DC doesn't stand for Dodge City

David Frum gets worked up into a froth about about the Scooter Libby verdict, especially the fact that the trial was held in Washington, D.C.:

Now we remember why Democrats are so much more eager than Republicans to criminalize politics: Because they know that the ultimate power over the lives and liberties of the contestants is held by juries drawn from the most Democratic jurisdiction in the country. Would Scooter have been convicted - would a prosecutor ever have dared to try him - if the capital of the United States were located in say Indianapolis?

Let's forget for a minute that Indianapolis voted for Kerry. Let's forget the principle that crimes are tried before a jury of one's peers and that Libby's peers are Washingtonians, as the incidents for which Libby was tried went down in Washington.

Forget all that, and focus on the supreme irony of a former Republican speechwriter complaining about that a Republican can't get a fair shake in a city his party has derided for decades as being decadent, dishonest, out of touch and generally anti-American. After decades of being on the wrong side of the home rule/voting rights issue, nobody should be surprised that so few of the people Republicans want to disenfranchise are inclined to register as Republicans. After serving as non-consenting guinea pigs in Republican social policy with drugs and guns, Frum should not bat an eye when the D.C. jury pool doesn't look favorably upon a certain type of partisan.

Oh, and that bit about "criminalizing politics?" I had eyes and ears in the '90s. Don't even try with that line.

Just sayin'.