But don't worry, Cartoon Boy, just keep listening to this guy:
Posted on 07/15/2002 7:07:00 PM PDT by RCW2001
You know, I fight with your kind occasionally too. Usually only after a big Mexican meal.
However, a good wipe, a quick flush, a couple of lit matches, an open window, and your kind is quickly forgotten.
Sometimes, some of your kind require a little extra effort, such as a dampened tissue, and extra flush, and a spray or two of Lysol, but like the others, they are quickly forgotten.
You got it.
This is a classic case of what Horowitz talks about - to the Demoncrats, it's a war, and anything goes, and our failure to engage them on their own ground always ends in our defeat.
The Demoncrats don't care a whit about Bush's finances. All they care about is using any means available to derail Bush.
They used the same tactics to get rid of Gingrich, and as Horowitz points out, instead of rallying behing Gingrich and then employing the Demoncrats' tactics against them, suing and exposing *their* goblins and minions, tit for tat, until they ran off with their scaly arrowheaded tails between their goatish legs, the Republicans once again retreated to the "High Moral Ground" - and America lost a valuable public servant.
Although, that's just my interpretation of the last paragraph
Only in this case we don't have missing records, and we don't have mens rea. What we have is some difference between what regulations say and what everyone actually does. Just remember what you said, comes time to file your 2002 income tax. As Will Rodgers put it," . . . and after you're finished you don't know if you are a cheat or a sucker."In the case of Cattlegate you had, not only the appearance of impropriety, but the fact. You had a shady broker who had been under suspension for pushing the envelope way too hard, and who Hillary had to deal with at a distance. You had a 98:1 runup in Hillary's $1000 investment, due to bets both long and short, in a highly volitile market. You had margin calls not properly sent, and you had a prior statement by a government official that Hillary wanted $100,000. And you had, after the fact, the claim by Hillary that she orchestrated the long and short sales herself--on the basis of information in the Wall Street Journal, which in fact did not publish the sort of data germane to that market at that time.Compare that with Bush doing what his company's lawyer went on record that he could do, selling a stock that subsequently went down but later went up. Selling to a willing, even eager, buyer who could have, and for all we know may have, made a profit.
Humbug!
But don't worry, Cartoon Boy, just keep listening to this guy:
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