Posted on 01/13/2002 7:21:33 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
No one can say President Bush hasn't tried.
As part of his campaign pledge to move the country beyond eight years of partisan squabbling over Clinton-era corruption, he never mentioned Whitewater or Monicagate or any other of the dozen or so gates that metastasized during the 1990's.
After he was elected, Bush gave his silent approval when, the day before he took office, Independent Counsel Robert Ray announced he wouldn't prosecute President Clinton for blatant and repeated instances of perjury before a federal grand jury and a federal judge.
Days later his Justice Department quietly removed the noose from around the neck of Chinagate kingpin James Riady, allowing the Clinton benefactor to walk away from the most serious scandal in American history in exchange for a token fine and community service that Riady was permitted to perform on the honor system back home in Indonesia.
Bush has kept the prosecutorial dogs muzzled in the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York, as dueling grand juries heard evidence all summer implicating Bill, Hillary and even former first brother Roger Clinton in a pardons-for-cash scam where a fugitive billionaire, a major cocaine dealer and even a Mafia don got White House shakedowns.
It got so bad that when outgoing Clinton staffers vandalized the White House and Air Force One stewards reported items missing after the Clintons' last flight home, President Bush grit his teeth, smiled as though it never happened and refused to let his aides investigate.
In short, in the interest of political comity, George Bush handcuffed justice and allowed the former first family to make a total and complete mockery out of the law.
Now, however, as the partisan squabbling and media hysteria reach a fevered pitch over the Enron scandal, Democrats herald the arrival of "Bush's Whitewater." It's clear the president's strategy to give the Clintons a break and stem the tide of political retribution has failed - and failed miserably.
Without so much as a hint of Bush administration impropriety, the Democrat-media machine has ginned up no fewer than eight federal and congressional probes into the energy giant's collapse.
Politicians who decried the money spent probing the real Whitewater scandal - "Seven years, $70 million dollars - and for what?" they complained - can barely conceal their burning desire for new impeachment hearings that will install a Democrat in the White House in 2004.
How should Bush respond? Simple. Unshackle the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York and let prosecutors there show Washington's political ingrates what criminal wrongdoing really looks like.
It's time to take the muzzle off lead prosecutor Elliot Jacobson, who at last word was heading up the probe and who clearly had enough evidence to file charges against Roger Clinton by last summer.
It's well past time to move against the Clinton family's Golden Girls, Denise Rich and Beth Dozoretz, both of whom told Congress last year that if they told the truth about Pardongate "it might tend to incriminate me."
And it's time to publicly call both Bill and Hillary Clinton before the Pardongate grand juries - and, unlike what happened in Whitewater, let the grand jurors themselves decide if the evidence warrants prosecution.
Democrats now foaming at the mouth over "Enrongate" didn't know when they had a good thing, and in fact, it's now plain that Bush's indulgence only engendered their contempt.
Now that the Washington scandal machine has Bush in its crosshairs, it's time for the president to make sure the rules apply to both sides equally - and if that means prosecuting Bill and Hillary Clinton, so be it.
This is taking the easy road. It is easy to think this way, and I entirely disagree with it.
My expectations did not include for Bush to undo 8 years of Clintonism in one year. That's unrealistic.
WWBD (What Will Bush Do)? Let's see if he pulls some kind of 'wag the dog' or shines the light of truth on Enron.
I think this is a RAT "strategery" to hamstring Bush on the War on Terrorism.
If Bush moves the war into a new phase, the RATS and their lap-dogs in the Mainstream Media will SCREAM "Wag-The-DOG"! No matter the truth, he'l get screwed on this...
This MAY force Bush to postpone any expansion to Somalia, Yemen, IRAQ, ect... thereby insuring his polling #'s go down, THEN the RATS can beat up on him on several fronts.
It's a DANGEROUS GAME the RATS are playing with our future and security...let's see if President Bush sees the trap, and moves against them.
The best way to counter this "strategery" is to do what he's doing to start...letting it all out, no privileges, and people recusing themselves to eliminate even the HINT of favoritism...BUT...
He needs to go for the THROAT of the DNC and Dasshole, as well as Slick and Queen Cankle! Let loose the dogs of Justice, and PROSECUTE PUBLICLY. So what if they have info on certain Repubs...let them swing in the wind. We are talking about HOMELAND SECURITY! They did whatever it is that the Klintonistas have on them, let them fall on THEIR OWN SWORDS to protect this country...and if they won't fall, a little PUSH never hurt...eh Trent?
I hope I'm wrong, but this is how I see it.
We are on the same sheet of music on this one, palo.
It got so bad that when outgoing Clinton staffers vandalized the White House and Air Force One stewards reported items missing after the Clintons' last flight home, President Bush grit his teeth, smiled as though it never happened and refused to let his aides investigate.
In short, in the interest of political comity, George Bush handcuffed justice and allowed the former first family to make a total and complete mockery out of the law.
Now, however, as the partisan squabbling and media hysteria reach a fevered pitch over the Enron scandal, Democrats herald the arrival of "Bush's Whitewater." It's clear the president's strategy to give the Clintons a break and stem the tide of political retribution has failed - and failed miserably.
Without so much as a hint of Bush administration impropriety, the Democrat-media machine has ginned up no fewer than eight federal and congressional probes into the energy giant's collapse.
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