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TE>In 1992 Clinton said that his enemies were targeting him for a
TE>woman he didn't sleep with and a draft he didn't dodge. Liberals
TE>knew in their hearts that both claims were lies, but they told
TE>themselves that this didn't matter.
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TE>In the Whitewater affair, liberals were presented with a case of
TE>political corruption of a sort that they had classically fought,
TE>a conspiracy by a circle of political insiders to loot a savings
TE>and loan and to defraud a government loan program for women and
TE>minorities. Whitewater too, liberals decided, didn't signify.
TE>
TE>When Hillary Rodham Clinton was found out to have made $100,000
TE>on a no-risk $1,000 investment in commodities deals with a lawyer
TE>who represented one of Arkansas' largest regulated businesses,
TE>liberals who had taken to the streets against Reagan's Decade of
TE>Greed said -- oh, never mind. When the Clinton 1996 campaign
TE>subverted the entire system of campaign finance laws, liberals
TE>said, well, everybody does it. Lately, with independent counsel
TE>Starr getting troublesome, liberals have been saying it is time
TE>to scrap the liberal independent counsel act.
TE>
TE>And now this. On "Meet the Press" last Sunday, Tim Russert asked
TE>Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) whether the allegations that the
TE>most powerful boss in the world had sexually exploited a
TE>21-year-old female intern raised questions about Bill Clinton's
TE>treatment of women. No, no, said Pelosi, they raised questions
TE>about Ken Starr's treatment of women.
TE>
TE>"There's a point of sensitivity that women have about Kenneth
TE>Starr's attitude toward women; how he's investigating, exploiting
TE>Monica Lewinsky, how he used Linda Tripp to do that," said
TE>Pelosi, with a face so rigidly straight it seemed it might crack.
TE>"The Susan McDougal case comes back to mind, because here again
TE>is a humiliation of a woman because she won't tell him what he
TE>wants to hear in that case. And now you see the humiliation of
TE>Betty Currie." Yes, Susan McDougal was humiliated, and so was
TE>Betty Currie. But the agent of their humiliation wasn't Ken
TE>Starr; it was Bill Clinton. And he is the agent, too, of the
TE>humiliation of Nancy Pelosi.
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TE>The problem with Clinton is not only that he lies; it is that he
TE>makes liars out of everybody else. The problem is not only that
TE>his moral standards are low; it is that he requires that
TE>everybody else lower theirs to meet his. By the time he is
TE>finished, so too will be the quaint idea of a higher ground in
TE>politics.
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So sayeth our God, Rush                   Bob                                 
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