Obama screws the Wilsons

From RAW Story:

The Obama administration has decided to oppose the reinstatement of a civil lawsuit filed by outed CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson.

Obama’s Justice Department says the Wilsons have no legitimate claim to sue. They also put forward another startling claim.

“The Obama administration has gone one step further, suggesting Mr. Wilson failed to provide any evidence that Mr. Cheney, Mr. Rove or Mr. Libby harmed him,” Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility reported on their blog Wednesday. “This is particularly ironic because the government had moved to have the case dismissed before the Wilsons had the opportunity to uncover the details of how Ms. Wilson’s covert identity was revealed.

This is vengeance, pure and simple. Joe Wilson supported Hillary and now he must pay.

A year ago, after Joe Wilson committed the sin of suggesting that the Lightbringer might not be the best candidate, the progs went after him the way fast-moving zombies go after fresh meat. In post after post, left-wingers blasted the same people thye had once championed. Do you recall this Kossack Klassick?

the reason he [Larry Johnson] and Joe Wilson have been such BIG supporters of Clinton and have said such horrendous things about Obama is because...Obama will NOT let the criminality of government remain the status quo.....Clinton would of covered up for Bush and the CIA etc like her husband did, Obama will NOT and Larry and his buddies and Joe and Valeries budddies may just be caught for whatever criminal acts they were part of.....

What criminal acts?

The Kossacks posited that Joe Wilson fell into sin after being offered some sort of Clintonian pay-off. ("Joe was promised Sec of State or something"). In fact, the former ambassador's policy disagreement with Obama was substantive. Here's good old Mr. Wilson in March, 2008, scoring Obama for his Iran stance:

On Iran and the question of designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization, the junior senator from Illinois was not quite so clever at avoiding taking a position. He first co-sponsored the “Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007,” which contained explicit language identifying the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization. He subsequently claimed to oppose the Kyl-Lieberman sense of the Senate resolution proposing the same thing. Obama’s accountability problem here is that he didn’t show up for the vote on that resolution — a vote that would have put him on record. Then he declined to sign on to a letter put forward by Senator Clinton making explicit that the resolution could not be used as authority to take military action. All we have is Obama’s rhetoric juxtaposed with his co-sponsorship of a piece of legislation that proposed what he says he opposed.

Clearly, Wilson had caught on to the Obama act: Bushian actions veiled by progressive words.

I'm curious. Where was Randi Rhodes in all this? And where is she now? She had spent months -- years -- talking about the injustice done to Valerie Plame/Wilson. But (to the best of my knowledge) she said not one word to decry the Obots' hate campaign directed against the Wilsons.

Randi's a big fucking hypocritical whore.

Interestingly enough, Moulitsas has recently allowed this post to infect his site in the wake of the Wilson decision:

OBAMA NOW OFFICIALLY SUCKS

Yeah, well, you helped to create the monster, Obot. You suck.

And you Obots will continue to suck until you admit that you were wrong.

You must confess that you were weak-minded sheep who fell for a marketing campaign. You must admit that you became enthralled by a Messianic cult of personality. You must admit that Obots really do exemplify Dear Leaderism at its worst. (Well, second worst: Nothing can sink lower than the Dubya cult.)

And you must apologize.

(You know, this is the first time in months that I've written a post while typing angry.)