Da Flip. Da Flop.

It's amazing how all of the right wing bloggers and columnists are out right now defending Scooter Libby and Karl Rove in this Valerie Plame Affair.

To quote the righties: "What? The best the liberals can come up with is perjury or obstruction of justice? Puh-leeze." (Remember, "Perjury is just a technicality," according to Senator Hutchinson)

Remember, these are the same people that, oh, back in 1998 were clamoring for Clinton's impeachment... because?

Perjury and obstruction of justice (and little else, I might add).

The leftie blogosphere has been having a field day. Every right-winger who has gone out to babble about the talking points du jour for the Republican party is immediately accosted with their own quotes from 1998 about Clinton's perjury and obstruction of justice... which pretty much tend to say the exact opposite thing.

(Not that the lefties aren't a little guilty of flip-flopping: We scoffed at perjury back with Clinton but think it is a pretty big deal now, but that is because we were directly linking it with the crime: Blowjob versus exposing a CIA operative. We liberals tend to think that the president lying about a hummer isn't that big a deal, which is kind of shallow-value in and of itself... but I never said we liberals were always more moral than the conservatives... just currently and for the forseeable future.)