Democrats Full of Glee at Hearing nytimes.com
"Lie in a case involving sex. After all, he says, gentlemen do that, " Inglis declared icily, glaring at Schlesinger who sought to reply.
"May I?" asked the Presidential historian.
"In a moment," Inglis snapped. He never offered rebuttal time.
Someone else finally did, and Schlesinger, playing on Inglis's use of "sophisticated," accused the Congressman of a "highly sophisticated misrepresentation." The President was "disgraceful" in his behavior, Schlesinger said, but it was a matter for public shame and self-rebuke for "callousness and stupidity," not a matter for impeachment.
Inglis stared stonily. Privately, Democrats chortled later in the corridor, viewing Inglis as the victim of the ultimate witness testimony before the committee -- the voters' judgment last Tuesday.
"Stick a fork in him," one Democrat said mercilessly of Inglis, who is leaving Congress after failing last week in a Senate bid in which he was uninhibited in lambasting the President's behavior.
|
