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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (18796)	9/2/1998 6:51:00 PM
From: cody andre	Respond to of 20981

It takes a village to turn out Clinton-and-Babushka dolls. Finally, Hillary hit it right!

To: Zoltan! who wrote (18796)	9/2/1998 7:29:00 PM
From: Who, me?	Respond to of 20981

Have you seen this? The Clinton Body-Count! accessone.com

To: Zoltan! who wrote (18796)	9/2/1998 8:05:00 PM
From: Who, me?	Respond to of 20981

9/2/98 -- 5:54 PM GOP strategists' optimism about November prospects increases WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican strategists are expanding their list of House targets for the fall election in the wake of President Clinton's troubles, officials say, and are optimistic of a stronger showing than only a few weeks ago. In some cases, Republicans say they have a better chance to prevail in open House seats currently held by both parties, including in Oregon, Colorado and Indiana districts where Democrats are retiring. They are also thinking seriously about making stronger efforts to unseat Democrats previously viewed as relatively safe, including third-term Reps. Ron Klink of Pennsylvania and David Minge of Minnesota and freshman Rep. Bob Etheridge of North Carolina. ''Newt and I have talked and we both feel it across the country,'' said Rep. John Linder, R-Ga., chairman of the House GOP campaign committee, referring to House Speaker Newt Gingrich. ''People that we had in marginal areas are stronger than we thought. We're finding swing districts are looking better for us.... ''I'm saying this thing could be much bigger than the 10-15 (seat pickup) I've been talking about for a year,'' he added. Publicly, Democrats scoff at talk of improved Republican prospects. ''They (Republicans) have a number of races that they continue to promote even though their candidates don't pass the smell test at home,'' said Dan Sallick, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. ''They haven't raised a significant amount of money and don't have a lot of support or credibility at home and no amount of issue ads are going to give credibility to the candidates they're talking about.'' Officials in both parties say the political environment is volatile and could shift dramatically, pending a report by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, more fallout from the global economic upheaval or any one of numerous other factors. Privately, though, some Democrats have begun to express concern that the furor surrounding Clinton's relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky could depress the party's showing this fall. ''I don't think we've gotten to a debacle here but could we lose more seats than we thought, sure,'' said one strategist, speaking on condition of anonymity. This Democrat quickly added, though, that it's ''too early to know what's going to happen.'' As recently as late spring, some Republicans feared they might lose a few seats in what shaped up as a status quo election. Some Democrats talked of winning the 12 seats they need to end four years of Republican rule in the House. Now, Republicans are more bullish. ''Watch everything in Michigan,'' says Linder, where antiestablishment Democrat Geoffrey Fieger, lawyer for Dr. Jack Kevorkian, recently won the party's gubernatorial nomination. First term Democratic Rep. Jay Johnson in Wisconsin is also viewed as a prime target, as is veteran Rep. Lane Evans in Illinois, and Republicans eagerly circulated a poll in recent days suggesting that Texas Rep. Martin Frost, chairman of the Democratic campaign committee, is in a tough race. At the same time, Republicans say their list of GOP incumbents in jeopardy has dwindled to a few, including Rep. Vince Snowbarger of Kansas and Bill Redmond of New Mexico. ''Obviously the Clinton-Lewinsky issue is getting Republican voters excited and wanting to turn out'' to vote, said Glen Bolger, a Republican pollster. ''Secondly, it's taking Democrats off stride.'' On top of that, he said, the issues of a ''balanced budget and taxes work for the Republicans because people don't want one-party control of Washington because they don't trust Clinton and the Democrats to keep their spending issue under control.'' Linder told reporters in a conference call Tuesday that recent surveys indicate voters are increasingly concerned with ''honesty and integrity in government.'' Republicans have yet to tip their hand on how much they will attempt to exploit the doubts Americans express about Clinton's character. Two years ago, Republicans aired commercials urging voters not to give Clinton, steaming toward re-election, a ''blank check'' by voting a Democratic Congress into power. This time, Clinton is not on the ballot, but GOP strategists have said for months they expect to use a variation on the same theme, criticizing Democrats over tax and spending issues as well as Clinton's ill-fated 1994 health insurance program. What's unclear is whether they will also refer specifically to Clinton's relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. The GOP has begun airing a campaign commercial in the Las Vegas area that touches on ethics, but does not refer directly to Clinton or Ms. Lewinsky.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (18796)	9/2/1998 8:20:00 PM
From: Who, me?	Respond to of 20981

