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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (8181)10/14/1998 12:28:00 AM
From: Borzou Daragahi  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13994
 
To Zoltan and bp:

Um, I'm really, really sorry to spoil a good party by taking a leak in the champagne, but read the 10-14 Washington Post. Hyde says he's going to probably drop everything--filegate, Whitewater, fundraising--except Monica and, if Starr turns up more evidence about it, Willey.

Who's obsessed with sex?

Hyde also said he does not expect to expand the inquiry to include the
Whitewater land deal, the mishandling of FBI files, campaign finance
abuses or any other allegations unrelated to the Lewinsky affair. However,
sources said that if Starr sends a report alleging that Clinton made
unwanted sexual advances toward Democratic volunteer Kathleen E.
Willey and then lied to try to cover them up, the committee is likely to use
the allegations to try to establish a pattern of Clinton's misbehavior.


washingtonpost.com



To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (8181)10/14/1998 11:08:00 AM
From: Zoltan!  Respond to of 13994
 
Excellent article by someone I don't particularly like:

President Inflicting Chaos on Liberals

10/14/1998
By Patrick Buchanan

IS William Jefferson Clinton the conscious agent of some vast right-wing
conspiracy? Was he recruited by rightist professors at Georgetown to
become a sleeper agent deep inside the Democratic Party -- to surface
one day to lead it to destruction? What other explanation suffices?

Under Clinton, the GOP in 1994 captured Congress for the first time
since Dwight Eisenhower's first years in office. When the Asia-connection
scandal broke in '96, the GOP extended its control to four years -- for
the first time since the Calvin Coolidge administration. Last August, when
the GOP looked as though it might lose the House, Clinton went before
the grand jury and then confessed on TV to having deceived the nation
for seven months. Now, the GOP is looking to November gains that may
give the party more House and Senate seats than it has held since the
Warren Harding era -- and, possibly, GOP governors in our 10 largest
states. Ronald Reagan was the greatest Republican of his age. Yet he
never came near accomplishing this.

Decimation of Democrats aside, consider the moral confusion and chaos
Clinton has inflicted on the House of Liberalism.

Clinton has admitted to, or been credibly charged with, debauched
behavior in the Oval Office with an intern half his age, groping a woman
in distress, indecent exposure to an employee in Arkansas, turning his
secretary into an "enabler" and unleashing his attack dogs on women with
the courage to tell the truth about his prowlings. Still, feminists stand by
their man. Who else could make Betty Friedan look like Mrs. Buttafuoco
standing by Joey? "Policy prostitutes," one conservative lady has called
the feminists.


Few Democrats, any longer, bother to dispute the charges.

To save Clinton, liberals are crafting the Doctrine of Permissible Perjuries
for Democratic Presidents. The presidency, which Harry Truman once
called "pre- eminently a place of moral leadership," is now apparently
open to perjurers.

On the final vote over whether there would even be an inquiry, 176
Democrats voted to ignore their constitutional duty and help cover up the
most sordid scandal in U.S. history. Let us hear no more of liberalism's
heroic role in ousting Richard Nixon.

If oaths before God no longer matter, if honor, integrity and truthfulness
no longer count, then there is no moral community. And where there is no
moral community -- as in the Balkans -- politics becomes but a vicious
and ignoble scramble for power.

The Democratic Party is about to commit suicide -- for Bill Clinton. You
explain it; I can't.
oklahoman.com