Sex and Politics

Such exciting news. In politics, Democrat Evan Bayh announced that he would not seek a third term in the US Senate. It seems that he doesn’t like Congress anymore. Now this is interesting because when he was first elected to the Senate in 1998, the Republicans controlled both houses of the Congress. Then, for several years, the Senate was split with control shifting back and forth between Democrats and Republicans. When Bayh ran for reelection in 2004, the Senate was again under Republican leadership. After the 2006 elections, the Democrats took control and since 2008 the Democrats had a super majority of sixty votes in the Senate. I have to wonder why he has such a problem when his party has more control. He liked the Congress well enough when the Republicans had more power. This seems strange to me.
In 1998, when Evan was first elected to the Senate, the US House of Representatives impeached Bill Clinton. When the case went to the Senate, the newly elected Bayh was one of the Senators voting Not Guilty. Today’s Wall Street Journal contains a book review of The Death of American Virtue by Ken Gormley. This book chronicles the impeachment of Bill Clinton. President Clinton still thinks he shouldn’t have been impeached. This was a sordid moment in our government’s history; a president fooling around with an intern. Most of us agree that, nasty as it is, there are worse things a president could do. And President Clinton did something worse. He lied about it under oath. That is what he was impeached for. Many in the media say that Clinton was impeached for his ‘affair’ with Monica. Not so. He was impeached for lying under oath. He should grow up and admit his mistakes.
There is one point where Bill Clinton and I agree. He should not have reauthorized the independent counsel statute. Our founding fathers set up a system where the people elect the administration separate from the legislature. The administration is responsible for enforcing the laws. If there is a problem with the administration, then the press should investigate it, report on it, and the people should vote accordingly. If that isn’t enough, Congress can investigate and impeach the president. We don’t need Special Prosecutors. We didn’t need one for Watergate, Iran-contra, the October Surprise, Whitewater, or Monica. I hope we never have any more. I don’t want to know any more about Bill Clinton’s sex life.
And speaking of sex lives that we’ve heard too much about, the latest about Tiger Woods deserves some comment. It appears that a porn star claims that Tiger got her pregnant twice. Imagine that, having unprotected sex with a porn star. I thought that a golf champion would be more thoughtful about life. I guess there just isn’t enough excitement in golf and he has to create excitement by risking his marriage, health, and the health of his wife. Does he not know what porn stars do for a living? Does he not know that they are at an elevated risk for STDs? I understand the temptation that Tiger has to take chances, but does he really want his kids to have parents who have to fight AIDS?
My suggestion to Tiger is this. If you want some excitement in your life, take up sky diving. It is probably less risky than having multiple sex partners. And if the worst happens, only Tiger suffers, not Elin.