Get Over It!
Get Over It!
One month after William Jefferson Clinton left office and we are still seeing daily reports on his actions. We are treated to news that Federal prosecutors will investigate his pardon. That Congress will hold hearings. That some want to try to impeach him again and deny him the benefits due a retired President.
Enough! Stop the witch-hunt and get on with the business of governing the country. Since the day he took office, Clinton has had to deal with countless attacks. We have been forced to listen to Representatives and Senators pontificating until we are all sick of it. And if that isn't enough, millions of dollars in public funds have been dissipated and to what end? What was the cost of the investigation that ended with the failed move to impeach President Clinton? 100 million? How many hungry children could be fed for $100 million? What would $100 million do to further AIDS research? Cancer research?
And what is the purpose of all this finger pointing? Is it perhaps to keep us from remembering things like the infamous "Contract with America"? What part of that contract was kept? Was Clinton successful as President? If you gauge success by a strong economy, low unemployment rates, a reduction in the government deficit, a balanced budget and good relationships with other countries ... then most people would say he was. If you gauge it on a good working relationship with the opposition party, the answer would be no.
We are currently being treated to a recap of his final days in office and second guessing of all he did. One of George Bush's first acts in office was to issue a stay of certain Executive Orders signed by Clinton. When have you ever heard of a new President doing such a thing? George Bush says we should move on while saying that Congress will do what it has to do. Yet there are reports that Bush staffers are meeting privately to assure that the matter moves ahead in Congress.
I say GET OVER IT! If you want to put a period at the end of the Clinton years, just let it rest. If there was any lesson to be learned in eight years of "get Clinton" thinking in Washington, DC, it is that the public doesn't want to hear it. We want to know what you (Congress and the Administration) are going to do to make our lives better. Hiding your failures behind a witch hunt didn't work in the 90s and it won't work now. Move on!
Peggy Erickson
02/15/01
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