But if it had been Pres Bush would he have been investigated to the extent that Clinton was? Not with Republicans controlling Congress he wouldn't. If the Democrats controlled Congress today there would be a couple of investigations of Pres. Bush going on right now.
Oh, like the press hasn't investigated every thing President Bush has or hasn't done in the past 50 years? The congress doesn't need to investigate what the press already has. The only thing the Congress would need to do is figure out what the press has made up (ie RatherGate).
Let's face it - without the never ending investigation of Pres. Clinton the 'lie' never would have ocurred. It was politics and political jockeying that caused the whole situation to happen. (And let's not forget the Special Prosecutor overstepped his legal authority when he started the whole Lewinsky investigation. Had to get permission - and forgiveness - AFTER the fact. Now there's integrity!) Clinton chose to lie, but the whole situation was a political trap. A very well sprung political trap at that. Gotta admire the way it was all handled by the "get Clinton for whatever you can" folks, in a perversely logical way, of course.
In the words of Lewis Black, "the biggest mistake the Republicans made in trying to nail an a**hole is to use a bigger a**hole, making the first a**hole just look like a rectum..."
I don't necessarily agree with calling President Clinton an a**hole, but the concept is correct. Clinton should have been impeached for lying under oath and it doesn't matter what the definition of "is" or "alone" is.
Was what Pres. Clinton did wrong? Sure it was. Did he get his ashes hauled in the White House? Sure he did. Is that really why conservative hate him? Nope. They never liked him and wanted him out of office at any cost - to both parties and the White House and The USA. They hated him because he was the opposite of everything they wanted. They hated him because he kept them out of the White House - twice. They wanted his ass any way they could get it. The "lie" was just an excuse.
This is the same thing that the Dem's are doing to President Bush. They never liked him. THey claim he stole the presidency, even though they are the ones that tried to skirt the law in 2000. Dems are now out of power both in the congress and presidency. They oppose everything President Bush is trying to do simply on principle, and not on grounds of wither or not it's good for the country. The difference is that the republicans in congress worked with President Clinton rather than running to the press and calling him a Cowboy, Neocon, etc. The only thing that Mr. Clinton really got called by the congress is Liar, which was proven to be true.
I have yet to see what Mr. Bush has lied about.
And before you "what about the WMD's?", let me remind you that they did find over a dozen artillery shells with mustard gas, and another dozen or so with other chemical weapons. The data Mr. Bush saw was the same data the Mr. Clinton, Mr. Gore, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Schroeder, Mr. Blair, and Mr. Annan all saw and agreed with. So who was the liar?
So much for being about rubbers.....
