New House. New Mission. Priority #1?

[HendrixFan]

... except for one major difference. As we found out, the Monica scandal was real, it wasn't a concoction of nutty right-wingers, whereas the whole birther thing is stupid. Even if there was any doubt, it's irrelevant now, you can't unring the bell.

Odd that you say that, with three intensely partisan ICs focusing on the president, both Clintons were exonerated of wrongdoing in all but the sex scandal. And that one, just to remind the feeble-minded, involved a conscious deception, but something less than perjurous lie, in answer to a convoluted question about an extraneous matter in a sex harassment suit involving something that happened a couple years before Clinton took office and which itself was finally dismissed since the plaintiff had no legal claim.

 

[Craig234]

Odd that you say that, with three intensely partisan ICs focusing on the president, both Clintons were exonerated of wrongdoing in all but the sex scandal. And that one, just to remind the feeble-minded, involved a conscious deception, but something less than perjurous lie, in answer to a convoluted question about an extraneous matter in a sex harassment suit involving something that happened a couple years before Clinton took office and which itself was finally dismissed since the plaintiff had no legal claim.

You're right, but there's so much more to it than that.

For example, the fact that Richard Mellon Scaife had put up a $50 million IIRC budget for basically anyone to dig up any rumored dirt on Clinton, the paid-off media who would run those rumors like the American Spectator (read David Brock's story of it, he was in the middle of it), the 'elves' who were a secret cabal of high-powered lawyers who were conspiring off the books to find any ways they could to pursue legal action against the president, who were behind things like Linda Tripp secretly recording her 'friend' Moninca,
and the right has ignored the scandalous abuse of power and corruption of the massive witch hunts against the Clintons - it's like the police tearing up your house again and again for years because your ex-girlfriend's brother is a cop, and finally finding that you cheated which you respond to tecnnically accurately but misleadingly, and exposing that, saying 'forget about the abuse of power for years, he was misleading about cheating'.

I doubt one right-wing here has a read a book like Sidney Blumenthals's on the matter - which includes his personal experience of the right accusing him falsely of wife-beating.

 

[dmcowen674]

My dad, who is a big Tea Party activist, wants Priority #1 to be a full-on Congressional investigation into where Obama was born.

If this happens, Bush should be shipped to the Hague, tried and hanged for his false war.

 

[PottedMeat]

Please no, I do not want Monica investigation part 2.

It's part of our transition to a political commentator based economy. We're clearly the world leaders in the manufacturing and commenting on bullshit. Obama needs to recognize this ability and boost our economy by exporting these highly skilled individuals.

 

[sandorski]

Birthgate Commission: Mr President, were you or were you not Born in Kenya?

Obama: I did not have Birth, in that country, of Kenya.

 

[kranky]

If the Tea Partiers want to gain respect, they should forget about crap like this. We have real problems that need to be addressed, and it's not worth spending a minute of time on looking into where BHO was born, even if he's an alien from Talos IV.

What interests me a lot about the Tea Partiers is they managed to be elected to Congress without being part of the established political machinery. I hope they can rat out the corruption and back-room machinations and make the public aware of what's going on. They don't owe allegiance to any power brokers.

I would be thrilled if Congresspeople stopped talking about parties and started talking about solutions, and that includes BHO, Boehner, Pelosi, and all the rest of them.

 

[RightIsWrong]

Meet the new Republican Congress....the same as the old Republican Congress.

 

[Double Trouble]

Odd that you say that, with three intensely partisan ICs focusing on the president, both Clintons were exonerated of wrongdoing in all but the sex scandal. And that one, just to remind the feeble-minded, involved a conscious deception, but something less than perjurous lie, in answer to a convoluted question about an extraneous matter in a sex harassment suit involving something that happened a couple years before Clinton took office and which itself was finally dismissed since the plaintiff had no legal claim.

Though not technically part of the investigation that got Clinton impeached, the bottom line was: turns out Clinton was messing around with at least one chubby intern, then lied about it on TV to the entire American public. I certainly was not in favor of spending a ton of money and research / investigative power on that stuff when there are more important things to investigate though.

I agree with kranky, the tea party will not get any credibility by pursuing these silly types of things, and the repubs will not improve their image. Lets focus on the things that really need cleaned up and fixed instead of focusing on where the guy was born and other stupid stuff.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Keeping the focus on stupid stuff locks in the stupid vote. It's clearly a winning strategy.

 

[Linflas]

After 2000 a bunch of Democrats started moveon.org to help Dems move on from the election.

Maybe us Republicans should start a site called bornon.org

Actually MoveOn.org was formed in 1998 after the Clinton impeachement imbroglio.