Starr extends credit

It read like the script of a juicy soap opera. Sex, threats, secrets and lies. It was good, but it was not worth $40 million.

For $40 million, we should have been able to see the whole thing in 3D.

Ken Starr's report spat out massive overkill in a blatant attack of the Clinton family. The in-depth sexual details were the most fun newspapers have seen in a long time, but at the same time, were inappropriate and unrelated to the charges brought against the president. This type of pornographic gossip should be reserved for Danielle Steele novels.

Partial responsibility lies in the Republican congressional leadership for not taking the initiative to edit or at least review the report before release. It only would have been in Starr's benefit to condense the wordy report.

Congress drowned itself in hypocrisy when it decided to release the report on the Internet, at a time when Congressional leaders have been working to regulate pornography on the World Wide Web.

Starr's argument for impeachment is weak. He hid that fact in pages and pages of unnecessary sexual details. He exposed Clinton's private life to a public that is not very interested.

If Starr wants to spend years of his live obsessing over a man's sex drive, go for it. But do not do it on our money.