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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (6566)	9/20/1998 11:08:00 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 13994

Hi David M. Anderson; Some more news... The LA Times (great paper, by the way,) has an interesting article on partisan political similarities between Nixon and Clinton impeachment hearings: Partisan Politics: Still a Rush to Judgment "The Judiciary Committee was very clearly factionalized," said University of Wisconsin professor Stanley Kutler, author of "The Wars of Watergate." Indeed, many believe the Democratic majority that oversaw the committee's Watergate hearings demonstrated their partisanship even before the proceedings started, when they adopted a new interpretation of the impeachment process. Scrapping the narrow doctrine that impeachment was designed to cover only indictable criminal offenses, the committee staff staked out a broader view, defining the proceedings as "a constitutional safety valve . . . flexible enough to cope with exigencies not now foreseeable." ... University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato believes the forthcoming congressional elections could produce a break in the partisan bickering that so far has marked the congressional handling of the Clinton investigation. "Democrats will suffer a substantial defeat and that will cause them to reevaluate the usefulness of Bill Clinton to their party," he predicted. latimes.com Looks like the Democrats defined impeachment to include a lot more than criminal activities... -- Carl