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Old Conservative Talking Points Are Now Inoperative
October 18th, 2005

Out with the old, in with the new. E.J. Dionne notes in his column today that those “old conservative talking points are now inoperative.”

We are on the verge of an extraordinary moment in American politics. The people running our government are about to face their day — or days — in court.

Those who thought investigations were a wonderful thing when Bill Clinton was president are suddenly facing prosecutors, and they don’t like it. It seems like a hundred years ago when Clinton’s defenders were accusing his opponents of using special prosecutors, lawsuits, criminal charges and, ultimately, impeachment to overturn the will of the voters.

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