There were so many things wrong with today's second half-hour of "Meet the Press" that I hardly know where to begin in discussing them.
Should I start with the all-star cast of Richard Perle and Tom DeLay masquerading as experts on how to win the Iraq War? How about with Russert's multiple failures to answer bald-faced lies by these quacks, or with Russert's ridiculous pumping of Tom DeLay's latest book?
Those are all good choices, but for now I wish to focus on a single statement Tom DeLay made which may well go down in the history books as one of the most hypocritical sentences ever uttered.
Although I don't have a transcript yet, it was essentially that:
Impeaching a president during war time is unpatriotic.
Why is this statement so hypocritical? Answer: because Tom DeLay led the impeachment of the only American president who ever has been impeached during war time.
Needless to say, only 2 U.S. presidents ever have been impeached: Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton.
Johnson was impeached following the Civil War, not during war time.
And Clinton was impeached while the United States was deeply involved in a war in Bosnia.
Who was it in the House of Representatives, where Articles of Impeachment originate, that led the charge to impeach Clinton.
Answer: none other than Tom DeLay, then Majority Leader.
One wonders if DeLay thinks, in hindsight, that his efforts to impeach Clinton were unpatriotic. That's what follows from the logic of his statement.