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

To: Achilles who wrote (5928)	9/28/1998 11:06:00 AM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

Achilles, your reading is absolutely correct. And of course you are right that the is no comma between "crime" and "misdemeanor" in the original. If the founders wanted to allow impeachment for any reason Congress saw fit, so long as the required vote threshold in each House of Congress could be met, they would have provided something like this: "and for such Offenses to the Common Good as Congress, by the aforementioned vote in each House, shall determine" Doug

To: Achilles who wrote (5928)	9/29/1998 4:01:00 PM
From: John Lacelle	Respond to of 67261

Achilles, From what we know of the impeachment process put forth by the Founding Fathers, it appears that they wanted to set a high bar to pass. This is why they require a 2/3 majority of Senators to blow away a president. Some nations just require a 50% vote of no confidence to knock out a President. This nation (thank God!) is more of a Republic, which means that leaders have lots of power at their disposal. Sleeping on the job, as you might have pointed out, probably would not get someone removed from office. Lying under oath before a Grand Jury, witness tampering, lying in a civil deposition, and obstruction of justice could very well be enough of a set of crimes to make Bill Clinton the first President to be removed from office in history. -John