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

To: mrknowitall who wrote (18247)	12/10/1998 11:20:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

K, you're a trip. As ever, you're the absolute master of substantive debate. You've got to be the world expert at pompously creating straw men. I'd go back to the original statements to challenge your fallacious fantasies, but we've been through it all before. It's just all so unknowable, right? Anyway, impeachment isn't that important. And anybody who disagrees with your inarguably correct position is a White House agent. Intstead, I will engage in some more fear mongering on your favorite heinous evil, and the favorite issue of the moral reformation wing of the Republican party. Finding a Common Foe, Fringe Groups Join Forces nytimes.com And of course, on your other favorite moralistict bleating topic, see if you recognized the esteemed adulterous papal knight Hyde in this description from a link Les kindly provided: 5) the continual, routine perjury and deception of the public by government officials pretending to have no knowledge of these activities; and the routine acquiescence in that deception by Congressmen too frightened to oppose it. (from tarpley.net That on Iran-contra, and in case you don't get the point: WASHINGTON--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. (LaTimes, quoted in www2.techstocks.com Gotta love that papal knight, eh, K?