| Mr Khan said: Sometimes the little things become the big issues even when there are bigger fish to fry, but the problem is everyone has only so much energy, so much sway, hence "political capital." Monica Lewinsky became a big stinking deal, but it was bad for the Republicans because it went nowhere and exhausted their capital. Much the same could be said of Benghazi. |
Very different situations. The Lewinsky scandal should have been about whether or not the president lied under oath and obstructed justice. He very clearly did that, but unfortunately it was a sex scandal so in the popular imagination he was impeached for a blowjob. That's why the whole thing blew up in the Republicans' faces. It didn't "exhaust their capital", it made them look like a bunch of morally outraged creeps for prying into the guy's sex life.
