It’s Been A Long, Strange Trip
The Volokh Conspiracy’s Orin Kerr seems to sum up the history of the past two decades quite succinctly:
If I understand the history correctly, in the late 1990s, the President was impeached for lying about a sexual affair by a House of Representatives led by a man who was also then hiding a sexual affair, who was supposed to be replaced by another Congressman who stepped down when forced to reveal that he too was having a sexual affair, which led to the election of a new Speaker of the House who now has been indicted for lying about payments covering up his sexual contact with a boy.
Yep, that’s about it.
Karma. Wow.
The worst fate is that of Boehner, who is doomed to be Speaker for a group of certified morons.
Karma schmarma.
All these citizens made conscious decisions to act the way they did.
Don’t let them off the hook by attributing their behavior to some hocus pocus mumbo jumbo that implies it is out of their control.
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karma: (in Hinduism and Buddhism) the sum of a person’s actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.
• informal destiny or fate, following as effect from cause.
Sex and politics are new things?
The party of family values strikes again.
Somebody somewhere, at the moment of my birth, invoked the ancient Chinese curse of, “May you live in interesting times.”
Interesting synopsis. Still, it seems to me that there’s a word missing once you start talking about that long string of hypocritical moralists fighting to impeach a popularly elected president based on sexual behaviors far less egregious than their own. What could it be? I feel like it begins with an R…
Does “both sides do it” begin with an R? No, guess that’s not it…
@wr: hmmmm… does it rhyme with Bloopert Burdoch?
@Xenos: Maybe… I think it might rhyme with O’ Liely tho.
@Xenos:
The ignorance of Mr. Kerr and worse ignorance of WAPO commenters is appalling on this subject of the Clinton impeachment: From Wiki:
” Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, was impeached by the House of Representatives on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice, on December 19, 1998.”
Veerrry Interesting!
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@ernieyeball: Thank You!
@OzarkHillbilly…thank Al Gore. I just use the internet.
I retain a certain nostalgia for the golden old days of Congressional sex lives when all politicians needed to do was avoid being caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.
And yet Doug is convinced that it’s the Clintons who are sleazy.