Tiger Woods and Senator Max Baucus, A Tale of Two Servicers

While discussions proceed about healthcare, cap and trade, global warming etc., we now have revelations of Tiger Woods having multiple affairs and Senator Max Baucus divorcing his wife and living with a staffer. Moral standards seem to be a thing of the past. When I was a child, we had a couple living together in our neighborhood. The men in the neighborhood got together and had a “talk” with the man involved. He married his “live-in” shortly thereafter.
When Bill Clinton got involved with Monica Lewinsky, the press claimed that it was his own private life. Never mind the fact that these incidents occurred in the Whitehouse, owned by the citizens of this country. In spite of the fact that Mr. Clinton lied, he got a pass…while Tiger stews in media juices because of his poor choices. Sadly, these moral failings occur with men and women of all political parties, persuasions, colors, creeds etc.
My observation of all these events brings me to the following conclusions:

- Tiger Woods is a private citizen who used his own money to finance his “liaisons”

- Both Max Baucus and Bill Clinton used their governmental influence and our resources to facilitate their “liaisons”

- The press is exposing Tiger’s sins while Mr. Baucus gets a pass

- Mr. Baucus is in a power position to spend our money on healthcare and other issues while Tiger is just a talented golfer with “feet of clay.”
Each of these men provides a public service in the entertainment (in the case of Tiger) or public sector (in the cases of Clinton and Baucus). The problem is that one of them only serviced women they knew while the other two are, in some ways, still servicing the private and public sectors. Just as “Nero fiddled while Rome burned,” the press of this country fiddles with Tiger Woods while public officials service us. Mr. Baucus should receive more scrutiny than Tiger because Baucus is spending our money while Tiger spends his own money.