johnny9fingers | (no subject)

Now when Bill Clinton was impeached, apparently it wasn't over whether he'd spunked over an intern's dress, it was because he had lied about it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7105001.stm

I await to see what will happen now after this testimony.
Kenneth Starr, where are you? Surely this should matter at least as much, especially as we're talking of folk involved in something illegal (naming a CIA agent) not just of dubious morality (infidelity, for a given value thereof).

You know something, American hypocrisy about this sort of stuff is going to lose you chaps lots of friends. Either you're consistent about what matters, or you will be looked at as something pretty similar to the Nation states that your administration goes around denouncing.

You can arraign one president for being economical with the truth.
You will not do something about a president and administration that behaves much much worse by your own standards.

And yet you criticise other countries in the hope that they'll change their ways and adopt your system: well from the outside, your present government seems as criminal as that of South Korea, Iran, Zimbabwe....

This isn't a good thing, but I don't expect anyone to deal with it.

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It won't be dealt with here in a decent fashion until the world uses force to tear down the government set up here, or civil war breaks out. I give it 20 years, either way.

OK, so it's nothing to do with your entry, but--

Happy Birthday!

I know this is being investigated still - and that's why no further charges (nor impeachments) have been held...
... but still... I wish they'd hurry it up!

Surely you're joking. Impeachment won't happen, there are too many powerful interests that won't allow themselves to be brought down with the Administration. Patrick Fitzgerald couldn't get more than a perjury conviction against Libby for example.

Plus it doesn't make very good politics. The whole of the United States of America doesn't like to admit that it made a mistake, ever, and to impeach the President and/or Vice President would shine a light on a part of ourselves and our national psyche that we'd like to pretend just wasn't there, thank you very much.

What I think the nation as a whole is doing is hoping that the next President will play by the rules and that once the current President and his administration leave office, they won't be able to hide the depths of their transgressions. Maybe there'll even be some prosecutions, but I doubt it.

P.S> The nation is still dealing with the fact that we're not quite #1 anymore. Our military is stretched and breaking, we're locked in a middle eastern quaqmire, our national budget is in the toilet, our economy is falling apart, and don't even get me started on the dollar's slide. It's going to be an interesting time when that realization finally hits hardcore.