Rhyming Memory Time

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/brett-kavanaugh-memo-detailed-explicit-questions-for-clinton/2018/08/20/c0854616-a488-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.49041306d5b8

For those of us alive during the staining of the oval office by Slick Willie, the "connections" to the current time are sad and funny.

Back in the late '90s, the whole MSM kept the beat of "It's the economy stupid" up like a mantra. We were in the throes of the internet bubble, and the MSM found Slick Willie to be a major cause of this frothy "emanation" (emantor in chief?). Matters of "just sex" were clearly private, and all the women that Slick had whatever kinds of "relations" he had to provide sperm samples on dresses obviously "asked for it". It was the age of "Move On", the time before "Me Too". The idea that we would even CONSIDER any of these issues in a growing economy was ridiculous. Hey, the French didn't understand what all the fuss was about!

As an NPR listener in those days, beyond the prudishness of the Republicans -- and of course their "hypocrisy", there really wasn't much news about "Monicagate". It was politicizing a clearly private matter with no impact on the workings of the country.

Fast forward to today. Is the economy growing? (4.1%) WHO CARES! Manafort! Cohen! Stormy! Arcane campaign finance laws that BO trampled like trash and paid a measy. $350K that pretty much nobody knows or cares about are now IMPEACHABLE! Hey, did you hear that the Steele Dossier says that hookers peed on a bed in Trumps presence! Wow, that is SICK!

The "law" in BOistan is whatever the Deep / Administrative State + MSM says it is! If there is an "R" next to your name, you could go to prison for "perjury" for getting a date wrong in a case about nothing (Scooter Libby, Valerie Plame, the "secret agent" that drove into Langley every day). If you are a "D", "I can't recall", "I take the 5th", "I never had sex with that woman", "there was nothing top secret on that server", etc, etc.

We don't have "laws", we have excuses for TP ("The Party"-D) to put Rs in jail!

I assume the WaPo wrote the linked column as a comedy. Kavanaugh is damned for saying that Clinton ought not be treated softly because he was president -- a pov they disagreed with then.

Now they are worried based on a paper he wrote for a law review that he may have changed his mind -- thus thinking that he may now agree with what they thought THEN, but now DISAGREE with and want Trump roasted over a spit. See, this is the "unbiased" press. Who knows if they are enemies of the people. What is really clear is that they are friends of the Democrats!

Maybe the worst thing they are worried about is that Kavanaugh might be "partisan" in the same way that they, Ginsburg, Sotomayar, Breyer and Kagan are -- having it make a difference whose ox is being gored. A position that the MSM takes pride in -- if you have a "D", you get a pass, if you have an "R", throw at least "the book" at them, if not make up some new items!

The odd part is that at least Scalia and Clarence Thomas clearly were/are not "partisans" in the D and R sense. They are "partisan" in favor of the Constitution, the Constitution as written and understood by the founders who also left us with a process to amend it if that was required. Thus, women gained the right to vote with the 19th amendment and nobody even thought to have the SCOTUS check "the prenumbra" of the Constitution to discover if the founders had really put such a right in but failed to make it clear.

Abortion is a nearly identical case to women voting -- the Founders knew all about babies and unwanted pregnancies and abortion was known and practiced from ancient times. Since the original Constitution had no bill of rights at all, and the Federalists were against there ever being one since it would seem to enumerate specifie rights, when ALL rights not explicitly given to the federal government were reserved to the people and the states, the idea that the federal government would have ANYTHING to say about abortion would have been nonsense to the founders.

When you leave principles behind, all becomes political as it has increasingly been in this territory since at least FDR, possibly Wilson, and certainly since Roe -- BOistan is a nation of politics, no laws.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes!