An impeachment trial now would be a disaster. The world happens to need a wee bit of leadership right about now, and the worst thing that could happen would be for the American leadership to dissolve into accusatory finger-pointing over who did what. They all did what they're accused of, and a lot of other things we don't know about. Anybody that hasn't figured that out yet has been hiding their head in the sand. There hasn't been a single charge put against Slick that couldn't be honestly laid at the door of virtually every administration in our history. The only difference is that now we have a party which has made muckraking its primary political tool. That's a very dangerous technique, because it cuts both ways, and because it distracts from issues that badly need to be dealt with. The man won't disappear. Either we leave him alone or impeach him. If we impeach him, we spend the next year watching him prepare his defense and go through the motions, while Russia goes into full nuclear-armed depression and Asia drags us slowly into the pit.
These things may happen anyway, but we should tell our leaders in both parties to forget about who banged whom and mount the best possible immediate defense, an effort that will require cooperation among the competent individuals on both sides.
Watching the economy deflate while politicians argue over blow jobs would be a scene worthy of the most degenerate days of declining Rome.
The Republican party needs to get their eyes off Bill's crotch and other efforts to embarrass, go back to its core competency - economic issues - and map out a set of coherent policies to run there future on. They also need to find a leader other than Newt. I agree with him on a lot of things, particularly economic things, but the man is a snake, and deserves no trust whatsoever. He has Clinton's morality, and he's not even slick about it.
Steve |
