<<The Democrats, especially on the Judiciary Committee, have also acted in an extremely partisan fashion, using their time to attack Starr, the Republicans on the committee>>
Starr richly deserves to be attacked. Many previous Independent Counsels have said they would long ago have dropped the Lewinsky line of inquiry entirely. Instead Starr has persued it with pious, personal, and partisan zealotry of an extreme kind. His report reaks with overreaching. He presents no exculpatory evidence, even though he his charged with presenting good as well as bad information to Congress. Starr pulls and stretch the bad facts he has culled to the breaking point to support every conceivable charge he could imagine.
E.g., the absolutely ridiculous thundering Starrism, that asserting privileges, from attorney client to executive privileges, any of them, all of them, constitute abuse of office and obstruction of justice.
His report is stuffed with overreaching claims, as well as a thorough going effort to convict the President though lurid detail which Starr fervently and piously hoped would be as prejudicial as possible.
As for the Judiciary Republicans, of course the Democrats on the Committee are going to attack them, when the Repubs. have railroaded every vote, and made no effort at all to compromise even a little to obtain some bi-partisan consensus.
The Repubs will be seen as responsible for delay now, and the public won't be patient for long. Neither will the media. Patience is not in their dynamic. The pressure on the House to get on with will grow.
And the extremist decisions the Repubs on the House Judiciary are likely to make will not endear Repubs. to the public. Watch. I smell big backlash coming.
Doug |
