Friday, November 11, 2005

Still a dirtbag after all these years

from this

Former president Bill Clinton called Congress' impeachment of him an "egregious" abuse of the Constitution and challenged those who say history will judge him poorly because of his White House tryst with Monica Lewinsky.
That's right. There's plenty of other things to judge him poorly for. Where do I start?

Speaking at an academic conference examining his presidency here Thursday, Clinton challenged historian Douglas Brinkley's comments in a newspaper interview that Clinton would be deemed a great president were it not for his impeachment.
But for the wrong reason. This man has the brass-balled effrontery to suggest that he really was a great President. He wants to claim credit for Middle East peace initiatives (regardless of their abject failure), and "turning around the economy" (as if Reagan's policies, the end of the Cold War and Bush 41's paying the bill for the S&L fiasco had nothing to do with it). And that's not to mention the cancers that he let grow that metastasized into 9/11.

Oh yeah, the impeachment was "about a blowjob"? If it was trivial, why did our erstwhile law professor lie about it? Protecting his wife, my eye - you do that by keeping your hands to yourself. Or at least by being more selective - all those women in Washington and elsewhere and he couldn't find someone with some discretion? Hint - try someone who can abstain from showing off her thong for a meeting or two.

But oh no - he played chicken with Ken Starr, he lost, and then claimed it was Starr who lacked discretion.

The fact is that he knew his sleaziness was a big deal with the electorate, which is why he made such a big show of going to church, sending goons after his "bimbo eruptions" and otherwise being phony. His only enduring legacy will be how he and his minions cheapened public discourse just to spare his degenerate carcass from a fate better than what he deserved.

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Am I the only one...

...who thinks the two main characters of "Law and Order:Criminal Intent" look like Penn and Teller?

Talking sense about abortion

Jane Galt goes on at length here and for several more posts down.

And let's get real. Repealing Roe v. Wade would not make abortion illegal. It would, however, return control of our laws to voters, and right a historic wrong. Lefties won on abortion - now let the people have the Constitution back.

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Should we send troops to help France?

After a couple of weeks of riots the French might need bailing out again. Of course bloggers are on the cutting edge of analysis, pondering the ramifications and potential responses. One potential scenario is investigated here.

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

The Energy Webring

You'll find a link at the bottom of this page, or you can click here for a list. There's a small but diverse selection of blogs, and perhaps the seeds of yet another Carnival...

Twofer

This post is both an excellent brief statement of the case for capital punishment and an interesting example of what could be academic bias.