CNN 12/19/98 Freeper Impeach98 reports ".In an effort to prevent any chance of conviction in the Senate the White House is lobbying Senate Republicans so that they may obtain enough votes to prevent the trial of President Clinton from even beginning in the Senate.."

FoxNews 12/19/98 by Freeper Conservative Arts ".FOX NEWS CHANNEL reports that many democrats have begun calling for [Clinton] to resign despite White House desperate attempt to stave off speculation of Resignation as a remedy. FOX reports a "few" in the house already have and undisclosed Democrats in the senate are now asking for his resignation! GREAT NEWS! That means they are not positive this will turn out vindicating BJ Clinton..."

Hardball 12/19/98 Tom Squiteri Freeper Report ".Information on Jane Doe #5 will come out before senate trial.He says that he knows what the information is, that it's shocking, and that it will come out.."

Washington Post (via International Herald Tribune) 2/19/98 ".Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus have announced their opposition to the attack on Iraq and denounced President Bill Clinton for making the decision without consulting Congress or working to build a consensus in the United Nations first..''We have to have the U.S. giving leadership in the UN and not deciding unilaterally who we should strike an offensive on,'' said Representative John Conyers Jr., Democrat of Michigan. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr., Democrat of Illinois, said in a statement: ''The justification of sustainability, the loss of innocent lives and the question of proportionality remain a great concern of mine. President Bill Clinton will have to have the most comprehensive moral, rational and national security defense of his military action against Iraq in order to sustain his presidency.'' ."

Newsletter 12/20/98 Mr. Kim Weissman ".More than two years ago, Jerome Zeifman, the democrat chief counselto the House Judiciary Committee which acted to impeach President Nixon,came to the conclusion that "there is now probable cause to consider ourpresident and first lady as felons", he saw "a pattern or deceit and corruption", he saw his party, the Democratic Party, as "defenders of acorrupt administration", and he concluded that there was "a cancer on the Clinton presidency painfully reminiscent of the cancer that broughtdown Nixon". Two years after Jerome Zeifman made his disillusionmentpublic, the democrat party, in Zeifman's prophetic words spoken twoyears ago, continues "the folly of marching in lockstep in support of acorrupt president in the name of party unity." On a completely partisanvote, virtually every democrat marched in lockstep in defense of BillClinton, voting on the Articles of Impeachment.."

FoxNews Reuters 12/19/98 ".President Clinton Saturday defied Republican calls for him to resign over his impeachment and appealed instead for fair, prompt punishment short of being removed from office. Democrats rallied to the side of the president as he faced the most difficult day of his political life: the one on which the House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against him. Clinton put on a brave face for the television cameras as, holding tightly to the arm of his wife, Hillary, he stepped up to the blue podium placed on the White House lawn near the Oval Office to affirm his intention to serve out the remaining two years of his term.."

Chicago Sun-Times 12/17/98 ".The Senate must respond then to the House action by considering a resolution that would issue a summons to the president. By a bare majority vote, the Senate could reject that resolution--in effect a summary judgment throwing the case out of court. That would terminate the procedure, averting a trial guaranteed to fascinate and repel Americans. But it will be an uphill fight to defeat such a resolution, an effort not even assured of full support from the Senate's Democratic minority. Senior administration officials say the Senate trial that would follow the resolution's passage is unthinkable. Instead, Clinton may be ushered out of power before the trial starts.."

The New York Times 12/20/98 R W Apple Jr. ".The President will press hard, despite his much-reduced leverage, for a deal on censure. Indeed, in as fine a piece of political irony as one could ask for, he has already sought to enlist former Senator Bob Dole, the Republican he defeated in 1996, as an emissary to the Senate majority. The numbers are not unpromising: with the help of 6 Republicans, the 45 Democrats could end the trial at any time and pass a censure resolution that the House would surely take up. There are enough Republican moderates and sometime party-buckers to make that a plausible target. But the Republican Senate leader, Trent Lott, who has made his unwillingness to take the President's word evident in recent days, is determined to fight such an arrangement. It is clear that Clinton's reputation has been stained forever, no matter what the Senate does. The spot will not out..."

The New York Times 12/20/98 ".But even if the senators behave responsibly, they and the country face the problem of dealing with a battered President whose calculated strategy of lying over the airways and under oath has prolonged this crisis for a full year. In a twilight gathering of House Democrats in the Rose Garden, Mr. Clinton asked the Senate for a "reasonable, bipartisan and proportionate response" to his misconduct. But if he expects the Senate to accept the fiction that he did not lie under oath, he will feed the Republican efforts to force his resignation. He will also invite a showdown at his Senate trial on the strong evidence behind the impeachment article charging him with grand-jury perjury. Under Senate rules, the 45 Democratic members need only 6 Republicans for the simple majority that can adjourn the trial at any time and open the way to a censure resolution. But these votes cannot be purchased with more lies from Bill Clinton.."

Reuters 12/20/98 ".Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said the House vote "sets in motion a solemn process in the Senate'' and he would begin formal steps that could lead to a trial of Clinton. "There are steps that precede the beginning of an impeachment trial,'' the Mississippi Republican said. "Once the Senate is organized as an impeachment proceeding, there will be pleadings and motions that come before the taking of evidence,'' he said. It was not yet clear when any trial would begin. By its historic action, the House in effect indicted Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice for attempting to cover up his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The highest judge in the land, Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, would preside over a Senate trial on those charges and swear in senators as jurors.."

The New York Post 12/20/98 ".NEWT GINGRICH didn't have to resign as speaker of the House after the results of the November election disappointed Republicans. He could have stuck it out and bloodied the Republican Party as he went down fighting. But for the good of his party, Gingrich did resign. Yesterday, Robert Livingston didn't have to step down, weeks before his swearing-in as speaker of the House. The Louisiana Republican had received a standing ovation from his fellow GOPers when he came clean to them on Thursday night about his adulteries. But because Livingston wanted a clear conscience as he cast his vote to impeach Bill Clinton - because he put his responsibilities over his own ambitions - Livingston did resign. Today, Bill Clinton doesn't have to resign following his two-pronged impeachment by the House of Representatives - a low moment that will forever put a black mark next to his name in the history books. The president can hide behind polls - polls that are increasingly ambiguous about the public's desire to have an impeached president presiding over the United States. He can send his wife out to defend him and attack his enemies. He can stand above the fray as his putative defenders - and how degraded the presidency has become when Larry Flynt and Abe Hirschfeld are two of his staunchest! - seek to destroy the lives and reputations of the president's enemies. And most disturbing, he can continue to drop bombs in the desert in the hopes that the dust and smoke they produce will continue to obscure the American people's confused view of the president's conduct. Rather than continue to befoul the American political scene with these actions, and for the good of his country, Bill Clinton should resign. He should resign because, for a year, he has devoted his presidency not to the betterment of the country but the salvation of his own hide - and still he has been impeached.."

The New York Post 12/20/98 ".Now President Clinton's future rests in the hands of the United States Senate. For New Yorkers, there is no mystery as to the views of their junior senator-elect, Charles Schumer, regarding the removal of the president from office. Schumer strongly opposes such an outcome, as he has made clear on any number of occasions. Daniel Patrick Moynihan is an entirely different story. A scholar of considerable stature before entering the Senate, and one of the wisest members of the body ever since, Pat Moynihan is also a lame duck - having announced last month that he will not seek another term two years hence. Thus, unrestrained by political considerations and with a fuller understanding than most of the fundamental issues involved, Moynihan is free to approach the coming debate as more of an intellectual exercise than a political fight. We would not presume to offer specific advice to Moynihan on this matter. Obviously he understands the gravity of the practical and moral issues involved, as well as the obligations that the Senate now has to the American people, and to history."

http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,2960,17183-101981219,00.html Time Magazine 12/20/98 Frank Pellegrini by Freeper Thanatos ".After months of anguish and partisan cries of doom, President Bill Clinton was finally impeached Saturday. The House approved only the two strongest of the four articles of impeachment; it struck down the second, perjury in the Paula Jones case, and the fourth, abuse of power. Clinton is now the first popularly elected president in the nation's history -- Andrew Johnson was appointed to succeed Lincoln -- to be impeached by the House. The articles were billed as "ultimate censure" but nevertheless were each marked with the same words: "removal from office." And no one is guaranteeing a Senate exoneration now.."

The New York Post 12/20/98 ".Suddenly it seems perfectly possible that President Clinton could become the first president to get kicked out of office by the U.S. Senate.."The president should not take the Senate for granted," warned Sen.-elect Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), adding Clinton made a megamistake by taking the House for granted. "I think predictions are unwise. Given what happened over the last month or two, anyone who says the president will definitely stay either has a crystal ball or is being a little bit rash." Adds Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), one of the most respected Democrats: "I don't think any of us can say now" what will happen in the Senate. Particularly after House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston's stunning decision to "set an example" and resign over private hanky-panky that didn't involve lying under oath - and call on Clinton to follow suit. The White House's awareness of the danger posed by Livingston's example was clear in its desperate plea for Livingston to reconsider and hang on - as Clinton is trying to do. Already, Senate staffers warn that - contrary to some reports - Democratic Senate leader Tom Daschle has spread the word that he won't copy House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt and try to force Democrats into line behind Clinton..."

The New York Post 12/20/98 ".So Clinton now faces three awful alternatives: *Resign in disgrace like Richard Nixon (aides and wife Hillary insist he'll never do it). *Go to trial, put all his dirty laundry on display, get humiliated - and risk being kicked out of office by a Senate conviction. *Find some way toward a bipartisan censure resolution in the Senate - but it will have to be very, very toughly worded and flatly state that he lied under oath. "You know things are really bad when we're talking about a censure resolution that costs him a lot of money and leaves him vulnerable to prosecution as the best outcome," says a Democratic strategist. ."

Washington Post 12/20/98 Mary McGrory ".On Wednesday, the day before the originally scheduled impeachment debate, Democrats dragged around the Capitol "waiting," as Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D- Calif.) put it, "for grown-ups to walk into this chamber and stop this madness." Two adults showed up in the ensuing 48 hours, but neither of them did Bill Clinton any good. ."

Freeper Yellow Rose of Texas 12/20/98 on FoxNews Tony Snow ".Tony Snow just asked Greg Craig, White House lawyer if they had fired Terry Lenzer and other private investigaters yet. Snow asked twice. Craig's answer was there are no investigaters on the impeachment defense team..."

