Ken Starr? No, Seriously, Ken Starr.
Remember that guy? After the Clinton fiasco, it was discovered that Ken Starr was incapable of doing any kind of job whatsoever. Luckily for him, that was the exact qualifications needed to be president of Baylor University. Well, that’s not true. There is a qualification. Since it’s a Baptist school, they needed a guy who is totally obsessed about s-e-x. He jumped at the chance.
After laying low for a while, Starr is trying to emerge as a legal scholar, which I suspect means he audited a few class and learned to read.
Starr appears in The Texas Lawyer this week arguing that Rick Perry should never have been indicted for official oppression even though Perry attempted to use his power of the veto to extort another elected public official.
Starr argues legal technicalities and mumbo-jumbo, but the most idiotic inane insane thing he says is this.
What has happened to the former Governor is not only unfair, it is a constitutional travesty. Our elected officials should be free to do their jobs, and the people should punish them at the ballot box for unwise or unpopular political choices. The criminalization of routine political actions, however, upsets the balance of power between a free people and those they choose to exercise public authority. Governor Perry should go free—and be exonerated now.
Ken Starr, y’all. Ken Damn Starr. A man who spent millions investigating a President and the best he could come up with was a blowjob. But now he wants to talk about the criminalization of politics? Starr, sneeze! Your brain is dusty.
Secondly, the “punish them at the ballot box” was the argument the Travis County DA made when Perry was trying to extort her to get her to resign. So you’re willing to punish a Democratic woman by allowing Perry to take her job, but all bets are off when it comes to a male Republican good-ole-boy.
Ken Damn Starr.
Somebody get that guy some Rick Perry sex tapes.
Thanks to Bryan for the heads up.
Republican legal theories are reminiscent of Rube Goldberg.
1So according to Ken Starr any criminal activity committed by a (male) politician in office is okay as long as they call it a “routine political activity”: blackmail, bribery, treason, consuming/selling illegal drugs, stealing, pedophilia, embezzlement, etc. White “christian” men must be the most amoral people. Has he said anything yet about Hillary Clinton and her use of private email while she was SoS? I’ll bet he’s pulling out all his remaining hair and ranting about how she should be in jail.
Also, I don’t elect an official to exercise public “authority”, I elect them to REPRESENT me. I’m paying their salary. If they are committing illegal acts they aren’t representing me and they need to go to jail.
2I’m sure if Bill Clinton had known that’s all it took to get out of the investigation, he should have told congress getting a blowjob was a routine political activity.
3I don’t know if you recall but Starr wanted to wrap up the Whitewater investigation after determining there was no wrongdoing by the Clintons. Aghast Republicans informed him that he would never eat lunch in this or any other town again if he did that and git back in there and find something. Anything.
So he did. That doesn’t make Starr some sort of paragon of integrity but the point is that he would never have got there of his own accord.
4I lost any remaining respect I had for Baylor U when I learned that Ken Starr had been appointed president. To say that he is, ah, morally flexible, is an understatement. Ken Starr, one of a rotating collection of presidents of the Hypocrites R Us club.
5glf wins the innertubes today! The Big Dog wasn’t as bright as many claimed him to be, especially in his own defense. Receiving and giving blowjobs is a routine Congressional activity. It rises to the level of job requirement for Republicon Speakers of the House. Newt, Denny … and too many to list, in case anyone wonders why the current speaker drinks. “What me drink? It’s mouth wash.”
6To pare a phrase; “They all look like geniuses; make lots of money for themselves and maybe their investors; and when it don’t work out they change their names and move to Texas:” Apologies to Wm Faulkner and Absalom.
7Got to thinking and looked it up. The proper quote is: “It was something about a bill of lading, some way he persuaded Mr Coldfield to use his credit: one of those things that when they work you were smart and when they don’t you change your name and move to Texas.”
8glf: If only Clinton had figured out that the secret is in the framing! Think of how history might have changed…and Ken Starr could have sunk into oblivion. What was Baylor thinking?
9So as far as Starr is concerned the only illegal thing a politician can do is have sex?
10Aside from the above (glf #3 summed it up for me) is the consideration that Starr also gives an elected official in their last term a complete pass, since the voters can’t do anything to them at the ballot box, unless someone gets a recall on the ballot. And Clinton was in his second term when he received ML’s favors.
11Adultery or being Black seem to be the high crimes and misdemeanors necessary to impeach Dems only. There ain’t a criminal act a winmgnut could commit that rises to the impeachment level.
12I thought he’d gone back under his rock.
13Lordy, what else would you expect from a nitwit that started out investigating a land deal only to end up with a personal investigation on the grounds of s-e-x. Well, Baylor wanted him and they got him and this is what they done got! At first I heard he was supposed to go to the west coast and be the dean of Pepperdine Law School but I guess that was bend his ken. Get it?
14e platypus onion, spot on! While I have no problem with Democrats being held to a legal standard, they have been prosecuted, jailed, fined and persecuted at rates that Republicons have never experienced.
Dude in Louisiana for icing the cash, Menendez for Jersey as usual politics maybe both speak to the need for political reform. but that is the “fine tuning aspect.” While Republicons love them some T-Rump and Flitty Falofal Farina, I scream foul on the “both sides do it” meme.
Republicons, corruption is thy name, criminal is thy game.
Until the entire Bush cabal is in prison, including Neil, there is no meaning to justice.
15Starr was dean at Pepperdine,starting in 2004. He left Pepperdine for Baylor in 2010.
16Ken Starr was a partner in a top Chicago law firm when they let him out on loan to investigate Whitewater. When the thing turned into a big sex show, his fellow partners were disgusted and appalled. He was quietly let loose.
17Suspicious, isn’t it, that Starr and Lewinski have recently emerged into public notice. None too subtle hints that the republicans plan to throw every slimy thing they can at Hillary.
18Rick Perry sex tapes? Do those involve Perry wearing Aggie riding boots and animated farm animals?
Just askin’…
19Come on y’all, Ken hasn’t participated in sexual activity in many many years. I am not too proud to admit that I had a time like that in my life years ago and the gal who helped my out assured me, in the kindest possible way, that it was “just like riding a bike,” and everything would work out fine. By golly, she was right! Maybe we need to buy these RWNJs bicycles?
20@PKM. The family is rehabilitating Neil by inserting him in “Thousand Points of Light”. What a family!
21If the Founding Fathers hadn’t thought holders of elective officer could be guilty of crimes, and accused of them, they would not have included a discussion of impeachment in the Constitution. They were neither so naive as to believe getting enough votes turned a politician into a saint, nor as careless of law as to provide the people no remedy.
22My daughter was a senior at Baylor when “Judge Ken Starr” was appointed. She was dismayed but stayed to finish her degree.
There is a double standard regarding wrong doing between Ds and Rs. Ds having a BJ in their office is always worse than starting wars based on lies or even being caught engaging in certain acts in airport restrooms or hiring same sex escorts.
Conservatives hate liberals because our memories extend past Limbaugh’s last bowel movement. (Sorry Mama)
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