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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (2743)	9/14/1998 10:50:00 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

From Turley: >The most vilified defector was Sen. Edmund Ross of Kansas, who cast the deciding vote that saved (by one vote) Johnson from removal. For this selfless act, Sen. Ross returned to Kansas only to be shunned, physically assaulted, and ruined both politically and financially.< >The Johnson case answered the question of whether the Congress had the integrity to acquit an unpopular but innocent president. The Clinton case may answer the question of whether the Congress has the integrity to convict a popular but guilty president.< I wager Congress has not the integrity, and that we will soon usher in the age of the American monarchy. >On the facts now before us, it is difficult to see how House members can vote on principle against submitting this matter to the Senate. At a minimum, this president appears to have committed perjury. Perjury committed by a president, however, may be one of the most serious forms of criminal conduct since it is the crime that shields all other criminal acts from the public. The House cannot simply proclaim, as is popular in current commentary, that any criminal acts are negated by a good economy. A president's latitude to commit crimes does not rise or fall with the gross national product. By any reasonable measure, perjury and obstruction of justice clearly fall within "high crimes or misdemeanors." Precisely.