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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bridge Player who wrote (531)	12/17/2000 5:51:11 PM
From: James R. Barrett	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

If you had your cigar stuck in Monica, you'd lie too.

To: Bridge Player who wrote (531)	12/17/2000 6:00:06 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 93284

It is only fairly recently that you could get a President under oath. Say the last 8 years? Even Nixon during Watergate did not get dragged before a grand jury. "Executive privelege" and its interpretation by the courts has changed. Watergate was the beginning of the erosion but with Clinton's impeachment it took a giant step. (The other thing that has been driving this, and that is now gone, is the special prosecutor law. It provided the smoke that led to suspicion of fire that put a President on the witness stand. Previously, you just couldn't get enough evidence.) We're not there yet. We may be a lot sooner that you can imagine, though. It's possible the system might work even if the President can be impeached simply because his party has lost Congress. That's how parliamentary government works. I doubt it, though.