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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: lorrie coey who wrote (25119)12/30/1998 9:52:00 AM
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If you're not careful, you might end up being the last socialist supporting the liar.


The contradictions of late have apparently become too much for Katha Pollitt, columnist for the Nation.
"At war? Did I miss something," Ms. Pollitt writes in the leftist journal's Jan. 11 issue. "Sheila Jackson Lee offered thanks to 'our American troops who are now fighting for our liberty.' Saddam Hussein threatens our liberty? Is it too much to ask that a member of the House recognize that a president who bombs foreign countries without consulting Congress is the threat to liberty she ought to be worrying about? This is the sort of paranoid jingoism progressives can usually be counted on to mock. Not this time: Jesse Jackson, rallying the anti-impeachment crowd in Washington, passed over the airstrikes entirely in favor of weepy revivalism. ... Not a peep from the 400 historians who signed Sean Wilentz and Arthur Schlesinger's anti-impeachment petition, with its reverential defense of the institution of the presidency, presumably even as embodied in some $500 million worth of airstrikes."
Ms. Pollitt suggests that the left's support for President Clinton has been a one-way street: "Why are 'progressives' always the ones who rally around the president without getting -- or even asking for -- anything in return?"

washtimes.com

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