Both sides do it!
Why the New York Times continues to allow David Brooks to crap all over the opinion page, I will never understand.
Picking up where DougJ left off, Brooks’s comments about the Cain scandal are so fraught with fail and stupid, I’m surprised his brain didn’t short-circuit and burn out while writing this drivel:
Let’s start with the politics of it. My first question is over whether the Clinton statute of limitations has expired. My assumption, post Lewinsky scandal, was that for at least a decade no president or presidential candidate could be punished for an improper workplace relationship because if Clinton could get away with it then no one else should suffer. (This excludes cases involving Congressional pages, public bathrooms and bare-chested pictures delivered by e-mail.)
This is just stupid. I’m sure I need not remind Bobo that Clinton was impeached for perjury, and ultimately not convicted. Also, I’m sure I need not remind Bobo that Monica Lewinsky was a willing participant in the “improper workplace relationship,” and that the relationship was, therefore, consensual.
Furthermore, don’t you just love how Bobo excludes all the Republican scandals from his made-up “Clinton statute of limitations”?