Of course the Democrats are appropriately bashing President Bush's decision to commute Lewis Libby's sentence. The problem, if I know the Dems, is that they will make a suitably big stink about it for a week or so, and then let it fade into the background.
If President Clinton had pulled something like this, the Republicans would have talked about it every day until the next election and beyond. They would have fired up their media machine and made sure this was on everybody's mind for years. It would have been their talking point, their talking point, their talking, talking, talking point, until they'd pounded it permanently into the public consciousness.
The Dems need to take a lesson from the Republican playbook. Commuting the sentence of one of your own minions who committed crimes to further your political agenda (smearing critics of the Iraq war) is so blatant, so shameless, that it deserves to be a talking point indefinitely.
Don't let this die down, Dems. Talk about it, not just every day this week, but every day this year, and next year too.
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"If President Clinton had pulled something like this, the Republicans would have talked about it every day until the next election and beyond."
If?
Yes, I should have said, "when President Clinton pulled something like this, the Republicans talked about it every day until the next election and beyond."
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