We taught the Dems a lesson

And that lesson is this: under oath, everyone is eventually going to say something that isn't true. When that happens, they are toast.

This thing with the U.S. attorney firings is laughable. I've read the supposedly damaging portions of the documents being bantered about. There is nothing in any of them that is any different from any other Washington memo. The democrats know that there is no way in hell that they are going to convict Al Gonzales or anyone else in the Bush administration on these firings. Nothing illegal was done, and it is starting to look like nothing particularly immoral was done, either.

No, the Democrats are not issuing subpoenas to get to the bottom of the firings, regarless of what Leahy the Leaker says. They want Karl Rove's head on a platter, and the lesson of Scooter Libby is that, eventually, you're bound to flub something, whether intentional or not, under oath. Doesn't matter if it is even related to the case.

Not that it hasn't happened to the Dems before. After all, lying under oath is what impeachment was all about. Still, Clinton's lie was, very obviously, a self-serving and bold-faced lie directed at the American people. Libby's perjury was, at worst, a goof on some factual details. Clinton stared directly into the camera and told the American people the same damned lie that he told under oath. Getting facts out of order is a hell of a lot different.