Freeper untenured 12/9/98 ".Graham basically charged that Clinton used Blumenthal to orchestrate a campaing to smear Lewinsky as a deranged stalker. The only thing that prevented the plan from taking off was the dress. Graham challenged all committee members to read the vast stack of press clippings he had supporting such a plan. He challenged women in particular because of the sorts of things that women have thrown at them in rape trials. Following that, explosions of points of order from Waters and Frank. To the surpise of none, Waters said that she was "offended" as a woman that she had any duty to respond to "wild" charges.."

Freeper report 12/9/98 ".I could not possibly do Mr. Graham justice, but he basically said that clinton had a plan like he had with all previous affairs. He knew if Monica talked, his political career would be over as well as legal problems starting. So he planted the thought in Currie's mind and Sid Vicious' mind that she came on to him, she was a stalker,etc., knowing they would repeat it and she would be destroyed. Hence the abuse of power. If not for the dress, his plan was to destroy her,also, as he had so many times with so many women. Lindsay said "this is not Peyton Place, this is abuse of power worse than Watergate." I'm paraphrasing...He just kept going on when all around him democraps were yelling and shouting at Mr. Hyde. I know I am not doing him justice, it was just MAGNIFICENT!!!."

Freeper Steven W 12/9/98 ".Before the Judiciary Committee, Charles Ruff, Clinton's lead counsel, proclaimed that if perjury before the grand jury could be proven, it would be impeachable, without a doubt! Then he went on to say that, of course, Clinton told the truth in the Grand Jury.."

Freeper Scott Mahrle 12/9/98 ".Before Graham, Rogan nailed Ruff. First, both agree that state of mind matters on Clinton's defn. of sexual relations. Rogan agrees that if evidence backs up pres's position on his state of mind, HJC would be wrong to conclude perjury. Then, Rogan gets Ruff to admit that if evidence shows pres's state of mind was not what his lawyers say it was, they should conclude perjury. Finally Rogan refers to several January interviews in which Clinton EQUATES IMPROPER RELATIONS WITH SEXUAL RELATIONS, beginning with Jim Lehrer interview. Ruff gets no time to respond. Then Graham hits him. What a way to end it!."

Freeper occupant 12/9/98 ".This should be a slam-dunk. Clinton knowingly lied in his civil suit deposition, in his grand jury testimony (impeachable if proven, according to Ruff), and by extension in his 81 "answers". According to the definition set before him in the deposition, his answer that he had not had "sexual relations" with ML would only be true if he NEVER touched her during any of their encounters. ML has testified in extreme detail of the many times and ways that POTUS did in fact touch her, and his defenders have not contradicted EVEN ONE of her statements made under oath. Not to mention the problem of how his DNA could get on her dress during a non-sexual encounter! [oops, I mentioned it] ."

Associated Press 12/9/98 Laurie Kellman ".``Third panel, no facts yet,'' Inglis, 39, said as the last panel testified Tuesday. Earlier, he took White House lawyer Gregory Craig to task for failing to agree that Clinton lied or committed perjury when he tried to cover up his affair with Monica Lewinsky. ``Did he lie to the American people when he said, `I never had sex with that woman?''' Inglis asked. ``He doesn't believe that he did,'' Craig answered. ``He does not believe that he lied.'' An incredulous-looking Inglis said: ``This is an amazing thing. ... You're taking back all of his apologies.''."

Associated Press 12/9/98 Laurie Kellman ". On Monday, Hyde chose Bono, the most junior of 26 committee Republicans, to stand with him at a press briefing before opening the committee's final round of impeachment hearings. She was the dark-haired, pinstriped California congresswoman standing with Hyde in front of 20 white boxes that once contained documents from Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. Hyde delivered his statement, stepped back and let Bono, 36, take the microphone. As she does in nearly every public remark on impeachment, Bono invoked her children as inspirations for her vote -- which she has yet to divulge. Bono, one of the few non-lawyers on the committee, has brought a more personal note to the hearings than some of her colleagues. Last month, she asked Starr how the inquiry had affected his family life. On Tuesday, she asked Craig what he tells his own children about Clinton. ``How do you explain to them that your president has lied and that it's OK?'' Bono asked. ``Oh, it's not OK to lie, congresswoman,'' Craig answered. ``I say that it's the most important thing in the world to tell the truth all the time.'' ``The whole truth and nothing but the truth?'' Bono pressed. ``The whole truth,'' Craig replied. ``And I tell them that one of the reasons that the president is in such trouble is that he did not. He misled the American people. He misled his family. He misled his colleagues. And that was wrong.''."

CNN 12/9/98 ".The following is a censure resolution to be offered by Judiciary Committee Democrats, Reps. Rick Boucher (D-Virginia), Thomas Barrett (D-Wisconsin) and William Delahunt (D-Massachusetts), as an alternative to impeachment: It is the Sense of the Congress that - On January 20, 1993, William Jefferson Clinton took the oath, prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, faithfully to execute the Office of President; implicit in that oath is the obligation that the President set an example of high moral standards and conduct himself in a manner that fosters respect for the truth; and William Jefferson Clinton has egregiously failed in this obligation, and through his actions has violated the trust of the American people, lessened their esteem for the office of the President and dishonored the office which they have entrusted to him, Be it resolved that: 1. The President made false statements concerning his reprehensible conduct with a subordinate; 2. The President wrongly took steps to delay discovery of the truth; 3. No person is above the law, and the President remains subject to criminal and civil penalties for this conduct; 4. William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States, by his conduct has brought upon himself and fully deserves the censure and condemnation of the American people and the Congress; and by his signature on this Joint Resolution, the President acknowledges this censure.."

NYT/AP 12/9/98 ".Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's office said Wednesday the White House made misleading statements in a 184-page report that concluded President Clinton committed no crimes in the Monica Lewinsky matter. In a news release, the prosecutor cited what his office called ``three of the many misleading statements in the White House submission'' issued Tuesday. The prosecutor said the White House report by Clinton's lawyers left out a key passage of Clinton's testimony in the Paula Jones case concerning whether he had ever been alone with Ms. Lewinsky. In the omitted passage, Clinton agreed that he had no specific recollection of ever being alone with the former White House intern. In another instance, Starr said the White House left out evidence that Clinton's secretary, Betty Currie, picked up gifts from Ms. Lewinsky last Dec. 28, the last day the ex-intern met with the president. The omitted evidence was a cell- phone record of a call from Mrs. Currie to Ms. Lewinsky. In a third case, Starr's office says the White House did not include testimony from Ms. Lewinsky in which she said she and Clinton had discussed what to do with gifts he had given her.."

ABCNEWS.com 12/9/98 ".ARTICLE I .On August 17, 1998, William Jefferson Clinton swore to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth before a Federal grand jury of the United States. Contrary to that oath, William Jefferson Clinton willfully provide perjurious, false and misleading testimony to the grand jury concerning: (1) the nature of the details of his relationship with a subordinate government employee; (2) prior, perjurious, false and misleading testimony he gave in a Federal civil rights action brought against him; (3) prior false and misleading statements he allowed his attorney to make to a Federal judge in that civil rights action; and (4) his corrupt efforts to influence the testimony of witnesses and to impede the discovery of evidence in that civil rights action..."

ABCNEWS.com 12/9/98 ".ARTICLE II .(1) On December 23, 1997, William Jefferson Clinton, in sworn answers to written questions asked as part of a Federal civil rights action brought against him, willfully provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony in response to questions deemed relevant by a Federal judge concerning conduct and proposed conduct with subordinate employees. (2) On January 17, 1988, William Jefferson Clinton swore under oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth in a deposition given as part of a Federal civil rights action brought against him. Contrary to that oath, William Jefferson Clinton willfully provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony in repose to questions deemed relevant by a Federal judge concerning the nature and details of his relationship with a subordinate government employee and his corrupt efforts to influence the testimony of that employee..

ABCNEWS.com 12/9/98 ".ARTICLE III.(1) On or about December 17, 1997, William Jefferson Clinton corruptly encouraged a witness in a Federal civil rights action brought against him to execute a sworn affidavit in that proceeding that he knew to be perjurious, false and misleading. (2) On or about December 17, 1997, William Jefferson Clinton corruptly encouraged a witness in a Federal civil rights action brought against him to give perjurious, false and misleading testimony if and when called to testify personally in that proceeding. (3) Beginning on or about December 7, 1997, and continuing through and including January 14, 1998, William Jefferson Clinton intensified and succeeded in an effort to secure job assistance to a witness in a Federal civil rights action brought against him in order to corruptly prevent the truthful testimony of that witness in that proceeding at a time when the truthful testimony of that witness would have been harmful to him. (4) On January 17, 1998, at his deposition in a Federal civil rights action brought against him, William Jefferson Clinton corruptly allowed his attorney to make false and misleading statements to a Federal judge characterizing an affidavit, in order to prevent questioning deemed relevant by the judge. Such false and misleading statements were subsequently acknowledged by his attorney in a communication to that judge. (5) On or about January 18 and January 20-21, 1998, William Jefferson Clinton related a false and misleading account of events relevant to a Federal civil rights action brought against him to a potential witness in that proceeding, in order to corruptly influence the testimony of that witness. (6) On or about January 21, 23 and 26, 1998, William Jefferson Clinton made false and misleading statements to potential witnesses in a Federal grand jury proceeding in order to corruptly influence the testimony of those witnesses. The false and misleading statements made by William Jefferson Clinton were repeated by the witnesses to the grand jury, causing the grand jury to receive false and misleading information..

ABCNEWS.com 12/9/98 ".ARTICLE IV.This misuse and abuse of office has included one or more of the following: (1) As President, using the attributes of office, William Jefferson Clinton willfully made false and misleading public statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United States in order to continue concealing his misconduct and to escape accountability for such misconduct. (2) As President, using the attributes of office, William Jefferson Clinton willfully made false and misleading statements to members of his cabinet, and White House aides, so that these Federal employees would repeat such false and misleading statements publicly, thereby utilizing public resources for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United States, in order to continue concealing his misconduct and to escape accountability for such misconduct. The false and misleading statements made by William Jefferson Clinton to members of his cabinet and White House aides were repeated by those members and aides, causing the people of the United States to receive false and misleading information from high government officials. (3) As President, using the Office of White House Counsel, William Jefferson Clinton frivolously and corruptly asserted executive privilege, which is intended to protect from disclosure communications regarding the constitutional functions of the Executive, and which may be exercised only by the President, with respect to communications other than those regarding the constitutional functions of the Executive, for the purpose of delaying and obstructing a Federal criminal investigation and the proceedings of a Federal grand jury. (4) As President, William Jefferson Clinton refused and failed to respond to certain requests for admission and willfully made perjurious, false and misleading sworn statements in response to certain written requests for admission propounded to him as part of the impeachment inquiry authorized by the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States. William Jefferson Clinton, in refusing and failing to respond and in making perjurious, false and misleading statements, assumed to himself functions and judgements necessary to the exercise of the sole power of impeachment vested by the Constitution in the House of Representatives and exhibited contempt for the inquiry. In all of this, William Jefferson Clinton has undermined the integrity of his office, has brought disrepute on the Presidency, has betrayed his trust as President, and has acted in a manner subversive of the rule of law and justice, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, William Jefferson Clinton, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States."

Washington Post 12/10/98 Guy Gugliotta ".Sometimes it looks like a good-natured pie fight. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) turns one of her patented blasts of outrage on Rep. Henry J. Hyde (R-Ill.) for appearing to have condoned lying 10 years ago, only to have Hyde charmingly ask "unanimous consent that the gentlelady be permitted to finish her attack on me." Other times it's trench warfare. When smiling Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) says the "White House spin machine" is offering "no new facts" in the case, he is not laughing. Nor is Rep. Melvin Watt (D-N.C.) when he icily reminds Inglis that the GOP has provided nothing new, either, and "the presumption of innocence" remains "in favor of the president."."

Washington Post 12/10/98 Dan Balz and Eric Pianin ".House Republican leaders yesterday struggled to maintain the momentum to impeach President Clinton, as Democrats worked to develop support for an acceptable censure resolution that could include an admission of guilt by the president and a hefty fine. Apparently fearing defections before a vote next week on articles of impeachment, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry J. Hyde (R-Ill.) sent a letter to the entire House, pleading with members not to make a public commitment on impeachment until his committee has completed its work.."

New York Times 12/10/98 Bill Safire ".If the House sent the charges against President Clinton to the Senate for trial, said White House Counsel Charles Ruff, it would be "putting the country through the horror that we all know would follow." Trying the President on such charges would be "a nightmare for the country." That is what has become the essence of Clinton's case against impeachment: horror. Nightmare. And how long would the unbearable senatorial torture have to be endured? Four months, say some; other Clintonites direly warn that the country would be "paralyzed" most of 1999. Not only that, say the scaremongers; because the Chief Justice of the U.S. would preside at the trial, the Supreme Court would be out of business too. This drumbeat of alarm is noisy malarkey. When asked when the Senate would take up an impeachment if one came over from the House, the majority leader, Trent Lott, answered, "Jan. 6." How long would the trial take? "Three days to three weeks," was his estimate. They'd have to work Saturdays.."

