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

To: Harvey Allen who wrote (28364)	1/17/1999 6:40:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

Conspiracy, No. Cliche, Yes. nytimes.com Harvey, I think you might appreciate the sardonic Maureen Dowd's take on the proceedings so far. She has found it less than scintillating also. By the time we got to Bob Barr, I had become a desperate woman. I felt trapped, panicky, short of breath. I could only imagine how the senators felt about having to sit silently through these excruciating recitations of the obvious and the irrelevant. And while there is an undeniable appeal to the notion of enforced silence on the usually prolix senators -- the equivalent of a national mute button -- the Trial of the Century is proving less than scintillating. It suddenly seems essential that we figure out a way never, ever to have to go through such a ludicrous, stupefying display again. The Republican House managers were acting like ugly Americans abroad who think that if they talk loudly and slowly, foreigners will understand them. Remember, Voter Republican Y2K- Because you're stupid, and they're not. Or maybe vice versa, it's all a matter of perspective. The above description sounds perfectly appropriate for the sanctimonious "truth and justice" / "integrity in politics preachers here. Never mind the liars Rehnquist, Hyde, Barr, Lott, if we can just get rid of Clinton, politics will be cleansed and renewed! The surfeit of sex comes with a surfeit of sanctimonious pseudo-oratory, as when Mr. McCollum rhapsodized about "a beautiful panorama" he saw on his drive to the Capitol. "Just before I got to the 14th Street Bridge," he told the senators at the trial, "I saw this incredible number of geese, I guess in the hundreds, that were lined up. . . . They looked like they were an invading army. And I thought of the awe of this, the beauty of it, the awe of Mother Nature, the awe of God. And I thought also of the awe of the responsibility to our children and our grandchildren about what we are commencing today. This is an awesome undertaking for all of us." The Republicans had better beware: What's good for the goose is good for the gander, and besides, those geese might come home to roost. Well, to wax coyly scatological again, the Republican honkers have been dropping their load on us for a while here, and I imagine it will continue, regardless of the outcome of the current proceedings. That's politics in the '90s, I guess.