let's get the facts straight
Oct. 10th, 2008 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Already the usual rightist rentamouths are claiming that the "guilty of abuse of power" conclusion to the Troopergate report is merely a matter of partisan mudslinging geared to derailing Fido's presence on the McCain ticket. Indeed, the McCain campaign itself attempted to pre-empt this idiocy by releasing its own "report", which unsurprisingly found Palin purer than the driven snow and the victim of persecution at the hands of . . .
Damn. I forget who Palin was being persecuted by this time. Katie Couric, at a guess.
Fact: The investigation was instigated by the Alaskan Congress, which has a Republican majority.
Fact: "A violation of the public trust," says a committee of 10 Republicans and 4 Democrats.
Let's repeat that last for those who have difficulty hearing what they do not like to hear:
a committee of 10 Republicans and 4 Democrats
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Date: 2008-10-11 02:13 am (UTC)Love, C.
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Date: 2008-10-12 01:27 am (UTC)