The Washington Times 12/10/98 Bill Sammon ".The White House winced yesterday as its own attorney conceded that "reasonable people" could conclude President Clinton gave false testimony, its own witness acknowledged the president committed perjury and a Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee said Mr. Clinton "lied under oath." ."

Reuters 12/10/98 ".``I do ask every member, especially the female members here, if you've ever done a rape trial you know what comes women's way sometimes -- 'They wear their skirts too tight and they're flirtatious and you've got to watch out for these tight ladies','' Graham said on the last day of a White House defense presentation before the panel. Both Clinton and Lewinsky have admitted to a consensual affair near the Oval Office that started when Lewinsky was a White House intern. Graham said it was Lewinsky's dress with the semen stain that FBI tests concluded matched the president's DNA which prevented the White House from assassinating her character. ``If she (Lewinsky) didn't have that blue dress proving a relationship, they would have cut her up,'' Graham said..Women's groups this year have struggled over how to respond to a scandal involving a president they see as having advanced women's issues but who acted in a manner they cannot condone. ``I do believe for a moment in time, the president of the United States used the full power and force of the White House to go after a young lady so that she couldn't hurt him politically and legally,'' Graham said. ``And that is far more like Watergate than Peyton Place.''

WorldNetDaily 12/10/98 David Limbaugh ".The purpose of this piece, though, is not to justify Nixon's conduct, especially with respect to governmental agencies. But it is to challenge the universally accepted assertion that such conduct was worse and more subversive of the Constitution than Clinton's alleged behavior. Nixon himself never testified nor submitted any sworn affidavits to any tribunal, judicial or legislative. Clinton clearly lied under oath numerous times in both civil and criminal proceedings and most recently to Congress, in his Responses to Henry Hyde's 81 Requests for Admission. The worst allegations about Nixon concerned subverting the Constitution by misusing the CIA and FBI. Yet both agencies are in the Executive branch of government under the direct authority of the President as Chief Executive Officer. Clinton, by contrast, directed his primary assault against another coequal branch of government, the judiciary. Historians and constitutional scholars will agree that the delicate separation of powers among the three branches is fundamental to our constitutional system of government. His war against the judicial branch constitutes a threat to this system. This attack on the judicial branch has consisted of overwhelming evidence of scores of perjuries, multiple counts of obstruction of justice and admitted attempts to mislead his party opponents and the courts. Perhaps more damaging than all of this, however, was his opprobrious mockery of the judicial system during his grand jury testimony by his ludicrous parsing of the English language as he feebly endeavored to explain away his civil perjury. And, as the chief exemplar of the moral values for the nation and its children, he has through his conduct and that of his defenders attempted to systematically undermine the American cultural heritage as to what constitutes right and wrong. He has defined deviancy down by shamelessly trivializing his misconduct and trying to redefine acceptable societal standards. If Clinton defenders and Watergate zealots insist on maintaining that "subversions of the Constitution" epitomize impeachable conduct then the rest of us should be prepared to meet them on their terms. How could there be a more salient example of subverting the Constitution than the president conducting thermo-nuclear war on the judiciary and the rule of law? ."

New York Times OP-ED 12/10/98 Marge Roukema, Rep (R-NJ) ". Many members of the House, including myself, have been dismayed by the President's evasive answers to the 81 questions presented to him by Representative Henry Hyde, the Judiciary Committee's chairman, as well as by the political circus created by David Kendall, the President's private lawyer, and the partisan tirades of the Democrats on the committee.."

NY Times 12/10/98 AP ".Speaker Newt Gingrich put lawmakers on notice today the House will convene next Thursday to debate any articles of impeachment against President Clinton approved by the Judiciary Committee. In a ``Dear Colleague'' letter prepared for all 435 lawmakers, Gingrich said any written report approved by the committee would be available by Wednesday. The brief letter never used the word ``impeachment.'' ."

UPI 12/10/98 ".Democratic counsel Abbe Lowell warned the House Judiciary Committee that President Clinton would not be the only one hurt and embarrassed if impeachment advances to the Senate for trial. The Senate, he said, would have to recall all the material witnesses in the case, including former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, who would be forced to repeat explicit sexual details of her relationship with Clinton on the floor of the Senate.."

UPI 12/10/98 "..Democratic counsel Abbe Lowell tried to put members of the House Judiciary Committee in President Clinton's shoes, to explain his verbal gymnastics during the Paula Jones civil deposition: ``He was being set up by Paula Jones' attorneys and Linda Tripp....He knew he was being set up....He set out to evade. He did not set out to lie.'' He then played a section of Clinton's grand jury testimony, when the president said: ``They were trying to set me up and trick me. Did I want this to come out? No. Was I embarrassed about it? Yes. Did I ask (Monica Lewinsky) to lie? No.'' ."

Judicial Watch 12/9/98 Larry Klayman ".. Dear Chairman Hyde: With our assistance, your staff has admirably researched, investigated, and confirmed serious criminal conduct committed by the President of the United States against Dolly Kyle Browning. This criminal conduct constitutes impeachable offenses. At the request of your staff, Mrs.Browning is in transit to Washington, D.C. to testify before the American public this week during the impeachment proceedings. We have been informed by sources, however, that for political and non-legal reasons, you are considering going against your staff and not calling Mrs. Browning as a witness before the Committee. If this occurs, Judicial Watch will regrettably be forced to expose what effectively amounts to a cover-up by you and those other Republicans who are once again putting political games ahead of the nation's interests.."

Reuters 12/10/98 Steve Holland ".President Clinton is open to a Democratic censure proposal that would condemn him for making ''false statements'' and leave him open to criminal and civil penalties, the White House said Thursday. White House spokesman Joe Lockhart said the White House was open to any proposal put forward by ``fair-minded people'' that seeks to end the Monica Lewinsky matter short of an impeachment of the president. ``I believe the elements of the proposal the Democrats put forward meet those criteria,'' he told reporters. Clinton, who has not commented in public on the impeachment inquiry this week, made what appeared to be an oblique reference to his predicament at a White House event on human rights Thursday. ``I have learned in ways large and small in the last six years that there is within every person a scale of justice and that people can too easily be herded into hatred and extremism often out of a belief that they have absolute truth and therefore are entitled to absolute power,'' he said. ``That they can ignore any constitution, any laws, override any facts.''."

UPI 12/10/98 Jennifer Brooks ".David Schippers, who drafted articles of impeachment for the House Judiciary Committee, told members that the account of President Clinton's actions detailed in the Starr report gives them all the evidence they need to justify his removal from office. Schippers, the committee's chief Republican counsel, brushed aside the legal and constitutional arguments the president's defenders have pushed for months. Instead, he went through independent counsel Kenneth Starr's report item by item, starting with the moment a 21-year-old White House intern flashed her panties at the president of the United States. "If this were only about sex, we would not be engaged in this debate," he said, but the president's response to Lewinsky "is illustrative of the character of the president." Also illustrative, he said, were the president's answers in his civil and grand jury depositions. Schippers rolled a series of segments from the previously sealed videotape of Clinton's testimony in the Paula Jones lawsuit. In one instance, Clinton flatly insists: "I've never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. I've never had an affair with her.".."

UPI 12/10/98 Jennifer Brooks ".Schippers' tone was sharply critical of the president. After showing one videotape of the Clinton deposition, he turned to the committee and asked, "Can you imagine trying to deal with this person?" Later, he ran through the list of people he believes the president lied to, from the grand jury and his Cabinet, to the Judiciary Committee and the American public. "There's no one left to lie to," he said. Referring to president's infamous defense that the truth of one statement "depends on what you mean by the word 'is,"' Schippers exploded: "This points out the president's complete disregard for the concept of the truth....'Is' doesn't mean 'was' or 'will be' so it wasn't lying." .Schippers also accused the White House of launching an orchestrated attack on Lewinsky's character, leaking stories to the media in which she was described as a "stalker," a "flirt," "a climber obsessed with the president" and a "child (with) serious emotional problems."

Reuters 12/10/98 ".Republican chief impeachment counsel David Schippers alleged Thursday he had found additional evidence that President Clinton obstructed justice and abused his power, but said he would not make it public at this time. ``We uncovered more incidents involving probable direct and deliberate obstruction of justice, witness tampering, perjury and abuse of power,'' Schippers said in his prepared statement to the House Judiciary Committee. But he said the Justice Department and Office of Independent Counsel had told him making it public now would compromise pending investigations.."

New York Times 12/10/98 Lizette Alvarez ".Almost immediately, the lifelong Democrat managed to rile committee Democrats. In his first appearance before the panel, Schippers told the members that there are "15 generations of Americans," who "are looking down and judging what you do." The remarks were immediately stricken from the record after Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the committee's senior Democrat, objected.."

Reuters 12-10-98 John Whitesides ".Clinton later told the Starr grand jury he had not paid attention to Bennett's statement at the deposition. The tape showed him looking in Bennett's direction as the lawyer spoke. ``Do you think for one moment, after watching the tape, that the president was not paying attention?'' Schippers asked.."

AP 12/10/98 ".After months of looking for a job -- since July, according to the president's lawyers -- Vernon Jordan just so happens to make the call to the CEO the day after the false affidavit was signed. ... Monica Lewinsky does not fit within the caliber of persons that would merit Mr. Jordan's direct recommendation to a CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Mr. Jordan was well aware that people with whom Ms. Lewinsky worked at the White House didn't like her, and that she was very unhappy with her Pentagon job. Vernon Jordan was asked if at any point during this process he wondered about her qualifications for employment. He answered no, because that was not my judgment to make..Do people like Vernon Jordan go to the wall for marginal employees? They do not, unless there is a compelling reason. The compelling reason was that the president told him this was top priority, especially after Monica was subpoenaed..

AP 12/10/98 ".The president wants us to believe that according to his reading of the deposition definition, he did not have sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky. That definition was an afterthought, conceived while preparing for his grand jury testimony. His explanation to the grand jury, then, was also false and misleading. The president does not explain his denial of an affair or of a sexual affair. He can't. Neither can he avoid his unequivocal denial in the answers to the interrogatories in the Jones case. These interrogatories were answered before any narrow definition of the sexual relations had been developed.."

AP 12/10/98 Sandra Sobieraj "."I'd like you to listen to the president's deceptions for yourself,'' Republican investigator David Schippers said as he cued an aide at the VCR. More than a dozen snippets showed Clinton hedging, stammering, scratching his head. He stared straight down, nodding again and again as his lawyer, Robert Bennett, read Ms. Lewinsky's denials of a sexual affair. Asked to vouch for her affidavit, the president leaned forward for emphasis: "That is absolutely true.'' He blinked rapidly, his lips tight in silence, as Bennett interpreted the affidavit to mean "there is absolutely no sex of any kind, in any manner, shape or form.'' Off-screen, Schippers concluded for the panel: "He's lying.''."

AP 12/10/98 Schippers ".The president then has lied under oath in a civil deposition, lied under oath in a criminal grand jury. He lied to the people, he lied to his Cabinet, he lied to his top aides, and now he's lied under oath to the Congress of the United States. There's no one left to lie to.."

AP 12/10/98 Schippers ".How fair have the president and his supporters been? Was it fair to procure and produce false affidavits from prospective witnesses in the Jones case, and thus subject those witnesses to prosecution for perjury? How about employing every conceivable means, including perjury and obstruction, to defeat the legal rights of a woman who claims she'd been wronged? How fair was it to stand by and allow his friends to attack that woman's character with remarks like, ``Drag a $10 bill through a trailer camp and you never know what will turn up''? Was it fair to Monica Lewinsky to construct an elaborate lie that made it appear that she was a predator who threatened to lie about a sexual encounter if the president didn't succumb to her advances? By the way, if the dress had not turned up, that story would have been President Clinton's defense today. The stage had already been set, the scenery was in place, and the actors had been given their lines. ."

The Poop Deck 12/10/98 by Freeper Thincat ".The Democrats on the Judiciary Committee this morning pulled what they believed was a surprise attack. Led by Sheila Jackson-Lee, they, demanded to have the majority tell them exactly which items of evidence attached to each of the four proposed charges that were expected to be voted on. At first it appeared they had caught the Republicans off-guard; but just as suddenly the Republicans began reviewing the evidence supporting the various charges and their eloquence in setting out the evidence was a thing to behold.."

House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary 12/11/98 ".Paul McNulty, spokesman for the House Judiciary Committee, made the following statement today after the President's remarks this afternoon: "Even in his most recent apology, the President continues to deny the serious criminal acts of perjury, obstruction of justice, and witness tampering he has committed and to rely upon technical legal arguments advanced by his attorneys. Everyone understands the pain he and his family are experiencing as a result of his behavior. But the question before the Congress is whether a President who commits such offenses, and continues to deny that he committed them, is fit to hold the highest office in the land. This is a question answered by the facts, not feelings, and guided by the Constitution."

