So Many Republican Hypocrites, So Little Time

July 29, 2005 |

Pat Roberts

Welcome back to the BuzzFlash.com GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

If Tony Blair is George Bush's poodle, Kansas Senator Pat Roberts is his obedient lapdog.

Roberts is, sadly for the security of America, the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. But Roberts does not see his primary role as protecting the citizens of the United States. Oh no, the first and foremost task of Roberts is to protect the Bushevism power base.

As the Boston Globe pointed out, despite Roberts' post-election promise to do so, he now refuses to hold hearings on the now-proven false pre-Iraq War intelligence assertions of the Bush Administration.

According to the Globe, last year Roberts vowed that "his panel would examine whether Bush or his top aides misled the public about prewar intelligence, or pressured CIA agents to make a stronger case for invading Iraq. But since then," the Globe continues, "the Intelligence Committee has made no measurable progress on the investigation. Instead, Roberts has offered vague public promises of picking up the key pieces of the probe at some point but has warned that other more pressing matters must be dealt with first."

Apparently, one of those pressing matters is being the boy toy of Karl Rove, who recently dispatched Roberts to "review the probe of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who has been investigating the Plame case for nearly two years." Ah yes, instead of uncovering lies, Roberts is intimidating a federal prosecutor and enabling treason.

On February 25, 1999, Pat Roberts stood before the Senate and indignantly declared: "I today voted to sustain both articles of impeachment of William J. Clinton. I so voted because I believe the President is guilty of obstructing justice and lying to a grand jury and because I believe these crimes are so serious they warrant his removal from office."

What's the matter with Kansas? How about senators like Pat Roberts who are more loyal to their party than to their country. When you sell out a CIA operative who specializes in trying to save America from weapons of mass destruction, you're not just the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week, you are just despicable and immoral.

Until next week, remember our motto at BuzzFlash.com: So many Republican hypocrites, so little time.

Catch up with you soon.