Washington Post 12/20/98 David Broder "Leadership by example..That simple phrase evokes the most basic of values -- responsibility, trust, honor and courage. It came into view in dramatic fashion yesterday morning when Bob Livingston, the Louisiana Republican, said he would step aside as the speaker- designate of the House of Representatives. "I cannot do that job or be the kind of leader that I would like to be under current circumstances," he said, referring to the charges of marital infidelity that he had acknowledged two days earlier. "So I must set the example that I hope President Clinton will follow." His words brought a note of sobriety and solemnity to what had been an increasingly harsh and partisan debate... But Livingston's challenge hung in the air. The White House and House Democratic leaders responded by urging him to reconsider and not give in to what Minority Leader Dick Gephardt called "tactics of fear and smear." Those tactics are indeed obnoxious, whether they emanate from the publisher of Hustler or from a political "war room." But the charges facing the president stemmed from a sexual harassment suit that a unanimous Supreme Court -- unwisely, in my view, but nonetheless unanimously -- allowed to proceed during his tenure in office. They stemmed from the investigation of an independent counsel, whose work was authorized by the attorney general, an appointee of the president. Some of the tactics used by that independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, offended my civil libertarian instincts, but they were permitted by the authorities who appointed him..."

Knight Ridder Newspapers (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) 12/20/98 Dick Polman ".If character is destiny, Bill Clinton is Exhibit A. On the day that the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, he phoned his ex- pollster, Dick Morris. As Morris later told the grand jury, Clinton said, "You know, I didn't do what they said I did, but I did do something, and maybe I did so much that I can't prove my innocence." "I did do something." . . . Right there, it was clear that Clinton had to make a choice: come clean with the public, or repeat the denial that he had voiced under oath in the Paula Jones deposition a few days earlier. But Clinton didn't want to make that choice on his own; he wanted Morris to conduct a poll first...At so many critical junctures, Clinton, whether by instinct or calculation, chose deception and recklessness over candor and restraint - in his deposition and grand jury testimony; in his semantic legalese; in his frontal attacks on independent counsel Kenneth Starr; in his early refusal to settle the Jones case; and in his willingness to conduct secret trysts with Lewinsky while a sexual harassment suit was hanging over his head, and while Starr and other hostile players were watching his every move. As a result, his presidency is in peril..Brian Lunde, a Democratic strategist who worked for Clinton in Arkansas, during the gubernatorial years, said: "It's all coming home to roost now, his whole way of life and his way of dealing deceptively with people. Before, he got away with his character flaws because he didn't have any legal eagles (prosecutors) watching him. He has finally met his match, and all his old formulas - denying, hoping things will go away - don't apply anymore." .."

12/20/98 George Wil ".The times may seem out of joint, but suddenly at least some names fit. Republicans are acting like republicans, Democrats like democrats. Republicans have chosen a steep path strewn with hazards. However, by their choice they have pledged allegiance to the republican principle. They are trying to spike "the silent artillery of time." For democrats, "responsive" is the highest encomium for government. They favor maximum feasible directness in the translation of public opinion into government policy. They want opinion to be only minimally mediated. They believe that in polities larger than city-states, representatives are necessary, but a representative's duty is deference -- faithful, immediate, emphatic replication of opinion into action... Republicans flying in the face of today's political ethic -- its categorical imperative: to thy polls be true -- should take comfort from the fact that their resistance to Clinton's lawlessness has a pedigree that runs back to the Founders' thoughts about the perils that make republics perishable. Clinton's calculated, sustained lying has involved an extraordinarily corrupting assault on language, which is the uniquely human capacity that makes persuasion, and hence popular government, possible. Hence the obtuseness of those who say Clinton's behavior is compatible with constitutional principles, presidential duties and republican ethics..."

ABC Freeper Yellow Rose of Texas 12/20/98 ".Sam Donaldson mad the statement: The politics of self destruction comes from Clinton. Every one, friends, supporters, enemies seem to get hurt in his wake. Sam also pointed out that all the sex stuff is comming from Clinton supporters."

Chicago Tribune 12/20/98 Freeper JeanS ". He will not do it, but we once again call on Clinton to resign. Not just to "save" the nation from the "trauma" of a Senate impeachment trial--the nation no doubt will find a way to handle that. No, Clinton ought to resign as a matter of personal honor, as the last step in the process of personal redemption that he has talked about so much in public. Let Gore assume the presidency and pursue the policies they were elected to pursue. Let Bill Clinton take his leave--and let the trauma he has inflicted on the American body politic begin to heal."

FoxNews 12/19/98 Freeper ynotjjr ". Following the Church service this morning the President was stunned when a well dressed fellow church goer, confronted the President and said " DAMN YOU for what you have put our country through ! " " You should RESIGN for what you have done !" .."

Hong Kong Standard 12/21/98 ".In Asia there is less equanimity about Mr Clinton's self- inflicted wounds and the likelihood of a lame-duck in the White House for the rest of his presidency. The Asian states, mired in the regional financial crisis, look to the US for solutions. But Washington has not been as focused on this issue as the situation warrants, hence the lack of solutions and initiatives. It could worsen if individuals from the far-flung Muslim world decide to target US installations around the world to avenge what they see as a barbaric bombardment of Iraq. .."

Reuters FoxNews 12/20/98 ".President Clinton emerged from church services Sunday to applause from supporters while one heckler urged him to resign. "Damn you for what you've done to the nation,'' a man shouted as Clinton left Foundry United Methodist Church in downtown Washington. "Please resign for the good of the world.''.."

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE 12/21/98 ".Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr had, but declined, a chance to trap Bill Clinton in such a stark lie that it could have destroyed the president overnight, Time magazine reports this week. In its annual "Man of the Year" issue -- this year presenting the honor to men of the year Starr and Clinton -- the prosecutor told the magazine he passed up the chance because it seemed like the "right thing to do." Before Clinton testified to the grand jury, Starr had received the results of DNA tests on the infamous stains from Monica Lewinsky's blue dress but was not legally obligated to inform the president he had them. The prosecutors had a choice: "keep secret the results of the DNA analysis until after the president's testimony, or ... tip off the president before he swore his oath," Time said..."

Dick Morris 12/20/98 ".There is no functional difference between initiating bombing and continuing bombing during Ramadan. So why did he bomb before the impeachment vote? Clinton knew that it wouldn't sway any votes, and he knew that delaying the impeachment vote by a few days would have no consequence. But two political reasons now come into focus for his decision to bomb when he did. Clinton knew that after the impeachment vote, demands for his resignation would mount. He likely has been thrown into a panic by polls which showed the sentiment for resignation would rise after impeachment. . By demonstrating his retention of presidential authority and willingness to use it dramatically, he could defuse the case for resignation. In addition, the prolific use of the "don't impeach while the bombs are falling" argument by House Democrats in the impeachment debate raises suspicions that he may have initiated the bombing to give the Democrats a talking point during the debate. That way, they would spend less time talking about sex or perjury and more time talking about patriotism. In general, Bill Clinton has tried to project the image of being very busy..How can you even think about asking him to resign? Don't you see how busy he is? Don't you see how fully engaged he is as president despite the specter of impeachment? Are you a fool? A few weeks ago, Clinton likely decided that impeachment was inevitable, but so was Senate acquittal..."

Reuters 12/20/98 Randall Mikkelsen ".Public support for President Clinton held strong Sunday as the White House began preparing for his likely Senate impeachment trial and vowed to push ``full speed ahead'' with his legislative program. Polls taken after Saturday's vote by the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach Clinton showed that the president's job approval rating remained high, and that his determination not to resign was backed by a substantial majority. An NBC poll taken Saturday showed Clinton's approval rating rose after the vote to 72 percent from 68 percent, and 62 percent said he should serve out his term, up 11 percentage points from a poll taken last Tuesday.."

AP Ted Anthony 12/20/98 ".A rainy, gray dawn broke over this western Pennsylvania hillside industrial town Sunday with a weary realization: America had impeached a president, lost a House speaker- to-be and finished bombing Iraq - all in one breathless weekend. Across breakfast tables, on street corners and outside the churches of this self-described ``worshipping community,'' the state of the nation was the topic of the day. Opinions abounded: Impeachment was right. It was wrong. President Clinton is scum. The Republicans are out of control. And most emphatic: It is time, finally time, to move on. But for all the talk of a cynical, jaded public, the verdict - in Butler and across the land amounted to: Yes, it is a bleak day, but the nation, and its ideals, will probably be OK.."

New York Times 12/21/98 Jill Abramson, Lizette Alvarez, Richard Berke, John Broder, Don Van Natta, jr. ".It appeared to be the ultimate comeback in a career marked by seemingly miraculous political resurrections. The night of Tuesday, Nov. 3, was a time of celebration at the White House. Bill Clinton had again defied the odds, embarrassed the experts and vanquished his political enemies. As election results poured in from across the country, it became clear that Clinton, though not on the ballot, had won a smashing victory over the Republicans who had bet their chips on his impeachment. The president gathered with friends and aides in his chief of staff's office to revel in the returns, one of those there recalled, chewing on cigars, drinking wine and delighting in the victory until 2:30 in the morning. The public had spoken. Surely the Republicans must finally heed its voice... Clinton and his allies badly misread the resolve of Hyde and other Republican leaders to sail into the wind of hostile public opinion. To this day, the president's friends say, Clinton, the most poll-driven politician ever to rise to the presidency, is mystified that Republicans in Congress would defy the poll-tested will of the people. But Clinton, through a strategy of denial and attack, had long ago given Republicans the weapons they turned against him in their campaign for impeachment. In the final days before Saturday's vote, many wavering Republicans argued that they could not trust a president who had stood in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in January and angrily denied having sexual relations with "that woman, Miss Lewinsky." That public lie was not among the impeachment charges, but it stiffened the resolve of the president's opponents. "That is something a president should never never do," one senior adviser who also counts himself a friend of Clinton, said of the president's defiance that day. "That's most troubling to me. I am still working through forgiving him for it." ."

