I would say that it's completely inconsequential. The whole point of the "Monica-gate" brouhaha was to character-assassinate Clinton. The Right had been trying to do that ever since he took office. See Kenneth Starr and the whole Whitewater thing. Far from trying to scam people in a real estate deal, the Clintons themselves got taken in by it and lost $60,000. The Right were tripping over their own feet trying to get something on Clinton, and when he hanky-panked with Monica, he foolishly left himself vulnerable. There was no damage to the country, only to himself.

This whole Phlame affair is just another part of the Right-Wing "If you get in the way of our agenda, we'll mash you, no matter what we have to do" tactic.

Don Firth