Video Surfaces Of Drunk DA Accusing Governor Perry Of "Abuse Of Power"

by JASmius

Here is Texas Democrats' idea of the highest standards of public integrity and moral probity:



Oops, sorry, wrong video.  Honest mistake.  Though the late Foster Brooks probably had better legs.

Let's try that again:

A police video has surfaced of a district attorney being arrested for drunk driving, a case that eventually led to Texas Governor Rick Perry being indicted on abuse of power charges.

The video shows Democratic Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg acting belligerently to the arresting officers in Austin, Texas, after her car was stopped for driving erratically, the Washington Times reported.

She had to be physically restrained by two cops, and was found to have an open bottle of vodka in the vehicle. as well as a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit.

Sheesh, at least Mr. Brooks played a jovial lush.

The judge in the case called her behavior "deplorable" and sentenced her in April last year to 45 days in jail, of which she served 21 days.

Following the incident, Perry vowed to pull the funding for the integrity unit of Lehmberg’s office unless she resigned, saying that she was not fit to be in charge of the department, which investigates ethics violations and tax fraud cases.

After she refused to quit, Perry followed through with his promise and withdrew the funding for an agency that the Texas GOP had often claimed was basically engaged in politicized prosecutions, according to the Times.

In short, Lehmberg handed Governor Perry a, er, "loaded" weapon and he was more than willing to pull the trigger.  But, naturally, because Perry is a Republican and Lehmberg a Democrat, that gets the concept of "justice" completely bass-ackwards, so it's the fine, upstanding public servant in the second vid who served half of a six week sentence who is not just the moral exemplar but the one empowered to put the "tyrant" in the Austin governor's mansion behind bars until the early twenty-second century.

Which harkens back to another old saying - "Don't hunt what you can't kill":

Bloomberg’s editorial board said, "This is more likely to rally Republicans to Perry’s side — earning him new supporters and donors — and to make Texas Democrats look as craven as the Republicans who are seeking to impeach President Barack Obama."

You know, the man who re-wrote the book on and set the new standard for Executive abuses of power.

Waco, Texas, tea party leader Toby Marie Walker told the Times, "The indictment actually helps the governor. He will be made into a political hero; his polling will go up. It will only hurt if they can prove the DA isn’t a drunk."

Lotsa luck with that one, no matter how much the media embargos it.