Whither the Indictments?
Fed up with statements by reactionary partisans who keep managing to, um, transcend obvious truth, David Brin offered up a short list of issues, of which this was one:
Rush [Limbaugh] promised us indictments. Hunneds. Tousens. Milliuns of indictments, as soon as "honest men take over the filing cabinets" in DC. It would be an entertaining housecleaning as the "most corrupt administration in human history" (the Clintons) met justice in greater numbers than French aristos in tumbrels.
Only… a funny thing has happened on our way to the guillotines… The number of former Clinton officials indicted for actual malfeasance in office has been – after 5 years – ZERO!
It is the 1st time an 8 year administration has ever had ZERO indictable corruption revealed in its aftermath. This "black-is-white" reversal of expectation is not only deeply disappointing for those who want a good scandal-show… but is typical of Limbaughism. The railing incantations fill true believers with indignant wroth, so much so that they can evade any glimpse at actual facts. So much that they can convince themselves that a bunch of aristocrats who hold tightly to EVERY rein of government for their own enrichment, controlling nearly all media, are STILL UNDERDOGS. And honest ones, at that.