Clinton tanked our economy!
Not too long ago, Democrats said Clinton's crimes "didn't rise to the level
of impeachment."
Remember that tired mantra?
Led by the conscience-turned-hypocrite of the Senate Joe Lieberman, they
said: "prosecute him criminally after he leaves office, but do not impeach
him."
Well, here we are - thankfully - with just a few days remaining in the 42nd
presidency, and Independent Counsel Robert Ray is thought to be preparing to
indict Bill Clinton for serious crimes: lying under oath in the presence of
a federal judge and lying to a federal grand jury.
What is the Left saying now that judgment day is quickly approaching?
Not surprisingly, they're running as fast as they can from their own words!
As a guest last night on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes," it was
fascinating to see co-host Alan Colmes and guest Julian Epstein, Democrat
counsel for the House Judiciary Committee, up-close and to witness,
firsthand, their obvious state of denial.
They can certainly spin like tops and do some wicked tap-dancing!
Thank goodness former U.S. Congressman John LeBoutillier, also of
NewsMax.com, was sitting in for host Sean Hannity to lend some sanity to an
otherwise Leftwing free-for-all.
Epstein, chief spinner and a major defender of Clinton during impeachment,
refused to acknowledge his own repeated exhortations that Clinton would be
subject to criminal prosecution after leaving office.
His fall-back position was the well-worn bogus argument that no one has ever
been indicted for lying about sex, and he characteristically couched it in
typically disingenuous, hyper-qualified language.
Bottom line: the case of Dr. Mary Battalino is proof positive that Clinton's
own Justice Department has criminally prosecuted just such cases of lying
under oath about sex.
So instead of acknowledging a) that they had, in fact, argued against
impeachment on the basis that criminal charges could later be filed, and b)
that such prosecutions had been undertaken against others, Epstein
threatened that a "nuclear-like" response was forthcoming from the Left if
the new Bush Justice Dept. didn't "request the case back from the
Independent Counsel."
Say what?
That's right. Epstein even went so far as to suggest that he "supposed" Ken
Starr had believed Janet Reno should have done just that when he left as
special prosecutor some fourteen months ago, but that Reno wouldn't take the
heat!
Duh! Reno not wanting to take the heat for doing what is right is nothing
new.
But imagine Epstein and the Left now setting up a nutty and fallacious
scenario, which they know full well will never happen, and attempting to
justify it by pointing to Ken Starr, the very person whom they viciously and
personally tried to destroy?
And when it came to the subject of pardons, Epstein tried to make the case
that disgraced former independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, whose highly
suspect political indictment of Casper Weinberger in 1992, just four days
before Election Day, was a "Republican" is ludicrous.
It matters not what Walsh's voter registration form might indicate, but,
rather, that his questionable actions could have only been designed to
politically harm former Republican President George Bush's reelection,
hardly the actions of a Republican supporter.
Perhaps the most outrageous and hilarious example of denial was Alan Colmes'
feeble attempt to dispute that the Clinton economy is tanking.
First he wrongly accused President-elect Bush of "talking down the economy"
by using the "R-word" (recession), which is, of course, not true.
Then he attempted to deny that Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan had recently
described the economy as slowing or "moderating."
Finally, he read a quote from Vice President-elect Dick Cheney - at the end
of a segment, thereby preventing a response - that actually proved the point
that the incoming administration has merely been honest with the American
people - something obviously troubling to Colmes - by rightly noting that
there are some indicators that show a possible Clinton recession looming.
The important point, that the economy left by Bill Clinton is worse than
that left by then-President Bush, remains undisputed.
The fourth quarter of 1992 showed an economy clearly on the upswing and
growing strong, despite the Clinton lie that it was the "worst economy in
fifty years."
It is also true that the current Clinton economy is heading downward, lower
by some ten percent than that of eight years ago.
What continues to baffle and confound the Left is the simple truth.
As their desperation grows, they become more spastic in their frustration
that the American people are finally on to their game of spinning and deceit
in defense of the indefensible.
The next four years should prove to be a hoot watching those on the Left as
they convulse and sputter in disbelief that their eight year fantasy has
turned into their worst nightmare.
For the rest of us, it will be a time of restoring honor and dignity to the
conduct of the nation's business for the benefit of all the people, not the
self-indulgent powerful. |
