Remember during the Clinton impeachment scandal fat-ass Henry Hyde (and others) and the sanctimonious comments about the importance of telling the truth and the grave abhorrance of "nitpicking" and "legal hair-splitting"?

I recall a great tide of public opinion on the right, at the time, saying (in basically these words) that it wasn't about the below-job, it was about the lie.

Just think. If they hadn't doggedly pursued impeachment proceedings for something as minor as illicit sexual acts, we wouldn't have such solid ground for nailing an administration for high treason nearly a decade later.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. --Will Rogers "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." - George W. Bush I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would .. try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile. - Condoleeza Rice Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor To comfort the powerless and make the powerful uncomfortable.