Mothers, don't let your babies
grow up to be Scooters ...
What is it about these Scooter guys that gets them into trouble?
Scooter Libby, top, at least resigned as Dick Cheney's chief of staff after being indicted on five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice for trying to cover up the facts in the Valerie Plame investigation.
Scooter Jensen, bottom, three years after being indicted on three felony charges for corruption and abuse of his public office, is still serving in a leadership role for Republicans in the State Assembly.
Apologies to Phil (Scooter) Rizzuto
posted by xoff @ 3:54 PM
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The DSCC helpfully gathered the following quotes from
1999, when a certain set of Senators from a certain
party were suffering heart palpitations from a certain
president's perjury.
Sen. Frist: "There is no serious question that perjury
and obstruction of justice are high crimes and
misdemeanors...Indeed, our own Senate precedent
establishes that perjury is a high crime and
misdemeanor...The crimes of perjury and obstruction of
justice are public crimes threatening the
administration of justice." [Congressional Record,
2/12/99]
Sen. Kyl: "...there can be no doubt that perjurious,
false, and misleading statements made under oath in
federal court proceedings are indeed impeachable
offenses...John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the
United States, said `there is no crime more
extensively pernicious to society' than perjury,
precisely because it `discolors and poisons the
streams of justice.'" [Congressional Record, 2/12/99]
Sen. DeWine: "Obstruction of justice and perjury
strike at the very heart of our system of
justice...Perjury is also a very serious crime...The
judiciary is designed to be a mechanism for finding
the truth-so that justice can be done. Perjury
perverts the judiciary, turning it into a mechanism
that accepts lies-so that injustice may prevail."
[Congressional Record, 2/12/99]
Sen. Talent: "Nobody else in a position of trust, not
a CEO, not a labor union leader, not a principal of a
school could do half of what the president has done
and stay in office. I mean, who would have said a year
ago that a president could perjure himself and
obstruct justice and tamper with witnesses... and stay
in office." [CNBC, "Hardball," 12/19/98]
Sen. McConnell: "I am completely and utterly perplexed
by those who argue that perjury and obstruction of
justice are not high crimes and misdemeanors...Perjury
and obstruction hammer away at the twin pillars of our
legal system: truth and justice." [Congressional
Record, 2/12/99]
Sen. Voinovich: "As constitutional scholar Charles
Cooper said, `The crimes of perjury and obstruction of
justice, like the crimes of treason and bribery, are
quintessentially offenses against our system of
government, visiting injury immediately on society
itself.'" [Congressional Record, 2/12/99]
Sen. Hutchison: "The reason that I voted to remove him
from office is because I think the overridding issue
here is that truth will remain the standard for
perjury and obstruction of justice in our criminal
justice system and it must not be gray. It must not be
muddy." [AP, 2/12/99]
Sen. Craig: "There is no question in my mind that
perjury and obstruction of justice are the kind of
public crimes that the Founders had in mind, and the
House managers have demonstrated these crimes were
committed by the president. As for the excuses being
desperately sought by some to allow President Clinton
to escape accountability, it seems to me that creating
such loopholes would require tearing holes in the
Constitution-something that cannot be justified to
protect this president, or any president."
[Congressional Record, 2/12/99]
Sen. Brownback: "Perjury and obstruction of justice
are crimes against the state. Perjury goes directly
against the truth-finding function of the judicial
branch of government." [Congressional Record, 2/12/99]
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