Texas Democrats abuse power to make false accusations of abuse of power

Mark Levin hits a home run on his attack of the political hit job against Texas Governor Rick Perry as the news on it was unfolding Friday night.

“Unbelievable, unbelievable.” said Mark Levin as he began the second hour of his radio program on Friday night. The news had just come out about a grand jury in Travis County, Texas indicting Texas Governor Rick Perry for “abusing his official capacity and coercing a public servant,” according to Michael McCrum, the special prosecutor assigned to the case. This stems from an April 2013 incident in which Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, who was also heading up the Public Integrity Unit, was arrested and found to have a blood alcohol content 3 times the legal limit. Lehmberg spent 45 days in jail after being convicted. Perry said she should resign after the arrest, during which she also made a spectacle of herself at the jail. He said he would refuse to continue “state funding for an office with statewide jurisdiction at a time when the person charged with ultimate responsibility of that unit has lost the public’s confidence.” But Perry was indicted by the Austin Grand Jury on felony counts for supposedly abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for State prosecutors investigating corruption. In other words, Austin and Travis County Democrats are abusing power to make accusations of abuse of power. Here we have the political Left continuing their strategy of the criminalization of politics in one of their favorite locations, and the liberal media will be busy treating this as a done deal and a legitimate prosecution.

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"The whole reason is to sully him,” Levin continued, and described it as a tactic “which is used repeatedly against top-tier Republicans.” Some of those Republicans were former U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson and former U. S Representative Tom Delay, both from Texas. But Hutchison was found not guilty of the charges against her after a 30-minute trial and Delay had a conviction that was eventually overturned. The leftist group, Texans for Public Justice, filed their complaint last June, a special prosecutor was appointed, and the grand jury began hearing the case in April. David L. Botsford, Mr. Perry’s lawyer said, “The facts of this case conclude that the governor’s veto was lawful, appropriate and well within the authority of the office of the governor.” He called the indictment “political abuse of the court system,” and said “there is no legal basis in this decision.” It wasn’t just conservatives like Levin who were questioning the validity or propriety of the indictment. Well-known liberal Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz said "Everybody, liberal or conservative, should stand against this indictment. If you don't like how Rick Perry uses his office, don't vote for him." And President Obama’s former campaign strategist David Axelrod stated: “Unless he was demonstrably trying to scrap the ethics unit for other than his stated reason, Perry indictment seems pretty sketchy.” While our President gets away with high crimes and misdemeanors and his Attorney General, Eric Holder is repeatedly abusing his office as he ignores lawbreaking and goes after President Obama’s opponents with trumped-up charges, Texas Democrats join in the abuse of power by going after Governor Perry.