New York Times 12/21/98 Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter ". Somehow we must reach a conclusion that most Americans can embrace and that posterity will approve. Make no mistake, the judgment of history does matter. It matters profoundly. And impeachment by the full House has already brought profound disgrace to President Clinton. Whatever happens in the near future will do little to affect history's judgment of him. But he is not alone in standing before the bar of judgment. Our political system, too, is on trial. Can we find within ourselves the will, the vision, the generosity and, yes, the courage to resolve the present crisis in a way that makes Americans proud of their leaders, their institutions and themselves? It is with this in mind that we personally favor a bipartisan resolution of censure by the Senate. Under such a plan, President Clinton would have to accept rebuke while acknowledging his wrongdoing and the very real harm he has caused..Some may object that a censure can be repealed by a future Congress, and is thus rendered meaningless. They underestimate the power of the modern news media to foster indelible images in the public memory..."

USA Today 12/21/98 Alan Dershowitz "."If the president does testify, he will have to be far more forthcoming than he has been in his prior testimony. If he tries to fudge, be imprecise, mislead or refuse to become specific, he risks alienating the very Democratic senators whose votes he needs to stave off removal. If he refuses to testify, he also risks alienating some senators. That is why every effort will be made to short-circuit the trial - by a plea bargain or a favorable constitutional ruling - before the president would have to make this crucial decision."."

New York Post 12/21/98 Dick Morris ".PRESIDENT Clinton's partisan base in the Senate is a good deal more porous than the solid phalanx of Democratic support in the House of Representatives would indicate. But the Republicans are not nearly as united as their House counterparts either. Will a handful of wavering Republicans push for a deal, and will the potential for wavering Democrats oblige Clinton to accept it? The likelihood is that there will be no deal. Clinton would probably grasp at one, whatever its terms, as long as he could stay in office, but the GOP moderates probably won't have enough support to make one stick. The momentum for not undoing what the House has done will prove very, very strong. What about Clinton's chances at a trial?.. Clinton cannot count on the Senate Democrats like he could on those in the House. Sen. Robert Byrd (D- W.Va.) is pretty much gone. He never liked Clinton and he is very likely to jump ship and vote against him. Then there are four Senate Democrats who, for various reasons, might join him. *New York's Pat Moynihan leads the list. Cranky and obstreperous, he's retiring from the Senate and could vote his formidable conscience. *Nebraska's Bob Kerrey has the contempt for Clinton that a man who lost a leg in Vietnam could be expected to have for a draft dodger.. *Connecticut's Joseph Lieberman is probably the single most honorable, moral and righteous member of the U.S. Senate.*Virginia's Chuck Robb faces a tough re-election fight in a basically Republican state. Likely he'll face popular ex-Gov. George Allen. A "profile in courage" vote to remove Clinton could be just the ticket to re-election..On the other hand, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) is determined to bring the issue to trial. He knows that to go for a deal would tar him forever with the GOP right, which might imperil his leadership. This is the hottest potato he has ever had the handle. If the Senate votes for conviction or for acquittal, he can handle it. If the Senate votes for a deal - overriding his leadership - he can live with that, too. But he won't back a deal, much less initiate one. The bottom line: There probably will be no deal. There likely will be a trial. From there, it's anybody's guess.."

Reuters 12/21/98 ".A Democratic senator widely respected by both parties for extensive knowledge on Senate history and procedures, said Monday there must be no "deal'' involving the White House in any impeachment proceedings. "To a very large degree, we are now navigating in previously unchartered waters, but one thing is clear: For the good of our nation, there must be no 'deal' involving the White House or any entity beyond the current membership of the U.S. Senate,'' Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia said in a statement. "Whether there is a trial or whether there is some other solution, that decision must be made by senators, and it must be bipartisan or it will have absolutely no credibility with the public,'' Byrd said...Byrd advised senators to "go home, take the telephone off the hook, stop speculating, and focus instead on the true spirit and meaning of this Holy Season of Christmas.''

On Cspan airing of USSS Byrne deposition by A Whitewater Researcher 12/12/98 ".BYRNE IS NOW SAYING THAT USSS (ERT)/WH HOUSE PERSONNEL WALKED IN ON CLINTON AND AN ALLEGED OTHER PERSON, IN A COMPROMSING POSITION, IN WH MOVIE THEATER INCIDENT, AND THE OTHER PERSON IS ELEANOR MONDALE!!! ."

On Cspan airing of USSS Byrne deposition by Freeper The Glass is Half Full ".During Secret Service Officer Byrne's videotaped testimony released today, he implicated a west wing receptionist (name redacted) as another of [Clinton's sexual partners].."

Capitol Hill Blue 12/21/98 Doug Thompson ".Bill Clinton, trying to put the best face possible on the undeniable fact that he is the first elected President* in history to be impeached, said this weekend that "it's time to put an end to the politics of personal destruction." Fair enough. But if Bill Clinton wants to put a real end to the "politics of personal destruction," then he should pack up and hightail it out of Washington. Because it is Bill Clinton and his henchmen who ran a White House-based political machine dedicated to the dismemberment of anyone bold enough to call the lowlife son-of-a-bitch a liar, sexual predator and felon-to-be (which, of course, he is). It was Bill Clinton who unleashed mad dogs like Sidney Blumenthal and James Carville on Ken Starr, Kathleen Willey and a host of other enemies -- both real and perceived..."

FoxNews Larry Margasak 12/21/98 AP ".Senate officials dusted off 130-year old impeachment procedures Monday, studying how to conduct a trial for President Clinton, even as Al Gore urged former Senate colleagues to find "a fair bipartisan compromise'' to end up with censure.. The White House received warnings from Democrats about trying legal maneuvers that would challenge the legitimacy of the House's impeachment vote. "I think anything that is seen as parliamentary maneuvering to get out of this is not going to be accepted by the American public,'' Sen. John Breaux of Louisiana said in a CNN interview. Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said such a challenge would be a "terrible mistake.'' And Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the senior Democratic senator, said, "For the good of our nation, there must be no deal involving the White House or any entity beyond the ... U.S. Senate.''."

Associated Press 12/21/98 Richard Carelli by Freeper Earl B. ".Some political experts believe a White House attack on a lame-duck Congress' impeachment authority would be a strategic blunder. ``It would be politically unwise for the White House to proceed in that fashion,'' said Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution. ``With no drumbeat of resignation materializing, the White House would be better advised to show an appreciation for the constitutional process rather than defiance for it.''."

Lansing (Mich.) State Journal 12/21/98 V incnet Delgado ".Rep. Nick Smith, R-Addison, called for Bill Clinton to resign Sunday, predicting the president will fall when new information is released in 30 to 45 days. "I was shocked by it," Smith said of the evidence--not yet made public--he said Republicans reviewed before Saturday's historic vote. Smith claims the evidence includes unsubstantiated testimony detailing a pattern of behavior by Clinton that would likely bring indictments. The congressman stopped at a Habitat for Humanity open house in Charlotte Sunday between phone calls with House Republican leadership in search of a new speaker. "It's pretty damn sad," said Smith, who voted for all four articles of impeachment against the president. "It churns my stomach." ."

The Washington Times http://www.washtimes.com/ 12/21/98 Joyce Howard Price by A Whitewater Researcher ".EXCERPTS: "...The No. 2 man in the Senate yesterday predicted an impeachment trial for President Clinton, throwing cold water on White House hopes to shor t-circuit the process with a censure deal...."I think we will follow the Constitution. The Constitution says if you receive these articles [of impeachment], you will have a trial," Senate Majority Whip Don Nickles said yesterday on "Fox News Sunday."...Se nators could stop a trial from proceeding with a simple majority of 51 votes, but the Oklahoma Republican said, "I don't think that's going to happen."...Republicans generally leaned toward at least starting a trial...Sen. Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republ ican...said the Senate has a constitutional duty to try Mr. Clinton...Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Republican, has previously said he doesn't believe censure is "worth a tinker's damn." Interviewed yesterday on CBS' "Face the Nation," he said, "I thin k it has to go to trial..."..."I'm absolutely convinced it can be a fair trial," Mr. Nickles said..."."

Wall Street Journal 12/21/98 ".'We must stop the politics of personal destruction. We must get rid of the poisonous venom of excessive partisanship, obsessive animosity and uncontrolled anger.'-- Bill Clinton, Post-Impeachment . So, with one more jab at the motives of those who solemnly impeached him, the President now wants to stop personal destruction. Let us pause to return to the beginning. With one phone call, Bill or Hillary Clinton could have called off James Carville. With a mere headshake, the President could have stopped his attorney, Robert Bennett, from tarring Paula Corbin Jones. He did not. Instead, Mr. Carville was unleashed to ridicule--"Drag a $100 bill through a trailer park and there's no telling what you'll find." In May 1994, Mrs. Jones sued the President for sexual harassment, and on December 19, 1998, the House of Representatives impeached William Jefferson Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice. Now, Mr. Clinton says, he seeks a compromise from the Senate that is "proportionate.".."

Wall Street Journal 12/21/98 Robert H. Schuller ".After the independent counsel made his report, I prayed that the president would ask himself three questions: What course of action would be best, first for the country, second for his family and finally for himself? Which decision would begin to close the breach instead of widening it further? Which response would hold the hope of restoring some honor and dignity to all who have been embarrassed by his behavior? In view of the crisis confronting us now, I ask that he reconsider those three questions again and pray for guidance.."

CBS NEWS SITE Freeper report 12/21/98 ".CBS- President Clinton Monday rejected a proposal for censure put forward hours earlier by former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.."

London Telegraph 12/21/98 Ambrose Evans-Pritchard ".AS always, the pendulum will swing back in President Clinton's favour. But will it swing far enough to save him this time? The national apathy that has shielded him from outrage for so long is now his foe. Americans are too busy with themselves to rally, decisively, to his defence.."

Landmark Legal Foundation/Washington Times 12/21/98 Mark R. Levin ".Moments after his impeachment, Bill Clinton, surrounded by scores of the president's most rabid congressional supporters, told the American people that "We must stop the politics of personal destruction. We must get rid of the poisonous venom of excessive partisanship, excessive animosity and uncontrolled anger. That is not what America deserves. That is not what America is about." The most uncivil and indecent man to occupy the office of the presidency now lectures us about the dangers of the politics he has perfected and unleashed on this great nation during his six years in office.."

