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

To: greenspirit who wrote (19625)	12/15/1998 12:07:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 67261

Michael, you're paranoid, but not paranoid enough. The reason you hear about the affair minute by minute in the media and have it prosecuted by the congress simultaneously is because the same people control both. You don't hear the stories you do on TV by accident. I meet quite a few people and the general reaction to the story I get these days is that they refuse to talk about it anymore. Whether one is friendly to the president or otherwise. The Republicans will hope that this nausea keeps everyone but their supporters from voting in 2000. And this could work, in theory. If they vote for a president and he is removed from office without any cause other than this, they may well stop voting. If that actually happened, I would expect the country to destabilize. However, he is not going to be removed. Why? Because it takes a 2/3 vote of the Senate, is why, even if they proceed with it from here. Why do it then, after the Republican leadership has already been severely punished for going down this road? A. They probably thought he might resign. B. They can raise money from all the raw meat Republicans for the next election, people like those who post here. (Happy donating to all of you, and Happy Holidays. Catholics among you please remember that gossip is a sin too and must be confessed before Christmas mass.) C. The longer this goes on the more chance that most people will forget how crucial the media were to starting and maintaining this whole story. The more serious and dangerous they can make the final outcome, the more it looks like they were justified in the Barbie Newsvolks version of Woodward & Bernstein that they have indulged themselves with here. D. Some media moguls, like Rupert Murdoch (Fox, etc), are not only doing this for the money the story generates, and for the purpose of covering their own tracks, but also out of political motive. E. In spite of Republican efforts to tank the economy before the last election, it didn't work, and it probably will be a pretty good economy in 2000 as well. So the voters will give the Democrats credit for the full employment and elect Democrats in congress as well. The Republicans are desperate to do anything to avoid that. Too desperate. I laugh when I think how this crowd was supposed to be supporting term limits. Now you can't get them out with dynamite. So in the end will Bill Clinton be removed involuntarily? No, probably not. And if he resigns after Jan 20, Al Gore may get to be president for 10 years instead of eight. Americans will look like unsophisticated imbeciles to the rest of the world again. There is nobody left who trusts any part of the mass media, so they will have to stay on this track of news-as-gruesome entertainment. And those who want to know what is really going on will have to help each other find out, on the Internet, or rely on the very occassional reporter with skills, courage and great integrity (Can't think of one at the moment, though. Most of the good ones have died.) Meanwhile the media and a bunch of politicians will have made a lot of money off of folks like you here. Chaz