We wouldn’t even know about Lewinsky if Republicans hadn’t been on a vendetta to discredit one of the most popular, effective presidents in our nation’s history while action against terrorists should have occurred two or three presidents ago.

Time after time, Republicans have scraped the bottom of the dirty-tricks barrel to keep coming up with something else to use against the Democratic Party and/or President Clinton.

In the meantime, the Republican Party has stopped needed legislation, including campaign funding reform, which might have opened the door to their own corruptive practices, and encouraged legislation that removes additional privacy from American citizens.

Since the tobacco industry has long owned many Republicans, particularly the leaders, anti-tobacco legislation is at a standstill until this nation is rid of a Republican-dominated Congress.

Contrary to the beliefs of many ‘staunch’ Republican party lovers, the legislation which was introduced by Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, was stopped by House Republican leaders who didn’t want the millions to stop flowing in.

So, while accusing President Clinton of distracting the American public, just what is it that the Republican Party, along with its ally, the media, been doing?

They have been responsible for making public allegations that should never have been made public prior to evidential proof. The result? Our attentions were distracted from the squelching of needed legislation or the pushing for anti-Constitutional legislation.

If you believe it true such situations as Mr. Clinton was involved in should be made public, then it is also true Republicans should own up to what they own have done. Just because illicit, immoral acts have not been made public doesn’t mean any legislator is being any more truthful than President Clinton. After all, leaving out information is just as much a lie as verbalizing a falsehood.

You may or may not agree - that is part of what makes this country a great one - but the time for truth from all our elected leaders is now. If they are philanderers or had past illicit affairs during their political careers, then confront them with telling the truth or demand they stop the rhetoric.

Confront them with the real reason for legislative decisions and I will wager that if the truth be told, the basis for decisions usually has something to do with what it will do for their party, for them as individuals, or both.

Or, do you consider their affairs, whether corrupt politics or sexual, ‘private’ and only those of the oppositional party the type that needs public airing?

Regardless of which party you feel you are obligated to, major parties have a single-minded goal of getting and/or remaining in power in our nation’s capitol because that is where the real financial rewards occur. Corruption and immorality are rampant in both legilative bodies, not just the oval office.

Many of our forefathers warned of the corruptive nature of a few people acquiring too much power. Corruption is sure to follow the increase in power.

Well, Folks, too much power has been acquired by Congress and our nation's government is surely seen as a corrupt society, both socially and spiritually, by other nations and our youth.

That is the legacy we will be left with. And to be quite blunt about it, the Republican Party, particularly its hypocritical, two-faced leaders, have done far more to cause us shame than President Clinton.