One of the downsides of having nine lives is that you're cursed with annoying memories, particularly when it comes to calling out the bottomless hypocrisies of the GOP.
With all these stories coming out about Cindy Yang, who owned that South Florida "massage parlor" where Robert Kraft got blown n' busted— and how she was boasting on her now-defunct website that she could get Chinese businesspeople a golden ticket to Mar-A-Lago for a hefty fee — we've been thinking a lot about 1996.
That was when the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign was accused of raising money from Chinese interests (some even at a Buddhist temple), and Republicans were screaming, absolutely screaming, for a special counsel. Attorney General Janet Reno turned them down. "I try to do one thing: what's right," she said. "I am trying to follow the independent counsel statute as it has been framed by Congress."
Well! The GOP just never got over it. Congressman Dan Burton of Indiana was particularly whiny about it. What a pain in the butt he was.
Of course, back then there were no websites to advertise Presidential access for sale, and the world didn't yet know what a selfie was. So this latest Chinese scandal is a little more explosive. Still, have any Republicans spoken out about it? Or will it just be added to the giant pile of Trump crimes that threatens to overwhelm us all? We cats HISS.
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