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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: halfscot who wrote (10675)	1/27/1999 4:20:00 PM
From: Machaon	Respond to of 13994

halfscot, are you sure you are correct? I thought that is was: "What luck for rulers that men do not think." - Chairman Hyde? Could I be wrong?

To: halfscot who wrote (10675)	1/27/1999 11:21:00 PM
From: Catfish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

Clinton Can Be Taken Down One Step at a Time New York Post January 27 Dick Morris Hubbell will take the pressure. His wife won't, and then Webb may not stand up either, and Starr might get enough evidence of Clinton's obstruction of justice to make the Senate take notice. impeachment snowball isn't in meltdown, it's rolling down Capitol Hill, gaining heft with each rotation. If you believe the three witnesses the Senate will vote to depose - Lewinsky, Jordan and Blumenthal - are the end of the process ... Then you must be one of those who thought that Kenneth Starr would never recommend impeachment ... Or that the Judiciary Committee would never recommend impeachment ... Or that the House would never vote impeachment ... Or that the Senate would dismiss the charges before the trial started ... Or that the Senate would dismiss after opening statements ... Or that the Senate would never depose witnesses ... The deposition of witnesses is merely the next step in a process that, inevitably, will go the distance, with each step justifying the previous one until a full trial has run its course. The depositions will likely lead to live testimony and then to more witnesses and more testimony. Will the president's solid phalanx of support crack? That depends on two people: Webb Hubbell and Betty Currie. Webb and Susan Hubbell were indicted by Kenneth Starr on tax-evasion charges, but their indictments were thrown out by a Democratic district court judge. Yesterday, the circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the indictments. Kenneth Starr doesn't much care about the level of IRS tax collections. He indicted the Hubbells to get Webb to talk about the jobs Clinton and his friends got him to shut him up and stop him from spilling what he knew about Whitewater. Webb will take the pressure. Susan likely won't and then Webb may not stand up either. If the impeachment process goes on for a few more weeks, Starr can pressure the Hubbells and might adduce enough evidence of Clinton's generic patterns of obstruction of justice to make the Senate take notice. Betty Currie says Monica Lewinsky asked for her to pick up the gifts. Lewinsky says Currie asked her and says she spoke with Currie three times on the day she gave Currie the gifts. If Lewinsky asked Currie to pick up the gifts, she might have done so on her own. But if Currie was the one who called Lewinsky, it is very, very, very unlikely that she did so on her own. If Starr uses Lewinsky's testimony to threaten Currie, she might have more to say about what Clinton did or did not tell her to do about the gifts. So the job of the Senate Republicans and the House managers is to take each step knowing that each one makes the next one more likely. As they buy time, Starr can increase the pressure. That's the only way Clinton will leave office early. freerepublic.com