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Politics : The Republican Crash 1999 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: James Strauss who wrote (53)	12/13/1998 9:01:00 PM
From: WTSherman	Respond to of 609

<Hopefully the whole Congress will do what's right for the American people and not vote along partisan lines... The future of America hangs in the balance...> I agree with you that the issue is much larger than Bill Clinton. Its about how our system and the constitution works. The Republicans want to create a new definition for impeachment: Removing and Executive that Congress does not deem worthy of being President This is a truly scary notion. If it was the way previous Congress' worked then someone like Reagan, whom the Democrats thought unworthy of being President would have been removed, too. If it happens this time, for sure the Democrats will return the favor sometime in the future. We don't need to start down this road...

To: James Strauss who wrote (53)	12/14/1998 2:48:00 AM
From: TopAtty	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 609

To: WTSherman (52 ) From: James Strauss Sunday, Dec 13 1998 12:36PM ET Reply # of 136 >> Is Congess Out Of Control??? >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> I think we should be concerned when we see an important vote on >>whether to Impeach a President come down on party lines... All the >>Democrats vote one way and all the Republicans vote another way... >>This means that the hearings meant nothing because each >>Congressperson voted strictly along party lines... This can't be >>considered fair and >>just... How can any of these representatives of the people say they >>voted strictly on the facts? Whatever we may think of Clinton's >>actions, the Judiciary hearings were strictly political... Doesnt the fact that it was a party line vote beg the question... which side was acting in a partisan way.. and which side was following the Constitutional duties of the congress in this matter?