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

To: Bill who wrote (29417)	1/23/1999 11:33:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

So be it. Rather than whine about the outcome, Republicans should simply walk away from it. Want to put odds on that one, Bill? I'd be mightily impressed if that actually happened. In fact, I'd be mightily impressed if just you and JLA quit whining. Ironically, I found Mr. Ellis's column a bit on the whiny side. More of the canonical "You're stupid, and we're not", if you happen to be among the 60+% who don't believe in the non-partisan, professional nature of the search for truth and justice by the Starr Inquisition and all the fellow travelers in the Clinton hatred industry. Maybe Mr. Ellis could take on this analysis. But then again, maybe not. So on one side we have the physical and ethical gropings of Bill Clinton. But on the other are the hidden tape recorders and pornographic inquiries of Ken Starr. What most people decided this year is that if those are our choices, then Clinton at his most unbuckled and slippery is still less a threat to American values than Starr. They decided that Starr's questions are worse than Clinton's lies. That's a moral judgment too. (http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/1998/12/21/right.html) P.S. If you'd like a little additional backing for the above view, perhaps you might explain this one, from a Republican of rather heroic stature. Former President George Bush, while avoiding any direct comment on Clinton or impeachment, told Senate Republicans that Washington was now full of "excessive intrusion into private lives." nytimes.com Note: though I doubt Bush's veracity on certain matters, I will give him full credit for heroic handling of the Gulf War. The point of bringing up Iran-contra is not that anybody should have been impeached on that matter, just that the current matter is so puny and inconsequential by comparison.