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...floor speech was positively Jeffersonian. Authorities want to know whether Dayton's duties went beyond that. First they want to know what happened the night he reportedly drove Condit to a Virginia suburb to dispose of a case that once contained a watch that had been given to the Congressman by a former staff member, Joleen Argentini McKay. Second, they want to hear more about Dayton's recent conversations with McKay. McKay told USA Today that she had had an affair with Condit when she worked for him in the mid-1990s and that when the Levy story broke...
...offer insights into the 53-year-old politician. She claimed that Condit's staff felt "betrayed" by his relationship with Levy and the fallout that followed. According to McKay, who was single and in her early 20s when she worked for Condit but is now married, the Congressman and his wife Carolyn "didn't have the typical relationship. It was more of a business relationship...
...story, of course. It is not news on the scale of, say, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk or the Tet offensive, but we will have to redefine the word news if we say that the disappearance of a United States Congressman's mistress, and her possible murder (by whom? by him?), does not merit some notice in the media...
...lately, absolutely no one declined, in the Kohut mode, to talk about Chandra Levy and Gary Condit. Almost all criticized Chandra's family for their weirdly non-judgmental and even coyly receptive reaction when they learned young Chandra was having an affair with a much older, married Congressman. Not the way for parents to behave! Condit himself is, of course, a source of endless speculation. Is he himself a victim? Or a monster...
...AARP. Social Security will need fixing, but it is far from being on the brink of financial collapse, argue critics of the commission. The panel's report tries "to convince younger Americans" that Social Security is "falling apart and that a radical solution is needed to fix it," says Congressman Robert Matsui, the senior Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee's Social Security subcommittee. "Unfortunately, this commission's foregone solution of individual [retirement]accounts is the worst possible reform for Social Security...