Clinton was impeached for a consensual act not involving prostitution. If not for Tripp and Goldberg pushed by the Republican dogs, he would not have been and 911 would not have happened. He did a great job as President. The Republicans destroyed him using Ken Starr so they could try to grab the government and steal the treasury. They deserve what they get and Bush should be impeached, and the Madam cannot do enough damage to these hippocrits. What goes around comes around.

Watch for BP's CEO to resign next...he likes "no sex" prostitutes too

Street directions? Credit ratings? Hot stuff, all right.

Nothing will come of this, unfortunately. This stuff has always gone on in the "halls of power" and always will. There are two classes in America -- those who wield power and those who don't. The former indemnify themselves against all hazards except the very most egregious. Power corrupts even saints.

It's great to see Democrats supporting a woman who ran an illegal business, exploited young women, and paid no taxes. I hope she rots in jail.

At least the girls RECEIVED money for getting screwed by the pols.

As for Ms. Palfrey's personal prowess between the sheets, as they said in my university days, those who can't, teach.

Boys town isn't in Lincoln, NE.... It's in Omaha, NE 60 miles away.

I think most of the Dems were using the male escort service..

I know several of these fringe businesses and the great americans that frequent them. We need to stand by these patriots who only want to free themselves of the burdens of power. There are so many "comfort stations" in DC that a show pony couldn't jump over the list of hot spots.

Thats all great...Now, can you please release the names of the high name clients? Do your journalistic duty.

Leo,"family values" are just that family values!! They need to be taught at home and reinforced with deeds and actions that uphold the ideals!! They should not be LEGISLATED to the rest of us by people that can't live up to their own expectations. If you cant see a problem with that...oh well. By the way...when last I checked hipocrisy is not a family value nor a virtue...it is however.....reprehensible !!!

vin, I wasn't praising hypocrisy, just saying that too much is made of it. Hypocrites don't refute the worth of the values they pay lip service to but fail to consistently honor.

And, Franklin, on impeaching Clinton: federal civil rights law bans an employer from demanding sexual favors from subordinates and linking that to career consequences. Paula Jones sued Clinton because her post-refusal career in state government stagnated while Gennifer Flowers got a plum position. In investigating, as required by law, whether Clinton had a pattern of promoting and rewarding female subordinates who service him while retaliating against those who refused him, it became noteworthy that one intern recieved unprecedented West Wing access, career help from Vernon Jordan with a high-powered New York fashion firm, etc. Thus the issue of whether Clinton had engaged in any sexual activity of any kind with Lewinsky was directly relevant to a civil rights investigation. Clinton lied under oath about it, not just for the usual reasons, but to evade legal consequences. That's why conscientious people couldn't just let that slide unpunished; it was an impeachable offense.

Liberals love it when conservatives don't live the life they encourage all to do. A lot of us have probably cheated on tests before so does that mean we want elected officials to say "go ahead and cheat everyone does it!" In the liberal world hipocracy is having standards and trying to maintain them and not always being successful. i.e. we're all human, but we still need some standards to try to live by.

What is happening to this country,im only 23 and can see that america is corrupt for the inside and they raise money off all of us hard working americans by taxing and prosecuting those who dont even have enough money to pay there bills. Why arnt we going after the millionaires who pay off people and launder money? All we are doing is making the poor more poor and giving upper class america our shirts off our backs to walk on when theres puddle!

Prostitution will persist regardless of any attempts to stamp it out. I'd much rather see "madams" who actually keep an eye on their employees and give them advice. Certainly better than the risks the independant girls take. Palfrey certainly sounded a lot better than the pimps who sample their employees or get them hooked on drugs. Too bad there is no system to regulate the industry in D.C.. It would probably help a lot of men and women working as prostitutes who have corrupt employers. Making it legal is of course the first step..

She forgot the newsletter tip that DC is the best known city with four different house-numbering rules, based on quadrant. Takes some getting used to, if you're from a Chicago or Dallas or LA, all of which have just two.

How are you equating rape with prostitution? Rape is a theft of power and often including severe damage to the victim. Prostitution is a trade. An exchange of services for money. Both sides get what they want.

These men were only trying to help stuggling young women get ahead in Washington. Why do you want to punish them???? They were trying to do a public service. Imagine how many of them had small children at home and they needed to buy milk and bread to feed them! A couple of $300 nights a week goes a long way to pay for food and tuition!

Release the John's names! Both the prostitutes and the johns are involved in illegal activity. Why protect the men?