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August 7, 1994

After the WHITEWATER Hearings, or was that WHITEWASHer Hearings.

For the past two weeks we have been subjected to one of the greatest congressional political production the International Democratic Party has organized since the so-called NAFTA debate and passage. The Clinton's dabbling in various fast money making machines in Arkansas a few years ago seems to have attracted the attention of several other political types who must not like Bill and Hillary very much, and seem to be going out of their way to make things difficult for the first family. Being a working person, I have not been able to spend much time observing the hearings, but a fast perusal of the late night re-runs of the congressional Whitewater Committee hearings generally leaves one with the impression that when you have the majority party in your corner, you really don't have to fear being exposed during committee hearings - if you just stick with the prepared script. Besides, those prepared scripts are going to come in handy again if everything goes wrong and they all end up in court.

The legions of saw nothing illegal, did nothing illegal, heard nothing illegal wags paraded across the house Whitewater Committee stage was orchestrated like a dancing school Summer production. Teams of Clinton administration cheerleaders came on screen and proceeded to deny, en mass, that their boss was anything but one of the greatest, and most misunderstood guys in Washington. I believe the team presented for public view was much the same platoon of political appointees who got the Clinton administration off and running with "Travelgate". The particular scenario developed for the hearings by the behind the scenes crowd was almost too good to be true. Anyone with a serious line of questioning for the "witnesses" was limited to five minutes of grilling. The majority of the committee members, stacked the way everything else is in the congress, perfunctorily wasted time. The only interesting development I saw was the extremely poor form, but otherwise politically correct, raging Rep. Maxine Waters exhibited - using the debate style she apparently learned in the ghetto. Rep. Orton, of Utah, launched himself into the ranks of up and coming democrats with his sycophant-like display of public spirited defense of the top dog. And Lloyd Cutler put on a great display of what Philadelphia lawyers used to be famous for- move over Philadelphia, the real masters are all in Washington. He did make one slight mistake, however. He actually thought that he could generate sympathy for all of those fine, upstanding public spirited individuals that left highly overpaid jobs in the private sector to do whatever it is they do in the bowels of high administration appointment jobs. He also had the nerve to moan and groan that they all had to endure the great travail of personally paying all of their Washington lawyers to keep them out of the slammer. Whatever it is that can keep such a blatant example of stonewalling viable in a pack of individuals who would normally sell out their mothers at the drop of a hat is a mystery. When the hearings were finally over, I came to the decision that I would find it hard to believe that anyone with a functioning brain could be party to such a demonstration of raw political power so blatantly displayed. Those International Democratic Party bigshots really displayed the main reason that people out in the real world want to seriously talk up term limitations for our elected servants in government. Just what we can do with the Washington lawyers is going to have to take a bit more planning. Maybe every so often a bit of anarchy could be very beneficial to all involved, especially the ones that are going to face the grandmotherly types running the guillotines.

Much the same thing was planned for the Senate's Whitewater Committee hearings, but the ground rules were a little bit different and things got a little more interesting at times. Of course, the final decisions coming out of either committee hearing will be a politically sanitized version of the truth, whatever that might have been. Other, more important conclusions were there for all to make: 1.) power corrupts, and 2.) ultimate power really corrupts, 3.) this country has really come to the point where lawyers both paralyse and control every aspect of government activity. Possibly, the latter is the most ominous of all.

In the past few years there has been some interesting scientific observations about the differences in male and female brain function that results from the physiologic activity of various biochemical and hormonal influences during development. It may be entirely possible that there are other subtle areas of brain function that are similarly related to normal and abnormal brain development due to excessive, or deficient chemicals. That would be the most charitable explanation for a certain percentage of brains that somehow end up allowing their owners to be unusually tolerant of liberal political agendas, ultraconservative political agendas, homosexual behavior, promotion of homosexual life-styles in elementary education, disarmament in the face of obvious danger, abortion, etc. Perhaps the same type of abnormality of brain function results in lawyers, especially when natural selection fails to weed them out first.

