WWHICWP?

When listening to Fox News reporters or conservative commentators or writers blow off Bush scandals, I have a question I ask myself- WWHICWP?

What Would Happen If Clinton Was President?

What would happen to Clinton if he sent the country to war based on a rationale that proved to be false? (hint: these quotes would just be the beginning) What would happen to Clinton if it was revealed the CIA was running a secret system of prisons used for torture? And what would happen to Clinton if his administration facilitated the outing of an undercover CIA operative?

Joe Scarborough speculated on that last one on this week's "Real Time w/ Bill Maher".

He hit the nail directly on the head.

Bill Maher: "When I hear these people on the right poo-poo Valerie Plame's role as an American spy, I think that that is an example of Republicans always being loyal to people instead of principles. That the people who wear the flags on their lapels and piss red-white-and-blue would take this woman who was a spy, they'd try to make it sound like she was a housewife... No, she was an American spy and what it takes for someone to do that job, she was undercover for all these years. Her family didn't know who she was, her neighbors didn't know who she was. She had fake business cards, a fake business to go to, to lead this double-life is one of the greatest sacrifices an American can make. And to hear these people, and I don't know what your [Joe Scarborough] take is on this, but to hear these people go after her, the very people who are always the ones who are so on the side of national defense, I think it's just disgusting."

Joe Scarborough: "Ya know, the question is how would Republicans respond, and this is what I've been saying from the very beginning, how would the Republicans have responded had in 1997, James Carville and Al Gore's chief-of-staff outed a CIA agent, covert agent, at a time of war? They would've all been lynched. The fact that they're coming forward and saying, again, Republicans also said 'put us in charge cause you can't trust Democrats with national security'. The fact that you've got Republicans now in charge of national security and they are outing a covert agent at a time of war, it's just inexcusable. And those Republicans that support that, they're the Republicans that, quite frankly, are just interested in power and not interested in the things they said they were going to do when they came to power."