Dobson Deceives

I don’t care what James Dobson says, I won’t even consider believing it until he’s subpoenaed, and sitting in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Possibly not even then.

A prominent conservative supporter of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers said on Tuesday White House advisor Karl Rove did not give him assurances on how Miers would vote on Roe v. Wade or any other social issues.

“Karl Rove didn’t tell me anything about the way Harriet Miers would vote on cases that may come before the Supreme Court,” said James Dobson, chairman of Focus on the Family, a conservative group.

“We did not discuss Roe v. Wade in any context or any other pending issue that will be considered by the Court.”

In a transcript of a his radio show airing on Wednesday, Dobson said he was now free to speak about a talk he had with Rove before the nomination because Rove had given him permission “to go public.”

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, said on Sunday his panel was entitled to know whatever the White House told Dobson about Miers.

Sorry. Sitting in front of the microphone of your own radio show, blathering away without being under oath, ain’t gonna cut it. If they could even consider a congressional subpoena for Terri Schiavo, Dobson’s butt should be on a plane to D.C. before the end of the week.

Dobson’s statement is an obvious deception; a sin of omission. Dobson overstates what he and Rove did not talk about, but sheds no light on what was said that put him at ease about Meirs’ possible confirmation to the court. In other words, he still hasn’t said what he knows, just what wasn’t said.

If he’s gonna lie by omission, he might as well make it look good and come to D.C. to do it.

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