On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Tim May wrote:
* What goes around, comes around. The Liberal puke Democrats who crucified Bob Packwood, Clarence Thomas, and any number of corporate people charged with "sexual harassment," are now reaping what they sowed. "If she says it happened, it happened," the mantra of the feminazi left, is now apparently forgotten by Patricia It's not our business" Ireland.
There's also the idea popular in some gender feminist circles that the imbalance of power in manager-employee relationships makes it impossible for genuine consent to be given. Can there be any greater power imbalance than the president of the United States and an intern? Where are the feminist cries of outrage?
* Lawmaking is paralzyed, frozen, stillborne. This I count as a Good Thing. Even better will be another 8-10 months of this nightly spectacle. No Health Care Reform, no Communications Decency Act II, no Tobacco Act, nothing.
In general you might be right. But for "noncontroversial" measures like CDA II, well, it'll be in one of the appropriations bills that will be approved in the next three weeks.
* This disgraces the Presidency, which I also count as a Good Thing. There were hopes that Nixon's downfall would be the end of the Imperial Presidency, but, alas, the pomp and circumstance continued unabated. It's
The balance of power in the U.S. government is too tilted in favor of the executive and federal agencies; I think more should be returned to Congress and the states but don't think we're going to see that happen. To do that Congress needs to be willing to seize it; they're not. If we get Al Gore in the Oval Office we'll have business as usual. -Declan