In the interim, they were also busy putting out the fire on Clinton's scandal with Monica by using his spinmeisters to bamboozle the public while assigning top government officials to carry his water. Clinton and Gore had eight years to do what Bush is doing now, but they didn't.

That is why America was caught with its pants down, because Clinton could not keep his up during his tenure. The chickens are coming home to roost courtesy of those who gave a blank check to the greatest opportunists and power grabbers America had.