[Arleigh]

I still have my dream: that Robert Rubin sits before a Congressional Committee and is forced to plead the Fifth Amendment. On television, so that the tape can be run in 1000 campaign commercials for the GOP.

Yeah, "dream" is right! Rubin and Clinton will be fingered for ruining our financial system right after the American media and university academics issue a joint apology to the late Joe McCarthy for ever having doubted his assertions that the federal government was full of Soviet spies!

[Miss Marple]

Well, you are the eternal pessimist, while I am the eternal optimist. We shall see.

There are several variiables playing into this, including the coming attack on Iraq or Iran, the coming Congressional elections, the fact that Clinton will not keep his mouth shut, and the fact that the President gave all these people a chance to work together for the good of the country, which they refused to do.

I am betting on Dubya, who has proven to be a lot smarter than the pundits.

As I said, we will see.

[demkicker]

"Yeah, "dream" is right! Rubin and Clinton will be fingered for ruining our financial system right after the American media and university academics issue a joint apology to the late Joe McCarthy for ever having doubted his assertions that the federal government was full of Soviet spies!"

Like you, my hopes have been dashed too many times to count on a Clinton or anyone they're connected with being brought to justice. Call me cynical, but unless God provides a miracle, I just don't see it happening.

Unless I'm greatly underestimating Bush & Co, the blood in the water is theirs. I'd love to be wrong.