Posted on 11/21/2001 5:35:39 PM PST by truther
With Hillary Clinton installed in the U.S. Senate and Bill Clinton still capturing headlines while quietly running the Democratic Party, it's plain America has yet to get fully past its decade of sleaze.
And while most who'd like to move on hope ignoring Bill and Hillary will do the trick, a hearty minority say America suffers from a case of "justice interruptus" - that the former first couple were demonstrably guilty of crimes but timid prosecutors failed to do their jobs.
Nearly 120,000 such citizens have petitioned the Bush administration to do something about this lingering affront to the nation's judicial system, in an effort sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based legal watchdog group Judicial Watch.
"59,535 petitions were sent to Attorney General John Ashcroft demanding that he hold Bill and Hillary Clinton accountable using the evidence available to him from Democratic donor Peter Paul," Judicial Watch announced in a press release Tuesday.
Paul is the Hollywood producer who contributed over $2 million to Mrs. Clinton's New York Senate campaign - most of which she failed to report to the Federal Election Commission as required by law.
"26,103 petitions were also sent to President Bush demanding that he fire IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti, a Clinton holdover responsible for illegal audits against conservatives organizations and other perceived adversaries of Bill and Hillary Clinton," said Judicial Watch.
That kind of abuse of the IRS was considered one of the most egregious crimes in the history of the presidency when Richard Nixon merely tried to do it in the 1970s. Twenty years later the Clintons got away with it in spades, a fact that still has many civil libertarians shaking their heads in disbelief.
And finally, says Judicial Watch, "33,580 petitions were sent to President Bush requesting that he rehire Linda Shenwick, the State Department official who single-handedly uncovered numerous instances of waste, fraud, and abuse of authority at the United Nations and State Department."
Shenwick was fired just one day after last year's presidential election, a move she believes was in retaliation for her congressional testimony about the U.N.'s massive misuse of U.S. tax dollars.
"The underlying basis of conservatism is respect for ethics and the rule of law," Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman told NewsMax.com Wednesday.
"The president and the attorney general should understand that they were elected to carry out that mandate."
I say this sincerely and without any ill will toward you.
My sense of the reason for the hesitancy: It's not because President Bush minds so much the tarnishing of an American public figure -- whom the brain dead of American society seem to regard as a brilliant politician and leader. (Yeah, maybe just like the German people regarded Hitler as a "leader" circa 1939.)
My sense of President Bush's "prosecutorial reluctance" is this: He won't tarnish a single soul, no matter how much that "soul" might "objectively deserve it," if it means that the reputation and/or dignity of the United States might subsequently be tarnished by such disclosure. (And Clinton can take that to the bank. Unfortunately.)
Bill Clinton is the "idiot cousin" that (let's face it) no serious chief executive would want to acknowledge as his predecessor if he can possibly help it.
Bill Clinton -- the richly talented political sourcerer of late twentieth-century America -- is such an embarrassment to this administration (not to mention thinking, reasoning adults in general), and to the national public order when you boil it all down, that Bush would do practically anything (within reason and justice) to keep the Clinton name out of the public consciousness. (I can only hope the president is willing to extend this antipathy to Clinton's hideous wife.)
Well, that's my take on the problem, anyhoot. FWIW. best to you, bb.
Judicial Watch has been anti-Bush since the fall of last year.
They aligned themselves with Gore in the Florida courts trying to get a recount to overturn the election results.
They have filed ethics complaints against Cheney, DeLay, the RNC, Haskert, and other conservatives. All were frivilous.
They have never won a case. Most of their cases get thrown out of court before trial. In fact, I can't think of any case they have even been able to get to trial.
They seem to protect each other. My take on this is that either can destroy the other. In a just world, BOTH Bush Sr. and Clinton would be doing time.
But we all know it's not a just world: LBJ never served time either....
Mudboy!! Thought you would like to see this.
Everyone have a blessed and wonderful Thanksgiving! You should smell that pumpkin pie cooking!! God Bless America!
FReegards...Opie
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