Freeper pfesser on NewsMax 12/21/98 ".Up till now, the official story was that White House seductress Monica Lewinsky had caught Bill Clinton's roving eye by boldly flashing her thong underwear to the unsuspecting Prez. A kiss here, a perjury there and the rest is impeachment history. But this week STAR Magazine adds a new wrinkle to the story of how the two Starr-crossed lovers broke the ice. Turns out, it was Monica's boyfriend who first made his intentions clear. In interviews for her upcoming tell-all book, Lewinsky reveals to Princess Di biographer Andrew Morton that she flashed her unmentionables only after the First Philanderer - "signaled his sexual interest in her by lecherously admiring a suit she wore. 'I'd like to see what's under it', she says the president told her." Monica dutifully obeyed her Commander in Chief by "hiking up her skirt to give him a peek. She says his response was: 'Nice.'" ."

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c105:2:./temp/~c105wdBmCr:: Bill [H.RES.614.ATH] IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 19, 1998 Mr. HYDE submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to RESOLUTION Appointing and authorizing managers for the impeachment trial of William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States Resolved, That Mr. Hyde, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. McCollum, Mr. Gekas, Mr. Canady, Mr. Buyer, Mr. Bryant, Mr. Chabot, Mr. Barr, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Cannon, Mr. Rogan, and Mr. Graham are appointed managers to conduct the impeachment trial against William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States, that a message be sent to the Senate to inform the Senate of these appointments, and that the managers so appointed may, in connection with the preparation and the conduct of the trial, exhibit the articles of impeachment to the Senate and take all other actions necessary, which may include the following.

Boston Herald 12/21/98Don Feder ".So, when Clinton decries ``the politics of personal destruction,'' savor the hypocrisy. It's hard to imagine a man more unfit - legally or morally - to hold the office of president. The House majority rendered a true verdict according to their oath to ``support and defend the Constitution of the United States.'' Only if the Senate follows suit will justice be done. ."

Rush Limbaugh Show 12/21/98 Bennett Interview Freeper newsman ".News accounts today that former President Gerald Ford and former Senator Bob Dole have joined hands with their liberal democrat friends, in an attempt to nullify the House's impeachment Saturday of Bill Clinton, angered conservatives and constitutionalists across the nation. To the glee of the demoralized democrats, who were soundly defeated in Saturday's House vote, Ford and Dole suggested that the Senate, instead of trying the indicted, felonious president, should let him off easy, with only a censure. But, appearing on the Rush Limbaugh Show today, author Bill Bennett seemed unperturbed by the news. In fact, the author of the best- selling book, "Death of Outrage," seemed somewhat amused. .."There are three possibilites," Bennett said. "(1) Conviction and removal; (2) No conviction, and nothing else happens; (3) Not convicted, but he is censured. If he gets one of those last two, he will celebrate and probably play the [bongo] drums or whatever..I don't want to understate the importance of the Senate trial. But the verdict of history [already] has been rendered."."

Boston Herald 12/21/98 Joe Fitzgerald ".Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Henry Shelton added ``we have watched (Hussein) relentlessly and shamelessly lie, thumb his nose at efforts to ensure he honored his commitments, (and) deny inspectors access to information they needed to do their jobs.'' Change the name and context of those charges - lying; thwarting investigations - and they sound familiar, don't they? ."

The Washington Times http://www.washtimes.com/ 12/22/98 Nancy Roman by A Whitewater Researcher ".EXCERPTS: "..."There will be a trial," asserted John Czwartacki, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, Mississippi Republican....Senate rules giv e Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist--who will preside over the trial--the authority to resolve "evidentiary" and "incidental" questions....a simple majority of senators can overrule him at any time...the three impeachment trials of judges that ha ve occurred within the past 12 years. Federal district judges Harry Claiborne, Walter Nixon and Alcee Hastings were impeached and convicted on charges that involved perjury or false statements...the trial of Judge Nixon, who was impeached for lying to a g rand jury...Mr. Nixon contested his removal from office...The Supreme Court decided otherwise. The decision, written by Chief Justice Rehnquist, held that Congress alone has the power to decide such matters as the nature of an offense, the rules of eviden ce, and how an impeachment proceeding is conducted...." ."

AP 12/22/98 Vladimir Isachenkov ".For Russian Communist Viktor Ilyukhin, the House impeachment of President Clinton is a triumph of law and Kenneth Starr is a man to envy. Ilyukhin, a former senior prosecutor turned prominent lawmaker, has been trying for years to prosecute President Boris Yeltsin. He finally succeeded last summer in setting up a parliamentary panel to review charges against Yeltsin ranging from treason to genocide against the Russian people. The latter, he says, was masterminded by Jews -- an assertion that caused an uproar last week. ``You can't trust a man who can lie, especially if he's a U.S. president, so I welcome the (House) move'' to impeach, Ilyukhin, a somber-looking 49-year-old, said Monday.."

Wall Street Journal 12/22/98 James Taranto ".Even in his darkest hour, Bill Clinton's amazing political skills were on display. Who but our impeached president could have brought together feminists and Larry Flynt, especially on an issue involving sex? Last Thursday Mr. Flynt, the publisher of Hustler magazine, joined Mr. Clinton's cause by "outing" would-be Speaker Bob Livingston's sexual transgressions and threatening other Republicans with the same treatment. Two days earlier, a gaggle of prominent feminists, including Betty Friedan and Eleanor Smeal, had descended on the Capitol, where they declared their fidelity to the hustler in the White House. Strange bedfellows indeed. But this convergence is not as surprising as it seems, for contemporary feminists have a lot in common with pornographers. Both are staunch opponents of Victorian hypocrisy and traditional notions of morality and decency. Both have for years used the legal system to wage war against sexual privacy. If we find ourselves in an era of "sexual McCarthyism," feminists and pornographers deserve far more of the blame than Ken Starr does.."

Wall Street Journal 12/22/98 ".As expected, a deluge of post-impeachment polls are making the argument that Americans don't want the president removed. But only one national survey, conducted by Rasmussen Research, gives clues as to why. Rasmussen found that 61% of Americans believe President Clinton deserves to lose his job. Yet, only 37% want the Senate to convict and remove him. The discrepancy is explained when the 24% who don't like either Clinton or conviction are asked why. About 10% of the population has equal contempt for Congress, and another 10% think removal from office would be bad for the country. A final 4% flatly oppose elevating Al Gore to the presidency. Interestingly, 39% of those surveyed believe the president has committed impeachable offenses that are more serious than those of the Lewinsky scandal. Those are matters that could yet surface in a Senate trial."

Toronto Sun 12/22/98 Peter Worthington ".What got me was the motion for censure that House Democrats wanted instead of impeachment motions - a devastating indictment which would reduce any normal person to shame, calling Clinton morally reprehensible who'd degraded and defiled the office of president. If that was what Democrats thought, you'd think an honourable Democratic president would resign on the spot. Then after the impeachment (I guess the two rejected charges were a triumph for bipartisanship, while the two that passed were a partisan vendetta), all those Democrats who wanted Clinton censured trooped over to the White House and suggested he was the greatest American president in history. More than anything, that shows what a meaningless charade censure would have been - will be, if the Senate goes along with it."

Keye's Cspan 12/22/98 Freeper stingray ".Dr. Alan Keyes' speech to a group at Paterson College in New Jersey was airing Sunday night on C-Span, and in response to a question, Dr. Keyes was asked about the probability of partisan politics playing a role in an impeachment trial in the Senate, the way it did with the impeachment vote in the House.(or words to that effect.) Dr. Keyes responded with an interesting point. He prefaced his remarks by saying he wasn't sure the following was true, only that he believed it to be true..Dr. Keyes then proceeded to explain that the Senate casts hundreds of votes every year during its session, and that most -- more or less -- fall along partly lines, with all of the attendant partisanship one might expect to find, as in the case of the House impeachment vote. However, in the case of a vote to convict one impeached by the House, he offered the following as a constitutional protection from this kind of partisan demagoguery: [U.S. Constitution Article 1, Section 3, Clause 6 The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. .Dr. Keyes' point was that out of all the votes cast in the Senate, only a vote cast to convict or acquit in cases of impeachment is done so "on Oath or Affirmation." He explained this to mean that Senators who approach an impeachment trial with anything less than integrity and an open mind to try the facts and weigh the evidence, can be sanctioned by the majority for violating their "oath or affirmation" to do their constitutional duty.."

Augusta (GA) Chronicle 12/22/98 ".House Democrats, arguing that the president's lies did ``not rise to the level of im-peachment,'' nonetheless deplored his personal conduct as reprehensible, disgraceful, repugnant, etc. Then they indignantly marched en masse to the White House to lead a pro- Clinton pep rally, proving their defense wasn't just based on constitutional technicalities. If that were the case they would have left after the vote. By rallying behind a man whose personal character they spent a day and a half assailing, Democrats demonstrated where their moral compass really is. The denunciation of his conduct was about as sincere as Clinton's 1992 promise to lead ``the most ethical administration in history.'' ."

Capitol Hill Blue 12/22/98 ".A constant argument offered by apologists for William Jefferson Clinton is that he should not be tossed out of office because such an act would be contrary to public opinion. Most Americans, they claim, don't want Clinton impeached or don't think he should resign. In their rush to forgive Clinton for any and all of his many transgressions, they overlook one significant historical fact: If public opinion were the only guiding factor, most of the significant change in America's history would never have occurred. To wit: President Abraham Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation freeing the slaves even though mass opinion at the time overwhelmingly supported slavery. Congress passed the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote over the objections of an American population who didn't think it was such a good idea (and, since it was women who gave Clinton the numbers he needed to win election in both 1992 and 1996, the public may have been right). The patriots who signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, were considered a minority, flaunting popular public opinion that wanted to keep the 13 colonies a part of England. Polls in 1964 showed most Americans opposed the Civil Rights Act that passed Congress and became the law of the land. ."

Reuters 12/22/98 ".President Clinton says he is reconciled to his impeachment, is confident that history will vindicate him and has purged himself of the anger he felt toward his attackers, The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.The Times reported Clinton in a jovial mood at the party for friends, and even laughing at the idea that Hustler sex magazine publisher Larry Flynt had become the latest influence on the Washington political debate. Flynt has vowed to expose the private lives of several politicians..The Times said that when asked how he felt to have been impeached, Clinton replied: "Not bad.'' And then added that he believed that within 10 or 20 years would be on the right side of history and that historians would not give undue weight to the impeachment when they analyze his presidency.."

