Either he's got a lot of evidence he's holding back or he's shooting blanks. I just don't know. |
Everybody gets religion after a scandal, at least for a while. There are a lot of ethics rules in the House and Senate. The problem is that there either aren't enough rules or the enforcement has been insufficient. |
I don't think with everything we've gone through the past five weeks there is a possibility, a realistic possibility of a faithless elector, |
I think the blind trusts have not been created because of an ethical conflict, it's been created because of a political issue. He was trying to eliminate the political appearance of a conflict. It didn't work, that's the bottom line. |
no smoking guns of intentional illegality. |
The securities issue is potentially lethal for him. He has not yet really explained why he did this at this particular time. |
There is a second political issue about whether he made a misstatement about his knowledge concerning these blind trusts, ... That's something he has to explain — the lawyers can't do that for him. He has to explain why he made what seems to be an exaggeration. |
There is a second political issue about whether he made a misstatement about his knowledge concerning these blind trusts. That's something he has to explain — the lawyers can't do that for him. He has to explain why he made what seems to be an exaggeration. |
You might want to read the old clippings about Martha Stewart , |