Judicial Watch 12/11/98 Declaration of Dolly Kyle Browning ".When our Honorable President was informed that I had been subpoenaed, he directed his lawyers to prepare and send to me a Motion for a Protective Order and Motion to Quash the Subpoena Duces Tecum and Notice of Deposition, along with a brief in support of that Motion. (See Exhibit 1 attached hereto.) Those documents were sent to me with the message that I should file them and not testify against Defendant Clinton. I believed, however, that it was my civic duty to honor the subpoena. I did testify, and I testified truthfully..To support his lies, he offered into evidence a 3-page memorandum in his own handwriting that contained blatant lies about me and our relationship..Further, to bolster his handwritten lies, the Honorable President included the handwritten lies of a senior White House aide, Marsha Scott. (See a copy of these handwritten notes, and a typed transcription of them, attached hereto as Exhibit 3.)..This morning, I was very tempted to get on a plane and return to Dallas without doing anything more..Or, I could inform you about the lies and obstruction of justice that I witnessed. As a citizen, a lawyer, and an officer of the court, I can do no less. What you do with this information is up to you. The Executive Branch has attacked the Judicial Branch. The Legislative Branch may be duped into complicity.."

12/11/98 Clinton Speech ".As anyone close to me knows, for months I have been grappling with how best to reconcile myself to the American people, to acknowledge my own wrongdoing and still to maintain my focus on the work of the presidency. Others are presenting my defense on the facts, the law, and the Constitution. Nothing I can say now can add to that. What I want the American people to know, what I want the Congress to know is that I am profoundly sorry for all I have done wrong in words and deeds. I never should have misled the country, the Congress, my friends or my family. Quite simply, I gave into my shame... So nothing -- not piety, nor tears, nor wit, nor torment -- can alter what I have done. I must make my peace with that. I must also be at peace with the fact that the public consequences of my actions are in the hands of the American people and their representatives in the Congress. Should they determine that my errors of word and deed require their rebuke and censure, I am ready to accept that..."

A Whitewater Researcher summary 12/11/98 on Rep Barr ".PARAPHRASE: I believe Congressman Barr said, in essence, that the [President's]. statement on impeachment hearings this afternoon did not show sufficient contrition and acknowledgement that he had broken the law, and so the statement not only would not influence moderate GOP Congressmen to come over to the First Traitor's point of view, the statement would also likely have a further alienating effect. MSNBC also showed a video clip of Schumer, taped approximately at 5:08 PM EST. Schumer said that if the full House vote on Clinton impeachment were taken now, impeachment would pass (the full House).."

12/11/98 ABC News ".Loren Rogers:"Hal, what about public opinion? Will the Presidents speech make any difference there?" Hal Bruno: "There is a disconnect between what the public wants - they want him to stay in office - and congressional Republicans. In congress a monster is loose."."

FOX News 12/11/98 Carl Cameron and Brit Hume Prince Charles Freeper summary ".John Porter of Illinois reverses and now favors impeachment after a Clinton operative called and threatened to withold campaign cash from him. Developing..." continuing Freeper report adds ".In the midst of the lobbying, another moderate Republican on the White House target list came out for impeachment. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., will will vote in favor of impeachment, spokeswoman Yanik Fenton-Espinosa said. - FOX NEWS website story ."

12/11/98 Rep Bob Barr ".In a statement today, U.S. Representative Bob Barr (GA-7) blasted President Clinton's defenders for conducting a scorched-earth campaign to smear members of the House Judiciary Committee with false allegations. The statement followed an attempt by trial lawyer Alan Dershowitz to call Barr a racist, based on his appearance before a group in South Carolina called the Council of Conservative Citizens. In another case, White House operative Sidney Blumenthal has attacked Committee Member Lindsey Graham (R-SC). The National Enquirer, which is represented by Clinton Attorney David Kendall, also reportedly published an article today alleging an affair involving Committee Member Mary Bono (R-CA). Barr also noted a report in the New York Daily News today that White House Chief of Staff John Podesta is ordering prominent businessmen to pressure Members of Congress on the upcoming impeachment vote. "I am adamantly opposed to discrimination in any way, shape or form. For the President's henchmen to suggest otherwise, based on a brief appearance I made before a group in South Carolina to discuss the impeachment process, is outrageous. The fact is, I strongly disagree with many of this group's ridiculous views, and have said so publicly. "It is a sad day in our country when a Member of Congress cannot speak before a group without subjecting them to an exhaustive investigation to determine if one of their members has ever written an offensive or ridiculous column. Sadly, there appears to be no despicable conduct the President's defenders will not stoop to in order to protect him.."

Fox News 12/11/98 Freeper report ".The names are: Baker (LA), Norwood (Ga), Ros Lehtinen (FL) Diaz Ballart (R-FL) and Metcalf (WA)."

Freeper gocowboys 12/11/98 reports from AP and Washington Post observations ".What Schippers did not tell the committee in public session was that he still hopes to introduce evidence of wrongdoing other than the Lewinsky matter. In an interview last night, Schippers said he deliberately wrote "very broad articles" so he can revive lingering questions about Clinton's conduct later if he discovers more. "Hopefully, we'll get it out if they vote it out and send it to the Senate," Schippers said. "If it's wide open, we can get some additional evidence in." During the accelerated committee inquiry, Schippers made aborted attempts to probe Clinton's campaign fund-raising tactics as well as efforts by the president's allies to steer work to former associate attorney general Webster L. Hubbell while he was under investigation by independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr. Schippers told the panel yesterday that he found "very promising leads" including "incidents involving probable direct and deliberate obstruction of justice, witness tampering, perjury and abuse of power" but held off because of concerns by Starr's office and the Justice Department that disclosure would compromise pending investigations..."

ABC 12/11/98 ".Democrats were said to be ready to stiffen their censure proposal with a call for a financial penalty from the president. Away from the drama on Capitol Hill, former Connecticut Sen. Lowell Weicker, a Republican who later became an independent, announced his support for impeachment. ``I'm sure all of us would like an easy out, including the president and those like myself who supported him, but it's not provided for in the Constitution,'' said Weicker, who served in the House, Senate and as Connecticut governor. ``Lying is lying.'' ."

Capitol Hill Blue 12/11/98 ".As moderate House Republicans wrestle with the votes that will determine President Clinton's future, at least three conservative House Democrats say they will vote to impeach him for allegedly telling lies under oath. Rep. Ralph Hall, D-Texas, said he concluded that Clinton lied after he read transcripts of the president's testimony before the federal grand jury that investigated Clinton's efforts to conceal his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. ``I didn't believe the president because he wasn't believable, and he turned out not to have been believable,'' the 75-year-old lawyer said in an interview. ``I know what (perjury) looks like when I see it. I was a judge for 12 years.'' Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., has said he, too, will vote to impeach. Taylor did not return a telephone message, but his chief of staff confirmed his plans. ``He said way before, as soon as this thing blew, if the president lied under sworn oath he will vote for impeachment,'' said Wayne Weidie. Indeed, in September, after Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr sent his report on the Lewinsky matter to Congress, Taylor said he would view perjury seriously. ``If it's perjury, yes, I will vote to impeach him,'' said Taylor, 45. Rep. Virgil Goode Jr., a lawyer from the tobacco and textile areas of southern Virginia, said he also believes Clinton had lied under oath when he denied having had sexual relations with the former White House intern. ``Do I think perjury is an impeachable offense? I do,'' the 52-year-old freshman told The Washington Post in an interview published Dec. 1, an interview that Goode spokesman Linwood Duncan said contained his only public comments until he votes on impeachment. ``For me the question is lying under oath. It's not a question of what he tells his wife or someone else.'' All three congressmen are members of the ``Blue Dog'' group of conservative House Democrats, and they regularly vote with Republicans against Democrats and the Clinton administration.."

Portland (Maine) Press Herald 12/11/98 Jason Wolfe ".Saying perjury "shakes the very foundation" of the justice system, a judge Thursday ordered a former Biddeford lawyer convicted of lying under oath to spend one year in prison. Justice Carl O. Bradford said Albert Lefebvre, 68, needed to pay a heavy price for a serious crime that all too often gets overlooked by prosecutors. And as a lawyer, Lefebvre had a duty to know better, the judge said. "If people feel that they can lie with impunity and totally ignore the sanctity of the oath, then this justice system is in serious trouble," said Bradford, who wore a stern look throughout the sentencing hearing in Cumberland County Superior Court. "As an officer of the court, Mr. Lefebvre, you have brought disrespect upon a noble and honorable profession."."

CNBC + FOX News 12/11/98 Freeper Steven W reports ".On CNBC last night and then on FOX News Channel this morning, the White House "censure" strategy was exposed - if the White House is able to obstruct the vote on impeachment by getting (so-called) moderate Republicans to vote, instead, for an (unconstituional) form of censure agreement, Clinton's lawyers will then have the "censure" (easily) overturned as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States.."

A Whitewater research excerpts 12/11/98 Washington Post Howard Kurtz ".EXCERPTS: "...Network television has spent the week admonishing viewers that...Clinton really, truly, absolutely might be impeached...."The country may not be paying close attention, but . . . the president is one step closer tonight to being impeached," ABC's Peter Jennings said Wednesday. CBS's Dan Rather spoke of "the growing likelihood of actual impeachment by the full House of Representatives."...NBC's Tim Russert said yesterday that Democratic Judiciary Committee counsel Abbe Lowell was "trying to say, 'Folks, this is really happening.'..."if it looks bad for them, the president will start calling members himself."...By last night Rather was declaring that the chances of impeachment "are increasing by the hour."..."Impeachment is the punishment," said radio commentator Rush Limbaugh. "Impeachment is the censure. It's then up to the Senate to decide what to do. . . . The censure crowd has got to be made to understand that impeachment is what they want when they say they want punishment."..."

Associated Press 12/11/98 Laurie Kellman ".Rep. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., and Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., announced Friday they would vote to impeach Clinton on perjury charges when articles of impeachment are brought to the House floor next week. "Having viewed the president's defense before the Judiciary Committee, I believe he has failed to refute these charges or overcome the evidence presented,'' Chambliss said in a statement. A spokesman said Chambliss would vote for two perjury charges and for obstruction of justice being weighed by the Judiciary Committee but remained undecided on abuse of power. Other lawmakers whose offices announced they would support impeachment are: -Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., who supports all four articles drafted by the committee. -Rep. Richard H. Baker, R- La. -Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., one of a group of key GOP moderates in the Northeast. -Rep. Jack Metcalf, R-Wash., who announced he would vote for impeachment on perjury, but was undecided on the other charges..Labor unions, presidential aides, Cabinet officers and friendly lobbyists were making calls on Clinton's behalf. The president himself made a new apology Friday just before the House Judiciary Committee approved the first impeachment article. Two undecided moderate Republicans, Reps. Rick Lazio of New York and Jon Fox of Pennsylvania, are traveling with Clinton to the Middle East this weekend. Another undecided Republican said Clinton's latest act of contrition was "sincere'' but not enough. "It's not enough to be apologetic. It's not enough to be remorseful. It's time for this president to tell the truth,'' said Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., a former Democrat who switched parties..."

Fox News 12/11/98 Bob Ireland freeps ".At 6:26pm EST the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives passed a second article of impeachment against President Clinton. The vote was for: 20, against: 17. [Lindsey Graham voted with the Democrats.]."

Wall Street Journal/NBC News 12/11/98 Freeper Rodger Schultz ".In a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, Americans by 52% to 39% think Clinton, to avoid impeachment and get only censure, must admit he lied under oath. Even 60% of core Clinton backers think his legacy will be tarnished. - Richard Gephardt, House minority leader, just stated that the "American people are overwhelmingly against impeachment."

Fox News Wire 12/11/98 Curt Anderson, Associated Press ".Judiciary Committee members debating historic articles of impeachment repeatedly cited their duty to set an example for children. Boy Scouts troops, school children, grandkids - they all turn up. But Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., spoke to her entire family, including some who have passed away, after the committee voted on party lines Friday to recommend impeachment. Reading as if from a will - "of sound mind, excellent health and clear conscience'' - Waters wanted her sharp opposition to the impeachment articles to be known to everyone from her 10-year-old grandson, Cameron, to "my 12 brothers and sisters, living and dead.'' ."

Freeper Mckarebear 12/11/98 observes ".Let's say that Bonnie and Clyde agreed that what they were doing was not bank robbing. Let's say that the Manson Family agreed that what they did to Sharron Tate was not murder. Let's say that Hitler and Goebbels agreed that genocide was something different. would those misunderstandings have saved them prosecution? Here they suggest that neither clinton nor Monica believed that oral sex was sex and, therefore, there is no perjury. Well, what if they had had "intercourse." could Clinton and Monica have agreed to say that that was not sex, either? What if they both agreed to testify that only anal sex is sex and they didn't participate in any anal sex. Would that have relieved them of perjury, too? I suppose that they could have also used the argument that they did not have sex at all. Knowing Clinton he might say, "I did not have sex. I had illicit sex. Sex is only between husband and wife." It is just astounding that an argument "They didn't believe it was sex." can be tolerated for even a nitwit like Robert Wexler.."

