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


To: Bill who wrote (24332)12/23/1998 8:22:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (7) | Respond to of 67261
 
Yeah, yeah, the Billy Boy Scout Unit Republicans are dragging the Republican party down. Fine by me.



To: Bill who wrote (24332)12/24/1998 9:12:00 AM
From: lazarre  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 67261
 
Moynihan is a pompous hypocrite. I find it quite understandable why you would put Byrd in some category for esteem.

The Democratic Party has not been stronger since 92'. Moynihan is in his last term thank goodness and Byrd, well, Byrd looks like the Strom of the dems. Neither have been at the core policy debate among dems.
for a couple of years now. Though admittedly, Byrd is pretty powerful procedurally.
L



To: Bill who wrote (24332)12/25/1998 11:38:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 67261
 
Moynihan Favors a Clinton Censure, Saying Ouster Could 'Destabilize' Office nytimes.com

Sorry, the Republican's favorite Democrat seems to have rethought his position. Time to look for a new poster boy.

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York made clear on Thursday that President Clinton should be censured but not removed from office, warning that the moves to oust Clinton might threaten to "very readily destabilize the presidency."

Speaking out for the first time about possible Senate action, Moynihan questioned whether the charges were strong enough to merit Clinton's removal from office.

He said he had consulted many of his colleagues and was increasingly confident that there was support among Democrats and Republicans to move rapidly to cut short a prolonged impeachment trial.

His comments will bring a measure of relief to the White House, where some officials had feared that Moynihan, who has broken with the president often in the past, might again turn on Clinton. His seniority, scholarship and independence make him an influential member of the Senate.

"We are an indispensable nation and we have to protect the presidency as an institution," Moynihan, a Democrat who has been a fixture of American politics for five decades, said in a telephone interview from his home here, where he was preparing for a Senate trial by reading The Federalist Papers.

"There has to be a commander in chief," he said. "You could very readily destabilize the presidency, move to a randomness. That's an institution that has to be stable, not in dispute. Absent that, do not doubt that you could degrade the republic quickly."


Merry Christmas to all.