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

To: jlallen who wrote (4257)	9/21/1998 3:24:00 PM
From: Hiram Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

jlallen, wow you finally hit the donkey on the head. "Overturning" the election is just a veiled way of intimating this legal process of deciding if we should allow a perjurer to occupy the WH is some kind of coup d'etat. That is just beautiful,and the whole purpose of this escapade. Now we have a fourth branch of government to make sure we can carry out bloodless coups. Hiram

To: jlallen who wrote (4257)	9/21/1998 3:27:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

If the process is procedurally fair, and substantively true to the Constitutional standard of only impeaching for a "High Crime and Misdemeanor" it is not. If it is done for political reasons, and for political disguest, it would be a form of Congressional coup. If Congress had in fact removed Johnson from office, that would indeed have been a form of coup. It was mostly for political reasons that articles of impeachment were voted in the House, with only the cover of a technical violation of law. Thankfully that horrible precedent was avoided. As nearly all now agree, Nixon would have been impeached and removed from office had he not resigned, and that would have entirely proper. And no coup whatsoever. There would NEVER be such an agreement if Clinton were removed on these facts. Far, far, from it. Doug