Washington Post 12/22/98Joan Biskupic ".At the Supreme Court, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist controls things down to the nanosecond. He cuts off lawyers mid-syllable when their time before the bench expires. He corrects mispronunciations. He doesn't abide flourish or fawning. In short, once Rehnquist puts on the black robe, he is impatient, intimidating and domineering. Now that President Clinton has been impeached, this creature of the controlled venue could soon be presiding over a very unbounded Senate trial, a monumental event that would be part political, part judicial, with many of the rules written as the process goes along. Rehnquist, 74, a big, stooped, bespectacled man who walks the court grounds each morning without much notice from tourists, will likely rule with his signature brusqueness if a trial is held. But as someone who has written about the Senate's "sole" power to try impeachments, Rehnquist also would not try to defy the will of its members. Legal experts say he probably would not allow himself to rule on the merits of any charges against Clinton, cast a deciding vote or, at the outset, accept a defense motion to throw out the House's impeachment charges without any Senate consideration. But Rehnquist would not shy away from setting a clear tone. And the chief justice knows better than most about the seriousness of the moment.."

AP 12/22/98 Larry Margasak ".As President Clinton faces a Senate trial that could remove him from office, four House Republicans who voted to impeach him are urging the Senate to consider censure rather than removal from office. And the Senate's senior Democrat, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who is an expert on Senate procedures, spoke of compromise Monday while hinting that a censure could replace a trial. But he said only senators must decide. ''Whether there is a trial or whether there is some other solution, that decision must be made by senators, and it must be bipartisan or it will have absolutely no credibility with the public,'' Byrd said in a statement. ''There must be no deal involving the White House or any entity beyond the ... U.S. Senate.'' Hours after Vice President Al Gore on Monday called for a ''fair, bipartisan compromise,'' the four Republicans wrote Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., urging a censure that ''would impose a fine and block any pardon.'' ..The letter to Lott was signed by Reps. Sherwood Boehlert and Benjamin Gilman of New York, Mike Castle of Delaware and Jim Greenwood of Pennsylvania. Castle has been publicly advocating a censure, but House Republican leaders did not allow that alternative Saturday when Clinton was impeached on two articles of perjury and obstruction of justice in concealing his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky..."

LA Times 12/22/98 Elizabeth Shogren ".Clinton regaled his listeners with a description of a letter that Flynt wrote to independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr--whose investigation of Clinton's affair with Lewinsky led to his impeachment-- congratulating Starr for aiding the cause of pornography.."

NewsMax 12/22/98 Carl Limbacher ".Florida Rep. Tillie Fowler has seen top secret documents describing an alleged rape by Bill Clinton and says the accusation could play a role in the upcoming Senate trial of the impeached President. The material was made available to all members of the House and was said to be conclusive enough to persuade several wavering Republicans to vote for impeachment last Saturday. In an impeachment eve appearance on CNBC, Fowler was asked about the documents, now sequestered in D.C's Gerald Ford Building, by Hardball host Chris Matthews: MATTHEWS: You know the secrets in the Ford building, don't you? FOWLER: I certainly do. MATTHEWS: And can you give us any definition as to what additional information involving Jane Doe # 5 and other material like this that is leading people in your caucus to vote for impeachment in addition to the publicized material? FOWLER: Well, to me what we already know is sufficient to move forward with impeachment and that is what I base my decision on. There is information there that I think goes more to the character of this man and to what he will do that has been deemed too salacious to release. MATTHEWS: You mean the rape accusation. FOWLER: Those and others... MATTHEWS: Rape, that's what we're talking about, isn't it? FOWLER: I won't speak to that. But there are things in there that are not good. I have made my decision, as I think most of us have, on the evidence as to whether it goes to perjury... MATTHEWS: Help me out here. Why are members of the Republican caucus willing to read material that accuses the President of things like rape and make decisions based on that information but are not willing to disclose it after they learned it? FOWLER: Well, I think there are some rules right now about that. It's not supposed to be disclosed because this is part of what's going to be used, I believe, in the trial. U.S. News & World Report's Major Garrett, another Hardball guest, reported that 15 to 20 House Republicans accessed documentation on the rape allegation. After Fowler's bombshell revelation, Garrett confirmed that the material, "can be grist for the Senate trial and may in fact be grist for the Senate trial." .."

Washington Times Bill Sammon 12/22/98 ".President Clinton, who on Saturday called for an end to "the politics of personal destruction," will not ask friend James Carville or pornographer Larry Flynt to end their efforts to punish Republicans for impeaching the president. White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart yesterday said Mr. Clinton would not ask Mr. Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine, to stop investigating the sex lives of Republicans because the White House doesn't "have any control over what a newsmagazine publisher does." As for Mr. Carville, who on Sunday vowed to make pro-impeachment Republicans "pay for what they did," Mr. Lockhart said, "James has strong opinions" and explained, "We're going to leave it to him to decide what he wants to do about that." On Sunday, former Clinton adviser David Gergen said the White House should ask Mr. Flynt to "cease and desist" and call off other "overly aggressive allies." He added: "The White House can't have it both ways. They can't conduct a high-toned, presidential set of statements and at the same time have this lower-level gutting of the opposition.".."

Richmond Times-Dispatch 12/19/98 Mark Earley ".But perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this entire episode is the subtle campaign being waged to convince us that public character and private character are really two different things that function independently of one another..Few of us would accept this reasoning in our own lives. Would we support a person with impressive credentials to be the principal at our children's school if he had a history of abusing his own children? Would we trust the life of our husband or wife in the hands of a skilled, but alcoholic, surgeon? Would we place our elderly parents in a nursing home administered by a renowned director who has admitted to lying under oath in a court of law? If we truly believe that personal character does not affect how an individual does his or her job, the answer to all of these questions should be yes. And yet none of us would trust that which we hold most dear with someone who does not have personal integrity and principle. Why should we hold the fate of our communities and nation in less esteem? ."

New York Daily News 12/22/98 Jim Pinkerton ".NOW HERE'S a Clintonian slip for you. Yesterday, during his briefing for reporters, White House press secretary Joe Lockhart was asked about the anti-impeachment efforts of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt. It was Oct. 4 that Flynt effectively joined the Clinton camp, taking a full-page ad in The Washington Post and offering a $1 million reward for information about members of Congress, preferably Republicans, who threatened the president and who had caused pain in their own marriages. In his best "Mission: Impossible" monotone, Lockhart disavowed any knowledge of Flynt's actions: "I don't think that we have any control over what a news magazine publisher does." A news magazine? The outraged voices of reporters chorused to challenge Lockhart's use of "news" in front of "magazine." While many Beltway reporters feel, er, stained for having covered theMonica Lewinsky story, they still maintain that they're working for publications a few notches higher than the smutty Hustler. Lockhart graciously downgraded Flynt to mere "magazine publisher" and the Q-and-A session moved on.."

White House Bulletin 12/22/98Daily Newsletter for Lobbyists ".The headline of an item in today's White House Bulletin is: "More Information About Clinton May be Made Available to Senate." Here's the text: Washington is still abuzz with sketchy reports that the House is holding damaging information about Clinton in secret executive session. According to a GOP House source, the information covers a number of areas, including the Freeh/LaBella campaign finance probes and other women, including Jane Doe #5. Some of the information was made available to undecided Republican members before they cast their vote in favor of the impeachment. The information will also be made available to interested members of the Senate, reported the source this morning. The "managers inform them," said the source, referring to the fact that those House members chosen by the majority as prosecutors for the Senate trial will be the conduit for the information. The source also contended Judiciary Committee counsel David Shippers "almost quit" in frustration and that he believed the LaBella memo alone "was enough to impeach" the President. Added another GOP source this morning: "The Senate wants to take a look at what is sitting in the Ford building. If nothing else, we have to verify the rumors aren't true.."

Washington Times 12/22/98 Wesley Pruden ".The president's friends have run out of superlatives to describe how they feel about his behavior: "disgusting," "contemptible," "reprehensible," "outrageous" and "dishonest" are some of the mildest. He has "betrayed" his wife, his daughter, his friends, the American public and anyone else who was ever foolish enough to believe in him, but he has certainly not betrayed his country, so his lies and immorality do not rise to "impeachable offense." If he were a mayor, an alderman or maybe the commissioner of municipal sewers he might not be qualified for further service, but he's certainly fit to be president of the United States. The Democrats vie with each other to say the sharpest things about the president's private conduct, describing a man they wouldn't trust to drive their wives and daughters to church, and then hurry off to the Capitol steps to join in a pep rally for the man they almost universally privately agree is a liar, a cheat, a lecher and a bum. For his part, the president calls off the bombers over Iraq, and his lieutenants at the Pentagon concede, obliquely, that very little damage was done, probably because very little damage was intended. The lives of American fliers were put in harm's way, and for squalid reason. We're all assured that Saddam Hussein is an evil man, and we have no quarrel with the people of Iraq, so we assure Saddam that we have no intention of killing him, and instead kill the peasants that we say we have no quarrel with The president marches off to church, carrying his medium-size Bible and comes out to meet the photographers clutching the hand of his daughter, whom he has no shame to use as a prop. Faith and family get equal billing in this Sunday morning exercise in betrayal. Such shameless use of religious symbols would get the ACLU on a Republican's case, but the liberals defend it because they think the president doesn't really mean it. ..."

UPI 12/22/98 Jennifer Brooks ".While House Judiciary Committee members are home with their families for the holiday week, their staff is already toiling to prepare for their role as prosecutors during the upcoming Senate trial of President Clinton. In early January, Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill., is expected to formally present two articles of impeachment to the Senate, charging the president with grand jury perjury and obstruction of justice. The Senate would begin its trial on the afternoon of the next day although it would probably delay any further action until the Clinton team has a chance to prepare a response, which could take weeks. Judiciary Committee sources say the staff is working with the Senate parliamentarian, dusting off procedures that have only been used once before in the nation's history, during the 1868 Senate trial of President Andrew Johnson. The committee is also shifting gears from its role as a jury for the charges against the president to the role of prosecutors who will actively push the case against him. In addition to Hyde, 12 other Judiciary Republicans will act as "managers," or prosecutors: Reps. James Sensenbrenner, Wis.; Bill McCollum, Fla.; George Gekas, Pa.; Charles Canady, Fla.; Steve Buyer, Ind.; Ed Bryant, Tenn.; Steve Chabot, Ohio; Bob Barr, Ga.; Asa Hutchinson, Ark.; Christopher Cannon, Utah; James Rogan, Calif.; and Lindsey Graham, S.C.."

