Oedipus Kavanaugh

Modern issues swirl, female empowerment and male privilege.

There’s another story developing,almost ancient.

All House leaders who drove President Clinton’s impeachment — Gingrich, Livingston, Hastert — were exposed as libertines or monsters. Not just hypocrisy, it’s a sordid affair’s tragic arc. Starr himself was fired from Baylor, covering up sexual violence. Now his henchman, who wrote Clinton’s indictment as soft-core tale, is exposed. Historical guilt rises like a bloated corpse.

I’m not praising President Clinton, but come for his accusers’ buried sins.

Kavanaugh senses it. He said “left wing money” uncovered the sex lives of House leadership, a lie (journalists did) intended as a peculiar defense. The idea is all that money would have found something in his past, too, if it were there. The exposed were high profile Speakers. K. was a hired gun. His ego may be large, but he wasn’t a journalism priority.

But those fallen Speakers weigh on Kavanaugh, along with Starr. It’s easy to guess K.’s picture of Clinton sex were fun and games with drinking buddies. Catholicism always generates guilt. Then Blasey Ford appeared, and K. is Oedipus, doomed by sin. He said so. “In early 21st century Washington, what goes around, comes around.” That encapsulates Gingrich, Livingston, Hastert, Starr, and now him.

“Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind” K. exclaimed. No blackouts impede his memory of what Clinton’s impeachment sowed. He even blamed his predicament on “the Clintons”, as if a guilty conscience cried.

I can’t help but point out that another House member rose to fame bringing Clinton to trial: Lindsey Graham. If a Sophocles is writing this tale, he’d better watch out.