BCT Editorial – 2/20/09

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History will judge; Editorial; Beaver County Times; February 20, 2009.

The editorial subtitle is “Truth commission probe into Bush’s abuses isn’t a pressing matter.”

So much for the search for truth and letting the chips fall where they may.

You can boil the Times position on this subject down to just one sentence from the fifth paragraph: “It also could backfire on Democrats.” If you buy any of the other reasons given by the editorial for not conducting an investigation, I have a bridge to sell you.

Here’s the core of the matter. Lefties want to be able to be able to continue to bash their opponents using drive-by accusations. If an investigation doesn’t bear out their positions, they have more trouble doing that.

Here’s another example. We’re a month and a half into 2009 and the Times has yet to publish an editorial about how our economy got where it is other than making nebulous comments like “credit-fueled recession.” Why would that be unless the trail leads somewhere the Times doesn’t want us to go? If the core of the problem could be remotely blamed on conservative principles and/or Republican policies/programs, we would have seen a constant stream of editorials telling us so.

For the record, I’ve been supportive of investigations. Back in January 2008 when local lefty Rich Laughlin wanted investigations but not until after the 2008 general election, I wrote, “Regarding your position that ‘One priority of the new government should be to investigate and, if necessary, prosecute the crimes committed by this present administration,’ why should we have to wait for a ‘new government?’ Congress would run the investigations/prosecutions you want, and Democrats already control both houses of Congress and have for a year. Congressional leaders should make your investigations/prosecutions ‘job one’ between now and the general election. To guide their choices, voters deserve to know the truth in advance of the November elections. Further, the longer you wait to get your investigation underway, the less likely it is to occur and the more likely is it for the evidence trails to grow cold, making it more difficult to get your hoped for convictions. Is that what you want?”