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167 of 183 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A scathing indictment of the Clinton-Reno Justice Department, April 14, 2001
After reading "The Secret Life of Bill Clinton," by British newsman Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, and "Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Whitehouse," by Gary Aldrich--both of which I have reviewed here--I thought nothing further need be said to demonstrate the depths of depravity to which Bill Clinton's administration could sink. I was wrong! This book, "Absolute Power," by David Limbaugh carries the saga of corruption, degeneracy and wantonness even further. Beginning with the debacle of rogue federal agencies' slaughter of nearly 100 men, women and children at Waco, Texas, in February of 1993 under the direction of the federal Department of Justice, the book next details the federal attack on the tobacco industry, supposedly to retrieve taxpayer's money, spent on tobacco's victims by Medicare, Medicaid and the armed forces--ignoring the fact that smokers as a group, because of their early deaths, SAVE the government huge amounts of money they would have cost Social Security--an amount estimated at $29 billion a year by the Congressional Research Service. The Clinton Administration also ignored the fact that those very socialist programs--Medicare and Medicaid, costly as they are, were put in place by a previous Democrat administration: that of Lyndon Johnson, and that it is not a constitutional function of the United States government to provide for, or insure, American citizens' health needs, and that those very programs have increased the costs of medical care to the public in this country exponentially. Also ignored is the fact that government, through its taxation, derives more profit from the sale of cigarettes than do the tobacco companies themselves. I'm not personally a smoker, but I am a shooter, and it was under the Clinton-Gore Administration that the same deplorable attacks by the government were begun on another completely legal industry--which makes a product protected, in fact, in the Constitution itself--the firearms manufacturers. So far, thankfully, those attacks are being rebuffed by the courts, but not without cost to the industry. Then Limbaugh details the sorry spectacle of the White House Travel Office firings, in Bill and Hillary Clinton's effort to replace it with some of their Arkansas and Hollywood cronies. A debacle that encouraged William Safire to refer to Hillary Clinton as a "congenital liar." In a chapter titled, "The Mother of All Scandals," the infamous campaign finance scandal is dealt with, with its sorry tale of illegal foreign campaign contributions, money laundering, and lax security of military secrets. "With Janet Reno providing legal cover, the Clinton-Gore administration was able to do all this, and more, with impunity," says Limbaugh. This is a comprehensive, case-by-case critique of the Clinton Justice Department, and by extension the Clinton Administration, beginning with the firing of all 93 United States attorneys, simultaneously, when Reno took office--thereby signaling the total politicization of perhaps the most important agency of the executive branch of our government. With any luck, this will be the last of the books that detail one of the sorriest episodes in U.S. history. We can hope that the amoral Bill Clinton is past history now, and that Hillary will turn out to be a flash-in-the-pan and fail to be re-elected, even in New York, and that we can move on. I, for one, would like simply to be able to forget them, for they have shamed us. But, this is an important book. It demonstrates that James Madison, who wrote the Constitution, was right when he said, "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." The great weakness of our system is that it depends upon the wisdom of the people to select leaders who are moral, honest, and who put the good of the nation first. In Bill Clinton, we failed to do that. Joseph H. Pierre, USN (Ret.)
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