The Clemens Perjury Investigation - or - How Can We Waste Taxpayer Money Today?

The “Justice” Department has decided that Roger Clemens needs to be tried for perjury for allegedly making false statement under oath before Congress.  Let’s get the obvious problem out of the way first:

Congress is concerned that someone sat in their chambers and lied?  Really?  This Congress?  The Democrat members of this Congress can’t move their lips without lying.  Joe Wilson was right when he pointed it out in the House chamber when Obama did it.  I suppose it’s a very good thing for Congress that they are not under oath when they speak before their own bodies.  I personally believe that before anyone testifies before any Congressional Committee, the entire Committee should FIRST be required to take the same oath that will be required of those there to testify.  Honestly, if I were called before Congress to testify, I would absolutely refuse to take the oath until they had done so.

Now to the meat.  It will be interesting to see what evidence the persecution (no, that wasn’t a typo) has in this case.  I have heard no allegation that there is any, other than the testimony of a witness that provided that testimony in exchange for some level of immunity.  Not exactly an unimpeachable witness.  If this is a simple case of the word of the defendant Clemens against the word of the informant, I can’t see how this can go to trial.  If there is not significantly more evidence than this, the trial will be an absolutely unnecessary expense to the American taxpayers.  We are not supposed to be paying to make some US Attorney’s name.

Lastly, why was Congress involved in this to begin with?  What a complete waste of time and money!  The list of things that Congress could have been investigating was, and these day definitely is, long and filled with far more important matters.  These idiots can spend huge amounts of time and money to investigate steroid use in baseball; which essentially boils down to small-scale criminal activity mostly at the local level of jurisdiction, but not to find out who is financing a mosque at ground zero.  Not to find out what laws Charlie Rangel broke.  Not to investigate the Black Panther case.  Not to determine whether recent persecutions by the “Justice” Department such as the Arizona immigration lawsuit have been politically motivated.  We seriously pay these people for this?

Maybe someone needs to tell these people that “justice will be served” doesn’t mean to “serve” the political and personal whims of those at the Department of “Justice”.

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