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

To: j g cordes who wrote (7896)	10/6/1998 12:50:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 13994

>>Give up Zoltan, you're out of your league. Thanks. Haven't been at your level since grade school. So why should I stoop now? Not that I could.

To: j g cordes who wrote (7896)	10/7/1998 9:29:00 PM
From: j g cordes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Washington Post.. Sunday, October 4, 1998; Page C06 Richard Cohen calls on Democrats to express their outrage over the hardball tactics adopted by Ken Starr in his investigation of Bill and Monica's excellent adventure ["Menace to Society," op-ed, Sept. 24]. A better question is where are the Republican leaders willing to rise above the narrow calculus of political advantage and question the unprecedented tactics adopted by their party to drive a president from office? Where, for example, are those longtime Republican champions of limited government and individual rights, especially the right to be free from the long arm and prying eyes of government, as the full extent of Ken Starr's nearly unlimited efforts to unearth whatever dirt he could find on Bill Clinton become nauseatingly clear? Where are the Republican guardians of "values" as their party insists on revealing and repeating every seamy sexual detail of the president's indiscretions? Where are the Republicans who recognize that they too will have to live and work in the world they are authoring, a world in which politically motivated investigations use such tools as wiretapping and DNA tests to make full and public disclosure of the most personal details and human failings? Where are those who claim a solemn respect for the Constitution as their party casually wields one of its most awesome weapons -- impeachment -- for partisan political gain? Even as they rightfully decry the president's dishonesty and lack of principles, the Republicans seem not to recognize the extent to which they betray their own. Somehow forgetting the lessons of the failed "revolution" three years ago, Republican leaders are reminding us again that they lack the maturity and responsibility to govern effectively. As the fall election approaches, voters will have to consider this irony: In their zeal to demonstrate that Bill Clinton is not fit to continue as president, the Republicans may be making an even stronger case against their own fitness as the leaders of Congress. WILLIAM D. CORDES Washington, DC