I'll leave the "service" thing slide for the moment, brees. As for the "constitutional standards" and "true standards of decent behavior" bit, there's always this:
The Broaddrick story helps explain why House GOP leaders seemed so passionate in their hatred of Clinton. They thought he was a rapist, though they knew they couldn't prove it. They could have fashioned an impeachment charge for assault (the statute of limitations would not have applied to impeachment), but they didn't dare. The story was old, and Henry Hyde and company didn't want to subpoena Broaddrick and subject her to cross-examination. So they decided to have her story spread private part for something he wasn't charged with. Later, they pressured the media to roll the Broaddrick grenade into the Senate trial, with the hope that public opinion might change and the Senate might convict him for being a bad, immoral man. How fair. How constitutional.
It cuts both ways. I will also leave out, for the moment, the relevant quote from Broaddrick. Politics as a blood sport predates Clinton, and Clinton is far from the only practitioner. If you guys can just take him out, everything will get better, though. Right? |
