OpEd: Spare the Rod, Spoil the (Republican) Party

[holboz]

http://nwaonline.net/articles/2005/11/02/opinion/24opdtompson.txt

By Doug Thompson
The Morning News

What a week for President Bush. How much better off he'd be if Kenneth Starr had persecuted him.

I'm completely serious. The president and everybody else would be better off if Congress had applied 1 percent of the scrutiny to George Bush that it lavished upon Bill Clinton.
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The Whitewater real estate deal was investigated like Halliburton should be. Lying about sex with an intern in the Oval Office resulted in an impeachment attempt, as if it was as serious as lying about reasons to go to war.

We wondered, "Where's the outrage?"

If a former male gay prostitute had turned up at White House press briefings to throw softballs for the Clinton administration, what would the reaction have been? What would the response have been to rape and torture at American-run prisons in Iraq, or the lack of WMDs?

Where was the heat when Bush the Younger needed some? It might have straightened him out.

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. Think this is the same guy who refused to print my LTTE last year

before the election. The letter was a rebuttal of 'Bush is keeping America Safe'. I admit that it exceeded the 600 word 'limit', but he refused to print the documented facts as a guest editorial. I will look it up in my records at home. If it's the same guy, I'll drop him a line.