The rabid right-wing press repeats it like a mantra,
seemingly unsure if it is a prayer, a prediction, or just good entertainment. In
many variations (most recently from the fingertips of
William Kristol at the New York Post) the line is:
"President Clinton
is doomed
"
Meaning, of course, that he is about to be shown the back
door of the White House by the Congress, that guardian of the Nation's mores. The
reason? Because he had affairs with young women, and lied about it under oath
during the most absurd "investigation" ever undertaken by the Republic. At
this, we are supposed to rejoice.
But wait a minute
Let's see. Just what do we have here?
- We have a long-term close relationship with CIA sponsored
drug-runners and money-laundering operations.
- We have the Nazi-style execution of a religious commune by
Government forces ostensibly under the control of the executive branch, and the posturing
of the President that amounted to a sickening "blame-the-victim" stance.
- We have the apparent murder of a high-ranking White House
official by persons unknown, and its subsequent cover-up.
- We have the well-planned destruction of a government
building and concomitant murder of hundreds therein, with the designation of a
useful-idiot patsy, but which clearly involved prior knowledge, if not participation, by
servants of the executive branch.
- We have the shooting down of a Jumbo airliner, either by
US forces, or by Foreign terrorists, with a cover so lame, those same servants of the
executive branch can only say "we don't know" what happened, but claim to know
for sure that it was not a bomb or missile.
- In each of these cases, we have the overt intimidation of
anyone who dares note with any success at all that the Emperor has no clothes.
Yet we are supposed to rejoice that the President may
fall because of a string of dalliances, and the fact that he lied about things nobody
should have been asking about to begin with?
The whole concept is about as digestible as a bottle of
ipecac.
What does this say about the murderous activities that
went on before these allegedly impeachable offenses involving the President's sex-life? It
is OK to enable the import of drugs and export weapons over the objections of Congress, to
cooperate in assassinations at home and abroad, to commit mass murder against the citizens
of this nation on television and in secret, and to engage in a campaign of terror and
intimidation against anyone who points these crimes out to the rest of the country? These
are all ok? The next President can do the same, but he had best not have a weakness for
young women!
Whoever would rejoice at such a resolution deserves their
fate, for what will follow will surely be no improvement.
Pardon me if my celebration resembles more a scream of
horror than of joy.