Hope you're hungry

... the Republicans, that is. For my top pick of today's blog reading, please stop by Firedoglake for this article. When Fitzmus happens, and paricularly if indictments run further up the chain than people thought, and if Bush is in any way implicated (even if not accuse or indicted) in the coverup of the Plame Treasongate scandal, it will be interesting to see how the GOP leadership reacts. Some of them already seem to be tuning up their "don't make such a big deal over this" speeches. Sadly for them, history has recorded exactly what they had to say when Bill Clinton was being impeached for lying to a Grand Jury about his sexual relations. Firedoglake has compiled a "best of" list of what all the Republicans had to say about that.

Here's a couple of my favorites, but please go read the rest. (And remember, all of these are about misleading the public and the jury about getting a hummer from Monica, not sexing up or just plain creating false evidence to justify a war.)

Bill Frist (R-TN): To not remove President Clinton for grand jury perjury lowers uniquely the Constitution's removal standard, and thus requires less of the man who appoints all federal judges than we require of those judges themselves.

I will have no part in the creation of a constitutional double-standard to benefit the President. He is not above the law. If an ordinary citizen committed these crimes, he would go to jail.

Lindsey Graham : I believe that about Bill Clinton and I'll believe that about the next president. If it had been a Republican, I would have still believed that and I would hope that if a Republican person had done all this that some of us would've went (sic) over and told him, You need to leave office.

There are so many more, and they just go on and on and on and on in their holier than thou way, claiming that no president (and one could, from that, presume they include Vice Presidents and their high ranking staff members) is "above the law" and "lying is serious business" and "heads should roll." Oh, yes, my friends. I'm cackeling and rubbing my hands together waiting to see what these same stuffed suits have to say when the Rove/Plame geese come home to roost.