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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Catfish who wrote (19816)	1/30/1999 9:08:00 AM
From: jimpit	Respond to of 20981

Good posts, Darrell. Here's some tidbits from yesterday's Washington Times... -------------------------------------------- THE WASHINGTON TIMES January 29, 1999 Inside the Beltway Political tidbits and other shenanigans from around the nation's capital By John McCaslin Byrd and honor The other day, when the conscience of the Senate, Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, broke his unusual silence and demanded an end to the impeachment trial of President Clinton, everybody but Mr. Clinton thought it was over. The president isn't so stupid. So since there continues a "trial," for lack of a better word, and because Mr. Byrd must continue sitting quietly in judgment of his president, we provide the Democrat with a little reading material -- his own words, in fact, from Nov. 4, 1993, when it was a Republican, Sen. Bob Packwood of Oregon, who was being pushed through the exit door. "The issue is whether or not we are going to have a double standard," Mr. Byrd began, "whether we are going to have a different standard for a senator from that which governs Joe Six-Pack or the ordinary citizen. It is whether or not we are going to add to the already regrettable perception throughout the land that we, the Senate, will not police ourselves, that we will gather around one of our own and that we will protect him. ... "Every time that one of us tarnishes the Senate by not living up to the title and high calling of senators we are hurting much more than ourselves or our families or even the constituents we serve. Every time that a member brings less than honor to this chamber, a little more of the marble of the people's trust is chipped away from this institution. ... "None of us is pure or without flaws, but when those flaws damage the institution ... it is time to have the grace to go." (emphasis:jimpit) washtimes.com ----------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- WASHINGTON TIMES January 29, 1999 Inside Politics News and political dispatches from around the nation By Greg Pierce Then and now When a judge criticized independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr and threw out an indictment of Clinton pal Webster L. Hubbell on July 1, the news led the ABC, CBS and CNN evening shows, the Media Research Center reports. "Six months later, an appeals court reinstated the indictment. Zilch on ABC, 12 seconds on CBS, a bit more on CNN." washtimes.com ------------------------- Copyright © 1999 News World Communications, Inc.