AP 12/22/98 Alan Fram ".When Robert Byrd speaks, fellow senators usually listen. And as they weigh whether to remove the impeached President Clinton from office, the Senate's zealous defender and acknowledged expert on procedures is sure to have an impact. Colleagues aren't just looking to the 81- year-old West Virginia Democrat for guidance on what the first presidential impeachment trial in 130 years might look like. The respect runs deeper, flowing from the passion he has shown for the Senate and the Constitution as institutions, even when that has steered him into conflicts with presidents of his own party. So when Byrd spoke Monday about ``whether there is a trial or whether there is some other solution,'' he made it easier for advocates of censure to argue their case. ``Senator Byrd will be highly influential in any major constitutional process,'' Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said Tuesday. ``His comments were ambiguous but certainly opened the door for possible censure if that's the right thing to do.'' Byrd simultaneously made overt lobbying efforts by the administration and others more difficult when he warned, ``For the good of our nation, there must be no deal involving the White House or any entity beyond the current membership of the U.S. Senate.'' ``His voice means a lot, and he was basically saying, 'Don't tamper with the jury,''' said Don Nickles, R-Okla., the No. 2 Senate GOP leader, who also said he had recently sought advice from Byrd on impeachment procedures. ``He was exactly right.'' .."

Fox News 12/22/98 Freeper Committed ".Senator Wayne Allard of Colorado is clearly stating that he does not see any way there can be a censure deal. He insists it will go to trial and reads Senator Byrd as warning both the White House and ex-Presidents to leave the senate alone so they can do their job.."

Washington Times 12/22/98 Ralph Z. Hallow ".A surprising array of Republicans say the GOP-controlled Senate should push ahead with a trial of President Clinton despite post-impeachment polls showing him with record-high job-approval ratings and Republicans at record lows. From fiscal conservatives like Jack Kemp and Tom Slade to social conservatives Gary Bauer and Randy Tate, Republicans told The Washington Times yesterday that the Senate has a constitutional responsibility to try the president on the two impeachment articles approved by the House Saturday. "The Constitution mandates an impeachment trial in the Senate and that is what should happen," said Mr. Kemp, the party's 1996 vice- presidential candidate. "And I believe the president should welcome the opportunity to present his case before the Senate and the American people." Mr. Bauer, president of the Family Research Council, agrees that Senate Republicans should no more let the polls guide them than did their House counterparts. "The House has shown tremendous courage," Mr. Bauer said. "The Senate should follow with a trial that is quick and fair. It ought to end with a vote on whether what he has done warrants his removal from office. I believe it does." That position is at odds with Republican Party elders like former President Gerald Ford, who joined with former President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, in calling for censure of Mr. Clinton.."

Washington Post 12/22/98 Ann Gerhart and Annie Groer ".Contrary to popular opinion, not all Hollywood Democrats are outraged at President Clinton's impeachment. At least one believes it's long overdue. Actor James Woods -- best known for his screen portrayals of lying, scheming, rotten and generally evil types -- thinks that the president deserved impeachment and, furthermore, that the Senate will end up removing Clinton from office. Says Woods, 51, who litters his opinions with colorful but unprintable language, "He's a certified liar, a card-carrying liar, and lying is the cancer at the base of the spine of every crime ever committed." ."

MSNBC 12/22/98 Dennis Shea by Freeper A Whitewater Researcher ".EXCERPTS: "...David Schippers, who ominously warned of crimes not yet charged and not yet fully uncovered?...the city's hungry investigative reporters...try to...break the back of the Clinton presidency?...is Ken Starr...gearing up for another round of indictments (of) the White House palace guard?...Bruce Lindsey...?...Nate Landow...?...the resurrection of Travelgate or Filegate with the indictment of the First Lady?...Moynihan is already on record saying that lying under oath is an impeachable offense....Kerrey once called (Clinton) "an unusually good liar."...Hollings had some very harsh things to say about (Clinton)...Lieberman('s)...good friend is...Bill Bennett....Byrd...will jealously guard the prerogatives of the Senate..."we should proceed with a trial..."...the more he (Clinton) badmouths the process and impugns the motivations of those who voted to impeach, the more he irritates Henry Hyde, the man most likely to be whispering into the ears of Trent Lott as the impeachment drama unfolds...."."

USA Today 12/22/98 Jonathon Turley ". In framing the discussion over censure, there's a misconception that a Senate trial is solely about the accountability of the president for alleged criminal conduct or misdeeds in office. Senate trials do perform such a function. But the trials also hold individual senators accountable to both their constituents and to history. By forcing a public trial and testimony, any final conviction or acquittal occurs after the public is fully informed of the evidence against a president. If the evidence shows that a president is guilty of crimes in office, individual senators may still vote to acquit in the interests of the nation. In so doing, however, individual senators are accountable for their decisions to retain a presumed felon as the chief executive. Specific admission. The viability of the Ford/Carter plan depends on the specificity of the president's admission. The Constitution does not require conviction for presidential crimes. It does require clarity as to the underlying conduct and the decision of the Senators. If an impeached president wants to avoid a trial, like indicted individuals he must be prepared to admit to the facts that would be produced by such a trial. Thus, if the president admits clearly to lying under oath before the grand jury and committing the acts of obstruction, there is no need for a trial. Otherwise, if he continues to contest the facts, the Senate has an obligation to determine the facts through the testimony of the relevant parties...Problem with immunity. The Ford/Carter plan also calls for the Senate to guarantee any admission by the president would not be used against him in any future criminal trial. This may be difficult to achieve under both the Constitution and Senate rules. The Senate cannot compel Ken Starr to grant such immunity without violating the Constitution and historical precedents. For his part, Starr (like any prosecutor) presumably would require the president to plead guilty to criminal conduct as the precondition for any plea bargain - a condition Clinton is unlikely to accept. There is only one method by which the Senate could grant such protection: a congressional grant of testimonial immunity. Congressional immunity, however, is rarely given, and it is generally confined to securing information needed for the Congress to fulfill its oversight and legislative duties. .Absent a clear and unambiguous admission by the president, any censure would convert Senate members from jurors into enablers of presidential misconduct. The president has always possessed the ability to end this crisis with a singular moment of clarity. The decision must be his alone, as must be the consequences. ."

Worldnetdaily 12/23/98 David M. Bresnahan ".Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-UT, is warning President Bill Clinton that new evidence is about to come out that could change the conventional wisdom about the outcome of a Senate trial. Hatch says if a trial takes place in the Senate new evidence he is aware of will end Clinton's career. He is offering an opportunity to avoid that, but attacks in his home state are making his job more difficult. All members of the Utah congressional delegation came under attack from the state's attorney general -- and some believe it is a direct result of their votes to impeach Clinton. The only Democrat elected to state office in Utah is Attorney General Jan Graham. Monday she gave Utah's three House members and two senators one week to sign an unusual affidavit. Graham has asked the delegation if they have ever been unfaithful to their wives. She sent them an affidavit asking them to attest to their fidelity. Graham's motivations and intentions were questioned, and some suggested she may have been "put up to it by someone in Washington." Graham refused a request for an interview."It is unfortunate that the chief prosecutor of Utah doesn't understand the difference between perjury and sexual misconduct," said Cannon. "It's also unfortunate that her partisan love of this president would lead her to demean such a serious process. I have no intention of giving any credibility to her actions by signing her affidavit.".."That's just dumb," said Hatch of Graham's actions. He said that efforts to find sexual immorality in the lives of Republicans was an unwise approach to the current challenges in Washington over the impeachment issue. "That's just throwing gas on the fire," he added. "That's just plain dumb." Hatch confirmed that he is working behind closed doors to provide Clinton with one last opportunity to avoid an impeachment trial in the Senate. Although he agrees that if a vote were taken now, there would not be enough (two thirds) to convict Clinton, he believes a trial would change that. Hatch did not wish to reveal what new evidence may come forth, but he did say that "if these things come out and they are proven to be true, anything could happen." Hatch says he sent a message of advice to Clinton: "Get this over with as quickly as you can. Agree to whatever it takes to get it over with because right now the votes aren't there, but over time they could be there." The Senate returns to Washington on Jan. 6, and a trial is expected to start very soon after that date."

NY Post 12/23/98 Marilyn Rauber ".A partying President Clinton said it feels "not bad" to be the first commander-in-chief impeached in 130 years and predicts history will vindicate him in a decade or two, a new report says. A day after he was impeached by the House, a cheery Clinton - entertaining pals at a Sunday night holiday party at the White House - laughed about porno publisher Larry Flynt's new clout and said quitting never "crossed my mind," the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday. "

Houston Chronicle 12/23/98 ".The Constitution calls for a Senate trial to follow impeachment by the House. Going from impeachment to censure would be a constitutional improvisation that would weaken the severity of impeachment and tempt future Congresses to regard impeachment as a mere gesture rather than the ultimate safeguard against abuse of power.."

Wall St. Journal 12/23/98 David Rogers ".House Republicans said they don't rule out using a Senate impeachment trial to introduce evidence about President Clinton's alleged past relationships with women other than Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern central to the current charges. Before Saturday's House votes to impeach Mr. Clinton, Judiciary Committee Republicans moved to buttress their case by urging GOP moderates to review these undisclosed files compiled by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and the panel's own investigative staff. That effort provoked angry protests from the president's lawyers, but Republicans say the material may be needed in a Senate trial and could yet be made public then.. The committee's chief GOP counsel, David Schippers, has built on this and gone further afield to try to show wider pattern of lying and obstruction of justice by the president. The case of Kathleen Willey, a White House volunteer who was allegedly groped by the president, was revisited; investigators were sent to Arkansas to pursue allegations raised by Dolly Kyle Browning, a Texas woman who claims to have had an affair with Mr. Clinton and is now suing him for defamation. Mr. Schippers complained that time ran out before the committee could finish its work. None of the material made its way into the impeachment charges against Mr. Clinton. Democrats say it is unfair now to bring the evidence in through the back door to embarrass the president before the Senate. For the White House, the situation has been troubling, since the president's lawyers haven't had a chance to review most of the evidence, which is closely held as executive- session material. While the president's legal team knew committee members had access to it, they were shocked when rank-and-file Republicans were shown the material in the final days before the impeachment votes...Among the two counts approved by the House, the material appears more relevant to the second, charging Mr. Clinton with obstruction of justice. While GOP Rep. Christopher Shays of Connecticut ultimately opposed impeachment, he said Tuesday that he found some of the material "very alarming and unsettling." Rep. Sue Kelly, a New York Republican who supported impeachment, said it had helped her resolve her struggle with both the perjury charges against Mr. Clinton and obstruction of justice. "It buttressed my vote," she said.."

