So Many Republican Hypocrites, So Little Time

March 9, 2007 | SEND TO A FRIEND | GET EARLY NOTICE OF THE HOTW

Heather Wilson

Welcome back to the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

It wasn't until Congress subpoenaed a U.S. Attorney who was fired to make way for a Bushevik enforcer that Republican Congresswoman Heather Wilson fessed up. You see, the New Mexico U.S. House member had called the fired U.S. Attorney to try and get him to speed up a corruption investigation of a Democratic office holder in the southwestern state.

Wilson doesn't remember it that way, but she didn't "remember" the phone call at all until the U.S. Attorney was about to tell a Congressional committee of Wilson's conversation with him: "Iglesias [the fired New Mexico U.S. Attorney] testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that in the Oct. 16 phone call, Wilson pressured him for details about sealed indictments."

"The second she said any question about sealed indictments, red flags went up in my head," Iglesias said. "We cannot talk about indictments until they're made public. We specifically cannot talk about a sealed indictment."

Wilson, no doubt, will go from denial to admission to hiring a criminal defense attorney, as did GOP Senator Pete Domenici, also of New Mexico, who went the same route of trying to interfere with a federal investigation.

In one of those Bushevik ironies, Wilson was said to be contemplating running for Domenici's U.S. Senate seat if he doesn't seek office again. In 2006, however, she only won her Democratic-leaning House district by 900 votes. Now she appears to have done herself in.

Another irony worth noting is that all the U.S. Prosecutors fired in InjusticeGate were appointed by Bush to replace Clinton U.S. Attorneys. In short, the White House –- through Gonzales -- fired Bush appointees to replace them with even more partisan Bush appointees.

It's a travesty of justice and completely inappropriate for a member of Congress to call a U.S. Prosecutor just before a national election and subtly or directly try to influence the timing of possible indictments to influence the outcome of the vote.

But Wilson –- and Domenici –- were no doubt doing the bidding of Karl Rove, whose protégé was named the acting Little Rock U.S. Attorney, no doubt, to try and create some legal problems for Hillary Clinton (Whitewater II, no doubt).

For that betrayal of the public trust and misuse of authority, Heather Wilson is named the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

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

Catch up with you soon.