It’s getting clearer. Valerie Plame was undercover and her outing was apparently deliberate and coordinated. If this pans out, it really is an outrageous piece of political malice. I may have misjudged this one at first, because I couldn’t quite see the motive behind it. I’m still not totally clear, and it seems an extremely dumb and self-defeating tactic to me. But whatever the motive, if this is the nub of the story, the leakers need to be found, fired and prosecuted. I’ve written that before. But, listening to the Newshour testimony, my outrage level just went up a notch.
McCLINTOCK’S AIDE: A disturbing story in the Los Angeles Times about one John Stoos, former chief legislative aide and now deputy campaign chairman of Tim McClintock’s campaign for California governor. Stoos is a Christian Reconstructionist, who believes that the Constitution should be subordinate to what he calls Biblical law. He writes regularly for the Chalcedon Report, a far-right “Christian” publication. Stoos, like many such extremists, doesn’t much care for non-Christian Jews or gays. McClintock hasn’t fired him. Where does the Republican party find these kooks? And why hasn’t there been a bigger stnk about this? Or does everyone know that California’s GOP has become infiltrated with theocratic nut-jobs? One more reason to vote for Arnold. You cannot trust the Republican social right.
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