Grasping at Straws

Anyone who watches Bill Maher's show on HBO knows that he has some inexplicable friendships. One is with the Vile Beast Coulter, and another is with California's Official State Idiot, Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher.

Rohrabacher, last seen opining that prisoners could pick the tomatoes and lettuce once those pesky Mexicans are all deported, has decided to spend your tax dollars investigating whether Saddam Hussein was behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

I guess not even the death of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi has been enough to get people behind the war again, and the "Saddam and Al Qaeda were inextricable from each other" meme is starting to fall apart, so Republicans need to find some reason to support the Iraq War:

A California congressman said Thursday a House subcommittee he chairs would investigate whether there was a foreign connection to the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.

"We need to answer some very serious questions in order to have confidence that the truth of this monstrous crime is fully known," Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said in a statement.

What's interesting about this is that Republicans like Rohrabacher are staunch advocates of the death penalty. Timothy McVeigh has already been executed for the bombings. Is Rohrabacher now saying that the wrong man was put to death?

Next week, watch for Rohrabacher to open hearings into whether Bill Clinton committed perjury in the Lewinsky case. His reasoning? "We need to answer some very serious questions in order to have confidence that the truth of this monstrous crime is fully known."