Just when I thought it was safe. I thought all the obnoxious Lewinsky jokes had run their course. I thought adding new words to the English language was going to be the most annoying distraction to float out of Washington, D.C., this summer, but a new scandal has hit the Beltway.
Rather than focusing on education, energy, health care, campaign finance reform and endless other worthy pieces of legislation, all anyone can talk about is the disappearance of Federal Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy. She was supposed to return home around May 1, but has since vanished.
The investigation into the intern’s disappearance has turned the heat up on Rep. Gary Condit. The Democrat representative from Levy’s home state of California has been evasive at best when questioned about the intern’s whereabouts, fanning the flames of suspicion that were already setting off alarm bells nationwide. Police sources have leaked the latest revelation that Condit, who is “happily married,” had a relationship with the 24-year-old intern. At least seven other women have stepped forward, claiming they too had shared a bed with Condit.
I wasn’t upset at Bill Clinton during the impeachment process for being an adulterer. I hated that he was clearly a womanizer, but the real problem I still cannot reconcile is that he had no problem lying to cover up his indiscretions. In Condit’s case, he had no problem shrouding himself in a veil of secrecy, leaving one to wonder not if he did it, but is it possible that he didn’t.
Does anyone else miss James Jeffords?
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