Senator Reid Has A Case Of Wishful Thinking
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said Sunday that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should apologize for the actions of their aides in the CIA leak case.
Reid, D-Nev., also said Bush should pledge not to pardon any aides convicted as a result of the investigation into the disclosure of CIA officer Valerie Plame’s identity.
“There has not been an apology to the American people for this obvious problem in the White House,” Reid said. He said Bush and Cheney “should come clean with the American public.”
Reid added, “This has gotten way out of hand, and the American people deserve better than this.”
I agree. This has gotten way out of hand. We do deserve better than this. We, especially the people of Nevada, deserve senators who understand that in our legal system, people are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
President Bush and Vice-President Cheney have nothing to apologize for, and Senator Reid should apologize for attempting to mislead the American people into thinking Scooter Libby has already been found guilty of the charges against him.
Reid also said that Karl Rove, the president’s closest political adviser, should step down. Rove has not been charged with a crime.
The closest the indictment comes to Rove is its discussion of an unnamed senior White House official who talked to columnist Robert Novak about Plame and discussed the matter with Libby. That could describe Rove.
I think Harry Reid should step down. I know, he has not been charged with a crime either, but I if he can talk out of his ass, so can I.
Reid said he was disappointed that Bush and Cheney expressed support for Libby in their public statements.
That’s because Democrats, like Harry Reid, have no idea what it means to stand by or support anyone. Of course, that brings us back to the “Democrats have no backbone” argument, and that’s a conversation for another day.
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