Original Sources 12/23/98 Mary Mostert ".Does anyone remember "It's the economy, stupid!" Clinton's campaign battle cry in 1992 as he successfully trivialised George Bush's remarkable successes in foreign policy? In fact, at one point Clinton claimed the economy was in its worst condition since the Great Depression. The only salvation for the nation, we were told, was to elect Bill Clinton. Only, the recession was basically over, a point George Bush made. However, the national media sided with Clinton and the economy became the core issue. Clinton, like a barnyard rooster promising the make the sun rise with his crowing, took the credit for the improving economy long before any of his policies could have even affected it. Now we are being told by the Associated Press that, "at the end of a year that opened with allegations of a sexual affair and ended with his impeachment, President Clinton is enjoying some of the highest job approval ratings of his six years in office." In fact, a CBS News-New York Times survey completed Sunday, gave the president a 73% job approval rating, up 5% from the week before and tied for a high of last January, just before the Monica Lewinsky story broke. For most of the year we have been entertained by stories, especially in CNN that somehow or other the stock market is tied to President Clinton's fate. If he is impeached, we are told, the stock market will plummet. If he remains in office, all is well and the economy will boom. It is widely assumed that impeachment will create a recession. The House of Representatives impeaches Clinton on Saturday, and Monday and Tuesday, the stock market goes up. So much for the wisdom of CNN prognosticators... The signs are all around us that the Clinton administration is teetering on the edge of total disaster. How long can photo-ops be substituted for policy and propaganda take the place of programs? All his so-called foreign policy "victories" are propaganda victories. The much-touted Wye peace accord is evaporating. The billions of dollars sent to prop up one or another nation in the midst of crushing economic problems, the unending American involvement in Bosnia and Kosovo, the Iraq fiasco which ended with Saddam declaring victory and our allies angry ... and in America a growing anger and polarization among Americans that is being fueled by White House directed class warfare.."

Jewish World Review 12/23/98 Thomas Sowell ".Bill Clinton is not simply a "flawed" man, as some of his apologists now say. He is a thoroughly corrupt man, cynical and shamelessly selfish. He has corrupted every institution of government that he has touched. ....the law has long taken a back seat to Clinton's own interests and agenda. Whether as governor or as president, Bill Clinton has attacked those who have tried to enforce the law and come to the aid of law-breakers ranging from a drug dealer in Arkansas to Webster Hubbell in Washington. British statesman Edmund Burke said it all two centuries ago: "There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men." This has long been a thoroughly corrupt man and the only question now is whether he can corrupt the Senate.."

Freeper Committed on FoxNews 12/23/98 ".Fox News is reporting that no one has rallied around any of the censure ideas being floated yet. Now they quote Christine Heffner of Playboy on political ethics and ask her to judge Larry Flynt. What a high standard we have reached . . . . Fox also reports that despite the polls showing support, the polls must be looked at in depth. There are underlying facts shown in the polls that do not bode well for the president. The implication is that while they like the job he is doing, they will not be in the slightest upset if he is fired by the Senate. Relying entirely on popularity polls has brought the president to the abyss.."

Drudge 12/23/98 ".Last February, the DRUDGE REPORT alerted readers who were following the Paula Jones sex case that there was great interest swirling around a woman named "Juanita." She was code named "Jane Doe #5." A month later, NBC NEWS star Lisa Myers explored the "Juanita" story in a nightly news shocker: A woman claims she was sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton back in the 1970s! The White House called that allegation, "Outrageous." The following is a flashback to the first Myers report on "Juanita" that aired on the NBC national news on Saturday, March 28, 1998: "The explosive new allegation tonight is that President Clinton sexually assaulted a woman 20 years ago in Arkansas. It involves an alleged encounter at this Little Rock hotel in the late 1970s, between then Attorney General Bill Clinton and campaign worker, Juanita Broaddrick. In court documents today, Jones' lawyers claim Clinton quote 'forcibly raped and sexually assaulted' Broaddrick, then quote "bribed and intimidated her" to remain silent. Sources say that Broaddrick, now 54, recently denied under oath that such an assault occurred. But Jones' lawyers claim she had told their investigator she had suffered a quote 'horrible thing' at the hand of Clinton, and did not want to relive it. And NBC NEWS has talked to four people from Arkansas who say Broaddrick told them of such an assault years ago.. In an interview with NBC NEWS, Yoakum said Broaddrick told him that Clinton invited himself to her hotel room, allegedly to discuss her nursing home business.."

AP 12/23/98 ".After refusing to allow alternative resolution in his chamber, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay said today that votes to remove President Clinton might materialize ``out of thin air'' if senators read the evidence. DeLay, R-Texas, said the House adopted two articles of impeachment ``due to the overwhelming evidence against the president.'' He said it was premature to shortcut a Senate trial and rush to judgment. A number of senators have suggested that a long trial be avoided because there never would be a two-thirds majority needed to convict Clinton of ``high crimes and misdemeanors.'' ``Before people look to cut a deal with the White House or their surrogates who will seek to influence the process, it is my hope that one would spend plenty of time in the evidence room. If this were to happen, you may realize that 67 votes may appear out of thin air.'' DeLay said a censure resoluton would have failed in the House because the Democrats' proposal was too weak and any Republican resolution would have been too strong. He advised senators, ``There are reams of evidence that have not been publicly aired and are only available to members.'' .."

Washington Post 12/23/98 Michael Kelly ".So, there was the first impeached elected president in the history of the United States, standing on the South Lawn. There, with the stain of disgrace still fresh as paint upon him. There, facing a nation he had betrayed and harmed. And the man seemed to believe he was speaking from the moral high ground.. he piously intoned: "We must stop the politics of personal destruction. We must get rid of the poisonous venom of excessive partisanship, obsessive animosity and uncontrolled anger." "Excessive partisanship"? Certainly the president was not referring to the House Democrats, who voted to not impeach a man they themselves had described as having "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." "Poisonous venom"? Certainly this was not aimed at California Democrat Tom Lantos, who, on the floor, likened the House to "Hitler's parliament" and "Stalin's parliament." Nor at Illinois Democrat Jesse Jackson Jr., who compared the vote to the racist overthrow of Reconstruction. Nor at House Democratic Caucus Chairman Martin Frost, who said Republicans could have "blood on their hands," for debating while American pilots bombed defenseless Iraq. In deploring "uncontrolled anger," the president was assuredly not referring to the actor Alec Baldwin.In inveighing against "obsessive animosity" the president meant no disrespect to James Carville, who appeared on "Meet the Press" the day after the president and frothed thusly: "These people are going to pay for what they did...." Nor, I am sure, was the president sniping at Salon magazine editor David Talbot, who brutally outed House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde..And, rest assured, the president meant no censure of Talbot's media soul mate, the pornographer Larry Flynt, who orchestrated the impeachment-eve expose of Republican Speaker-designate Bob Livingston..I trust that it goes without saying that the president was not referring at all to the media outreach efforts of White House special assistant Sidney Blumenthal..And the president meant no insult to Betsey Wright and private investigator Jack Palladino, who ran his 1992 campaign operation to squelch "bimbo eruptions," nor to private investigator Terry Lenzner, who has helped the president's defense team. The vast wreckage about us is one man's work. And this work will continue with that man's blessing. The president's press spokesman, Joe Lockhart, was asked on Monday if the president, in his desire to end the politics of personal destruction, would ask Larry Flynt to stop exposing the sex secrets of Republicans or if would ask James Carville to stop threatening Republicans with retribution. Nah, said Lockhart. .."

Landmark Legal Foundation Website 12/22/98 ".Finally, the "censure" idea simply will not die. The reason is apparent: Mr. Clinton does not want to be tried by the Senate, just as he did not want to face a jury in the Paula Jones case. He is guilty as charged of perjury and obstruction, and those urging censure on his behalf - or hoping to short-circuit the trial process -- know it. That is why the House Judiciary Committee Democrats refused to use their subpoena power to call any fact witnesses during the impeachment hearings. And that's why we hear hysterical rhetoric about the supposed societal dangers of an impeachment trial in the Senate.."

Milwaukee JOURNAL SENTINEL (J S ONLINE) 12/23/98 AP ".For Kate TeWinkle, the impeachment of President Clinton was personal. As the events that led to the president's impeachment unfolded, TeWinkle watched with an interest beyond the historical significance. After all, it was her father David Schippers who played a leading role in one of the biggest national political dramas of the past 130 years. TeWinkle, 45, watched in amazement as her father, a veteran attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, laid out the evidence in support of impeaching the president to the House Judiciary Committee..She recalled a family trip to Washington D.C., during the post-Watergate era, where her father made a memorable statement to his family about one of the Constitution's authors. "He said, "Look at where Mr. Jefferson is looking, directly into the Oval Office'," she said. "Then he turned to us and said, "No wonder Richard Nixon resigned. I couldn't look Thomas Jefferson in the face either.' ".."I hope they look back at him as someone who was truly committed to our country, our Constitution, our way of life here and would protect it no matter what," she said. "He truly believes that if (Clinton) is allowed to get away with this that our Constitution isn't worth anything.".."

