Lewinsky and The Drudge Report Remembered

Ten years ago I was assembling the data for the year end FEC report for my congressman. It was the 3rd year end for our campaign after the 1994 surprise Republican victory that gained us control of congress. I was tired of going through the reports and verifying contributors information so I perused the websites where I kept on top of things. I had already book marked The Drudge Report as I liked to use it for a jump off location because he had a good set of links to journalism and opinion pages. (I had WSJ Opinion Page--this predated opinionjournal.com, Washington Times, Rush's site, and a few others bookmarked that I read daily but blogs were very few in number).

I was becoming tired with politics. The promise of the 1994 takeover was beginning to sour as it was becoming obvious that the ability to get things passed was very difficult and a new harshness to politics was emerging. Plus a congressional campaign involved non-stop fundraising. One can only go to so many of those events before the very thought of another one makes you want to hurl chunks.

And what a thrill it was to learn there was a Clinton scandal that under any imaginable scenario would get him out of office. It never occurred to me, nor I believe to anyone else charged with protecting the workplace from sexual harassment, that Clinton could lie and sleaze his way out of culpability. That was before the term "triangulate" had gained any traction.

Well the rest is history and I am a wiser and sadder man as a result.