I’d Love the Job, How About the Liability?
There’s an almost funny item in the papers about Independent Counsel David Barrett still investigating Bill Clinton’s Housing Secretary, who pleaded guilty, was fined almost six years ago and then pardoned by Clinton. Like a dog with a bone, who just can’t bear to give it up, the Republicans want to keep on tugging, at a cost to you and me of $2 million a year.
Ten years and 21 million bucks, David. Give it up! Bad dog! The Housing Secretary was fined $10,000, plus $25 court costs. The additional $20,989,975.00 is just a clock that keeps ticking.
Which brings to mind the other side of the matter, the various and sundry minor and not-so-minor players in this on-going Grand Jury game that both Democrats and Republicans seem incapable of ending. The other side might be called the slaughter of the innocents.
It’s cool to read about Karl Rove or Tom DeLay or the egoistic columnist Robert Novak getting called before a Grand Jury, but their testimony is just the sparkling tip of a very larg…