At 08:32 AM 3/18/02 -0800 Matt Grimaldi wrote:
>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.
What sort of punishment under the Constitution do you consider appropriate
for violating the oath to faithfully execute the Office of the President of
the United States? Is resigning and handing over the Presidency to your
hand-packed succesor so that he can run for re-election as an incumbent in
two years somehow *too* severe?
Definitely something for Democrats to think about - if they simply do the
principled thing and force Clinton to resign, then Al Gore, not George W.
Bush is almost certainly President today....
>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.
So, you think that pushing a law through Congress (and then signing) that
requires defendents accused of sexual harrassment to truthfully answer
questions under oath regarding their sexual history --> and then refusing
to assent that that same lie applies to yourself is just o.k.? Clinton
did not simply lie about an affair. He lied under oath before a Grand
Jury in testimony compelled by his own law, which he designed to protect
victims of sexual harrassment.
JDG
P.S. Starr didn't dig up Paula Jones..... and the best that his
investigationg came up with was sending a governor to jail. I suppose
that just like honesty, sending governors to jail isn't important to
Democrats either.....
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