rock and roll part two
Actually, come to think of it, a person can defend the “scandal plagued Clinton” because of the nature of the scandal that ensnared him — that whole “It’s all about Sex” routine — may make it the principled position — regardless of political opinions as a whole. (Never mind in the real world, people tend to always “stand by their man” toward the bitter end.)
There was this man named Earl Williams from nearby Mabton who used the Letters to the Editor page of the local weekly paper as his soapbox platform. He was something on the order of a John Bircher — complaining of the government here, there, and everywhere, the treacherous Janet Reno, and the Socialism that is ensnaring this nation.
And he also complained about the Jeremiad that the Republican Party was carrying on against Bill Clinton and his sex life. Occasionally it almost looked like he was a Bill Clinton fan. I guess this was a sign that he wasn’t a party hack after all.
For his part, the newly double-indicted Tom DeLay has said:
Now you’re going to think I’m crazy. Our opponents, the Democrats, have no agenda. They’re the party of “no.” They just come up here and say, “No, no, no, no, no.”
The only thing they have — and they’re the party of “the ends justify the means.” And they have an incredible lust for power. The only way they think they can get us is to burn down that house with an ethical cloud over it, and so their only agenda is this kind of politics of personal destruction.
I will get through this. And when people see — I think they have so overreached in this indictment process, and when people see what this is really about, they will be so upset with the Democrats, you might see the biggest Republican election in a very long time in 2006, because then they have nothing.
And we’re doing a bold, aggressive agenda and have destroyed their credibility with the American people. That’s the makings of a very big election.
The joke is on someone there. A multitude of targets, actually. Him, us, tweedle dum, and him again.