Investigate This

April 11, 2002

The right wingers were clever during Clinton's term. So callously clever that they knew if they opened enough investigations, regardless of the fact that their claims were baseless, just so long as they would have a bunch of investigations on record, they could continue to make Clinton look bad.

Never mind how their investigations impeded the running of the country, or how much could have been accomplished for America without that distraction, it's all about their power and their lust to get it back and keep it by continuing to discredit arguably the most productive and prosperous administration in history.

And they're still doing it. They continue to have the upper hand by framing the debate of Clinton's term in terms of sex and investigation, pulling the focus away from the only thing that's of any real importance historically or otherwise -- Clinton's record of accomplishments despite the VRWC's unpatriotic distractions.

Here's a quote from the CNN Begala/Carlson exchange you posted:

"CARLSON: Because they were so darn ethical, all these independent councils. I don't know, offended by their ethicalness, came out and investigated them. I love this. What an argument."

Tucker Carlson sums up, in just a couple of sentences, the VRWC's motivation for all those baseless investigations. Their line of thinking goes something like this: If Clinton was investigated that many times, he had to be guilty of SOMETHING. The fact that they never found anything is more attributable to his "slick"ness than that he is innocent.

The utter lack of anything resembling ethics or morals required to pull off this stunt, from a group-think perspective, is so hypocritical coming from all the moralizers and ethicists on the right. Just one more fine example of how the VRWC is clouding the waters by being so blatantly hypocritical with everything they do that they're desensitizing the public to their hypocricy.

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Contributed by BuzzFlash Reader, Troy Torstrick, Louisville, KY