Sunday, March 09, 2008
Andy Sullivan on zombie Clintons
He's writing better than usual -- and semi-lucidly, up to the point where he gets to the Ken Starr investigation: "in which Clinton admitted to the inquiry headed by the far-right prosecutor". OK, JJ, I know you wholeheartedly approve of such characterizations, but could you explain to me, in your moderate sort of way, in what sense exactly is Ken Starr a "far-right" guy? He in the KKK, like Robert C. Byrd, or something?
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For the Clintons, all Democrats who oppose them are . . . Republicans. And all Republicans are evil. And evil means that anything the Clintons do in self-defence is excusable – even playing the race card, and the Muslim card, and the gender card, and every sleazy gambit that the politics of fear can come up with. This is how they have arrested the Obama juggernaut. It’s the only game they know how to play.
Yes. But who egged them on, through the 1990s, when decent people like Ken Starr tried to stop their power-mad abuses? Well, JJ?
Starr is completely forgotten and dead except among those who hate him, and that's almost everyone but Rush.
Ken Starr is why politics is so fucked up now. The idiots on the right hated Clinton so much they tried the courts to get him out. It's about like Gore and Florida. If you don't get what you want, call a shyster like Edwards and see if you can convince a couple schmucks.
As far as Sullivan is concerned, who knows what he's thinking. But that will never capture the emotional toll that the Clintons continue to take on some of us. I’m not kidding. I woke up in a cold sweat early last Wednesday. There have been moments this past week when I have felt physically ill at the thought of that pair returning to power.
I think he was seroconverting.
What's seroconverting? Got to do with hyperventilating?
I didn't forget Ken Starr, and I never had a bad impression of him. He was given a job to do, and he did it, best he could. He cam in pretty damn close to impeach Clinton -- won the case in the House:
Upon the passage of H. Res. 611, Clinton was impeached on December 19, 1998, by the House of Representatives on grounds of perjury to a grand jury (by a 228-206 vote) and obstruction of justice (by a 221-212 vote).
and lost by a whisker in the Senate, where the RINOS came to his defense:
Chafee of Rhode Island, Collins of Maine, Gorton of Washington, Jeffords of Vermont, Shelby of Alabama, Snowe of Maine, Specter of Pennsylvania, Stevens of Alaska, Thompson of Tennessee, and Warner of Virginia.
Note that McCain sided at the time with Ken Starr, and voted for impeachment. Good for him.
What's seroconverting? Got to do with hyperventilating?
I didn't forget Ken Starr, and I never had a bad impression of him. He was given a job to do, and he did it, best he could. He came in pretty damn close to impeach Clinton -- won the case in the House:
Upon the passage of H. Res. 611, Clinton was impeached on December 19, 1998, by the House of Representatives on grounds of perjury to a grand jury (by a 228-206 vote) and obstruction of justice (by a 221-212 vote).
and lost by a whisker in the Senate, where the RINOS came to his defense:
Chafee of Rhode Island, Collins of Maine, Gorton of Washington, Jeffords of Vermont, Shelby of Alabama, Snowe of Maine, Specter of Pennsylvania, Stevens of Alaska, Fred Thompson of Tennessee (!), and Warner of Virginia voted against perjury, and Chafee, Collins, Jeffords, Snowe, Specter voted against obstruction of justice.
Note that McCain sided at the time with Ken Starr, and voted for impeachment on both counts. Good for him.
Seroconversion freq accompanied by night-sweats.
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