As I've said before: I now understand how the Right felt about Monica Lewinsky.
It doesn't matter, but it's what we've got to take down the Bad Guys.
They felt Clinton was a Bad Guy, not because he slept around, but because he was doing many policy things (which I like) that were changing America away from what they wanted it to be. So, when he gave them a lever that people could actually UNDERSTAND, they grabbed it.
The Foley scandal, people understand. The fact that one congressman was probably schtupping teenagers is not really THAT serious on the grand scheme of things -- it's bad, but it's bad on a personal, individual, "retail" level.
Torture as a policy, suspension of habeas corpus, and the general expansion of the powers of the executive are wholesale bad. And much, much bigger.
And much harder to understand.
So, damn it, I want the Republicans to lose power for being corrupt, immoral bastards who like torture and abuse of power, but, if they're going to lose it because one of them schtupps teenagers and others of them didn't stop him -- I'll take it. If that's what we've got, fine.
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Date: 2006-10-12 05:22 am (UTC)It doesn't matter, but it's what we've got to take down the Bad Guys.
They felt Clinton was a Bad Guy, not because he slept around, but because he was doing many policy things (which I like) that were changing America away from what they wanted it to be. So, when he gave them a lever that people could actually UNDERSTAND, they grabbed it.
The Foley scandal, people understand. The fact that one congressman was probably schtupping teenagers is not really THAT serious on the grand scheme of things -- it's bad, but it's bad on a personal, individual, "retail" level.
Torture as a policy, suspension of habeas corpus, and the general expansion of the powers of the executive are wholesale bad. And much, much bigger.
And much harder to understand.
So, damn it, I want the Republicans to lose power for being corrupt, immoral bastards who like torture and abuse of power, but, if they're going to lose it because one of them schtupps teenagers and others of them didn't stop him -- I'll take it. If that's what we've got, fine.