Missileer said:
Federal Judges have this inherent dislike for perjury. And frankly, they scare the h**l out of me because they can really strike fire from your butt any time they feel like it. I also think they leave their sense of humor in the room where they put on their robes, that's enough to discourage me from lying to them about anything regardless of what it might cost me personally.
ME TOO.
However, that is
NOT what we have been discussing. The Republicans went after Clinton like stink on shiite for lying about sex ... but they sit on their behinds when the President is a Republican who violates our laws every time he takes a breath. Wiretapping our phone system without a legal warrant (probable cause required) is against the law and SCOTUS has so ruled
EVERYTIME one of these cases has come before them. Keep in mind that there is/was an out for him - FISA would have rubber stamped a warrant with the slightest probable cause even after the fact ... so far GW has refused to even use this approach to make the wiretaps legal.
According to our Constitution, if the President
knowingly disobeys our laws, he can be impeached and removed form office for "crimes and misdemeanors". GW has a reputation for obeying
ONLY those laws he agrees with -
he acts as though he is above the law.
Where is the outrage from the Republicans
NOW? As far as I am concerned, they are a bunch of hypocrites. What is good for the goose should also be good for the gander. Republican (or) Democrat, the law should be applied equally.
There will be Republicans that will excuse GW's actions by saying that Congress was appraised of these operations and authorised them ...
IF SO ... these actions would have been deemed illegal by SCOTUS also. The
ONLY way a law can be abridged (set aside), is for Congress to do so after a legitimate Declaration of War and by a vote of the House and Senate. When was there a Declaration of War, and just when was there a vote to set aside the wiretapping law ...
THERE WASN'T A DECLARATION OF WAR AND THERE WASN'T A VOTE.