[Vision2020] Yes, we've all read the Starr Report, Toe-Knee. Try again.

[Joan Opyr]

> On 3/22/06, ToeKneeTime at aol.com wrote:
>
>> The next time you tour Europe, why don't you try hanging out with 
>> some folks
>> who know the difference between right and wrong?

And Chasuk replied:

> Joan's European friends do know the difference between right and
> wrong; they just understand that lying about fellatio don't quite rate
> on the same scale as Bush's rather larger and more serious lies.

You know, there's not much difference between my European friends and 
my American friends.  That's because I choose my friends wisely.  They 
all know the difference between right and wrong, just as they know the 
difference between a sexual indiscretion that causes pain to one's wife 
and one's intern and lying to Congress, the American people, our 
foreign allies, the Iraqi people, and U. S. military personnel in order 
to pursue a devastating and horrific war.  Bill Clinton had sex (of 
some sort) with Monica Lewinsky.  He was old; she was young; he was 
married; she had Linda Tripp.  What he did was clearly wrong, and if he 
were my husband, he'd be singing soprano in the Lorena Bobbitt Follies.

Don't waste your time, Toe-Knee, lecturing any of us on the felony 
perjury case against Clinton.  Read the Vision 2020 archives; you'll 
find that we hashed that one out quite thoroughly back in 1998.  
Chasuk's point is well-taken: Ken Starr was supposed to be 
investigating the Whitewater land deal.  He spent $55 million of our 
tax dollars and came up with . . . nothing.  The Clintons lost money on 
the Whitewater deal -- which we knew at the outset of the investigation 
-- but there was no criminal wrong-doing on the Clintons' part.  How 
did Ken Starr get from Whitewater to Monica's blue dress?  How was Bill 
Clinton put in the position of lying under oath about a sexual affair?  
Note: I don't defend Clinton's lying under oath.  I'm just asking, "How 
did we get there?  And what the hell did Bill Clinton's tallywhacker 
have to do with Whitewater?"

George W. Bush is the first U. S. President ever to admit to an 
impeachable offense: domestic spying without a warrant.  What are we 
going to do about it?  Should we just shrug it off and let him ride out 
the next two-plus years, enjoying the view from the West Wing and 
giving dipshitacious puff-piece interviews about the sunny "I'm an 
optimist" rug Laura picked out for the Oval Office while we sink ever 
deeper into genuine scandal, impossible debt, and senseless Middle 
Eastern chaos?

That was a rhetorical question, by the way.  I'm not expecting an 
answer.  In fact, along with about 500 other Vision 2020 subscribers, 
I'm kind of hoping you've gotten cable or taken up fly-tying or 
something.  Would you like me to send you a model airplane with lots 
and lots of tiny parts?

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com