In a message dated 6/20/01 11:02:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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Again, however, this is clear evidence for acting on principle. You're
absolutely right, of course, President Gore would have been much more
leftish than Clinton. So why else would they act against their own
interests, unless for them the ends did not justify the means? >>
John - When the entire mess began the republicans assumed that the scandal
would hand them overwhelming control of the congress with which they could
push their agenda and thwart Gore who would have been serving out the term of
the disgraced leader of a disgraced party. That this calculation proved to
horribly wrong does not prove that the republicans were acting out of a
higher moral stance. Some were but you must see this for what it was: A
partisan political battle. The neat cleavage for or against impeachment along
party lines requires that interpretation unless you believe that the
republicans are all high minded moralists and the democrats all cynical
degenerates. The issue over which this battle was fought was not one of
national importance. It was purely about personal misbehavior.
