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

To: miraje who wrote (33230)	2/10/1999 1:02:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 67261

Well, that statement of Monica must have felt like a slap on House Manager Ed Bryant's face! That was powerful indeed!! As regards perjury, it looks like more than 20 Republican Senators might vote "not guilty" on the first article. Imagine that -- acquittal by a two-thirds vote! I hope that happens. We can then top it off with a nice weekend which, appropriately enough, happens to be the Presidents' Day weekend!

To: miraje who wrote (33230)	2/10/1999 1:04:00 PM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

GOP Fears Compounding Negative Image By Thomas B. Edsall Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, February 10, 1999; Page A14 Republican strategists are worried that the public's negative view of their party goes far beyond the negative reaction to the GOP's role in impeachment. Impeachment, they say, is part of a growing record of miscalculation dating to 1995 that reinforced the image of a party defiant of -- if not claiming to be superior to -- the public will, deeply opposed to President Clinton, driven by a minority of intensely partisan interest groups and ideologues. The end of the impeachment inquiry will not mean a new dawn for the GOP; instead, in this view, the Republican Party faces a long, difficult struggle to restore the credibility it initially built up in the 1980s, and then again in the 1994 election, only to be steadily squandered since then. "We have been the British army: the best troops and the worst generals," a GOP media specialist said. "We pick fights and run away, we pick the wrong fights and then run away. We should at least make the enemy take some casualties before we retreat, but we don't even do that." washingtonpost.com

To: miraje who wrote (33230)	2/10/1999 1:14:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 67261

I confess to exasperation, especially because I know you are not a fool. But subversion of the legal system is a "high crime and misdemeanor", in the estimation of many. The fact that it was about sex is neither here nor there, if a judge determines that the issue is relevant to a trial. In any case, he could have refused to answer on 5th amendment grounds, or he could have settled---- or, here's one, he could have waited until the suit was over before engaging in reckless behavior. Monica is wrong, in any event. He was married; involved others, such as Betty Currie; risked the trust of his supporters; engaged in sex in the workplace, which is subject to inquiry, at least; then lied about it in a civil deposition, etc.etc.etc. Just because a desire is strong does not make it sacrosanct.

To: miraje who wrote (33230)	2/10/1999 1:17:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Providing a job to a witness to cooperate in the Clinton depositions is Obstruction of Justice. Providing a job to a IOC member's family member in order to obtain the Winter Olympics is Bribery. They sound pretty much the same.