The Washington Times 12/11/98 Bill Sammon and Nancy E. Roman ".The White House, stung by a forceful argument for impeachment during the House Judiciary Committee hearings, attacked Republicans Thursday and pleaded with Congress to allow President Clinton to remain in office. Also fueling White House's concerns were reports that an increasing number of House GOP centrists were coming out in favor of articles of impeachment, prompting behind-the-scenes consideration of a nationally televised appearance by Mr. Clinton."

The Washington Times 12/11/98 Wesley Pruden ".Will Clinton's lawyers have tried everything else, so why not cite the Constitution's guarantee of separation of church and state? The president's men, who insist they can, too, recognize "reprehensible" behavior when they see it, concede that he's guilty of "sin." There the word was in, 70-point type on the front page of The Washington Post, the mouthpiece of the Democratic establishment. But sin is a theological concept, antiquated though it may be at the end of our enlightened century, and the state deals with transgressions of the secular law, not the law of God. Ergo, he's innocent. Ergo, this is nuts.. Mr. Clinton's defense after the DNA tests on Monica's dress revealed him to be the liar some of us always knew he was, was that well, OK, he did do "it" with his pants around his ankles and the girl on her knees, but that was not "sex." Maybe it was sex for the kneelee, but not for him. Even his friends hooted at that, probably even Barney Frank and Maxine Waters (definitely Barney), and the nation roared in ribald laughter. But nutty arguments, with repetition, infect the reasoning of presumably serious men who know better. Nonsense treated seriously swiftly becomes conventional wisdom. Consider the videotape of the president's Paula Jones deposition, played yesterday for the House Judiciary Committee.. The videotape of Mr. Clinton's testimony in a deposition for the Paula Jones trial, a trial he finally avoided by paying her off, throws in vivid relief one of the greater ironies of our time: the brutal and unforgiving facts finally teaching the most accomplished liar in American life that it's a mortal sin to tell a lie.."

New York Post 12/11/98 Steve Dunleavy ".If KENNETH Starr is a sleeping pill, then David Schippers could bottle himself as amphetamines. For two hours and 45 minutes yesterday, Schippers, the lead Republican counsel on the House Judiciary Committee, hit the Rayburn Building like a jackhammer on a hydrogen bomb. "The president has lied in civil depositions. He's lied to a criminal grand jury. He's lied to his Cabinet. He has lied to the American people and now he has lied to his Congress," Schippers said in his distinctive Chicago accent. "There is no one left to lie to." Of course, that is not technically quite true - he could still lie to the Senate. Never have I seen such a surgical dismemberment of a liar in my life as Schippers wielded the scalpel of law, fact, and poetic rhetoric. Schippers, the father of 10 children, is a registered Democrat who once studied for the priesthood and later headed up the Chicago Organized Crime Task Force. After yesterday, if there are 15 moderate Republicans from the Northeast who vote against impeachment, then someone put ear plugs in their ears and blinders on their eyes. The lead Democrats on the committee - John Conyers (Mich.), Jerry Nadler (N.Y.), Maxine Waters (Calif.) and Sheila Lee Jackson (Texas) - looked like they had scorpions in their shoes as Schippers hammered away, point-by-point-by- point, portraying William Jefferson Clinton as a self-indulgent, lying megalomaniac. "I think we all know what the sanctity of oath means to this president," Schippers said. "He has shown total disdain for the intellect of American people. "Lies are lies are lies. "Earlier this week, four former college football players in Chicago who lied under oath were indicted. "There is no such thing as non-serious perjury ... He has attacked the law-abiding fiber of the commonwealth ... a direct assault on the truth-seeking process." ..All I know is one thing. I hope if I do anything wrong, David Schippers is out of town.."

Wall Street Journal 12/11/98 Mark Helprin to the wavering Republicans ".If you think of the achievements of your predecessors, you need neither waver nor fear. Yours is the party of Lincoln. It was born of unpopular principle and did not hesitate to wage civil war and tear the nation asunder for the sake of equal justice. More recently and despite insult and injury from the advocates of accommodation it held the line at the end of the Cold War, to defend the principle of self-government. There is no end to principles it can support, no end to battles it can fight, and no brake on the number of adherents it can attract if it will operate courageously and in service of what is great and transcendent.."

The Washington Post 12/11/98 David Broder ".This is a president described by his own White House counsel as a man who "betrayed the trust placed in him not only by his loved ones but by the American people," a president who, the Judiciary Democrats said in their proffered censure resolution, has "violated the trust of the American people, lessened their esteem for the office of President and dishonored the office which they have entrusted to him."."

Freeper K.E. reporting 12/10/98 on Hardball - MSNBC ".Tom Delay, R. Texas - Majority Whip for House Reps. is NOT COUNTING VOTES. Says he is just expressing his own feelings against the Pres. Said he WOULD NOT VOTE FOR CENSURE, because: "Do you remember Chris, when Clinton was in Africa, and he found out the Paula Jones case was thrown out, well you remember what he did, CELABRATED WITH A CIGAR. WELL THAT'S WHAT HE WILL DO - CELABRATE WITH A CIGAR IN THE WHITE HOUSE AFTER GETTING CENSURE. Chris Laughed and kind of agreed. LOVED IT. He doesn't trust him or believe him.."

Freeper dencos about Senator Byrd ".No matter what the press is saying, or as a matter of fact, what my fellow Freepers are saying the man who will see to it the president will be impeached isn't Henry Hyde, Kenneth Starr, or even William Jefferson Clinton. It is Robert Byrd. Robert C. Byrd has served in the United States Senate since January 3, 1959, including three years as Secretary of the Senate Democratic Conference (1967-1970), five years as Senate Majority Whip (1971-1976), six years as Senate Majority Leader (1977-1980, 1987-1988), and six years as Senate Minority Leader (1981-1986). In 1989, Senator Byrd became Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, a position he held until 1995. He is now the Ranking Member of the Appropriations Committee. He was also elected by his colleagues in 1989 as President pro tempore of the Senate, a post that placed him third in the line of succession to the Presidency. With that honor, Senator Byrd achieved the distinction of having held more leadership positions in the U.S. Senate than any other Senator of any party in Senate history. In 1994, Senator Byrd was elected to a seventh consecutive 6-year term in the Senate, making him one of only three U.S. Senators in American history to achieve that milestone. Adding to these already historic accomplishments, on July 27, 1996, Senator Byrd became the first U.S. Senator in history to cast 14,000 votes. Once he made his statement "Mr. President, don't mess with this jury" the news black out commenced for the Senate. Clinton's fate is in his hands. He (IMHO) is the person who will either give the thumbs up or the thumbs down on the Clinton administration. Nothing, I mean, nothing has been said, for or against, Mr. Byrd in the media. It's almost like he disappeared off the face of the earth."

The State (Columbia SC )12/11/98 Michelle Davis ".Graham said the president laid the groundwork for a cover-up of the affair by telling top presidential aide Sidney Blumenthal that Lewinsky was a "stalker" type person," Graham said. On Thursday, Blumenthal contacted a reporter for The State and responded. "I deserve an apology from Lindsey Graham for his dishonorable, false statement, but I don't expect one," Blumenthal said. "I wish I had a better class of critic." Graham fired back with a letter to the president's lawyer Charles Ruff, a copy of which went to White House chief of staff John Podesta. "I find this attack on my character and honor to be less than appropriate while I am involved in the very serious process of impeachment," the letter said. "If Mr. Blumenthal had sought out the reporter to challenge the assertions I made yesterday, I would have had no objection. Instead he sought out the reporter to personally attack me." Later in the letter, Graham said he was "troubled that a high-level White House adviser would engage in this type of behavior during these very serious times." ."I didn't say anything (Wednesday) that wasn't based on the record and evidence," Graham said. "I'm just putting together part of the puzzle, and the puzzle is not looking good for the president."."

NY Times 12/11/98 Eric Schmitt ".With President Clinton's fate in the House hanging on a razor-thin margin of perhaps one or two votes, Republican and Democratic leaders are scrambling to insure that a handful of ailing, retiring or traveling lawmakers are present for next week's historic vote on impeachment. Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., had hip surgery last week that normally requires six to eight weeks of recuperation. But Miller's doctors have cleared him to travel -- so long as he's lying flat much of the way.Democratic aides worry about Rep. Henry Gonzalez of Texas, who is retiring this year after a 38- year House career. Gonzalez is 82 and missed much of the 1998 legislative year because of heart problems, although he returned in September. Rep. Harris Fawell, a seven-term Illinois Republican who is retiring this year, had a quadruple-heart bypass on November 13, but his aides say he is rested and ready to vote (although they won't say which way). .Republicans may have trouble reaching Rep. Jay Kim of California, who lost his primary race after pleading guilty to accepting $250,000 in illegal campaign contributions. Kim was sentenced to one year's probation, fined $5,000 and was required to wear an electronic-monitoring anklet for two months. Repeated telephone calls to Kim's offices in California and Washington went unanswered Thursday. .."

New York Times 12/11/98 Abe Rosenthal ".We know three things for certain, and standing in the muck of Bill Clinton's character amidst the remains of his Presidency, it helps cleanse us to think about them. We know that undertaking the impeachment process, wherever it leads, was what the Constitution provided for a President who had so betrayed the people as to lie to their faces and lie under oath, and even as he cringes and whines, so fears the consequence of his behavior that he despoils the meaning of contrition by refusing to admit what he did. And we know that the Clinton story is not the essence of America, nor close to it. It is one nasty episode in American history, which at least we confronted not sometime in the future when it was too late, but while he and we could confront each other. And we know, with gratitude to those who created America's particular system of government, that every national Election Day we will get a chance to select a leader. On such a day, perhaps the next, we will again choose a person whom voters can regard with respect while he serves and history will remember with approval afterward. Those are kernel American truths, whether Bill Clinton is allowed to serve out his second term or not. But there is no constitutional reason for Americans to carry for two more years this man who made himself the great American moral albatross.."

National Review Online 12/11/98 ".On October 28, 1998, six days before national elections to the U. S. House of Representatives and Senate, readers of several major United States newspapers were urged in a full page "open letter" from 400 historians to oppose "the dangerous new theory of impeachment" of President Clinton and to "demand the restoration of normal operations of our federal government." The historians were soon followed by 430 law professors publishing a letter to the Speaker of the House concluding that the President's offenses - even if proved - fall short of providing the foundation for a bill of impeachment. Few subjects are more important to the health of the American Republic than that of impeachment. The historians and lawyers who presume to inform the public that President Clinton in committing perjury and obstructing justice, among other malfeasances, has committed no impeachable offense do a great disservice to the integrity of the Constitution. For that reason, we have joined together as lawyers, law professors, political scientists and historians, most of whom have made careers studying the Constitution and litigating its many provisions, to correct the record. The anti-impeachment historians state that even continuing with an impeachment inquiry "will leave the Presidency permanently disfigured and diminished." To the contrary, dropping the impeachment inquiry would permanently disfigure and diminish not only the Presidency but the American system of government.If a president can lie with impunity to the American people about his own disgraceful behavior and his multiple perjuries, who can henceforward expect any truth to issue from the Oval Office? If he can lie to Congress on these same subjects, doing his best to deny a Congressional inquiry into the facts on which judgment must rest, who can remain confident that constitutional processes will retain any integrity? Alexander Hamilton, in words that bear repeating, said that impeachment is the proper response when a public official's misconduct results in "injuries done immediately to the society itself.".."

CAS List 12/11/98 Carl Limbacher ".David Schippers, chief Republican counsel for the House committee that is poised to vote out four articles of impeachment against President Clinton, revealed late on Thursday that Attorney General Janet Reno and Independent Counsel Kenneth Star are witholding key evidence of impeachable crimes from Congress. With next week's impeachment vote in the full House expected to be decided by a razor thin margin, Schippers revelation means that the president could survive in office despite clear and compelling evidence that he has committed high crimes and misdemeanors beyond those developed in the Monica Lewinsky investigation. In his closing arguments on Thursday, Schippers explained: "We have received and reviewed additional information and evidence from the Independent Counsel, and have developed additional information from diverse sources. Unfortunately, because of the extremely strict time limits placed upon us, a number of very promising leads had to be abandoned. We just ran out of time. In addition, many other allegations of possible serious wrongdoing cannot be presented publicly at this time by virtue of circumstances totally beyond our control. For example, we uncovered more incidents involving probable direct and deliberate obstruction of justice, witness tampering, perjury and abuse of power. We were, however, informed both by the Department of Justice and by the Office of the Independent Counsel that to bring forth publicly that evidence at this time would seriously compromise pending criminal investigations that are nearing completion. We have bowed to their suggestion."

