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

To: George Coyne who wrote (10873)	2/1/1999 1:45:00 AM
From: The Irb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Yes, impeachment/trial was intended to undo an election, but the point is that undoing an election is not something a Congress should do frivolously or out of pique. I and others have argued convincingly that taking impeachment/trial lightly is exactly what the Congressional Republicans are doing. Take this example: Say Clinton had, in direct disobedience of federal law, sold arms to Iran to fund an illegal and covert war in Central America. In that case, I too would be calling for Clinton's impeachment/trial, but as far as I know, he hasn't done this. Reagan or persons in his administration did, but the Democratically-controlled Congress didn't impeach him. That suggests that the then Democratically-controlled House had a great deal more respect for the Constitution than the 1998 Republican House members. The impeachment/trial of Clinton for lies about sex is a knife into the heart of our form of government. The nation may recover if we can stop the bleeding soon, but I'm afraid we'll be in intensive care for quite a while. Joel Irby Austin, Texas