One of the more hilarious sub-texts of
this election season is what I call Monica's Revenge.
As in Lewinsky.
Ms. Lewinsky herself is 32 now, old enough (maybe) to have a chuckle herself about it. She blew the President, and with it the Presidency. I still can't forgive Bill for that. But most Americans eventually concluded that getting a hummer from a 22-year old intern was not an impeachable offense, even if he lied about it.
And the parade of sanctimony that followed! "You can't lie in the jury,” is the way one Florida Congressman put it. The Senate has "been able to take the partisanship out of this issue, and I think that frightens the White House” intoned a Senator from Idaho. Voting for impeachment would be "one of the saddest moments in our nation's history” said the gentleman from Arizona, just before voting aye. The gentleman from Illinois solemnly voted for impeachment despite the fact his district had voted for Clinton.
Those weren't the highlights then. But they are now.
Flash forward 8 short years. It seems that La Cage Aux Foley has coincided with the opening of a whole bunch of Republican closets. Let's see what we have here:
There's the guy who not only hid his affair, but was accused of choking his mistress. This is, if anything, mild stuff. (Barely worth mentioning in fact.)
How about the conservative, gay-bashing Senator outed as gay a few weeks before the election?
How about the Arizona Congressman found to have taken male pages on “camping trips” a few years before coming out of the closet himself?
Or the guy who married into a dictator's family and then “did” a 16-year old page?
I'm not counting here the Republican candidate for Florida governor getting outed, or the whole “velvet mafia” that was secretly running the Republican House of Representatives. And remember there are still over two weeks to go.
Almost makes a schadenfreude fan want to open a newspaper.
Where this gets funny is when the same conservatives who damned Clinton to political hell come out in defense of these pervs. They do it too! What is the justification for this, other than to embarrass someone? What we need now is a bipartisan government of national unity.
Puh-leeze.
Payback's a bitch, ain't it? It was said during the Lewinsky mess that tragedy often repeats as satire, relating the Clinton impeachment to Watergate. I never dreamt then that it could be topped. But it seems that some of the same Congressmen who condemned that President's behavior, and his hiding of it, were secretly doing much worse things themselves.
If that doesn't make you laugh out loud this November 7 nothing will.
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