Tuesday’s with Ted, Part 2-Jerry Crawford and the “Big Lie” Des Moines edition.

The Clinton years provided a vast laboratory for the Democrats to perfect their skills of self-defense when caught committing crimes. Where Republicans just oust our criminals, Dems circle the wagons and defend their criminals, in the case of the Clintons, to quite literally the death. Don’t believe me, ask Jim McDougall and Vince Foster, although you will have to speak rather loudly when asking.

Now State Senator Matt McCoy is under indictment. The public record discloses the existence of a tape recording in which Sen. McCoy is using language that certainly sounds like extortion. Rather than take the high road and let the judicial process take its course, or even otherwise attempt to demonstrate McCoy’s actual, as distinguished from procedural, innocence, McCoy’s counsel, long time Democrat activist Jerry Crawford has chosen to politicize the case.

No sound legal reason supports McCoy’s discovery position. The government can submit any truthful evidence it wants to a grand jury. The infirm legal position assumed in the Crawford argument is supported by nothing more than the absurd claim that Matt Whitaker is part of a larger malevolently partisan DoJ, hell bent on prosecuting Democrats everywhere.

Of course there is no evidence that McCoy’s prosecution is partisan. If anything, the prosecution would have been filed before the ‘06 election if it was partisan in nature. McCoy would certainly have lost and he might have drug unpopular uber-liberal Jo Oldson down with him. Nor is there any evidence that the Justice Department has instigated a single illegitimate partisan prosecution nor withheld from prosecuting Republicans suspected of criminal wrong doing.

In fact, if the Bush Justice Department was partisan, Sandy Berger would be in Leavenworth and Duke Cunningham would be in Congress.