Whitehall @65 –

No, I’m not meaning that the Monica affair was an intentional operation. Bubba got caught with his pants down. But the spectaclar explosiveness of it sucked the oxygen out of every other investigation and pursuit. And for this Clinton was lucky, quite lucky. A sex scandal was never enough to turn Americans on a sitting president, even if they found it amazingly distasteful. Foreigners buying influence from our Commander-in-Chief, though, that’s a whole different ballpark. He would have been tarred and feathered.