{"id":228,"date":"2006-01-04T09:35:17","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T13:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=228"},"modified":"2006-01-04T23:29:52","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T03:29:52","slug":"the-usual-republican-hypocrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"The usual republican hypocrite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>&#8220;If laws were broken, he must be held to account for what he did.&#8221;<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<center>&#8212; Scott McClellan, the presidential press secretary<br \/>Unfortunately, speaking about Jack Abramoff<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I guess others need to obey the law, at least when they get caught.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe someone should point him at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Article_One_(United_States_Constitution)#Section_9:_Limits_on_Congress\">Article 1, Section 9 of the United States Constitution<\/a> (<i>re <u>habeus corpus<\/u>)<\/i>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usconstitution.net\/const.html#Article6\">Article VI of the US Constitution<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usconstitution.net\/const.html#Am4\">Fourth Amendment to the Constitution <\/a>, or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/irp\/agency\/doj\/fisa\/\">Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping to make 2006 a year of indictments and impeachments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tom DeLay\n<\/li>\n<li>Bill Frist\n<\/li>\n<li>Dennis Hastert\n<\/li>\n<li>Bob Ney\n<\/li>\n<li>Karl Rove\n<\/li>\n<li>Rick Santorum (my own senator, to use the word loosely)\n<\/li>\n<li>Bob Taft\n<\/li>\n<li>Ernie Fletcher\n<\/li>\n<li>Tom Noe\n<\/li>\n<li>John Bolton\n<\/li>\n<li>Dick Cheney\n<\/li>\n<li>And a host of others I&#8217;ve forgotten<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can&#8217;t indict a sitting president.  The only option is impeachment, but in the classic example of &#8220;It&#8217;s not what you&#8217;ve done, it&#8217;s who your friends are.&#8221; I&#8217;m sure the scoundrels who control the house of representatives will never consider that, no matter how egregious his acts.  (Unless, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalhumor.about.com\/library\/images\/blfunnypic5.htm\">one thing happens<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If laws were broken, he must be held to account for what he did.&#8221; &#8212; Scott McClellan, the presidential press secretaryUnfortunately, speaking about Jack Abramoff I guess others need to obey the law, at least when they get caught. Maybe someone should point him at Article 1, Section 9 of the United States Constitution (re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}