It is a big internet but I would interested in any analysis that supports the assertion that the Clinton administration's attempts at invoking privilege in any way approximates the times and the scope of the Bush Administration. And Congress trampled on any that they did try. Clinton's personal conversations with his lawyers were not privileged, his conversations with foreign leaders were not priviliged - not according the the Republicans who insisted that each and every charge, no matter how little supported by the facts be investigated to the bitter end.

Whereas Cheney's every conversation with an oil executive is somehow a state secret.

Not everything gets shoved down the memory hole. Hiring your brother's professional political consulting firm for a $15,000 contract is not the same as paying your wife a half a million bucks, taking two tickets from your college roommate launched a $20 million investigation, taking repeated $70,000 all expenses paid golf junkets doesn't even merit discussion, all per the same Republicans.

This "moral equivalence" thing is bullshit. Gingrich set out to destroy Wright, he openly admitted that some of the charges had no merit even as he presented them, and none in fact of the charges he did put out were ever proven, Wright went down over a book deal that paled compared with the one Gingrich tried (how much did he earn on that book? anything that would have justified that $3 million advance?).

Now I understand that people on both sides are politicians, and that has to be associated with fund raising and delivering the goods to your district. But you know what, when Democrats get caught over the limits they go to jail (Rostenkowski, Traficant).

DeLay is tied to Abramoff at the hip and Jack is a millstone and an anvil all tield together in this one. (You don't bill your clients $42 million and then refer to them in e-mail with racial insults, and that is just the start of this thing with DeLay and his "associates".)