Clinton isn't going to resign. You might as well give up that hope right now.
Blaming Clinton for the money spent by Republicans in pursuing a partisan vendetta is childish and unreasonable.
For those who like links, here's one to actual testimony given on December 8th.
msnbc.com
And here's a quote from the transcripts, from Sean Wilentz, Dayton Stockton Professor Of History, Princeton University
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"...Or according to James Wilson of Pennsylvania, impeachment is restricted to—quote—"political characters, to political crimes and misdemeanors, and to political punishments."
Now, a great deal of the disagreement among historians stems from a small but fateful decision taken by the Constitutional Convention's committee on style. Before the Constitution reached that committee, Mason's original wording on impeachment was changed from against the state to crimes against—high crimes and misdemeanors against the United States. The committee was charged with polishing the document's language, but with instructions that the meaning not be changed at all.
Yet by removing in Article I, Section four, the words "against the United States," the committee created a Pandora's box which we have opened 211 years later.
The absence of the wording "against the state or against the United States" in the final document has persuaded some historians and constitutional scholars that the Constitution embraces all sorts of private crimes as impeachable.
Yet many, if not most American historians, including the nearly 500 who have now endorsed the widely publicized statement imploring the impeachment drive, hold to the view that Mason's wording and Wilson's observation best express the letter and the spirit of what the framers had in mind.
By that standard, the current charges against President Clinton do not—we American historians believe—rise to the level of impeachable offenses."
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