Hinchey: The Latest Democrat Wacko

It gets more difficult each day for Democrats to top themselves with saying something completely over the top. Alas, the latest of the nut cases is Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY). As pointed out on Little Green Footballs earlier this week, at a community meeting in Ithaca, NY, Hinchey entered into a diatribe about how the infamous Rathergate memos were actually planted by Karl Rove as part of a massive conspiracy.

In an audiotape recorded by a reader of Little Green Footballs at the townhall meeting, Hinchey first claimed to have direct evidence of Rove’s involvement, but then backtracked from this statement.

Audience Member: Do you have any evidence for that?

Congressman Hinchey: Yes I do. Once they did that —

Audience: [Murmuring]

Congressman Hinchey: ...once they did that, then it undermined everything else about Bush’s draft dodging. Once they were able to say, ‘This is false! These papers are not accurate, they’re, they’re, they’re false, they’ve been falsified.’ That had the effect of taking the whole issue away.

Audience Member: So you have evidence that the papers came from the Bush administration?

Congressman Hinchey: No. I — that’s my belief.

Hinchey’s lunacy continued on Hannity & Colmes last night when Hinchey again claimed he had evidence of Rove’s work. The whole transcript is here, but I've summarized the key exchange:

HANNITY: Where is the proof, sir?

HINCHEY: The proof? There's a whole host of proof.

HANNITY: Give it to us right now. Where's the proof?

HINCHEY: A host of circumstantial proof. You say you don't want to talk about the past, but the past is indicative of the present and the future. And if you look in the past here you find that Mr. Rove has a history of dirty tricks...

So there you have it. If someone has a purported history of “dirty tricks,” it is OK for one of our lawmakers to accuse a Presidential advisor of a federal crime. It’s interesting that despite being a Congressman, Hinchey doesn’t quite comprehend the definition of proof.

By Hinchey’s definition of proof, I can prove that Senator Ted Kennedy was complicit in the assassination of Former Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri. After all, based on Kennedy’s history in Chappaquiddick…