It makes a sane person wonder what this was all about, doesn’t it?  Agendas driven by falsehoods eventually comes full circle and the truth comes out. Why congressional dems have latched onto these two grifters still amazes in its wrongheadedness. They so hate President Bush they’ll clutch any lie or fraudulant claim like scared children in the night.  

As a judge has smacked down the Wilsons, its makes those jurors screaming for Dick Cheney after Libby’s trial look like partisan hacks who post at lefty sites. Maybe this time it will make sense, as Judge Bates opinion bears this out. It was ok for the administration to not only find out why Joe Wilson was sent to Niger, but to even to discredit him as he’s was clearly not telling the truth.

Perhaps this also can a reasonable comparison for observers that it was OK to dismiss those US Attorneys, too.

UPDATE: Hat tip to Just One Minute commentor, Sara, for this summary from Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom:

Joe Wilson lied about the significance, scope, and impetus of his own fact-finding mission for the express purpose of undermining the President (and, it is fair to speculate, with hopes of securing a prominent position in a Kerry administration).

His wife, a CIA agent, recommended him for the job — the conclusions from which he published in an op-ed. Wilson claimed he was sent by the VP’s office — another lie — and when members of the Bush administration supplied the context for all these machinations and motivations on background, Joe Wilson, caught in the tangle of his own lies, half-truths, and shoddy fact-finding work, knew exactly what to do: claim victim status and run screaming into the arms of the anti-Bush crowd, many of whom are so filled with a desire to see the administration brought to its knees that they will embrace any charlatan who comes along, provided s/he is saying the right things, and can present a problem for the President.

It has always troubled me that those who embraced Wilson and Plame — even if they actually believed there was wrongdoing on the part of the administration (and I’m convinced many of them don’t believe it for a second, but rather find the shadow they’ve contrived to throw over the administration as a result of Wilson’s allegations useful) — never bothered to distance themselves from what follow-up investigations kept proving was Wilson’s cynical, deceitful, and self-serving behavior.

Instead, they embraced him as a hero — a kind of whistleblower — and he, in turn, has moved comfortably into the part of aggrieved patriot.

To hear him chirp about how bothered he is by the politicization of intelligence is so rich in irony that, were irony a donut, the center could not possibly hold, and we’d soon be left staring at a breakfast table suddenly become home to a donut-sized black hole.

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