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September 30, 2005

Is it stupidity or Smack? I can't decide.

All of a sudden, Texas Prosecutor Ronnie Earle appears to have acquired magical powers and vast supreme being-type connections that have allowed him to manipulate the entire Washington political scene:

Earle has said more than once, including as recently as two weeks ago, that DeLay was not a target of his "investigation." So, what changed? One possibility is that, after three years, Earle suddenly found some evidence against DeLay. That's possible, I suppose, but certainly unlikely. Based on the indictment, which we linked to yesterday, it doesn't appear that Earle has any evidence at all. In all probability, the DeLay indictment will be thrown out at some point, and Earle will look like a fool, just as he did when he indicted Kay Hutchison shortly after she was elected to the Senate.

A year ago, and apparently as recently as two weeks ago, Earle did not choose to take that risk. So--once again--what changed? My guess, and it's only a guess, is that it has to do with the impending battle over the Supreme Court. It appears that the Democrats have decided, barring the extremely unlikely possibility that President Bush nominates a Democrat, to filibuster the next nominee, whoever he or she may be. Such a move would be unprecedented in American history, and carries considerable political risk.

I believe that the Democrats think they can get away with a filibuster because they have the Republicans on the run--nothing but bad news from Iraq (untrue, but that's the impression you get from the media), the fiasco of Hurricane Katrina (also untrue, as we're learning), Bush's sagging poll numbers, etc. In order to lay the groundwork for their filibuster, the Democrats are doing everything they can to create an anti-Republican frenzy in the press. My guess is that the DeLay indictment is part of that effort.

It would be interesting to subpoena Ronnie Earle's telephone records and see what Democratic Senators or representatives of the Democratic National Committee he has been talking to over the past couple of weeks.

In other words, Darth Ronnie and his clone army of Democratic warriors have contracted with the liberal media to thwart the brave Republican philanthropic truthseekers.

If these Democrats are so damn clever, how come they're the minority in EVERY ASPECT OF WASHINGTON POLITICS?

What about the other Republican leaders that are in trouble for their various alledged indiscretions? Poor Bill Frist...another victim of an out-of-control Securities and Exchange Commission that's simply attempting to undermine the great conservative notion of capitalism? Karl Rove was merely in the wrong place at the wrong time (over and over again) and special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is just jealous that the GOP keep winning?

Hinderaker has written a plethora of delusional pieces over his career at Powerline..but this one smacks of being on Smack:

My criticism of Earle's indictment was not that he didn't plead his evidence, but that he didn't specify what, exactly, DeLay supposedly did. (The indictment does, in contrast, recite specific acts that were allegedly perfomed by the other defendants.)

I'm not a lawyer and I don't play one on this blog...but this looks like exactly what Hinderaker says it isn't..specifically and exactly what DeLay supposedly did:

..that on or about the thirteenth day of September AD, 2002,in the county of Travis and the state of Texas, John Dominick Colyandro, James Walter Ellis and Thomas Dale DeLay, the defendants therein, did enter into an agreement with one or more of each other or with a general purpose political committee known as Texans for a Republican Majority PAC that one or more of them would engage in conduct that would constitute the offense of knowingly making a political contribution in violation of Subchapter D of Chapter 253 of the Texas Election Code, a violation of sections 253.003 and 253.094 and 253.104 of the Election Code, in that said contribution was made directly to the Republican National Committee, a political party, during a period beginning sixty days before the date of a general election, and that said contribution included a prohibited political contribution by a corporation;

The indictment goes on to list the rest of the very specifically detailed alledged illegal acts.

I don't know if Hinderaker believes that if he just writes it down and publishes, no one will bother to check if he's correct or truthful..or if he just thinks his readership is plain stupid. Or maybe it's the Smack talking.

Posted by Carla at September 30, 2005 09:07 AM