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

To: Bill who wrote (15978)	11/25/1998 2:49:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 67261

Filthy malicious attacks? How creative of you, Bill, you liar you. I can't prove George Bush lied under oath, but I'd say odds are he did. Now, I have to defend myself against the lie I was about to spread? Truth is, I was confused between Barr and Inglis. Someone else finally did, and Schlesinger, playing on Inglis's use of "sophisticated," accused the Congressman of a "highly sophisticated misrepresentation." The President was "disgraceful" in his behavior, Schlesinger said, but it was a matter for public shame and self-rebuke for "callousness and stupidity," not a matter for impeachment. I've gotten my share of "highly sophisticated misrepresentation" of my views here, Bill old boy. You liar you. Inglis stared stonily. Privately, Democrats chortled later in the corridor, viewing Inglis as the victim of the ultimate witness testimony before the committee -- the voters' judgment last Tuesday. "Stick a fork in him," one Democrat said mercilessly of Inglis, who is leaving Congress after failing last week in a Senate bid in which he was uninhibited in lambasting the President's behavior. (http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/111098clinton-scene.html) As to Barr, he was presumably in a safe district, unlike Faircloth and Inglis. No ambiguity on his views, the idiots who voted must have driven him crazy too. The humorlessness of Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., the scowling conservative who started the drive to impeach President Clinton, was being celebrated by hometown supporters in a political roast, and Barr agreed that they had a point. "I am smiling," he declared in a poker-faced joke on himself even as he was stoking fresh scorn for an unlikely target: his Republican colleagues in the Senate who he fears lack the "backbone" for an impeachment trial. "How little interest, how little backbone they have to really take on tough issues," Barr complained in an interview, offering a concession of sorts from atop the impeachment ramparts that the campaign might ultimately founder as a one-house effort. "I don't know if the Senate, with the current makeup, really has the stomach for it," said Barr, the impeachment stalwart on the House Judiciary Committee, offering a stark assessment of the difficulty Republicans anticipate when they resume their effort after Election Day. "Clinton will declare victory no matter what happens," Barr said, finally smiling at what strikes him as the absurdity of the president's apparent invincibility in opinion polls and the proclivity of Republicans to "cave" and play into his hands. (http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/102998clinton-barr.html) Come on, Bill. You and your friends write your congresspeople. Tell them to get some backbone, like Barr said. Tell them what we really want is more impeachment, not less. Tell them to keep pushing the right to life horror stories too. Go ahead, make my day.