[Mia T]

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.)--betty boop

 

 

If that is Bush's reason for inaction, then he's got it exactly backwards; it is precisely the failure to bring the clintons to justice that has tarnished and continues to tarnish "the reputation and dignity of the United States."

Personally, I think Bush's failure to address clinton corruption is capitulation to implicit clinton blackmail, much like senate capitulation during clinton's impeachment.

Until the clintons are discredited formally and brought to justice or until we restock the D.C. swamp, the two miscreants will be able to maintain their stanglehold on our government with those 900 FBI files...

 

Schippers, who was hired by House Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) as chief investigative counsel for the impeachment, labels the process one of "lies, cowardice, hypocrisy, cynicism, amorality, butt-covering."

Schippers Book May Rock Senate

...The House Managers were real heroes. Trent Lott stabbed them in the back. They were not allowed to argue their case or to present any witnesses. Regardless of the final vote, one hundred (100) senators agreed from the start to go along with the bogus rules dreamed up by Lott and Daschle. That ended any possibility of a fair trial based on the evidence. They all broke their oaths of office and their trial oaths by doing this.

--Cicero

Historians will record that Republicans could not muster the necessary sixty-seven vote Senate majority to convict the President at trial.

 

Those same historians should note, if only in a footnote, that not a single senator made the trip to the Ford Building to review documentation of Clinton's "nauseating", "alarming" and "horrific" sexual misconduct; evidence that ultimately made the difference in the impeachment vote.

America's Impeachment Secret

 

 

Well, with the help of the 100 corrupt and cowardly cullions, clinton

walked. The senators' justification for their acquittal votes requires

the suspension of rational thought (and, in the curious case of Arlen

Specter, national jurisdiction).

Mia T, Musings: Senatorial Courtesy Perverted

 

 

 

 

 

 

[betty boop]

If that is Bush's reason for inaction, then he's got it exactly backwards; it is precisely the failure to bring the clintons to justice that has tarnished and continues to tarnish "the reputation and dignity of the United States."

So what are you yelling at me for, Mia T? I'm describing the history here, not indicating my personal preferences. Fact is, there's nothing to disagree with in your evidence or conclusions. BUT -- no one cares, except for you and me, and maybe a few other FReepers.

We hardly constitute -- all of us "like-minded on this question" together -- exactly what you'd call a groundswell of moral outrage. (Where's everybody else who should know better, too???) You want to get mad, get mad at THAT fact.

Meanwhile, "we have to keep our eye on the doughnut, not on the hole." The past is over. The present is war. Time to get on with the future.

(BTW, FWIW, IMHO, since you want to talk Justice: The person in queston deserves a bullet, not a jury, in any case. For high crimes of treason, not philandering. Not that I contemplate any such action myself, personally, any time sooner or later. In fact, believe it or not, I pray for this person's soul every now and then....)

Best wishes, bb.