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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: mrknowitall who wrote (3429)9/17/1998 5:30:00 PM
From: dougjn  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
I knew that wouldn't go by without challenge. At least by you not ridicule. <g> The period is young however. There's always that estimable moderate, jlallen. <g>

What they have to loose is the type of reaction DeLay has exhibited. DeLay is just assuming the White House had to be behind the Salon story, and others before it. If he had proof the whole Republican House would be white hot mad. (Hypcritically or not, given who funded Jones, pointed the tabloids towards Jennifer Flowers, etc. Though that was presumably not the House leadership, so it is a bit different.)

A white hot made House would move quickly to impeach. Any hope of a censure "plea bargain", perhaps even in the Senate, would evaporate. That would alienate the public. But not perhaps if the public had clear evidence that Clinton himself had requested the attack campaign.

And that brings up the other reason. One of Clinton's best hopes is that the American people really get sick of the Republicans pious attacks, in disregard of what the public wants, and without regard to the national paralysis their moral fulminations are causing. If Clinton is himself urging leaking of private life information of Republican leaders, that would be much blunted. At least.

Doug
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