A GOP Congressman Asks Questions About Valerie Plame Wilson’s Testimony

National Review.Com ^ | March 26, 2007 12:00 AM | Bryon York

[Laverne]

Free Scooter Ping

[Cindy]

ping

[Darkwolf377]

Westmoreland seems, from this article, to be the rare person in Washington who, when caught unprepared, attempted to educate himself and get back on track.

Plame's testimony was a wet firecracker for the Dems. Looks like the Republicans may be able to use it to our advantage--"us" being Americans who want to know the truth about this Plame BS, and who want to expose the Dems shameless political gameplaying over this issue.

[Doctor Raoul]

If Val does time, will Joe be faithful?

[Thrownatbirth]

If Val does time,

Now, there's something to dwell on...

[tomnbeverly]

She is a liar... Now why don't the GOP get a set and ask to have Joe Wilson brought up to the Senate for questioning... Why does he get a pass on all his lies.... First question...

Why did you wait until after the military found no traces of WMD in Iraq before you wrote about or even mentioned it?

They might as well bring her along and clear up all this made up B.S.

[johnny7]

Too late, too little Congressman... they're p•ssing on your other leg now.

[sgtbono2002]

Its downright embarrassing that only two republicans bothered to show up at Waxmans head hunting expedition.

Plame came in and lied her butt off, and only one Republican cared enough to even bring it up.

Is it any wonder the Democrats are running things to suit themselves?

[kellynch]

This whole thing is a travesty. How the jury found him guilty is beyond me. There must have been 12 Democrats on that jury.

[Alas Babylon!]

I agree. This is something the House and Senate should have done BEFORE the Dems took over. Hmmmm.... Say back in 2003/4 when the Driveby Media started making such a fuss over it, in their efforts to erode Pres Bush popular support and the Iraq war effort.

It's not doing these things, while they'd have been difficult, partisan and invoke caterwauling from the DBM, that might have kept the GOP in power and more of them in their seats.

[David Isaac]

I am not sure how long I am going to hold my breath on this one. I am trying to remember the las time the GOP used Dem wrong-doings to pin them to the wall. If Wax man chooses to ignore, I am sure the media will ignore as well.

[Darkwolf377]

I think you're right. I got caught up in the moment, imagining what *I* would do were I a congresscritter with this kind of info.

[Suzy Quzy]

Geesh....WHY would ANY Republican NOT know ALL the details about PLAME/WILSON??? LAZY ASSES!! DUMB ASSES!! It was designed to bring down the administartion and yet only TWO Pubbies bother to show up, and Tom Davis is a USELESS, TOOTHLESS RINO! Westmoreland should be ASHAMED that he didn't know the details.....he could have asked ANY freeper!

[Darkwolf377]

Looks to me like the Republicans simply want to stay away from W.

[Suzy Quzy]

The REPUBLICANS should have called for Val and Joe to come up before them when they were in charge...they are just so pathetic.

[Suzy Quzy]

No......they are LAZY and STUPID and ELITE. They have brought themselves down, W hasn't brought them down.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

I'd like to think something would come of this, but let's be realistic: both Tom Davis and Westmoreland were UNPREPARED for their limited role in this fiasco of an "interview". Waxman will do nothing. Valerie Plame knew that she could lie under oath about all of this with impunity -- the Dems in charge would never challenge her, and if it ever went to court: it's just more publicity and (the old "hole card") it would be a DC jury!

So you have pundits like Mort Kondracke who concluded "Plame demolished the notion that she wasn't covert" and other stupid conclusions that were not at all "proved" -- but that's the consensus in this Beltway 2007. Shame on the GOP for playing patsy with these lying Demos.

[David Isaac]

The Republicans seem to have a different "rules of engagement" set, than do the Dems. This seems to be the case since the '94 election, when they found they could win if they clearly delineated the differences between the two parties. This has been the reason for the GOP losses, not any movement of the electorate towards the "center".

[palmer]

They aren't called the stupid party for no reason. On the other hand they know if they are more aggressive like Weldon, they will have their heads handed to them.