CLINTON COMBATIVE; PRESIDENT APPEARED 'LOST' DURING PROSECUTOR'S QUESTIONING Exclusive Contains Graphic description Tue Aug 18 00:27:33 1998 -- During his grand jury testimony on Monday, President Clinton may have slipped further into perjury. The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that the president responded repeatedly with "weak and confusing" answers during his historic testimony -- answers that are bound to haunt him in future months! "His story was all over the place," one well-placed source disclosed late Monday night. "He had major trouble with the time line [of his contacts with Monica Lewinsky]... he stumbled all over the Vernon Jordan questions. And his Betty Currie story was full of inconsistencies." Clinton contradicted documents and tapes, according to the well-placed source, and appeared "lost" during one heated exchange. The DRUDGE REPORT was first to publish the Monica Lewinsky story in a series of exclusive reports last January. The WASHINGTON POST in Tuesday editions confirms that President Clinton was combative during his closed session with Starr's prosecutors and investigators were not able to ask all the questions they wanted to because Clinton refused to extend beyond the predetermined amount of time. Clinton took several breaks from his testimony on Monday to confer with his lawyers in the doctor's office next door to the Map Room, the NEW YORK TIMES reports on Tuesday. "At about 3:30, he took a break that lasted roughly an hour," one Clinton ally told the paper. Prosecutors were completely frustrated by Clinton's performance, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned from several sources. "At times, [Clinton] refused to provide specific answers to even the most basic questions," revealed one insider close to the action. "His answers did very little to convince investigators that the evidence they've collected in the past 7 months could be flawed." FOX NEWS CHANNEL ace reporter David Shuster was reporting late Monday night that Clinton was hit with an unexpected line of questioning during his grand jury testimony. It is not known the nature of those questions. Susan Schmidt and Ruth Marcus on 15th Street reported that Clinton's "defiant stance appeared to be a gamble that Starr will be left without enough evidence to bring a criminal case against him or be able to convince Congress to launch impeachment proceedings." It was not clear if any questions posed to Clinton on Monday were sexually graphic. But if questions posed to another star witness in the case are any indication -- things likely turned explicit at the White House. The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that Monica Lewinsky, when asked by prosecutors if the president performed "cunnilingus" on her, responded by saying she did not know what the word "cunnilingus" meant. In his nationally televised address to the nation Monday night, President Clinton acknowledged an improper relationship with Lewinsky but denied that he lied under oath in his deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. And it's a good thing. Because Bill Clinton, if he admitted to a lie, would have to follow his own advice. At the height of Watergate in the summer of 1974, during Bill Clinton's race to become a U.S. Representative from Arkansas, Clinton once declared: "If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people he should resign." Pause. X X X X X THE TAPES COMETH...? "I wish we could release the tapes on Tuesday, after whatever he does on Monday, so people would realize the depravity that has gone on... [depravity] is the best word I can find for it." That's what Lucianne Goldberg told me on WABC-AM Saturday night. The country may soon get its first listen to the tapes that started a political nightmare. But first, according to Goldberg, there are legal issues surrounding public release. "We want to get the tapes out!" Goldberg told New York City. "We have copyright problems. But we are trying... Linda Tripp did not sacrifice her career and her livelihood and her sanity for all of these months to spend years in the court with litigation. So we have to work our way through. But I know we will find a way!" The tapes contain shocking details, not yet publicly known, about the former White House intern's alleged relationship with the president. X X X X X 'HE THAT SOWETH...' FLASHBACK January 20, 1993 For his inaugural ceremony, Bill Clinton chose a King James Bible given to him by his grandmother, opened to a passage: "He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption." Aides said Clinton selected the passage for use during the swearing in from the Epistle of Paul The Apostle to the Galatians, Chapter 6, Verse 8. "For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting."