Dick Armey's amazing flip-flop on leaker

[Cocoa]

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/07/14/armey-on-rove/

Dick Armey’s Hypocrisy on CIA Leak Case

Appearing on Fox this morning, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey said the following in regards to his assessment of the growing leak scandal:

We’ve got Karl Rove, who is under this constant attack of political malarkey, who has probably the most documented case of his evidence of anyone in the the whole story. So quite frankly, I think the American people are seeing it for what it is right now. More than anything else it’s a political farce not a matter of national security interests.

VERSUS

Here’s what Dick Armey said about the case back in October 2003 when we had no idea who may have been involved:

Now, there was no reason to tell the world about the ambassador’s wife. It was just a short-sighted, self-centered, simple-minded cowardly act of revenge, and who’s paying the cost? The Bush White House… If they ever find , they ought to just — they ought to just kick them out of the White House and prosecute them, because…the greater the pretension, the greater the hypocrisy.

Indeed, Mr. Armey, hypocrisy is an easily understood story.

[jsamuel]

1. Reporters should publish this as is...

[PunkPop]

2. Dick Armey is a world-class sleazeball

He wrote the book on hypocrisy.

[Oreo]

4. So is his wife...

Vagina Coast Guard

(sorry... Family Guy joke I couldn't resist)

[PunkPop]

6. I've got a good friend who LOVES that show.

I've never seen it.

[Oreo]

9. I didn't see it until a couple weeks ago

It's hilarious... I TIVO it nightly

They definitely push the censor envelope and I've seen quite a few digs taken at the expense of Bush.

[Gato Moteado]

3. wow

unbelievable.

[The White Tree]

5. One can only hope that Mr. Armey is right

that the American people are seeing it for what it is.

A scandal that is worse then Watergate and rotten to the core and tied up with everything that the Bush Adminstration and the leadership of the Republican party represents as it's core ideals and fundamentals.

I pray America sees this for what it is. For it is an outrage.

[Straight Shooter]

7. It's like every day is a brand-new day for these jerks.

What happened yesterday, that doesn't matter, all that matters is that we listen to what they're telling us now. :argh:

[Cocoa]

8. "I never said x"

if the unlikely event that Armey is ever confronted with this inconsistency, he will no doubt use the tried and true republican tactic, "I never said the leaker should be fired or prosecuted," or the other form "no one ever said the leaker should be fired or prosecuted."