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

To: Bill who wrote (29741)	1/25/1999 4:34:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

The Republicans are in a lose-lose situation now. If they succeed in getting Clinton removed from office, they might as well forget about the Year 2000 Presidential elections. For Gore would be too entrenched by then and will knock the teeth out of GW Bush or McCain or anybody else that the GOP will put up. If they fail to dislodge Clinton, it will be only after at least another 3 or 4 months of this circus (and 3-4 more months of this circus is a real possibility now that it almost sure that the motion to call witnesses will succeed). And the people will react against the Republicans the same way they did when they tried to shut down the Government -- only much stronger. As for "principles" etc., nobody buys that crap, except the crazed right-wing lunatics.

To: Bill who wrote (29741)	1/25/1999 7:12:00 PM
From: Marty	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

Re your "There is no political gain in pursuing this issue of principal." That is what I can't understand. They used one barrel to shoot themselves in the foot and are now aiming the other barrel at their own ear. They have suspended their critical faculties and make it worse every day. They have ensnared themselves by very poor leadership and now have no way out now except to claim they were "only doing their duty" on a matter of principle. If it were a matter of principle, they wouldn't have changed their views between the handling of, say the matter of perjury, between what they said during the Iran-Contra affair and this mess. If it were over, say, the matter of adultery, they could hardly cast the first stone.