There are folks in jail for involvement in Whitewater. Had there not been a grand jury impaneled, it is highly unlikely anyone would have been prosecuted.
Right. Susan McDougal is still getting her daily body cavity searches, because she wouldn't tell Starr what he wanted to hear. Her (ex?) husband died in jail, in solitary, where the ever solicitous guards had no idea how heart medication works. They may have been crooks, but much bigger fish went free in the S&L cesspool. Almost all of them, as near as I can tell. This all happened under Reagan/Bush, and the whole thing was kept under cover, at tremendous cost, to elect George. Somehow, the only Congressional action I've heard about, aside from the Starr chamber proceedings (secret by law, hahaha), is various actions to protect the guilty. Or maybe the people holding those "long standing American values" are more interested in the President's sex life than all those tax dollars down the tubes. Somehow I doubt it.
Once more, give me a Republican who's faced these issues with any kind of honesty (either the "Clinton moral failure" = impeachable offense" issue, or the general S&L coverup, with the glaring Whitewater exception). May as well throw in campaign finances too, where Newt was at one point quoted as saying we need more money, not less. Honesty certainly isn't the policy of any Republican leadership I can see, but I don't follow this stuff closely. Of course, usually when a Republican gets called on in similar situations, it's just "I can't remember that", and that's it. Like, George Bush was "out of the loop" on Iran-Contra. Somehow, Bill Clinton, faced with various attacks, is not allowed to defend himself in court like a normal citizen, he has to meet the "high moral standards" that - oh, never mind.
You wrote, in 431 here,
Long-standing American values and those that held them have been systematically trashed by the President and the people he surrounds himself with.
You want to explain that one, or how Clinton's particular moral failings are somehow held as worse for the country than the $1trillion or so bill for the S&L bailout? You want to explain how the whole Starr operation with its various unappealing arm twisting and worse to get people to say what he wanted them to say is somehow exemplary of "American values"? Along with all the copious information on the "secret" grand jury hearings that always made it into the press the next day? Starr wasn't too busy, though, he still had time to take various high-profile right-wing cases, funded by his masters. All very objective, all very non-partisan.
How anybody can frame this mess as a one-sided moral righteousness thing is beyond me. It's one of those Christian Nation things, I guess, where the vengeful god of the Old Testament rules, and all those stories from Christ, like "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone", or "It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle . . . " are cheerfully edited out. They must have been planted in there by some commie. This is all off topic, anyway, all that counts is getting Clinton. Right?
Cheers, Dan. |
