From Tim Noah:

It was 10 years ago on Jan. 12 that Linda Tripp notified Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr’s office that she had audiotapes of Monica Lewinsky telling her that she’d had an affair with President Bill Clinton, and that he’d urged her to lie if asked about it under oath.

Hint for the terminally clueless. This wasn’t “getting a BJ.” It wasn’t “lying about getting a BJ.” As clearly stated by Noah, it’s called suborning perjury, in order to prevent a vulnerable young woman from getting a fair trial in a civil suit under a law that the suborner had signed with his own pen. Not to mention bribing and/or intimidating a witness to perjure herself, which is a more egregious instance of same.

Maybe I’m weird, but it seems very hard to reconcile that with upholding an oath to see the nation’s laws faithfully obeyed. King William didn’t think that the law should apply to him, either when in Arkansas when he allegedly raped a woman as the state Attorney General, or as President of the United States.

That was what the Lewinsky scandal was about.

And when considering whether or not to elect his wife, who helped orchestrate the attacks on the women that he wronged, to the highest office in the land, that is something to be considered. Particularly if one considers oneself to be a feminist.

I would also point out to Mr. Noah that, there is one person who, throughout, told the truth in this affair, and was never caught out in a lie, or lack of probity, despite all the attacks on her weight, her looks, or her “infidelity” to the “friend” who asked her to commit perjury. Her name was Linda Tripp.

And his comments about Jonah Goldberg are pathetic. If he doesn’t like the idea of the book, he should read it and give it a serious review, something that no one else in his camp seems willing to do. And if not, like them, he should STFU.

To paraphrase Euripides, those whom the modern-day gods would destroy, they first give too much oil and power.

We have today two stories of oil-fueled despots in alliance. First, Iran’s Ahmadinejad’s economic illiteracy is coming home to roost:

Ahmadinejad, with his peculiar and literal belief that he has divine backing, was not inhibited by this record of prudence. With a total oil revenue in the first two years of his presidency of $120 billion (

Marcy Kaptur is an idiot.

Marcy Kaptur is an idiot.

Marcy Kaptur is an idiot.

Since Drudge broke the story of Clinton’s intern, that Newsweek had been sitting on.

Since Drudge broke the story of Clinton’s intern, that Newsweek had been sitting on.

Since Drudge broke the story of Clinton’s intern, that Newsweek had been sitting on.

I’d love to get a transcript. I hope that Team Thompson was listening to Elmer GantryMike Huckabee’s Michigan concession speech in South Carolina, because the mendacity in it will be fodder for several campaign commercials this week. The man who wants a federal smoking ban wants government to leave us alone?

Please.

[Update]

Finger to the wind?

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has reversed his position on a federal ban aimed at workplace smoking and now believes the issue should be addressed by state and local governments.

The about-face is apparent in a Huckabee campaign statement, sent to The Hill Tuesday evening in response to questions about the smoking ban proposal. It clashes with the stance Huckabee has taken during his race for the White House and with his record as governor of Arkansas, when he signed into law a measure prohibiting smoking in most indoor public places.

Must be pre-emptive against the inevitable ads in SC. Maybe they should just be pictures of flip flops…

This would seem to be an indicator of the civil war that is brewing in the Democrat Party, and it’s not just the long-overdue (and delicious) class identity war between blacks and women. It’s about a lot of Democrats finally, at long last, getting fed up and frustrated with the Clintons.