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

To: jlallen who wrote (17395)	12/5/1998 1:49:00 AM
From: Borzou Daragahi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

No, my friend, but he sure seemed to think Ollie North, an admitted liar, was lilly white. And that's really the point, now, isn't it? Decent people frown upon liars and adulterers. But they absolutely hate hypocrisy, to wit: Hypocrite Hyde in 1987: He mocked the sanctimony of all who "sermonized about how terrible lying is." Granted, lies were told, he said, but it hardly makes sense to "label every untruth and every deception an outrage." He also condemned the "disconcerting and distasteful whiff of moralism and institutional self-righteousness" that led Congress to conduct hearings on the deceptions coming from the White House and he denounced the result as "a witch hunt." So said the House Republican who led the defense of the Reagan administration during the Iran-Contra hearings, the same Rep. Henry J. Hyde of Illinois who is leading the impeachment inquiry against President Clinton.... "It just seems to me too simplistic [to condemn all lying]," he said in 1987. "In the murkier grayness of the real world, choices must often be made.".... I want to supply a little context--a word I have come to love--to this situation," Hyde began. He then read from a history that recounted White House lies and concluded that it had long been "a palace of pragmatism where dishonesty flourished." That last paragraph sounds like something I would say! Hypocrite Hyde in 1998 "We are fighting for the rule of law," Hyde has said. "I think it is our constitutional duty under the law [to pursue impeachment]. I'm frightened for the rule of law and I don't want that torn down or diminished." What a punk! He should be exposed for the two-bit partisan hack (believe me, Chicagoland's full of 'em) he is and always has been.