But this particular community happens to be in the nation’s capital. And the people in it are the so-called Beltway Insiders – the high-level members of Congress, policymakers, lawyers, military brass, diplomats and journalists who have a proprietary interest in Washington and identify with it.
They call the capital city their “town.”
And their town has been turned upside down.
With some exceptions, the Washington Establishment is outraged by the president’s behavior in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The polls show that a majority of Americans do not share that outrage. Around the nation, people are disgusted but want to move on; in Washington, despite Clinton’s gains with the budget and the Mideast peace talks, people want some formal acknowledgment that the president’s behavior has been unacceptable. They want this, they say, not just for the sake of the community, but for the sake of the country and the presidency as well.
And the execrable Joe Lieberman was quoted in her filthy little screed:
“This is our town,” says Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the first Democrat to forcefully condemn the president’s behavior. “We spend our lives involved in talking about, dealing with, working in government. It has reminded everybody what matters to them. You are embarrassed about what Bill Clinton’s behavior says about the White House, the presidency, the government in general.”
And the detestable Quinn ends her retching with this noxious spew:
Even those who have to deal with or publicly support the administration do so grudgingly. They say that regardless of whether his fortunes improve, Bill Clinton has essentially lost the Washington Establishment for good.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/quinn110298.htm
Sally Quinn held dinner cocktail parties for criminals in ties and yet she was had the vapors when the Arkansans in the White House wouldn’t abide her snobbish circle jerk and a sex scandal “sullied their town”.
The piece is a worthwhile read just to note all the Washington gasbags and frauds she quotes - Andrea Mitchell, Chris Matthews, Alan Simpson, Cokie Roberts, David Broder, and the aforementioned Lieberman, among others.; a true rogues’ gallery of detestable reprobates.
Looking back all these years, with a proto-fascist in the WH, the most polite thing one can say is “how quaint”.
