GOP Files FEC Complaint on Pederson, Short-Circuits Irony Meter

The GOP filed a campaign finance complaint against Pederson. The complaint really isn’t the news. The complaint alleges some late and incomplete filings that were submitted or later amended; it’s nothing but an attempt to dirty up of the presumptive Democratic candidate, and not worth the ink the Star give it.

What is really mind-blowingly ironic is what the GOP’s mouthpiece lawyer says:

Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who serves as outside counsel for the national Republican Party, said the late filings violated the "millionaire’s amendment" in the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law passed in 2002.
The millionaire’s amendment requires candidates who use above a certain amount of their own money to report any new contributions within 24 hours.
"The point is, the law is the law," Mitchell said. "What the Pederson campaign has done is violate the law."

Funny. Isn’t that what we Democat’s have been saying about this President every time he blantantly violates the law and lick-spittle GOP Congressional lap dogs like Kyl simply ignore it, or try to pass legislation to make his actions legal post facto? This Administration, fully supported by Senator Kyl, are in fact telling America that the law isn’t the law when the President says it isn’t.

Senator Kyl is so anxious to exempt the Bush Administration from the rule of law, that he is even willing to try to dupe the Supreme Court, in violation of his honor as a Senator and his duty of candor to the Court as a lawyer, in order to support the President’s policies, which attempt to undermine the Geneva Conventions (which is United States’ law, ratified by the Senate).

Kyl and his GOP cronies like to invoke the rule of law over any tiny infraction by a Democrat, but ignore it when their President shits on our Constitution and duly passed laws like FISA by spying on Americans’ communications without a warrant, or outting a national security asset like Valerie Plame to settle a political grudge, or subborning an official into withholding information from Congress, or even lying, to cover up the Administrations failures and crimes.

If Kyl is really concerned about law-breaking that is harming the national interest, he need look no further than his own party’s President. But, of course, Kyl has a blindfold on when shown evidence of this Administration’s law-breaking; not to be impartial, like Justice, but simply to cover his party’s asses.