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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Gauguin who wrote (39934)12/18/1998 3:12:00 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 132070
 
>>I think KNOWING I would go to jail, for this, is what makes me snippy. Sorry.

No, you wouldn't have gone to jail. No one but the President would have been prosecuted for this -- because no one but the President would have had the Paula Jones' suit brought against him (no lawyer working on commission would have taken such a weak case), and no one but the President would have had an "independent" counsel working with an unlimited budget for four years until he could find something to pin on the guy. Which Bill Clinton obligingly provided, by lying under oath about the world's stupidest affair.

The President should not be above the law. He should not be below it, either.

Consider the process that has been used in this case. Ken Starr's report was released before the President's lawyers had a chance to read it. The Judiciary Committee sent the articles of impeachment to the floor without having investigated the charges -- none of the prosecution's witnesses have been cross-examined! Nothing could be more different from the way that Rodino's committee proceeded twenty-five years ago (including the magnitude of the charges).

Think about the precedent this sets. Think about what will happen the next time there is a Republican President with a Democratic Congress.
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