Reply #92: One question, though, bigtree: [View All]

[tom_paine]

Why is it that the Bushies, in similar constarints, lacking votes to convict and even lacking a case with any legal merit, a case in which more felonious and RICO activity was performed in setting Clinton's "perjury trap" than he committed in his answers or his actions (a consensual office BJ), why is it they were able to tie the nation in knots?

Come to think of it, here's another: How is it possible that Democratic Bills take 60 votes to pass but Bushie Bills take 50 EVERY TIME NOW?

(please don't lecture me about filibusters, I am looking for the deeper layers of the onion here than a simple civics lesson, I know the mechanics of what is happening, but WHY?)

If you can answer these questions to even a tiny bit of my satisafction (it has to make sense, and be bolstered by either direct evidence or logical analogies and examples...no ad hominem, please or this converstaion is over), I may lend some creedence to your opinion, which is obviously shared by half or more of DU, I would guess.

So convince me. Why is it the Republics, in the exact same sitauation 10 years ago, without even a case that passed the smell test of remotest crtiminal importance, were able to carry off what is apparently impossible for the Democratic Leadership, or anything even close to it, in terms of political resistance, come to think of it?

Convince me. Explain why cogently and clearly this seeming Orwellian/Totalitarian Double-Standard, makes sense in the context of the Old American Constitutional System, of Checks and Balances, as written and as practiced in the years 1945-1985?

Do that, and you will have gone a long way towards making me scratch my head and re-examine my 90% certainty.

I just don't think you will be able to. No one has, and I have been asking some variant of this same question since I joined DU in April 2001, probably a thousand times or more.

Hell, I can't even remember anyone TRYING to explain it. It's such a conversation killer, usually.

Anyway, please feel free to take a shot and convince me. I will try to keep an open mind and listen.