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I like the writing style of this article (at least at the beginning). I
disagree with the content. The author has indeed reverted back to his
original position that Republicans are Bad, Bad, Bad and Democrats are
merely the victim of their cunning abuse of power and viciousness. Please.
Clinton got caught with his pants down - quite literally. The Presidency of
the United States is THE most powerful "official" position on this planet.
The standards of conduct must be held high as the ramifications of
indiscretions, even in his personal life, affect countless of millions of
lives - not to mention millions of dollars unraveling these antics.
There are expected behaviors for all the roles we each have in our lives.
Only having sexual relations (as previously understood and not taking into
account Clinton's new definition) with one's spouse is an expected behavior
of marriage. If this restriction of behavior is unacceptable. Don't get
married. On the same note, lying to the people he administers is
unacceptable. If Clinton can not abide by this very simple rule of conduct
then he needs to step down.
Both the Democrats and the Republicans will sling mud to their advantage to
garner more seats and consequently more sway in the House and Senate.
That's the game. To imply that only the Republicans are playing this game
is ridiculous.
Btw: I am not a Republican and I am seriously reconsidering my designated
"label" of Democrat. And NO, I did not vote for Clinton.
Hilary
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From: Gerald Harp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Wednesday, December 16, 1998 8:08 AM
Subject: [CTRL] A kinder, gentler lynch mob - Part I
> -Caveat Lector-
>
>A kinder, gentler lynch mob
>Salon, 12/15/98
>
>
>
>THE 'PEACHY-KEEN GOP HAS SHOWN ITS TRUE COLORS -- AND THEY CONFIRM THE MOST
>BRAIN-DEAD RADICAL STEREOTYPES FROM THE '60S.
>
>BY GARY KAMIYA
>I grew up believing that Republicans were the incarnation of all evil. This
>was a harsh and unsophisticated judgment, but the political discourse of
1960s
>Berkeley, where I grew up, lacked a certain refinement. In fact, to be
honest,
>it was pretty much taken straight from Saturday morning cartoons. In our
>righteous view, "the people," whoever they were, were always being
"oppressed"
>by The Man, a bloated GOP plutocrat mouthing pious moral maxims. It went
>without saying that Republicans were self-righteous, mean-spirited rich
white
>men who secretly napalmed Cambodian villages, turned loose the dogs against
>civil rights marchers and dug the Carpenters. They were Bad, and if we
could
>somehow get rid of them -- meanwhile taking lots of acid and listening to
>Hendrix -- Good Things would happen.
>
>Later, like many of my co-religionists, I became embarrassed by these
>sentiments. Such crude beliefs were unseemly. Sophistication demanded a
more
>nuanced view. Republicans, I now realized, could be decent men and women
who
>were just parroting the country-club line. Even the Reagan Age -- that
endless
>period I as a Californian was forced to spend under the Great
Communicator's
>genially callous thumb, while the Woolly Mammoths died out and Ice Ages
came
>and went across the globe -- couldn't make me return to the wooden
Stalinist
>sloganeering of my youth. I even reevaluated the Carpenters.
>
>And then came the Starr referral and Henry Hyde and the House Judiciary
>Committee vote, and I realized I had gotten it right the first time.
>
>When the Republicans in the full House vote to remove President Clinton
from
>office, as they will almost certainly do, they will prove that those brain-
>dead radical stereotypes about them really do apply. They will be revealed
as
>mean-spirited, partisan hacks, hypocrites, moral absolutists hiding their
>craven desire for vengeance and power beneath a ridiculously transparent
>façade of pious "deliberation" and "respect for law." The GOP will stand
>exposed before all of America as the party of vicious, petty ideologues
who,
>in their outrageous desire to undo the results of two lawful elections,
seized
>upon a grotesquely acquired legalistic evasion that falls so far short of
>meeting the constitutional standard of high crimes and misdemeanors as to
be
>laughable.
>
>Or, let's give them the benefit of the doubt, as the ever-generous New York
>Times did in a recent editorial. Let's assume that some of them are
actually
>sincere in their belief that lying about sex -- in an obvious vendetta case
>brought by a biased and obsessed "independent" counsel who, after utterly
>failing to find any serious misdeeds, connived to lay a perjury trap --
>constitutes an impeachable offense. But if they really believe that, then
we
>must conclude that either their grasp of the Constitution is so weak that
>their fitness to sit in any elected office is highly questionable, or that
>they are so rigid in their moral purity as to be Torquemadas in power ties,
>quasi-theocratic inquisitors who would turn America into a frightening
Bible
>Belt version of 15th century Spain or 20th century Iran.
>
>Why are the Republicans doing this? Why, defying the express wishes of the
>American people, are they trampling on the Constitution, weakening the
>presidency and inaugurating a hideous new political world of blood feuds
and
>true hatred? And why are they ignoring the warnings from the business
>community -- to which they used to listen -- that impeachment is dangerous
and
>destabilizing?
>
>The answer is simple: This is who they are. This action reflects the GOP's
>true nature. This is a party so desperate to burn a president they dislike
at
>the stake that they'll incinerate the Constitution to get the fire started.
>All that hoo-hah a few weeks ago about how Robert Livingston was going to
>bring a new "moderation" to the party now that nutty professor Gingrich was
>gone stands revealed as empty verbiage. The truth is that this is now a
party
>of zealots and ideologues, obsessed crusaders who have completely lost
touch
>with the common sense, fairness and decency of the American people. Like
Pol
>Pot's Khmer Rouge, who declared a purifying "Year Zero" when history's
slate
>was to be wiped clean (and all nonpeasants were to be killed), these high-
>minded crusaders want to restore America's sense of moral purpose -- and if
>they have to trash the country in order to do it, well, extremism in the
>defense of virtue is no vice! To the tumbrels with the parasites, citizens,
>while the Times and the Post knit their stern editorials! GOP "moderates"?
>What moderates? The few "moderates" who are trotted forth on TV to be shown
to
>the mob, like condemned Chinese dissidents with signs hanging around their
>necks, seem barely sentient.
>
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