More embaressing quotes from the Telegraph
Yet in one crucial respect Mr Clinton has reached completion:
his credibility has been well and truly spent. The White House,
suddenly fearful of Senate numbers, is now scrambling for any
compromise: my own choice is the Canaan Banana solution,
whereby the President grabs a false beard and forged papers and
hightails it.
You can't blame them. In January, just after Monica broke, the
Commander-in-Chief, with his loyal sidekick Tony the Boy
Wonder, gave Saddam an ultimatum and ordered a billion-dollar
build-up in the Gulf; in August, after his historic First Apology
flopped, he bombed a Sudanese aspirin factory; this week, he
ordered air strikes against Baghdad. No doubt, on the first day of
the Senate trial, he'll launch all-out nuclear Armageddon.
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Mr Clinton called this week's bombing interlude "Desert Fox" -
the first US military operation named after a Nazi general. Mr
Livingston ran for the Speakership as a dull administrator who
would "make the trains run on time" - the first Congressional
leadership campaign modelled on a Mussolini slogan.
But yesterday the Bayou Book-keeper cornered Mr Clinton's fox
- the un-Speaker in pursuit of the unimpeachable. Even without
a driver, the Republican train is bearing down, and Mr Clinton's
job is on the line. |
