🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 16:04:22 -0800, <rocket@ccnet.com> wrote:
>I'm making this up?  No!  the simple fact is, politicians can, and will
>continue to lose their jobs for indescretions that are not illegal.

Politicians get busted for moral and ethical infractions every freakin
week.  Did D'Amato get kicked out for his numerous brushes with sleazy
self-interest?  No.  Did Gingrich lose his job for his sexual
indiscretions and the abandonment of his hospital-confined wife or for
his incredibly suspicious book deal with Murdoch?  No.  Did John, Ted
or Robert Kennedy lose their gigs for their numerous extramarital
romances?  No.

As a rule, Congress doesn't want to these cases prosecuted because it
eventually brings the morality police down on them as well.  Just ask
Livingston and Hyde.  In the case of Clinton though, the Republicans
were scared of the political backlash for their 4-year, $300 million
Whitewater/Filegate/Travelgate jihad against Clinton which led
nowhere.  They had to produce _something_ and Luciana Goldberg and
Linda Tripp tossed them a life preserver in the nick of time.  I'm
convinced that if the Republicans weren't in such a desperately
defensive position over Starr's and the Senate Whitewater Commision's
failure to dig up any dirt on Clinton that Monicagate would have been
limited to just another "draft dodger" PR opportunity for the Repubs.

>One of the things I wonder about most is, why so many seem so eager to turn
>on this president?  Sue McDougall and a few other exceptions aside, this guy
>is open season.

Because we elect spineless chickenshits to Congress who care more
about their own political futures and vulnerabilities than they do
about what the people want.  No doubt you've seen this week's poll
numbers for Clinton... higher than Reagan's ever was.  It ain't the
people who are turning on him.  What we should be asking is whose
interests the drones we elect to the House of Representatives.. the
"People's House"...  believe they're supposed to Represent.  There's
no question that there is reason for honest people to be outraged by
Clinton's behavior.  But the investigations and the impeachment action
were the work of a tiny cadre of very powerful political interests,
not the will of the people.

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