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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (15545)	6/2/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: DScottD	Read Replies (1) of 20981

Holly-- To answer your last question, I think history is repeating itself. The President is accused of perjury and suborning perjury in the context of a legal proceeding. Nixon's happened to be in the context of a criminal investigation; Clinton's present troubles arose in the context of a civil lawsuit. Nonetheless, the alleged Presidential misdeeds in both instances are criminal in nature. The parallels are significant. In both cases, the President's party was/is the minority in both houses of Congress. The legal and political heat on both men was really turned up in the midst of "off year" Congressional elections in the President's second term of office. Both Presidents' surnames end in "on". Etc. Etc. It will be interesting to see what happens this summer. My guess is that Starr's report will be inconclusive as far as whether the President should be impeached, but will taint the President enough to make him a nonentity politically should he continue to serve. Seeing the writing on the wall, the Democratic leaders in Congress, fearing the worst in November and a total meltdown in 2000, will pressure Clinton to resign, much like Senator Goldwater did with Nixon in 1974. Clinton will initially resist the pressure but will eventually give in when it becomes apparent that no Democrat wants his support and no Democrats are willing to stand behind him. Algore then becomes President, putting him in the driver's seat for the Democratic nomination in 2000. The Republicans make modest gains in the 1998 election, but nothing like when they took control of both chambers in 1994. We can only speculate beyond that. DScottD

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