New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/ 12/11/98 John Broder Freeper A Whitewater Researcher summary ".EXCERPTS: "...the Clinton White House has frequently misread the mood of Congress....The current White House optimism contrasts with a feeling as recent last weekend, when Clinton and his top aides were deeply pessimistic about the outcome....One senior Administration official said privately today that the White House was now engaged in wishful thinking and predicted that the House would vote to impeach Clinton next week....In another sign of danger for the President, a senior Republican aide in Congress said that four Republicans will announce on Friday that they will vote to impeach Clinton...."Short of a detailed, heartfelt apology from the President, I think he's sealed his fate," said Ken Johnson, (Congressman Billy) Tauzin's spokesman. "Right now, the only person who can save the President from the embarrassment of impeachment is the President himself."..."

MSNBC 12/12/98 Jay Severin ".This was the Lemming defense, and it has moved Bill Clinton pretty close to the cliff. What all the president's men needed to do was provide political cover for moderate Republicans (i.e. liberals) so they can oppose impeachment. Instead, they offered legal lectures, including colorful personal insults, like "craven," "zealot" and "fanatic." Whereas the mods hoped (begged) for new evidence, all they got was new spin. Clinton lawyers insisted that oral sex is not sex (nor, presumably, is armed robbery robbery); that things previously and universally known as criminal are now known as "wrong" ; and punishment is to be replaced by "contrition." In keeping with this brave-new-world-think, Congresswoman Maxine Waters will be declared "brilliant." Especially entertaining was the testimony of former Massachusetts governor (and, in reality, former Republican) William Weld, appearing as a presidential defender. A failed Clinton ambassadorial appointee, Weld finalized his divorce from the GOP by decrying impeachment and proposing a sissy censure. Thus does Bill Weld become a modern-age Tokyo Rose, aiding and abetting the enemy in a time of political war. Though Weld is not currently seeking public office, I hope he knows there is no statute of limitations on war crimes. I can guarantee him authentic Republicans will not forget this -- ever. ..The greatest danger for Clinton right now is not just that more and more Congressman may be leaning toward impeachment, but that so, too, may more and more Americans -- as they realize impeaching Clinton but keeping him in office is exactly the kind of weasel-proof punishment they had in mind all along. And that is why I predict Bill Clinton will, yet again, appear in person to plead his case one last time. If he does this, he will likely save himself from impeachment. If he does not, it will truly be the biggest gamble of his extraordinarily reckless public, and personal.

Wall Street Journal 10/10/97 Mark Helprin IMPEACH ".Here we stand in a clearing of the most difficult century of human history, wanting our deserved rest, and standing with us may be the most corrupt, fraudulent and dishonest president we ever have known. At the very least the president, before he became president, was at the heart of criminal financial dealings and bribery involving his wife and various felons who were his close associates. Upon his elevation to office, he worked hard to suppress and obfuscate the details of what he had done, while continuing in the same pattern as both he and the same and a new set of dishonest associates hid, withheld and destroyed records, purloined FBI files, used the IRS to intimidate opponents, plotted to cage government business, met with drug dealers, arms traders and mobsters, raised illegal campaign money, sold influence and shook down the Chinese.."

Freeper Bonaparte reports 12/12/98 on Reuters ".Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA), previously undecided, says he intends to vote for impeachment. Now watch for Rep. Chambliss (R-GA) to declare also..."

AP 12/12/98 Pete Yost ".Impeachment investigators for House Republicans interviewed three Arkansas witnesses whose accounts of a 1994 conversation between President Clinton and a woman differ from the president's sworn testimony. In the Paula Jones lawsuit, Clinton testified that presidential aide Marsha Scott overheard his 30- to 45-minute conversation with Dolly Kyle Browning at their 1994 high school reunion in Hope, Ark. Mrs. Browning, whose allegations she had an affair with Clinton became an issue in Mrs. Jones' sexual harassment case, says she discussed the affair with the president at the 1994 event. Clinton and Mrs. Scott dispute that account, and the president testified in the Jones case that Mrs. Browning was angry at him because he had ``never been her lover.'' Two of the three Arkansas witnesses stated in declarations to House Judiciary Committee investigators they don't recall seeing anyone in a position to have overheard the conversation. The third said a blond-haired woman -- who could have been Scott -- came up on two occasions to the pair, making it impossible for her to have overheard the conversation in its entirety.."

CNN 12/11/98 Freeper report by JeanS ".Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was asked last night how the work of the Supreme Court would be affected by a Senate trial of impeachment. She said it wouldn't be a problem because the Constitution directs that the trial begin at 1:00PM daily Mon. - Sat., leaving the mornings free. Since the SC hears all its cases and arguments in the morning, it wouldn't affect them.."

NY Times 12/12/98 Lizette Alvarez ".To hear Rep. Lindsey Graham tell it, his patience just plain ran out. After months of public wrangling over whether to oust President Clinton, Graham, the conservative firebrand on the Judiciary Committee with a penchant for moderation on the impeachment issue, went on the attack. "If people in America follow Bill Clintonspeak, we're going to ruin the rule of law, and he's not worth that," Graham said to Clinton's lawyer, Charles Ruff, at a committee hearing on Wednesday. "No one person in America is worth trashing out the rule of law and creating a situation where you can't rely on your common sense." "I can only believe your defense if I check my common sense at the door, and I forget the way the world really works," he told Ruff, during a caustic exchange.."I always asked, would this be more like Peyton Place or Watergate," Graham said outside the hearing room. It turned out, he said, "to be more like Watergate." The clincher, he said, came when Ruff failed to offer a credible defense of Clinton's actions, the worst of which was not simple perjury, he said, but using the power of the presidency to try to smear a witness, Monica Lewinsky, by painting her as a "sexual predator." "The way he treated Monica Lewinsky," he said, in exasperation. "His political interests were more important than the truth or welfare of the person he was involved in a sexual relationship with. He was using the office in a most sinister way." "The country is in trouble when you let politicians use the resources of their office to crush a citizen that may get in their way," Graham added, presumably to the cheers of many of his Republican constituents back home..."

Boston Globe 12/12/98 David M. Shribma ".In an extraordinary 15-minute period yesterday, all of the maneuvering, solemnity, drama, and historic high stakes of Bill Clinton's disgrace and defense were on full display. It began with the president of the United States, standing in the Rose Garden in the thickening dusk of a December afternoon, expressing his shame and his sorrow - and showing, for the first time in public, the fear of more humiliation to come. It ended with the solemn drumbeat of yeas and nays - single syllables uttered in conscience and headed for history - in the very same paneled committee chamber where Richard M. Nixon's impeachment resolutions were passed a quarter-century ago..But in saying that he would accept what had never been done before, the president was in fact campaigning for censure. The Senate's censure of Andrew Jackson in 1834 and the House's censure of James Buchanan in 1862 were not, in an expression that has new meaning in the 1990s, consensual.."

Arizona Republic 12/12/98 David Leibowitz ".This version had it all: The drawn face and halting tone, the obligatory citing of the words "shame" and "sorry." He looked powerfully contrite this time, wounded to the core. You had to admire the man's effort. On the Bill Clinton Biweekly Apology scale of 1 to 10, Friday's performance merited a solid 7.5. It would've been an 8, but the Russian judge docked the Pres for missing his dismount. Pun absolutely unintended. Unlike the following observation: Why is it, the worse things get for Bill Clinton in Congress and in public, the sorrier he seems? We have heard seven different Clinton apologies or near-apologies now, starting with the dismal effort of Aug. 17, the day he appeared before the Starr grand jury. His atonements have ranged from scathing to self-immolating, tearful to defiant. Clinton has begged forgiveness on two continents, in three nations, to Hillary, Chelsea, constituents, Christians, fellow Democrats, foe Republicans, and to generations yet unborn. If he's missed you, check your answering machine. Allow me to interject. ENOUGH ALREADY!."

12/12/98 Freeper mass55th reports ".I was brought to tears by Rep. Buyer's words when he spoke of the dying soldier left on the battlefield, alone with no one around to hear his last words. He penned them on a piece of paper: "I gave them today so that they would have tomorrow." I'm hoping that someone will be able to find this fine speech on the web and post it here. It was heartwrenching."

12/12/98 Freeper SuthunBelle transcription ".And then I thought about the World War II veterans, Mr. Hyde and others, a unique generation. They were truly crusaders. They fought for no bounty of their own; they left freedom in their footsteps. And I thought about something I had read in military history. After D-Day, they were policing up the battlefield and laying upon the battlefield was an American soldier who was dead. No one was around to hear his last words, so he wrote them on a pad. Can you imagine the frustration, knowing you are about to die and there is no one around to say your last words? I don't know what you would write, but this soldier wrote, "Tell them, when you go home, I gave this day for their tomorrow." "You see, part of my conscience is driven by my military service. I am an individual who not only is principled but also steeped in virtues and I use those to guide myself through the chaos. And then I think about people all across America, about America's values, and American charactaer, and I wanted to put it in plain-spoken words. "So when I think about America's character and commonsense virtues; I think about honesty. What is truth? Tell the truth. Be sincere. Don't deceive, mislead or be devious or use trickery. Don't betray a trust. Don't withhold information in relationships of trust. Don't cheat or lie to the detriment of others nor tolerate such practice. "On issues of integrity: Exhibit the best in yourself. Choose the harder right over the easier wrong. Walk your talk through courage, commitment, and self discipline. "On issues of promise keeping: Honor your oath and keep your word. "On issues of loyalty, stand by, suppot and protect your family, your friends, your community, and your country. Don't spread rumors, lies, or distortions to harm others. You don't violate the law or ethical principles to win personal gain. And you don't ask a friend to do something wrong. "On issues of respect: You be courteous and polite; you judge all people on their merits; you be tolerant and appreciative and accepting of individual diferences. You don't abuse, demean or mistrust anyone. You don't use, manipulate, exploit or take advantage of others. You respect the right of individuals. "On the issue of acting responsibly and being accountable: The issue is to think before your act, meaning you consider the possible consequences on all people from your actions. You pursue excellence. You be reliable, be accountable, exercise self control. You don't blame others for your mistakes. You set a good example for those who look up to you. "On the issue of fairness: Treat all people fairly. Don't take unfair advantage of others. Don't take more than your fair share. Don't be selfish, mean, cruel, or insensitive to others. "You see, citizens all across America play by the rules, obey the laws, pull their own weight, many do their fair share and they do so while respecting authority. I have been disheartened by the facts in this case. It is sad to have the occupant of the White House, an office that I respect so much, riddled with these allegations; and now I have findings of criminal misconduct and unethical behavior. We cannot expect to restore the office of the Presidency by leaving a perjurious President in office. "I yield back my time." ."

ABC News 12/12/98 Brian Hartman ".Having approved three articles of impeachment Friday, the committee today approved the final charge against Clinton: abuse of power. Following the 20-16 party line vote, the committee immediately took up a Democratic censure resolution..Rep. Lindsey Graham, R- S.C., turned the debate to more recent allegations of White House meddling. Waving an article printed from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Web site, Graham pointed out a passage quoting an anonymous Clinton aide issuing a threat to moderate Republican Rep. Jay Dickey, who has not yet decided how to vote on impeachment. "If Jay Dickey votes to impeach the president, it's probably an indication he will not run for reelection in 2000," the article quoted the aide as saying. "It's suicide - we will make sure it is." Dickey won reelection handily last month, but Clinton carried his district in 1996. So Democrats have been reminding him that an impeachment vote could threaten his chances next time around. "This needs to stop," Graham said. "I think it is important to know that this behavior, if true, is certainly out of line." .."

AP 12/12/98 ".For the half-dozen demonstrators who paced Pennsylvania Avenue on Saturday with placards demanding ``Impeach Clinton!'' their only White House audience was the regular stream of tourists and a team of chimney sweeps atop the West Wing. ..That sentiment was echoed on Pennsylvania Avenue by demonstrator Kathy Wood, a legal secretary from Burke, Va. Clinton's ``poor me, pitiful me, feel sorry for me, don't impeach me'' tactic only proves, Wood said, ``that they're in a panic in the White House.'' .."

AP 12/12/98 Ron Fournier ".Now that President Clinton has suggested ``censure and rebuke'' as a punishment, his few remaining escape routes are risky or grim. He may have unwittingly put himself one step closer to impeachment..Clinton's advisers struggled to plot his next move, as the president began a four-day diplomatic mission to the Middle East. One option is to offer more concessions to Republicans, particularly the two dozen or so moderates who hold Clinton's fate in their hands..To their dismay, Clinton stubbornly refused to give any ground on charges that he lied under oath. The closest he came was a weak third-person reference: ``It's hard to hear yourself called deceitful and manipulative,'' he said. Many Republicans insist Clinton must come clean to avoid impeachment..``The only thing he hasn't done is plead guilty to a crime. If he does that, they'll say he should be impeached because he pleaded guilty to a crime,'' said Lanny Davis, a former White House special counsel and informal adviser. Davis said he wished Clinton had canceled the Middle East trip ``to wage this battle himself.'' He suggests the president should attack House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, making the conservative nicknamed ``The Hammer'' a lightening rod for anti-impeachment sentiment. In past political battles, the party's target was outgoing House Speaker Newt Gingrich. ``I hope the president starts to fight,'' Davis said. ``The time for apologies are over.'' The aggressive approach is an emerging Democratic tactic. White House lawyer Gregory Craig said Saturday a House vote for impeachment would ``divide the country, gridlock the government and defy the will of the people.'' After the White House was accused of applying political pressure to GOP moderates, Judiciary Committee member Barney Franks, D-Mass., fired back: ``Any discussion of pressuring ... that leaves out the name of Tom DeLay is equivalent to debating impeachment without mentioning Monica Lewinsky.'' Frank's sister, White House communications director Ann Lewis, said Clinton's team also will begin to sound alarms about what the House is poised to do. The strategy is to rally the majority of Americans who tell pollsters they don't support impeachment. But it will be a chore. Though six out of 10 say they oppose impeachment, the number who want Clinton ousted has grown slightly. In one recent poll, nearly 90 percent of people surveyed said Clinton lied under oath..."

AP 12/12/98 Gephardt letter to Livingston ". If you are committed as you have been quoted as saying, to allow everyone an opportunity to vote their conscience, then it is imperative that the floor debate make an allowance for a censure alternative. I am respectively requesting that the Republican leadership construct a role that provides for the alternative of censure to be voted on with ample debate time so that every member can be fully heard on this most important issue. Such an allowance provides voice, not just only to the members, but to the American people who have overwhelmingly said they oppose impeachment and prefer the alternative course of censure of the president. Political advantage will surely side with the view of those members who wish to impeach the president -- an advantage that you have said should not be allowed -- if there is no provision made for the alternative of censure. The inevitable result of a process that limits members' ability to vote their conscience on impeachment and an alternative will most certainly result in a bitterly divided House.."

Reuters 12/12/98 Steve Holland ".The White House warned on Saturday of a grim scenario if the House of Representatives impeaches President Bill Clinton, saying it would divide the country and the government and ``defy the will of the people.'' White House special counsel Gregory Craig stepped grim- faced to microphones on a chilly gray day to denounce the House Judiciary Committee's approval on a party-line vote of a fourth article of impeachment against Clinton in connection with actions resulting from the Monica Lewinsky affair. The full House is expected to vote on the articles on Thursday, and the White House is scrambling to persuade moderate Republicans to vote against impeachment..."

12/12/98 Paul McNulty for HJC to Greg Craig, White House special counsel ".Following is a statement delivered by Paul J. McNulty, spokesman for the House Judiciary Committee, in response to the statement today by Greg Craig, White House special counsel: "I am dismayed by the words of the President's counsel today. After the President yesterday expressed regret to Congress and the American people for his behavior, today the White House strategy is confrontation, not contrition. By returning to the war room politics of partisan attacks, the White House undermines the sincerity and credibility of the President's words. Finally, if the White House wants to decide its course of action by opinion polls and surveys -- as it apparently thinks the Committee should -- that is its choice. The members of the Judiciary Committee, however, have a higher Constitutional duty that cannot be abdicated.".

Freeper Thanatos reports on Cspan ".Zoe Lofgren, as the HJC room was clearing, was asked, apparently, for her thoughts on the hearings and stated the following: "They are more interested in the Republican party than in the United Stated of America.".."

ABC 12/12/98 Gary Langer ".More Americans than ever believe Bill Clinton broke the law, but most still don't think it should cost him his job despite the House Judiciary Committee's vote to the contrary. Support for Clinton softened slightly after the committee's action Friday; 43 percent of Americans said they approve of its vote to recommend impeachment, and 38 percent favor the president's removal from office. Support for Clinton's ouster is up by 11 points since the Nov. 3 election, back to its level when the Starr report was released two months ago. Yet after what can only be characterized as a very bad day for Clinton, 60 percent of Americans still say he should not be impeached and removed from office. One reason is that, despite his faults, six in 10 still approve of his job performance. Another is that most continue to think his wrongdoing doesn't rise to the level of impeachment. An overwhelming 86 percent in this ABCNEWS/Nightline poll now think Clinton lied under oath about having an affair with Monica Lewinsky, up 10 points in the last few weeks. And 63 percent think he obstructed the investigation of his relationship with her, another of the charges against him.."

MSNBC 12/12/98 Jonathan Broder ".There were signs of disappointment and increasing desperation in the White House Saturday in the aftermath of the president's latest apology Friday, which drew condemnation from some Republican moderates who may be pivotal in next week's House impeachment vote. "IT WAS LIKE d‚j… vu," a White House official told MSNBC. "With the exception that he would accept censure, there wasn't really anything new in his remarks." . Although a draft of Clinton's latest apology, obtained by MSNBC Thursday night, included the phrase "crossing the line," one White House official said the president edited it out of his Friday statement because of his concern that such an admission could have legal repercussions once he leaves office.."

Washington Post 12/12/98 ".EVEN AS THE House Judiciary Committee was voting out the first article of impeachment, President Clinton emerged from the White House to deliver himself of one more act of contrition. It was another opportunity for him to allow members of Congress to vote on impeachment based on the facts alone -- rather than on the facts as polluted by Mr. Clinton's continued failure to acknowledge them. And if substance was his goal, it was another opportunity missed. r. Clinton offered phrases such as "profoundly sorry," "profound remorse" and "the shame of wrongful conduct." But he acknowledged only that misconduct which is unambiguously unimpeachable. He noted that he has been called "deceitful and manipulative" and that such "harsh words" are "hard to hear." And though he apologized for having "misled the country, the Congress, my friends or my family" -- thereby suggesting that these harsh words were, in fact, true -- he once again sidestepped the lies at the center of any consideration of impeachment: those he told under oath.."

NY Post 12/12/98 Tracy Connor ".President Clinton fidgeted and blinked his way through the Paula Jones deposition - a strong indicator he was caught off-guard by the questions, body-language experts said yesterday. The nonverbal cues - in experts' parlance - broadcast deception and nervousness loud and clear and showed a different side of Clinton than was seen during his Sexgate grand-jury grilling...But McGraime said that as the lawyers dug deeper, negative cues appeared: *Clinton covered his mouth with his hand while reading definitions of sexual relations - an indication of doubt. *He frequently drank water, suggesting a dry throat, which is a sign of nervousness. *He pressed his hands into his cheeks, a "self- mutilation" cue that's a sign of frustration. *He crossed his arms several times, a defensive gesture he usually tries to avoid. *When asked if he'd ever been alone with Lewinsky, he tucked in his lips and hesitated - a deception cue. *He put his chin down and pulled it close to the body, like children do when "they've been caught in the cookie jar." *When talking about what gifts he gave to Lewinsky, he raised his brow, "an indication he's not sure of what he's saying." He also used "an uncharacteristic head-scratching gesture" that implies nervousness. Procter said Clinton's eye contact was a mess. "He looks up, he looks down, he looks away. He never directly focuses on the questioner," he said..."

NY Times 12/13/98 Adam Clymer ".A touch of dignity and a heavy dose of uncertainty surround the capital Saturday, as what seems to be the only city in America that takes impeachment seriously looks toward a House vote on articles calling for President Clinton to be removed from office. While few are predicting the result with much confidence, there is one area of agreement -- that the outcome depends on a dozen, or 20, maybe even 30, undecided members of the House..But Washington's expectations about the country's mood have proved wrong all year long -- and the polls that show the public does not want Clinton thrown out do not reflect much intensity. Except among African-Americans, it is hard to locate pockets of dedication to Clinton. Twenty-four years ago, Richard M. Nixon had his die- hards..."

NY Times 12/13/98 R W Apple, Jr. ".Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the committee, became so exercised at one point that he exclaimed, "This does sometimes, to some people, begin to take on the appearance of a coup. It's staggering." That produced an uproar among the Republicans. Representative Ed Bryant of Tennessee shot back, "This is the orderly process of the Constitution, not troops in the streets." ."

NY Times 12/13/98 Jodi Wilgoren ".As the Judiciary Committee approved articles of impeachment, the seriousness of the situation began to sink in around this historic village, where red plastic bags reading "Season's Greetings" covered the parking meters downtown, encouraging shopping by eliminating the cost of parking. Many people, like Janos, complained that the Monica Lewinsky scandal had dragged on too long and the investigation had cost too much, comparing the endless publicity to that of the O.J. Simpson trial. But people in this media-saturated region have refocused on the matter in recent days, and a number said it is time for Clinton to go, even as they worried that impeachment might be the wrong way to achieve this or would threaten the nation's high-flying economy and strong position in the world.. "I've been fluctuating all day long," said Claudia Smith, a trademark lawyer, as she waited at the YMCA for her son, Evan Davies, 5, to finish swimming lessons. "I'm torn." "The more I read about it, the more I change my mind about how serious this matter is," added Ms. Smith, who said she was tempted to stay in the car on Friday afternoon to listen to the Judiciary Committee debate on the radio. "It's not just jokes about the dress anymore." Indeed, the snickering has stopped and the bickering has begun. At the hardware store, a man with a couple of divorces under his belt said the president should be ousted, while his friend said the scandal was just about sex, nothing significant.."

New York Times 12/13/98 John Broder ".But a political ally who spoke with the president on Friday night, after the Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment, said that Clinton was in a state of "disbelief" about the week's events. The president did not think he would lose his job, Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., said in an interview. But he has not yet reconciled himself to the strong possibility that the House next week will impeach him and plunge the country into a period of constitutional crisis.."

CNN TRANSCRIPTS http://cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ 12/12/98 excerpts by A Whitewater Researcher ".U.S. SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN ORRIN HATCH EXCERPTS: "...HATCH: ...he has a pretty rough road ahead of him because I think his speech the other day really did not satisfy a lot of the moderates because basically, he never really comes clean with the American people, and I think that's what is bothering them. I know that is what is bothering Judge Starr....I said, look, don't lie to the grand jury, if you do, you are going to be impeached. He proceeds to lie to the grand jury....there is plenty of room here to impeach the president....the rule of law -- that's what has made this Constitution last for over 200 years. If we ever get to the point where the rule of law really doesn't mean anything, and we make excuses for the president, but nobody else, my gosh I tell you we will lose our constitutional rights and we'll lose our Constitution....Everybody I run into is very upset at the way the president has acted, very upset with the way he's handling the matters...if we're going to say that the president can perjure himself but ."

MSNBC - Charles Grodin 12/12/98 Summary by Freeper doughtyone ".Charles Grodin's opening presentation was one of desparation tonight. At times looking as if he were going to cry, and at other times resembling a crazed gunman moments before his attack, Grodin warned the American public. Bad things happen when liberal leaders get taken down. The world's economic system will fail. Children will go hungry. World peace will end. These were only a few of the dire situations blood- thirsty Christian conservatives are going to bring down upon this nation, if they don't wise up, according to Grodin... In the middle of his government smear, he mentioned Waco and Ruby Ridge, with most of the emphasis directed at Waco. "Look what the government did there!", urged Grodin. Evidently it completely slipped Grodin's razor sharp mind that Clinton's Assistant Attorney General Webster Hubbell directed the attack on the Waco compound. Surely Grodin feels that Ken Starr and Linda Tripp were behind that too.."

Freeper NIKKI-SIX 12/12/98 observes ".During the hearings on Friday, two things occurred that the press and most of you didn't catch. (1) A press article of some prominent newspaper was entered into the record by the Republicans stating that Sidney Blumenthal (White House) set up the 400 scholars that the Democrats kept referring to earlier in the hearings. I haven't heard one word by the Dems about what all the scholars say since then. (2) Sheila Jackson-Lee enters a letter into the record given to her by Alan Dershowitz. Not 30 seconds later, Rep. Conyers attempts to enter a Descimination charge (or at least a brief on it?) into the record that makes Hyde's jaw drop... There was a brief argument by the Republicans that it should not be a part of the record. Then Conyers backed down and stated he'd enter it as a sub report.." Son of Publius added ".I saw this live, Nikki, and it was a document submitted by Maxine Waters that truly chagrined Conyers muttered was regarding something about discrimination, the plight of Blacks in America, and the history of slavery. I took it as something Waters wanted to enter into the record in the midst of voting, so that for all history anyone who researched this impeachment would be subjected to her ideological diatribe. Conyers brought it to the chair's attention only very reluctantly (which shows you how bad it was), and backed down very very quickly when one member saw it for what it was and said it was in appropriate. Then Conyers said he would have it entered into the record "at another time." ."

Manchester Union Leader 12/13/98 Joseph W. McQuaid ".Many comparisons are being made in these historic days between the attempted impeachments of Richard M. Nixon and William Jefferson Clinton. There is one clear difference, at least to date. For all his misdeeds, Nixon finally had the great good sense and love of country to resign his office. President Clinton has given no indication that he will do likewise. Clinton partisans say that an impeachment would be bad for the country. The trial, conducted in the U.S. Senate, would tie up the country for months or even a year. Financial markets may be disrupted. The Chief Justice will be tied up with the trial, delaying the Supreme Court's work. Yes, they say, Clinton did wrong. He lied. He perjured himself. He may have obstructed justice. But let's not tie the country into knots with an impeachment. Fine, we say. The answer is simple, and has always been available to the President. He can resign. He can for once do the honorable thing and perhaps help repair the dishonor his actions have done to the White House and to the office and to the nation. If he will not do so, if he continues to delay, delay, delay and use every political and legal trick in the book, then the U.S. House of Representatives must and should do the honorable thing and vote his impeachment. To do anything less -- to plea-bargain -- only compounds the wrong that Mr. Clinton has done to the nation.."

The Dallas Morning News 12/13/98 Rena Pederson ". "The Clinton administration may have been a successful presidency, depending on how you define 'successful,' 'have' and 'may.' It is alleged to have begun on or about 1992, and may well have, according to administration lawyers, although the president himself has no specific recollection of the date or events that may or may not have occurred thereon, or after. The president admits this isn't helpful, but added that he had no desire to do historians' jobs, because they were out to get ..." .."

FoxNews 12/13/98 Terence Hunt AP ".President Clinton, dogged by the impeachment drama at the outset of his Middle East trip, said Sunday that he has "no intention of resigning'' in the face of House Judiciary Committee approval of four articles of impeachment. "It's never crossed my mind,'' a grim-faced Clinton said in response to a question from an Israeli reporter at a news conference with Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu. The president, who issued a fresh apology for the Monica Lewinsky affair on Friday, said he would not admit to having committed perjury. "I did not commit perjury,'' Clinton asserted. The testimony in which his Republican accusers say he lied was "difficult and ambiguous and unhelpful,'' the president said, but not perjurious. "I could not admit to doing something that I am quite sure I did not do,'' Clinton said.."

NBC Meet the Press 12/13/98 by Freeper Wil H ".On MTP Gephardt was trying to hammer home on "Censure" He argued that Censure is not a slap on the wrist, that it is significant, "Look at Newt Gingrich, Look at Barney Frank" Then he argued "it is not unconstitutional, Congress does it all the time, Congress issued a censure against the President going to Tianemen Square, we do it a lot" ."

Reuters 12/13/98 ".Republican House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde urged President Clinton Sunday to quit over the Monica Lewinsky scandal, saying it was the heroic thing to do. "Yes, I think the president should step down,'' Hyde said on the CBS Television show Face the Nation. "I think he could be heroic if he did that.''."

Fox News Sunday 12/13/98 by Freeper Mark8 ".Brit Hume predicts that in the next few days there will be a huge media blitz to persuade public opinion against impeachment and it will be very benificial to Clinton. Believes impeachment vote will fail."

NY Times 12/13/98 Tom Kuntz ".The president's refrain today is: Don't impeach me; censure me. But back in 1834, the argument was the other way around: Don't censure me; impeach me. That was the gist of President Andrew Jackson's written protest to the Senate against its 26-20 censure of his effort to scuttle the national bank. In effect, the president was admonishing legislators for running roughshod over the Constitution. (Does that ring a bell? Some things never change.) Here are excerpts from Jackson's protest. "The resolution of the Senate is wholly unauthorized by the Constitution, and in derogation of its entire spirit. It assumes that a single branch of the legislative department may for the purposes of a public censure, and without any view to legislation or impeachment, take up, consider, and decide upon the official acts of the Executive. . . . It is only in the exercise of its judicial powers, when sitting as a court for the trial of impeachments, that the Senate is expressly authorized . . . to consider and decide upon the conduct of the President. . . ."

ABC 12/13/98 by Freeper TexMex ".Jay Dickey (D-Ark) went public with the threat made by the WH staff that should he vote for impeachment, he had effectively retired from Congress, come election day 2000. Jay's courageous response was to read the threat on the air and, with a calm, steely stare into the camera, said he would vote for impeachment, not on censure, and the calls to his office supported that decision.."

Meet the Press 12/13/98 Russert ".Jerry Zeifman is a life-long Democrat and the former chief counsel of the 1974 Rodino House Judiciary Committee. In other words, he was the Demogogues' Schippers. He recently wrote an article in Insight which exposed the lie of the current Demogogues when they claim that in 1974, the Demogogues were so magnanimous that they dropped a charge that Nixon lied on his income tax return. No one can say it better than Zeifman himself, so here is the pertinent excerpt: . . . Attempting to rewrite the history of the Rep. Peter Rodino panel (to which I was chief counsel) defenders of President Clinton now cite the fact that in 1974 a majority of the House Judiciary Committee voted down an article of impeachment charging Nixon with tax evasion (a criminal offense). Democrats now are dissembling the truth by arguing that the committee concluded that his income-tax return was completely a "personal" matter and therefore was not impeachable. . . . . The truth is that before our vote the House Ways and Means Committee had audited Nixon's tax return and reported that the return showed Nixon had improperly taken a tax deduction for donating his personal papers. But they found no evidence that Nixon had knowingly, under penalty of perjury, failed to file an honest tax return. . . . . It simply is not true that the vote to reject the income-tax article was based on a determination that the filing of a false income-tax return was purely a "personal" matter, and therefore not impeachable. The truth is that neither the House Judiciary Committee members nor my staff had found any substantial evidence that President Nixon had committed income-tax evasion, which is a felony. If he had in fact knowingly committed tax fraud, a crime against the state, there would be no basis for considering it a purely personal matter. . . . . As for the question of the personal accountability of the president, his defenders -- including even some Democrats who participated in the Nixon impeachment proceedings -- now are intentionally misleading the present generation of Americans with still other disinformation regarding the true history of the Rodino committee's Nixon-impeachment proceedings. Yet, this morning on Meet the Press, Dick Gephardt repeated the same bald-faced lie and, almost as bad, Russert didn't call him on it. ."

This Week W/ Sam & Cokie 12/13/98 Henry Hyde by Freeper gocowboys ".During an exchange with Cokie Roberts who brought up the usual line about "a majority of Americans don't want Clinton impeached...", Hyde gave the most elequent reply ever heard regarding the solemn duty facing members of the House of Representatives this week, "If Jesus Christ had taken a poll, he never would have preached the gospel." He continued in a deliberate fashion to carefully explain the article and the process of impeachment, including the fact that the House has never censured any President. Sam Donaldson from Jerusalem, erned the bonehead of the day award for suggesting the White House was mistakenly not working the phones, pleading their case to members of the house. Bill Krystal finally gets one right when he explains that the White House cannot make a creditable case that Clinton did not committ perjury. The pundits see the writing on the wall. Virtually every "undecided" Representative was leaning towards impeachment this morning. The tide not only turning, it's running high.."

Freeper Voltage observes 12/13/98 "If popularity is more important than justice, then replace the jury with polls."

Reuters 12/13/98 Eddie Evans "."There is something objectionable about yet another example of verbally excessive breast-beating combined with the appearance -- devoid of the reality -- of candor," an editorial in The Washington Post said.."It is hard to fathom what gain Bill Clinton thought he could achieve yesterday in restating his remorse over the Monica Lewinsky case while still dodging the core issue of his deceitful testimony under oath," The New York Times said.."

Rainbow/Push Coalition http://www.rainbowpush.org/ Freeper A Whitewater Reseacher reports 12/12/98 JESSE L. JACKSON, SR. ".Chicago, we need you. The President needs you. But most importantly, the nation needs you. Thursday, Dec. 17, 1998, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Congressional leaders, ministers of all faith, state and local elected officials, civil rights and and non-profit organizations, and people of conscience will join together in Washington D.C. and tell the Congress not to impeach the President. We are urging you to come to Washington to join us. It is our patriotic and moral duty to do all that we can to heal the nation. We must rise above the partisan political fighting and preserve the best interests of our nation....In his private indiscretion, the President behaved inappropriately. By breaking the marriage vows, the President has caused tremendous pain in his family....But, the American people see that proportionality must be applied here. The President broke marriage vows, but not the Constitution. Let the punishment and the trauma created by it fit the crime.."

San Diego Union-Tribune 12/13/98 Robert Caldwell ".Finally, it's come to this. Bill Clinton's deceptions and egregious misconduct in office (his own lawyers admit as much) have presented Congress with three options. None is good for the country Clinton is sworn to serve... Option one: Congress, facing a tawdry mess the public is clearly sick of, could read the opinion polls, throw up its hands and do nothing. Fortunately, that's a non-starter, not to mention a moral and political cop-out and a constitutional abdication... Option two, Congress could choose the politically convenient half measure of formally censuring the president. A resolution rebuking Clinton would let members of Congress demonstrate their disapproval of the president's shameful, dishonest conduct while avoiding the harder choice of an impeachment the polls say consistently that most Americans oppose. But there isn't a word in the constitution authorizing Congress to censure a president. So Congress would be inventing a prerogative that would set an extra-constitutional precedent... But that, precisely, is what's wrong with censure. It's tactically facile but woefully deficient on principle. It would leave Clinton in office and utterly duck the central question of whether a man credibly accused of multiple felonies is fit to be president. Thus, option three: Impeachment by the House and subsequent trial by the Senate. Here, too, there are costs, quite sobering costs, to the country. Even if (as everyone expects) Clinton were to escape conviction by the Senate, and thus removal from office, impeachment by the House would inevitably weaken him.. President Clinton could yet spare his country by doing what honor should compel -- resigning the office he has admitted disgracing. If he won't, impeachment is the best of the unpalatable choices remaining.."

Freeper index wizard 12/13/98 warns ".I think the idea that short term that Rubin will once again use the treasuries dough to stir things up to the downside in the futures market has credibility. They just did the same thing to intimidate the repubs into coughing up the IMF money, it would not surprise me at all if they did the same thing to scare the pubs out of an impeachment vote..." and Cicero adds ".Clinton saved Rubin's bacon, and that of a lot of his friends, with the Mexican bailout, so it's likely he'll return the favor. If not the Fed, it could be his well-placed pals on the Street. Expect bombings, terrorist threats, stock market crashes, demonstrations and riots, and anything they can stir up before next Thursday."

12/13/98 Freepers noting threats . Ambrose ".I have seen several Clinton shills beginning to issue dark, thinly veiled warnings/threats about the unrest which will occur if the House votes to impeach Clinton. Chuckie Grodin was doing so on his show yesterday. Maxine Waters has made these same veiled threats as well. Considering how Waters helped encourage the L.A. Riots, this is no empty threat either..." Casse ".Geraldo has said that too. Geraldo, Derchowitz and a few more like them also have indicated that this was happening to Clinton because he is for the "blacks".". Right-Winger ".Apparently you folks didn't hear Wexler on tv the other night. Some one asked him, so what if clinton were impeached. What's the worst that could happen? He blustered for a few seconds then said that the American people would go into "open revolt". I figure he meant the unionists, blacks, and other clintonites, but, who ever knows what a Democrat means. Godspeed ". California Dave ".I remember hearing all sorts of people on TV saying that there would be riots in LA if the cops who beat Rodney King were acquitted. There would be riots. There will be riots and looting and everything if they get acquitted. When there verdicts were announced and they were indeed acquitted, guess what? There were riots and looting. Then those same talking heads were saying "see, I told you it would happen". It happened because they help to incite it.."

Meet the Press Transcript 12/13/98 Tom Delay and Tim Russert ".MR. RUSSERT: This is what you said about the president: "I don't believe a word he says." Why? REP. DeLAY: Because he has either lied or broken his word to me the four years that we have been a majority. MR. RUSSERT: To you personally? REP. DeLAY: Absolutely. MR. RUSSERT: On what? REP. DeLAY: Well, it starts on November the 19th, when the leadership made an agreement with this president to open the government, and he promised to balance the budget, save welfare, reform welfare, cut taxes and save Medicare. Within 15 minutes he reneged on that. We've had to deal with this president like that for four years, but that's not the point here. That i-my personal feelings about this president and what he has done in, I think, denigrating his office has nothing to do with the charges before us. MR. RUSSERT: If on Wednesday the president of the United States came home and said, "Saddam Hussein will not comply with United Nations inspections. We must attack him militarily today," would you take him at his word that it was necessary to do that on the day before the impeachment vote? REP. DeLAY: No, because he hasn't done that all this year. Remember about the time he was supposed to give the deposition in January, he sent the troops and rattled his sabres at Saddam Hussein? Nothing happened. Remember in November-I mean, in June he went to China after moving that trip from November to June, when he thought he was going to be in trial with Paula Jones? And then again in August he starts rattling his saber again and backs off. That's what's happening. MR. RUSSERT: So you're suggesting the president of the United States would use the military of this country in order to distract from his difficulties? REP. DeLAY: I'm suggesting that the president of the United States cannot be believed, and I think it's reflective in his foreign policy.."

New York Post 12/14/98 ".When someone has done wrong and goes before a judge seeking clemency, one of the key issues in considering such a request is whether the offender has experienced sufficient remorse over his conduct. The reason for this is simple. A person who experiences true remorse is living in a kind of prison - an emotional prison, in which he does not hide from facing the pain he has caused and the wrong he has done, but lives it, breathes it. The offender's physical incarceration is judged to be beside the point, because he is incarcerating himself. If there were any reason to believe that Bill Clinton had been humbled and truly brought low by his crimes and misdemeanors, the House would have cause to show him clemency - especially given the disruption that impeachment represents. But yesterday morning, he stood in Israel and said, with the trademark pout he cannot hide when things aren't going his way, ''I could not admit to doing something that I am quite sure I did not do. I did not commit perjury.'' He did. Everybody knows he did. The semantic games are over. The time of judgment is at hand.."

Wall Street Journal 12/14/98 ".What will be the next shoe to fall? Judiciary Counsel David Schippers warned that "we uncovered more incidents involving probably direct and deliberate obstruction of justice, witness tampering, perjury and abuse of power," but desisted in raising these incidents because the Justice Department and Independent Counsel said investigations were nearing completion. Democrats cried foul, but the history of the President personally and his Administration generally gives every reason to expect a lot more secrets remain to be exposed. Across town from the Judiciary Committee as it took its historic vote last week, for example, a federal judge was dealing with the Administration's handling of some 900 FBI files, an incident on which the President has supposedly been "exonerated." When Ken Starr said last month he wouldn't send a Filegate impeachment referral to Congress, it merely indicated he had found no evidence that President Clinton himself had been involved in the handling of the files. He didn't say the case was closed...There is also the campaign-finance shoe. We have before us a magazine called China Today, a Communist organ out of Beijing. And on the August cover of China Today is a new national hero, Ng Lap Seng. He's the famous figure from the campaign finance hearings who was sometimes known as Mr. Wu. Mr. Ng, recall, was the shadowy Macau moneyman who funneled more than $900,000 through Charlie Trie to the Clinton re-election effort. Our Micah Morrison reported in February on Mr. Ng's ties to both Asian organized crime and the People's Liberation Army in Macau. The China Today cover story highlights Mr. Ng's services for the home team. No mention of the Clinton scandals, of course, but we do learn that Mr. Ng has received another in a series of Chinese government plums, appointment to the Preparatory Committee for the Macau Special Administrative Region -- the group that will carve up the Portugal-administered enclave as it is handed over to the Communists in December 1999. Indeed, the skies keep opening up even as the impeachment hearings proceed. Last week, Rep. Lindsey Graham revealed how in the days after Mr. Clinton suggested to a credulous Sidney Blumenthal that Monica Lewinsky was "stalking" the President, allies such as Rep. Charlie Rangel began suggesting that "the poor child" had "emotional problems" and was "fantasizing." This would have been Miss Lewinsky's reputation today, thanks to the President's efforts, had she not saved the semen-stained dress, thanks to advice from Ms. Tripp..."

Reuters 12/14/98 ".President Clinton said Monday that it was not in the interest of the United States to proceed with his impeachment. ``I don't believe it's in the interest of the United States and the American people to go through this impeachment process and have a trial in the Senate,'' Clinton told reporters at the start of a meeting with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in the Gaza Strip..."

WorldNetDaily 12/14/98 Joseph Farah ".It seems incredible that with all the investigations that have supposedly been conducted into Clinton administration corruption, that star witness Linda Tripp has still not been asked some very key questions about what she knows. That fact could change today as Larry Klayman's Judicial Watch is scheduled to depose Tripp for the first time. Here are some suggested areas of questioning for the irrepressible Klayman and one very courageous witness:.. What had she seen that made her believe her life might be in jeopardy? ..I believe Tripp, perhaps more than anyone else in the administration, can shed some light on who was orchestrating the plan -- which included the misuse of FBI files, the political abuse of the Internal Revenue Service, the hiring of private detectives, the use of a taxpayer-supported "secret police" operation and more.."

Washington Times Jerry Seper 12/14/98 ". President Clinton still faces criminal charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and witness tampering when he leaves office, whatever the outcome of the impeachment effort in Congress. Lawyers and others close to independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr's investigation said prosecutors have not ruled out the possibility of new criminal indictments in the 4-year-old inquiry, which already has accounted for 15 convictions or guilty pleas. "It should be of note that Mr. Starr's [investigation] has not shut down since the delivery of his impeachment report to Congress," said one lawyer familiar with the probe. "He's still in business and that could be bad news for somebody." .. Some White House aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, have suggested over the past few weeks that a sealed grand jury indictment naming Mr. Clinton already has been handed up, although that has not been confirmed.. The Starr grand jury remains in session. The independent counsel, or a successor, has until January 2003, when the statute of limitations expires, to make a decision in the case.Mr. Starr has declined comment on his investigation, but last month the independent counsel's office publicly left open the possibility of future charges... The Starr probe, according to the sources, also could involve charges against first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and others. Prosecutors continue to focus on Mrs. Clinton's role in the legal representation of Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association and the 1993 firing of seven White House Travel Office workers who were replaced by Clinton friends.."

Media Reaearch Center 12/14/98 Sam Donaldson ". At the top of the December 13 roundtable Donaldson told Cokie Roberts, Bill Kristol, George Stephanopoulos and George Will: "Many reporters who've covered the President all during thescandal, and who may have been pretty tough on him, are almosttoday beseeching the White House to get out there and fight, orwondering why at least he doesn't. For instance, the Presidentsays he will talk to any of these moderates who want to talk tohim, but he's not going to call them. What's wrong with calling aslong as you don't threaten them or do anything improper? Why notpick up the phone and say `sir, can I just at least give you myside of the case?.."

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USA Today 12/14/98 ".A beleaguered President Clinton, questioned by reporters in Jerusalem Sunday, said again what he has said for months: That he will not resign - that in fact the thought had not even crossed his mind. But he should. Resignation is the most appropriate end to this episode. Not just because of the president's original lies, stonewalling, and failure to live by laws he is sworn to uphold, but because that abuse continues to this day. Day after day, the president and his spokesmen deny that a lie is a lie and cast those who question the president's actions as partisans bent on a vendetta...It is plainly apparent that, adultery aside, the president still doesn't understand what he did wrong, and that is unacceptable. At the core of Clinton's failings from the beginning of this scandal until now has been his willingness to put his own self interest ahead of the nation's welfare. He had an affair with Monica Lewinsky knowing full well that if he was discovered the nation would be put through precisely the kind of trauma it has suffered. But he did it anyway. Once caught, he tried to cover up.."

Newsweek 12/14/98 William Kristol ".Last week, the president's lawyers defended their man before the House Judiciary Committee. Or did they? Bill Clinton's team spent an awful lot of time acknowledging that his deeds are indefensible. Just look at the censure resolution proposed by Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, and more or less endorsed by the White House. It declares that the president "made false statements concerning his reprehensible conduct" and "wrongly took steps to delay discovery of the truth." Through these actions, the president "dishonored" his office and "violated the trust of the American people." All true enough. So why not impeach him? After all, in The Federalist No. 65, Alexander Hamilton argued that impeachment by the House and trial in the Senate is precisely the proper remedy for "the abuse or violation of some public trust." ..The only response to this particularly insidious abuse of the public trust is impeachment. Only impeachment, and a subsequent Senate trial, can remedy the damage this president has so recklessly and selfishly inflicted on the nation. Such a trial need not last long. It need not be a "horror." It will undoubtedly have its awkward moments. But it is the only way to reassert the rule of law and the primacy of the constitutional order. Only the solemn deliberations of United States senators, in a trial of impeachment, can now repair the damage done to our politics by a man who, entrusted with the greatest honor an American can have, thought nothing of violating his oath as a citizen to tell the truth, and thought nothing of mocking his oath as president to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.."

Newsweek 12/14/98 George Stephanopoulos ". The Republicans want $4.5 million--the cost of Starr's investigation of the Lewinsky matter. My guess is that Clinton will agree to pay whatever it takes. He'll hate it, and so will Hillary, but they'll do it if they have to. Clinton may also have to go beyond expressing his personal shame and contrition and admit he brought dishonor on the office of the presidency. The one thing I predict he won't do is admit that he lied. His lawyers--fearing a possible perjury trial--won't let him. And he doesn't want to admit that he lied because he has convinced himself he didn't. His advisers are torn. They're afraid that such an admission will give some an excuse to vote no to impeachment--but others the perfect pretext to vote for it.."

WorldNetDaily 12/14/98 Geoff Metcalf ".The legacy of the Bill Clinton administration will far exceed crude jokes, media manipulation, and thuggery. The Clinton administration is about to destroy the essence of America. The victims will be recorded in history by some never-to-be-read Ph.D. The names of victims will include "Equity," "The Rule of Law," "Honesty," "Fairness" and "Reason," as well as you, me, and hundreds of millions of Americans. ..The House Judiciary Committee has forwarded their Articles of Impeachment to the full House. They did so despite overwhelming odds. The mere fact they did their job is frankly astonishing. Despite the frowning Maxine Waters, the lisping ad hominem of Barney Frank, and the duplicitous dancing of Chuck Schumer, et al, the House Judiciary Committee actually did its job. By the way: Its job was to accuse. Its constitutional responsibility was to draft the indictment to be voted on by the full House. It could not, and should not have even wasted the time it did discussing punishing the president. Ain't their job.Can the institution of the presidency survive lowering the standards to a point where a proven liar, sexual predator, obstructor of justice, and abuser of power is acceptable? I understand the partisan rancor over this tragedy. However, I don't understand why more Democrats, for the good of their party, and the selfish territorial imperative of their own political viability don't call for their guy to resign.."

New York Post 12/14/98 Neal Travis ".WHILE President Clinton has been taking a lot of solace from the polls that show Americans are just too rich and content to want him impeached, a new survey should give him cause for concern. Next month's Redbook magazine contains the results of a dialogue with its own predominantly middle-class readers, the "soccer moms" that Bill and Hillary so like to cite as their base of support. The glossy just did an online survey of almost 2,000 married women and the results are not good for Slick Willie - particularly after he leaves office. Of the poll respondents, 41 percent say they'd stay married to the straying Clinton through the end of his term in the White House, then divorce him. (That's what a lot of us think Saint Hillary is going to do before re-embarking on her own career.) Another 36 percent would have left Bill as soon as they learned about his affair with young and silly Monica Lewinsky, even if it destroyed him politically. Only 23 percent would take a "stand by your man" attitude and try to forgive him, saying that marriage is "for better or for worse." ."

Chicago Sun-Times 12/14/98 Robert Novak ".White House Counsel Charles Ruff was winding up his defense of President Clinton before the House Judiciary Committee last Wednesday when Republican Rep. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina propounded a theory that momentarily caused pandemonium at the hearings. For undecided members of Congress who read the transcript, what happened could sway their vote toward impeachment on the House floor this week. Graham, a former prosecutor, pieced together grand jury testimony and news clippings to construct his scenario.... After first hinting he might vote against impeachment, he has researched the case against Clinton on his own. In pursuing that endeavor, Graham found what he called ``an elephant'' missed by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. The elephant was the grand jury appearance of Blumenthal, which was forced by court order. He testified that when the Lewinsky story broke last January, the president denied everything and told him: ``Monica Lewinsky came at me and made a sexual demand on me.'' Clinton said he ``rebuffed'' her, Blumenthal related. Suggesting that past sexual liaisons had ``caused pain for a lot of people,'' the president said, ``I'm not going to do that again.'' Clinton was quoted as charging that ``she threatened me'' and predicting Lewinsky would claim an affair with him to erase her image in the West Wing of the White House as ``the stalker.'' The news search instituted by Graham found a rapid echo of these accusations. While Clinton aides publicly disavowed assailing Lewinsky, the Associated Press on Jan. 26 reported that the White House ``began a whispering campaign that Lewinsky was `unstable.' '' That week, Time magazine wrote that Lewinsky was known as ``the stalker.'' The Baltimore Sun of Jan. 28 said that ``staffers remember her mooning about the Roosevelt Room hoping for a chance encounter with the commander in chief.'' Graham triggered a volcanic reaction from Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California (``wild allegations,'' ``a wild spin'') when he read aloud a January quote by Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of New York: ``She's fantasizing, and I haven't heard that she played with a full deck in other experiences.'' Even assuming Rangel's statement was based on media reports rather than White House sources, what he said reflected the falsehoods passed by Clinton to Blumenthal and distributed to news outlets..."

Global News Wire 12/14/98 Jim Gibson ".The last thing that the Senate Democrats want is for the 2000 Presidential race to find them trying to sprint up that hill with the albatross of Bill Clinton hanging around their collective, strangled neck. Bill Clinton- he smoked marijuana, but didn't inhale...he spewed on Monica's dress, and somehow did so without having sex...he remembers clearly the chair he was sitting in (30+ years ago) when he heard that Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, but he didn't remember six gifts he gave to Lewinsky less than three weeks before... You get the picture, and it isn't particularly pretty.."

Sun Times Dennis Byrne 12/13/98 ".OK, so let's just forget this impeachment thing. As the Democrats have said, the president's conduct was just ``minor'' and