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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (23201)	12/20/1998 3:04:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 67261

Livingston May Have Been in for a Push nytimes.com On Livingston and some of the things you mention, TigerPaw, we have this article, perhaps your source. As usual, the good gray Times is about 1000x deeper than the local substantive debate. Just a small snippet: William W. Pascoe 3d, political director of the American Conservative Union, said that considering he was once chairman of the Appropriations Committee, "there's no limit to how much money he could make" as a lobbyist. But, he added, "We're being silly if we say that the thought never occurred to him on his own that he was setting an example that might build public support for Clinton to end this long national nightmare and resign." But Livingston's decision also thrust the Republican Party deeper into turmoil only weeks after a discouraging election that cost the party seats in the House and forced Speaker Newt Gingrich to step aside for Livingston. "This certainly has to erode confidence in the Republicans' ability to govern," said Charles Cook Jr., editor of a nonpartisan political report. "But at the same time none of this makes the Democrats look any better. The headaches that this creates are just endless." Livingston's announcement not only set off a fresh leadership struggle, but many leading Republicans said they now feared that David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, would follow through on his plans to run for Livingston's House seat should he retire. I guess one class of conservatives has to be cheering for 2 years of gridlock running into the Y2K election instead of the customary 1, but the moral reformationist wing was probably hoping for better. Another article from today's Times: Livingston Quits Over Adultery Admission nytimes.com And the end of that piece: Democrats hoped that Livingston's seemingly drastic action would wake up the House to how poisoned the atmosphere had become and might prompt Republicans to reconsider the impeachment of President Clinton. Representative Paul E. Kanjorski, Democrat of Pennsylvania, said, "We are now starting to offer up sacrificial lambs to whatever terrible disease this is." In a stirring speech applauded even by some Republicans, Representative Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri, the Democratic leader, praised Livingston as a "worthy, good and honorable man" and said his resignation was a grave mistake. "It's a terrible capitulation to the negative political forces that are consuming our political system and our country," Gephardt said, adding that the events of the last few days showed "life imitates farce." "We need to stop destroying imperfect people at an unattainable altar of public morality," he said, urging his colleagues to "step back from the abyss" and reject resignation, impeachment and "vicious self-righteousness." To quote Richard Nixon from scandals past on that one, "We could do that- BUT IT WOULD BE WRONG!" No one gets out of here alive.