I'm now all but completely convinced that Clinton's gonna make it. Lots of the public being interviewed over the weekend are perfectly willing to say that he did commit perjury, but it was about his personal sex life, so let it be.
Sure, lots of people are fed up and want him out. But there's a notable lack of shock or disgust, at least from those that haven't been already expressing it for the last 8 months. The Starr report is a dud. Despite the best efforts of the most partisan, vindictive and one sided Special Prosecutor ever, he didn't get the goods. Despite his extraordinary best efforts, stretching over six years, and turning over every stone conceivable in the President's life.
Sex lies, under oath or not, just don't make it. And Clinton's failure to explicitly tell Lewinsky that he wanted her to stop covering up their private affair as soon as she was placed under oath doesn't make it either.
I hope, but rather doubt, that the Republicans become sufficiently worried about backlash from independents, etc. that they drop this before too long. They won't get an impeachment vote in the Senate. And to further pursue this is only to paralyze the country, without proper purpose.
Responsibility for that will start to shift.
Doug
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