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Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 4 Num. 99
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              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 4  Num. 99
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")


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The Pretty Prospect for November 1996
By Wesley Pruden
(From *The Washington Times*, National Weekly Edition, 5/22-28/95)

The president should try to look at the positive side of this: 
He's got enough people two steps ahead of the special prosecutor 
to start a support group within the Cabinet.

Whitewater's back, with a vengeance, arriving on a day the 
Republicans, gathering speed on the Hill, pushed the first 
balanced budget in years through the House of Representatives. At 
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue everyone was just trying to find a 
lawyer.

Not just Whitewater, but Browngate, Chicken water, and Girlgate. 
(There's a Republican version of Girlgate in the Senate, but that 
doesn't help Mr. Clinton.) The president insists that he won't 
ask Ron Brown to resign just because a special prosecutor is on 
his case. How could he? There's one on his case too.

Hillary, busy with her wifely project of re-inventing her man in 
preparation for '96, new shoelaces, new jogging shorts and all, 
is said to be "turning inward" to the roots of her suburban 
Illinois liberalism to fashion a winning re-election strategy, 
collecting kids to use as props to demonstrate how the president 
loves children more than Mother Teresa loves children.

The water continues to rise. Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri, a member 
of the Senate banking committee, echoes what a lot of 
knowledgeable Arkansas people, humiliated and angry, have been 
saying for months: "The deeper we look, the worse it gets."

The Democrats in the Senate, who had no appetite for a genuine 
inquiry a year ago, voted almost unanimously with the Republicans 
this time because they, too, understand exactly what Sen. Bond is 
talking about, and are terrified of getting caught defending the 
indefensible.

Wombats, wampus cats and geezilbillies of all kinds, each uglier 
than the others, will be crawling over hill and hollow and out of 
the swamps and bayous over the months leading up to the '96 
elections, as the Whitewater panel counts the ways the officers 
and gentlemen (and some of the ladies) at the White House and in 
the Treasury department assisted, expedited, facilitated, 
attended, sustained and otherwise folded, spindled and mutilated 
the efforts of the regulators trying to investigate the failure 
of the most accomodating savings and loan between Memphis and 
Texarkana.

And not just the money. The Senate panel will try to learn how 
Vincent Foster could blow off the top of his head and then lay 
himself out neatly, with a minimum of disruption of either 
himself or the pastoral tranquility of Fort Marcy Park, as if 
trying to save the undertaker the trouble.

Arkansas boys are taught to mind their manners and to be 
considerate of others at all times, but this was, even by the 
standards of the Clinton White House, excessive.

"Whitewater is a very serious matter," says Sen. Alfonse D'Amato 
of New York, who is chairman of the committee. "Some questions 
raised by Whitewater go to the very heart of our democratic 
system of government. We must ascertain whether purely private 
interests have been placed above the public trust... The American 
people have a right and a need to know the answers to these 
questions."

Senate hearings on the order of the Watergate example are just 
what the Clintons hoped against reasonable hope to avoid. These 
are hearings that became inevitable with the final returns of the 
congressional elections of November '94, and the pressure on the 
dynamic duo to consider new lines of employment will become 
considerable as the consequence of running on a ticket with the 
Clintons sinks in on hundreds of Democratic congressmen, 
governors, land commissioners, sheriffs, county assessors, 
auditors and even collectors of deeds, from sea to shining sea. 
Not a pretty prospect.

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