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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (86295)	12/20/1998 8:44:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

<--OT-->Paul, damn liberals,huh?<vbg> ============================ Sunday December 20, 6:22 pm Eastern Time U.S. newspapers deplore impeachment, back censure WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Top American newspapers on Sunday criticized the U.S. House of Representatives for impeaching President Bill Clinton, with most urging the Senate to censure Clinton rather than remove him from office. Editorials in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said the House had erred in sending two articles of impeachment on to the Senate. Several of those newspapers urged the upper chamber to end the conflict by censuring the president. Only the Chicago Tribune said the next step should be Clinton's resignation. ''The House Republicans acted unwisely in resorting to impeachment,'' the Chicago Tribune editorial said. But because ''Clinton acted immorally and illegally -- several times over,'' he ''ought to resign as a matter of personal honor,'' it said. The leading papers in New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta recommended instead that the Senate follow a scenario proposed by former Majority Leader Bob Dole, a Republican from Kansas. Dole has suggested that the Senate adopt and send to the House a resolution condemning Clinton for lying under oath. Clinton would then sign the resolution on television, essentially admitting that he had lied repeatedly under oath. The entire process could be over by the end of January, according to the 1996 Republican presidential candidate. The Senate has been offered a ''shining opportunity,'' The New York Times said. ''A simple majority vote -- 45 Democrats plus six cooperating Republicans -- can end the Senate trial at any time, clearing the way for introduction of the kind of censure resolution suggested by ... Dole,'' it noted. The paper called Rep. Bob Livingston's surprise resignation on Friday the wrong model for resolving the crisis. Livingston resigned as Speaker-elect after admitting to have extramarital affairs. And it urged Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, a Republican from Mississippi, to reach for a ''starring role in history'' and support censure rather than ''surrender to (a) mean streak'' acquired during 16 ''grumpy'' years as a minority member of the House. In the view of the Los Angeles Times, Clinton hardly ''threatens the well-being of the republic,'' the standard required for impeachment of a president. The paper also endorsed New York Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer's call for the Republicans to ''reject the instinct for revenge.'' ''A strong official rebuke'' by the Senate would be the best way to end ''this vile and dispiriting business,'' it concluded. ''Has everyone in Washington gone nuts?'' The Atlanta Journal-Constitution asked, referring to Republican questioning of Clinton's motives in bombing Iraq and the revelation of extramarital affairs that led Livingston to resign. The House's vote on Saturday to impeach Clinton is a ''rebuke that that will live on in the annals of history,'' the paper said. ''That is punishment enough'' for the president, it judged. Now, the Journal-Constitution said, a censure like that proposed by Dole could dispel a ''grotesque atmosphere of finger-pointing and mudslinging'' and extricate the country from a ''heartbreaking'' situation. The Washington Post called the House's vote on Saturday to impeach the president ''a mistake.'' Passage of the article accusing Clinton of obstructing justice was ''reckless'' because no independent House investigation preceded it, the Post said. Whether Clinton lied to special prosecutor Kenneth Starr's grand jury, the basis of the other approved article, was ''a close call,'' it said. But that article, by focusing on the president's alleged perjury and not its content, ''ignores both discretion and the underlying purpose of impeachment,'' it said. The Post regretted that Clinton did resign early in the scandal, as it had advised him to. Now, it said, ''there is no way out that does not do the country lasting damage.'' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------