Dan Minette wrote: > >The American people wanted Nixon impeached when, > >after firing the special prosecuter and the attorney > >general, he was finally forced by the Supreme Court > >to give up evidence that showed his involvement > >in the coverup of breaking and entering.
John D. Giorgis wrote: > Thank you for making my point. Once the coverrup, ie > the lies, were exposed - Nixon was forced to resign. > > On the contrary, once evidence was presented that Clinton > lied under oath in testimony compelled by a law he pushed > through Congress and signed, the Democratic Party made > numerous statements that lieing simply wasn't important. If Clinton had covered up the same kinds of things that Nixon or Reagan had, he would have been thrown out quicker than you can say "Independant Prosecutor". As it was, the Republican congress misinterpred the nearly unanimous call for some sort of punishment to mean that they should impeach him. Impeachment was just too damn harsh in most people's minds for a sex scandal. He wasn't trying to fix elections, He wasn't trying to surreptitiously help terrorists, none of that. They had an independant prosecutor investigate him for 4 years and the *best* they could come up with was that he lied about having an affair, which is something most people could understand doing if they found themselves in a similar situation. -- Matt _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
