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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Starowl who wrote (5287)	9/25/1998 9:44:00 AM
From: j_b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

<<most of what they see seems aimed at humbling the president and extremely partisan in that regard>> This is where we disagree. 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, and everyone involved in the affair. Notice that the votes that we hear about are straight down party lines. That is not one-sided partisanship on the part of the Republicans, but bipartisan partisanship (awkward phrase, I know). Here's an interesting dilemma for you - how should I react to Hillary doing fundraisers and other support speaches for Rep. Schumer in New York, when Mr. Schumer is a member of the Judiciary Committee and currently in a very tight race to unseat one of Clinton's main detractors in the Senate where the actual impeachment vote wold be held? Isn't that a rather remarkable attempt on her part to influence the jury, so to speak? Why is Hyde being represented as hypocritical or biased, when other members of the committee so obviously are being courted, or actually bribed to support the President? <<Opinions are fairly well set, on both sides. And the opportunity to express those opinions comes in November>> I agree with this, but I doubt the people in the middle (which I believe is the vast majority) will want to support either side in November. I think the turnout will be even lower than usual. Even the people with the well-set opinions seem to be so disgusted with both sides that they don't want to vote. <<Those folks are smarter than their behavior portrays>> I disagree - I think they are even more stupid than we believe. It wouldn't have taken much intelligence or forethought to realize that the video could only help the President. It wouldn't take much thought to realize that a slow methodical approach, with at least the appearance of fairness would have not only led to an appropriate resolution of the issue, but would avoid the appearance of a rush to judgement. The Democrats have taken full political advantage of the stupidity of the Republicans on every issue. Neither side cares about the good of the nation, only about the good of their party or their own power. <<We don't like this airing of our dirty wash for us or the world to see. >> I'm not sure about this one. Americans seem to thrive on dirt and gossip. I think we are thoroughly enjoying the spectacle, even as we say we don't. Notice that the TV show ratings are extremely high when the issue being discussed is the scandal. Of course, we also have a remarkably short attention span. If nothing new is going to be released about the Clinton and Monica scandal, we want to go on to the next one.