liar I am,” that's STILL not an impeachable offense. They don't care. They just say “impeach” a lot, and act like that's all it takes. It's the same thing they did with Tom DeLay. He should go back to Texas, and serve his jail time. For what? For a crime he hasn't even been ACCUSED of yet? Sounds good, guys. See you in 2006, you fucking idiots.
UPDATED: http://www.democrats.com/node/5037
“On Thursday we made history. All of our determination and hard work paid off as John Conyers and three dozen House Democrats heard unbelievably powerful testimony from Joseph Wilson, Cindy Sheehan, Ray McGovern, and John Bonifaz.”
How utterly fucking INSANE is this? You made history? Your hard work and determination paid off? What the fuck are those phrases? Are they the random output of the populist politician self-masturbation machine? You're damn right you “made history.” You manufactured a fake Judiciary Comittee hearing, got it put on C-SPAN, and tried to fool America into believing that they were seeing an actual hearing into a potential Bush impeachment. You people are actually trying to manufacture an impeachment of an American President in WARTIME. That's seriously making you proud? You know what? I'm just gonna start calling you traitors right now, because, while I know what you're doing hasn't crossed over into traitorhood, you're fully planning to make that transition as soon as you have the means to sufficiently damage national security.
Let's be clear about something. Bush may have lied, he may not have. But no matter what evidence you provide, it will never be as clear a demonstration of deception and dishonesty as your farce hearing. You just tried to mislead America, very clearly, very calculatingly, and very deliberately. You think that calling it a “powerful” event, you can whitewash that simple fact. You're liars. You're deceivers. You're an embarassment. You're traitors.
I've had enough of you people. Stop. Now.