{"id":109,"date":"2005-11-05T06:34:44","date_gmt":"2005-11-05T12:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=109"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T20:35:04","slug":"the-great-question-here-is-robert-novak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-great-question-here-is-robert-novak\/","title":{"rendered":"The \r\n\r\ngreat question here is Robert Novak"},"content":{"rendered":"

I completely <\/p>\n

understand Dimdahl’s concerns about being hauled off to court “solely for partisan effectiveness”. If that were all it takes, he’d be <\/p>\n

serving a life-sentence. Instead, we are sentenced to his continued braying. That he admires DeLay says volumes about them both.<\/p>\n

In this excerpt, I’ve left out most of the anti-liberal hawing after the opening ad hominem attack — talk about hewing to a script, <\/p>\n

John! Yeah, yeah, ‘Republicans are the party of ideas’ — like teaching only creationism in the Christian Republic of America; like <\/p>\n

letting corporations do anything they want and pay nothing for what they do (through taxes or the courts); like making the Executive a <\/p>\n

dictator and the courts a rubberstamp. Big Ideas from the self-designated Deep Thinkers. Ego-serving bullshit.<\/p>\n

I am intrigued by <\/p>\n

Dimdahl noting “a wily prosecutor could indict a stone.” Wow. Sounds like the “justice” system tilts towards the prosecution. Next thing <\/p>\n

you know, Republicans will be lauding Trial Attorneys (instead of just hiring them in droves).<\/p>\n

Press on through Dimdahl’s dreck <\/p>\n

to read an excerpt from Buckley. The two are master bloviators and both favor legalization of marijuana (finally, we find common ground <\/p>\n

between the Left and the Wrong). But Buckley takes the White House smear campaign more seriously (and confesses to being a CIA alumnus). <\/p>\n

mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ABQjournal: Since When Is Party Loyalty a Crime?<\/a> By John Dendahl, For the Journal<\/p>\n

Bereft of anything resembling an <\/p>\n

idea, and spectacularly unsuccessful at demonizing their opposition with nasty rhetoric, the left has now turned to criminalizing <\/p>\n

conservatives. …<\/p>\n

The Libby indictment may be the most bizarre of all. …<\/p>\n

Many lawyers have noted that a wily <\/p>\n

prosecutor could indict a stone<\/em>.<\/strong> … [T]his is no mission to excuse ideological allies if they have broken laws while <\/p>\n

serving as public officials.<\/p>\n

Conversely, if the threat of being hauled into criminal court now hangs over an officeholder <\/p>\n

pretty much solely for partisan effectiveness<\/strong>, we are all in a world of hurt.<\/p>\n

William F. Buckley on Patrick Fitzgerald’s Investigation on National Review <\/p>\n

Online<\/a>
\nWho Did What?
\nCovert questions.<\/p>\n

The hot-blooded search for criminality in the matter of Cheney\/Libby\/Rove has not <\/p>\n

truly satisfied those in search of first degree venality. …<\/p>\n

The importance of the law against revealing the true professional <\/p>\n

identity of an agent is advertised by the draconian punishment, under the federal code, for violating it. In the swirl of the Libby <\/p>\n

affair, one loses sight of the real offense<\/strong>, and it becomes almost inapprehensible what it is that Cheney\/Libby\/Rove got <\/p>\n

themselves into. But the sacredness of the law against betraying a clandestine soldier of the republic cannot be slighted. …<\/p>\n

The great question here is Robert Novak<\/strong>. It was he who published, in his column, that Mrs. Joseph Wilson was a secret <\/p>\n

agent of the CIA. I am too close a friend to pursue the matter with Novak, and his loyalty is a postulate. What was going on? If there <\/p>\n

are mysteries in town, that surely is one of them, the role of Novak.<\/p>\n

It is here that Buckley amazes me <\/p>\n

the most. He’s too close to Novak, the one who knows the most, the most obvious tool of the Radical Right, too close a friend to ask <\/p>\n

him: who told you? mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

—–<\/p>\n

By the way, the title given to <\/p>\n

Dimdahl’s piece (“Since When Is Party Loyalty a Crime?”) is further evidence the Journal should fire the headline editor. When you hear <\/p>\n

left and right gripe about Journal bias, it often starts with a headline. Maybe an article does manage some balance, but headlines <\/p>\n

establish the tone. This one is more dismissive of matters than even Dimdahl himself. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I completely understand Dimdahl’s concerns about being hauled off to court “solely for partisan effectiveness”. If that were all it takes, he’d be serving a life-sentence. Instead, we are sentenced to his continued braying. That he admires DeLay says volumes about them both. In this excerpt, I’ve left out most of the anti-liberal hawing after … Continue reading The <\/p>\n

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