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This Can't Be Healthy
05/30/2003

Right Wing News quotes Paul Begala:

Which is worse: lying about a girlfriend or lying about a war? There aren't 169 people dead over Monica Lewinsky. The president must never, never lie - even about who he's sleeping with - but certainly about sending men to die.

Ignoring the change in position indicated by that "even about who he's sleeping with," I've noticed something almost pathological coming from many Democrats lately: EVERYTHING comes back to Bill Clinton's impeachment. From Bill Bennett to the search for WMDs to local tragedies. During my trip to the Post Office, today, I heard a bit of a local talk-radio duo (whom I generally try to avoid), filling in for the usual afternoon guy, discussing a report that the lawyers for the families of victims of the Station nightclub fire are seeking to sue any companies that had anything to do with the club (e.g., by supplying beer). When asked about the morality (as opposed to legality) of such a thing, the liberal woman host replied that the Ken Starr investigation had been wrong.

Although I like to think that I'd act differently, now, I have to admit that, a few years ago, I may very well have been similarly inclined in a reverse scenario. But ultimately, it's a shallow way of thinking, involving irrelevant quips and incessant stoking of emotional fires that are best left to burn out.

Posted by Justin Katz @ 08:07 PM EST