but as you know, "high crimes and misdemeanors" are not legal terms with regard to impeachment. In fact, you probably know that there is no such legal animal as a "high crime". The impeachment process, according to nearly everyone of consequence who spoke or wrote or researched the subject during Watergate, is specifically reserved to get rid of a President who has "betrayed the public's trust". That, BC has done in spades. Away with him.
Now read this, and educate yourself:
"A fork in the road: Bubba's fate and ours"
by Mona Charen
jewishworldreview.com
Excellent column. She sure is pretty, too. Some excerpts:
"Aristotle spoke of the "habits of virtue" because he understood that the mere repetition of immoral acts corrupts the soul. It is no different with an electorate. If the president performs his functions day to day, most people will very rapidly forget what all the fuss was about. In fact, it is virtually certain that if President Clinton is not removed from office, personal morality (all of it) will be deemed irrelevant to presidential fitness."
"The decision by the Republican majority to release President Clinton's videotaped testimony before the grand jury has been decried by Democrats as nothing more than an attempt to shame and humiliate Clinton. Not exactly. It is clearly impossible to shame this president. Any normal man would have resigned long ago rather than face the humiliation of the Starr Report. No, the hope is not that President Clinton will be shamed but rather that the inertial electorate will finally bestir itself and shake him off. Members of Congress who know their duty but continue to shoot nervous glances at opinion polls hope that videotape is mightier than the printed word.
"If the process of impeachment is thwarted, by a deal or by anything short of resignation, the principle that presidents may with impunity hold the electorate and the law in contempt will be established. Are the 56 percent of Americans who want Clinton to serve out his term unmindful of the precedential effect? What will the next "private" sin be? Do we want perjurers, extortionists and thieves to believe the electorate doesn't care about character?
Republicans and the press are united, for once, in believing this man to be unworthy. That alone ought to make the voters take notice." |
