I am not sure I understand.

Let me see if I have this right.

George Bush's lawyers are telling me that Bill Clinton lawyers screwed up.

If I follow that logic the President Bush is using on Domestic Spying, the advice to Bill Clinton should have been something like:

Put a document in your files that notes we have troops dying in Somalia, troops being fired on in the no fly zone of Iraq and troops at risk in Bosnia. Since Bill Clinton is a War Powers President, he can rewrite statutory law. So, henceforth, perjury in civil law suits are a distraction to the President that we cannot allow in war times. A President can lie under oath with no legal recourse.

Perjury statutes were passed by the same Congress and in the same manner that Congress passed the FISA law. Once the President has the right to change statutory law with limited notification, the President can pick which laws can be changed with a secret directive.

Further, since it might alert the enemy that the President is not being distracted by this activity, we are going to declare that changing the perjury law for the President is a secret of National Security.

President Clinton should have had his National Security Advisor share the memo with about 8 people from Congress, and also tell them that if they share this information with anyone, it would result in their being arrested. Once they have been told, Clinton could later tell the world he informed Congress.

Next, President Clinton should have had the Justice Department declared that since Kenneth Star was attacking the Office of the President and since he is not a member of a regular approved army, Ken Starr is an enemy combatant. Send him down to Guantanamo and have him waterboarded regularly.

President Bush seems to be very impressed that his lawyers tell him that the courts will agree with their interpretation of the Statutes and the Constitution. I am less impressed. Last time I looked, exactly half the lawyers were wrong when the judges decides. I will be more impressed when a judge has agreed with his lawyers.

President Bush is claimimg a pretty powerful "Get Out of Jail Free" card. Somehow I have a feeling that a Republican Congress might find this an abuse of power if President Clinton had used this logic, but maybe I am wrong. Maybe I just don't understand. I am sure we will see soon enough.

Being the Good Parent

Start first and foremost with love.

Lead by example. Be the people you want your children to grow up into. Kids learn by mimicking. If you don't like the way the kids are acting, look again in a mirror.

Set good moderate rules and keep them constant. Children can't learn from moving rules.

Kids have different jobs at different ages. That's OK. It is simply them doing their job.

When they are young they ask lots of questions. Answer them all to the best of your ability. Even the fifteenth time they ask.

Teenagers break all the rules. That's also their job. That doesn't mean you have to tolerate it, only expect it.

Kids make mistakes. There is a name for this. It is called "learning". Don't worry. You learned the same way. It is the only way we really can learn.

If they seem to ask "Why?" too much, the problem is yours, not the kid's. Our own hold on reality is sketchy enough that we get uncertain if it is challenged too much.

Kids really don't need television. It is a really bad babysitter. A computer is only slightly better. Both are roughly as addictive as cocaine. Our kids are growing up in a world of fifteen second attention spans. Let your kids be unique with real ability to focus on the problems and joys of their world.

Plays well with others may be the most important grade your kid gets.

Read to them. Tell them stories. Talk about your mistakes. Let them hear your voice.

Eat dinner at the dinner table, and the only thing there is to do, is talk.

Understand that everything that is unresolved with you, will be the clouds of their own marriage.

And in case I forgot to mention it earlier, always remember to love them.