-Caveat Lector- -----Original Message----- From: Larry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater,alt.impeach.clinton,alt.politics.usa.r epublican,alt.politics.usa.congress Date: Sunday, January 24, 1999 10:48 AM Subject: "The Ox Is in the Ditch" >Senator Hollings must be a Baptist. That's a Baptist expression for >an excuse to work on Sunday against the biblical admonition, "Six days >shalt thou do all thy labor and on the seventh, thou shalt rest." > >But there's one thing you can say about Fritz Hollings (D. SC). He's >a better judge of who the Scribes are. This morning Tim Russert, who >probably never read anything as deep or challenging as the >Constitution, tried to induce a large group of Senators to sign off on >the punishment thing, the "corruption of our children" thing, and the >new evidence in the Senate thing, and Hollings would have none of it. > >Both Hollings and Harkin---and many other Senators who won't muster >the courage to say it---know that the Senate now has exclusive >jurisdiction in the impeachment hearings and that Judge Norma >Johnson's intervention ordering Monica Lewinsky to "chat" with House >Managers is clearly unconstitutional. It would be salutary for this >issue to be litigated and the Managers sat down and lectured a little >about their rash trespasses on Senate lands before Americans get the >wrong idea about separation of powers. > >But how can that be done? Perhaps Justice Rehnquist should run over >to the Supreme Court and hear the controversy with the other eight >Justices. They have already ruled in Judge Nixon's case that the >courts have no jurisdiction once an impeachment has reached the >Senate. The Senate can subpoena Lewinsky and other witnesses on >simple majority votes. The Senate also has power to punish for >contempt. That's how it should be done. > >And now that Plato Cacheris is back advising Monica, he'd do well to >coach her not to talk so freely, or maybe not at all, since that >diabolical camp of prosecutors just loves to turn those perjury >thumb-screws. > >All this other talk about bringing up cant issues in the Senate like >Delay's quarter-century-old rape allegation or charges of sexual >harassment---it just won't fly. There are just two questions in the >Senate: perjury and obstruction, and even the Republican Senators >admit they don't have the votes to convict. > >That's the ox in the ditch, and the sooner he's pulled out so the >country can get back to honest business, the better. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