Unfortunately, we do not seem to be at the end of the Whitewater affair by any means. The last thing to develop was the appointment of another special prosecutor to look at all the relevant facts all over again. The Clinton administration quickly sent out their cheerleaders once again to decry "the waste of public funds" a totally new set of investigations will be mucking around with. Of course, you can afford to talk that way when you have the confidence to believe that all of the skeletons have been buried, and all the important papers finally shredded. The only thing these guys have to fear is the fundamental fear that makes them all sweat from time to time - which one will ultimately be the John Dean of the Clinton inner circle? Eventually, he will make his appearance, it goes with the personalities.

When all is said on done, I have a feeling that Slick Willy is really only riding on the black robe tails of the co-president and real power, our Miss Hillary. After all, he was well on his way to being just another one of the brain afflicted people of the Sixties when he first began developing his public trail. We know that he was an anti - Vietnam War protester of sorts, but he was never actually arrested (which all by itself says volumes). He was a dope head, but insisted "I didn't inhale". He was politically active in the fringes of the ultra left, and details of that involvement will never see the light of day. He learned very early how to forward his career path by the one thing that has never been mentioned in his curriculum vitae - the fact that his collegiate grade point average reflects typical padding by many of the similarly left-leaning professorial types he learned to snuggled up to for soulful discussions. Guys like Slick Willy generally tend to generate "A's" in heavy duty courses like political science and Martian economics during politically unpopular wars in direct proportion to how much they can spend after class time with the prof comparing philosophical notes, or other things. The same thing is going on in this decade with Time and Newsweek reporting that students at politically correct schools like Kenyon, Stanford, and USC, just do not fail courses under any circumstance. Eventually, these fellows get to the point where someone on the faculty recognizes the identifying ring around their noses and decides that they are definitely material for the next generation of faculty. After that they get serious mention for things like Fullbright Fellowships, London School of Economics, and Harvard, or Yale Law School. Of course, this is also generally includes a plan to get them over to merry old England where they can be developed mentally and politically by the old guard of the International Democratic Party, or the good old boy network Oxford/Cambridge post-graduate programs. Apparently, just about nobody on the way up goes to the North London Community College anymore. Just keep in mind that most of the more interesting dictators in darkest Africa were also graduates, or at least attendees of the same fellowships, and you have a handle on what is going on. Our Bill didn't have the typical post-colonial African country to fall back on, and he didn't like the idea of managing a kibutz in northern Israel, so after another short stint in training at Yale Law, he was slipped back into Arkansas to begin his true career. Being a quick-study type of guy, he only spent a short and still undetermined period of time at the University of Moscow, but that is all sour grapes now, isn't it? And after all, he would have looked sort of silly dressed up in one of those African zoot-suits in Rwanda or Zimbabwe, wouldn't he? Just about as silly as he thought he would have looked in an American army uniform. Hell, all things considered, if he had not successfully avoided the draft in the Sixties, he might have made the Army a career and ended up as one of the general officer types who covered up our President's foreign policy goofs in Somalia. The blood line will run true, even if the circumstances were different.

Hillary is the mysterious figure in this first living example of a presidency that is not how it appears. Bill seems to be one of those types of guys who are a dime a dozen on the national and world scene. the co-resident is much more subtle and much harder to document. Somewhat secretive by nature, she is about the toughest individual to classify that has come along in the American political scene since Mrs. Dole. Oh, don't get concerned about what may be apparent political differences between Hillary and Mrs. Dole...just remember that they are both political animals, and there is no difference except current status. First of all, we are dealing with the brain sex differences of the female brain. Next we have to deal with the apparent dilemma of a female brain that also has the deficiency that leads it to become a lawyer, or even a sometime head of the International Red Cross. Both of them are organization types, and both believe in starting at the top.

So now the world awaits Round Two of the great Clinton Presidency ( Bill's and Hillary's). The next presidential race will be fun to watch. Who will be the turncoat of the Clinton inner circle? He / She is out there waiting for Mama History to make the unequivocal call for fame. Bill and Hillary are sweating the fact that they had to deal with such low life people on their way up. They understand that their downfall is just waiting in the wings, and they are powerless to do anything about it. Powerful people usually have equally powerful enemies, after all.