Since when is lying to a grand jury no big deal?

[struggle4progress]

Clarence Page
05:46 AM CST on Wednesday, November 2, 2005

How awkward. A senior White House aide has been indicted, and suddenly, in Republican circles, the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is not the big deal that it used to be. <snip>

Funny how Ms. Hutchinson and her fellow Republican senators took "some perjury technicality" a lot more seriously when they tried President Bill Clinton for it – a charge of which he was acquitted with the help of some Republicans.

Since even fellow partisans were offended by Ms. Hutchison's perjury-is-no-big-deal spin, it soon was displaced in the conservative chorus by variations on the notion that Mr. Bush's critics are trying to turn an ordinary political and policy dispute into a crime.

A day after Ms. Hutchinson's statements, The New York Times reported that "allies of the White House suggested ... that they intended to pursue a strategy of attacking any criminal charges as a disagreement over legal technicalities or the product of an overzealous prosecutor." <snip>

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/stories/DN-page_02edi.ART.State.Edition1.1d31b453.html

[madame defarge]

1. They were for perjury...

before they were against it...

And besides, it's only lying when you're talking about sex, not when you're talking about people's lives... :sarcasm:

[Somawas]

4. Exactly what I was thinking.

[Dudley_DUright]

2. IOKIYAR

(Its OK if you're a republican)

[Metta]

3. When Republicans get caught lying.

That seems to be what they're saying.

[JohnnyRingo]

5. Republicans don't lie.....

They "mis-speak"
"spin"
and "work too hard to get the facts straight"

I assume they're well aquanted with their thesaurus.

[Skittles]

6. Lying is SOP for republicans

it's their nature