But the allegations he's facing right now are so serious that I want to avoid popping off about them. Everybody will have to come to his or her own conclusions, and I hope people will do that while avoiding political attacks and partisan grandstanding. At the same time, we have to take these allegations seriously. As a nation we have made a lot of progress over the past 30 or 40 years in demanding appropriate behavior between employers and subordinates and between men and women in circumstances where there is a major imbalance of power between the two. All that progress goes out the window in a cloud of hypocrisy if we say it doesn't matter whether the allegations are true.
Polls say that people think the number one problem in America today is a loss of moral standards.
But polls also seem to indicate that a lot of people think we should ignore problems at the White House so long as the economy is good. You can't make a pass at a woman who comes to you desperately in search of a job. Everybody knows that, including a President who happens to be a lawyer. Q. Let's move on to public policy issues. The House leadership has released a list of legislative issues you all are planning to deal with this year.