Posted by
Always To The Right on Thursday, September 04, 2008 2:28:48 PM
I’ve been getting a lot of e-mail about this clip of Joe Biden speaking at a campaign event yesterday in which he promised to go after the Bush administration
for “violations of the Constitution”. Readers believe this to be an
outrage, and perhaps it is, but for another reason altogether than what
they think
Note too that Biden says If. If violations
occurred, they plan to investigate them. As long as they stick to that
approach, that seems not just fair, but fundamental to good government.
However, the real story here is that Democrats have controlled Congress for almost two years now, and they have
conducted investigations into these allegations. What have they
found? Nothing. The 110th Congress has abdicated all of its other
responsibilities to focus on witch hunts, hoping to find a Holy Grail
of Bush Derangement Syndrome. Despite wasting thousands of hours and
millions of dollars, they’ve come up with a big nothingburger.
The real outrage here is either that the Democrats are so deep into
the tinfoil hat brigade, or that they are so incompetent. Neither of
those options speak well to keeping them in leadership roles. That’s
why Joe Biden answered the man’s question carefully, and in my mind,
completely appropriately. If Republicans want to become a party of real reform, they’d better get used to acting on it.
When asked about his comments by Fox news today, Biden said he has
no evidence that criminal charges would be warranted and no intention
of pursuing action against the current president.
"What is true
is the United States Congress is trying to preserve records on
questions that relate to whether or not the law has been violated by
anyone," Biden said, adding: "But, you know, there's been an awful lot
of unsavoury stuff that's gone on. And the mere fact … that it occurred
in a previous administration doesn't mean [a subsequent] Justice
Department, if, in fact, there's evidence, shouldn't pursue them. "But
I have no evidence of any of that. No one's talking about pursuing
President Bush criminally."