Washington Post 12/24/98 Mary McGrory ".It should not come as a surprise that the impeachment of Bill Clinton was almost immediately converted from historic tragedy to ideal Christmas gift for the man who has everything. During the long and sensation-strewn debate, the Democrats often looked happier than the Republicans. At one point, after Democratic leader Dick Gephardt spoke, his colleagues seemed almost to be dancing in the aisles. Gephardt, a man who never before stirred strong emotion, had given the speech of his life, begging the Republicans to reject the resignation of their newly fallen speaker, Bob Livingston, and by extension to give another adulterer a stay of execution...Monday brought good news of a Clinton surge in the polls as the result of his historic disgrace. He was up to 73 percent in public favor. It brought the encouraging word from Sen. Robert C. Byrd, the garrulous constitutionalist, whose passion for history matches his passion for pork. He had been speaking ominously of going through the whole nine yards of procedure. He softened his position about the necessity of a full trial. And four Republicans who had voted for impeachment said they thought censure was a better idea. Monday night also brought evidence that while both Clintons are pitching forgiveness, they haven't quite achieved it with the press. They did not want to have bad stories about canceling the annual Christmas reception, so they made sure their guests felt unwelcome. They relegated them to a tent in the back yard, herding the mob upstairs and down for a slow shuffle through the lavish decorations while children wailed for their supper, which was cookies only. It was probably the worst crush since Andrew Jackson invited the world to his inauguration. He was censured, you remember, although not for that.."

The New York Times 12/24/98 James Dao ".DeLay's staff said later that the Texas congressman was simply urging the senators to study all the evidence closely, and was not referring to anything in particular. DeLay's suggestion that people deciding the president's fate spend "plenty of time in the evidence room" seemed puzzling in one sense. A senior Republican Judiciary Committee aide said senators would not even be allowed into the room where nonpublic materials are kept because House rules allow only House members and certain aides to see those documents. However, the Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee or the full House could vote to share those materials with the Senate, the aide said.."

London Evening Standard 12/23/98 Jeremy Campbell ".The likelihood that a Senate trial of President Clinton will begin early in February increased today as at least 16 Democrat senators say they are willing to let it go forward. Since Republicans hold a majority in the Senate, sources on Capitol Hill say a trial for perjury and obstruction of justice is a "virtual certainty", although it could be aborted at any time by a simple majority vote. The group of Democratic senators who are opposed to making an early deal with the White House for a censure motion to avoid going to trial include some of Mr Clinton's longtime allies and friends: Tom Daschle, the leader of the Democratic minority, and John Breaux. That gives the push for a trial added credibility..Republicans in the Senate may allow a vote on censure, but not until the prosecution in the trial phase of the proceedings has completed its summing-up...One White House lawyer said: "That could be the key, whether Starr would cut a deal."

AP 12/22/98 ".The Arkansas Democratic Party called upon Rep. Asa Hutchinson on Monday to remove himself from the prosecution team that would pursue impeachment against President Clinton in a Senate trial. The party said Hutchinson would have "an irreparable conflict of interest" because his brother, Sen. Tim Hutchinson, would be sitting as a juror, along with fellow senators..."

Jackie Frank 12/23/98 "..With tensions high in the House debate on impeachment, Democratic Rep. Patrick Kennedy Friday confronted an outspoken advocate of ousting President Clinton, Republican Bob Barr, calling him "racist." Kennedy was set off by Barr's use of a quotation from his uncle, former President John Kennedy. He charged that the Georgia lawmaker had lost the right to invoke the Kennedy name due to his contact with a white supremacist group. In his statement during the impeachment debate, Barr quoted Kennedy: "Americans are free to disagree with the law, but not to disobey it; for a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent and powerful, no mob, however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law." Barr spoke to the Council of Conservative Citizens, but said last month that he had not known of the group's views on race until after the meeting. Friday he again denied any affiliation with their views. "Bob Barr quoting my uncle, a racist like Bob Barr," Kennedy said in a raised voice to reporters outside the House chamber. ..."

NY Post 12/24/98 Richard Johnson Jeane MacIntosh Kate Coyne ".COULD a woman who once claimed to have been raped by Bill Clinton turn up as a witness in the President's looming Senate impeachment trial? Speculation began last Friday when CNBC's "Hardball" host Chris Matthews flatly stated that this will happen..Matthews never identified the woman on-air as Broaddrick. He did, however, point out to viewers that his mystery woman is "going to have to decide whether she sticks with her affidavit or whether she sticks with the story she's been telling reporters. She is certifying to reporters that this rape occurred.."

New York Post 12/24/98 Ray Kerrison ".THE United States is going into this Christmas on a desperate search to resolve President Clinton's crisis without putting the nation through a long, embarrassing trial in the Senate. There is only one way it can be done to satisfy justice, history, friend and foe alike: The president must plead guilty to the crimes of perjury and obstruction of justice. A verbal spanking called censure will not do. A piece of paper admitting vague wrongdoing will not do. A back-room deal conceding "lying under oath" will not do. President Clinton has been impeached for committing two serious crimes. Nearly 80 percent of the people believe he is a perjurer. Every newspaper I've read labels him a perjurer. Even his Democrat defenders like Rep. Charles Schumer believe he is a perjurer. In the public mind, William Jefferson Clinton is a criminal. Therefore, he should be treated as such..But if, like every other criminal in the land, he pleads guilty up front to the crimes charged to him, there is no trial, just a decision on the penalty. In effect, Clinton would have to throw himself on the mercy of the "court." The Senate in its wisdom would probably do the right thing, consistent with the knowledge that no one would want to see the president handcuffed and taken off to prison - now or at the end of his term.."

Washington Times 12/24/98 Suzanne Fields ".When Bill Clinton's friends continue to talk about his reprehensible reckless behavior, violating truth and forfeiting their trust, they aren't talking only about the rule of law. They're also talking about adultery with a young woman in the Oval Office. As they plead for censure instead of impeachment they use words of rebuke and scorn as strong as any the president's enemies have used against him. In fact, they sound a lot like the Puritans, whom the defenders of Bill usually reserve for maligning enemies... But intellectual distinctions are unstoppable, too. For all of the messy details of sex and deception, the appeals for sending a moral message to our children about the connection between lying and the rule of law rang with occasional eloquence last week...Rep. J. C. Watts, a Baptist preacher from Oklahoma, followed that advice with the richness and poetic syntax of a man with God's message. "If we do not label lawlessness, our children cannot recognize it," he said. "And if we do not punish lawlessness, our children will not believe it. So if someone were to ask me, 'J.C., why do you vote for, why did you vote for the articles of impeachment,' I would say, 'I did it for our children'." Then he put it in the slang the kids would understand, without a convoluted definition of what it means to lie or the definition of "is." Said he: "[Kids] say 'cross your heart, hope to die,' 'pinkie promise,' 'king's X,' 'blood brothers'. These are the childhood instincts that seek to draw a line between the honest and the dishonest; between the principled and the unprincipled." ..Perhaps it was a cornball exercise to teach children the importance of truth with Parson Weems' apocryphal story of George Washington who could not tell a lie about his hatchet and his father's favorite cherry tree, but it carried an important truth that Bill Clinton has been unable to confront or refute. Instead, the president allowed David Schippers, the blunt man who was the Republican's chief investigative counsel, to leave the public with a devastating evaluation of him. "He lied to the people," he said in his summation. "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." I wish we could be sure about that.."

New York Times 12/24/98 James Dao ".Referring to talk about a quick resolution of the impeachment process, Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., said, "I've just been alarmed that since Sunday so many of my colleagues think this band wagon is gaining speed. Well, nobody called me." Senate Democrats continued to insist on Wednesday that there were not enough votes in the Senate to convict the president and that there was strong, bipartisan sentiment to find a way to open a trial but then wrap it up quickly, through a swift vote to dismiss the charges or acquit the president and then to censure him. "I think there's a real desire to move in a bipartisan way and with more dispatch than was done in the House," said Sen.-elect Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who voted against impeachment in the House and plans to vote against conviction in the Senate. Trying to bring about a quick conclusion of the process, Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the Democratic leader, has been serving as an unofficial liaison between the White House and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott in discussions over the shape of a trial and the possibility of censure, according to several senators. Lott was not available for comment Wednesday. But his spokesman, John Cwartacki, said the senator had vowed to oppose "any effort to short-circuit" the impeachment process, and thought that a trial must at least begin in the Senate..."

Wall Street Journal 12/24/98 Bob Davis ".At the same time, Mr. Clinton has already been using budget announcements to demonstrate that he won't let the government be distracted by the continuing impeachment fight -- and to demonstrate his loyalty to liberal Democrats, who have been his staunchest supporters.."

AP 12/24/98 Walter Mears ".The ghosts of this Christmas past will haunt President Clinton to the last hour of his last day in the White House as he deals with the Republican House that impeached him. Democrats will be reinforced in the new Congress, but short of the strength to win what the president said he will seek to do: broaden federal education programs, enact guarantees of patients' rights in managed health care, and act on the always-sensitive issues of Social Security and Medicare financing. On Wednesday, Clinton added a proposal for $1.12 billion in assistance for homeless Americans next year, a 15 percent increase. There's more to come Jan. 19 in his State of the Union message to a Congress in which Republicans will have a narrowed, six-vote House majority, and 10-seat control in the Senate. Whatever is done in the next two years can't be done without them, which means compromise.."

Drudge 12/24/98 ".Hillary Clinton has finally snapped! The NATIONAL ENQUIRER is set to report in its January 5, 1999 edition: The First Lady has psychically attacked the President, hitting him so hard she left a visible mark on his face -- and Secret Service agents had to separate them. ..The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that the ENQUIRER is planning to run the account in a Cover Page Screamer. "Secret Service agents had to physically separate them to keep the apart. Hillary went off to another room. At one point the President old an agent, 'Keep that bitch away from me. I don't want to do anything that'll get me in more trouble." The ENQUIRER reveals that just hours before the couple walked out of the White House holding hands after the impeachment vote on December 19, there was an explosion in the Presidential quarters -- the First Lady was doing most of the screaming. The tabloid also claims that Bill Clinton is back on the fast food train! "The President is a mess. He's been gorging on fast foods again," an insider tells the ENQUIRER in the special report. Impacting on newsstands next monday.."

Reuters 12/24/98 ".President Clinton is more likely to be hit by a meteor than to resign, Vice President Al Gore said in a CNN interview released Thursday. Gore, speaking on CNN's "Both Sides with Jesse Jackson" program that will air Sunday, said anyone who thinks Clinton will resign following his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives Saturday does not understand the man. "He will definitely not resign," the vice president said according to a transcript provided by CNN. "He is more likely to be hit by a meteor than he is to make a decision to resign. "If he was going to make a decision like that, he would have given up a long time ago -- earlier in his life, with all of the hardship that he had: His father died before he was born, he grew up in poverty, he overcame the odds to be elected," Gore added. "He is not going to resign." ."

New York Daily News 12/24/98 Thomas DeFrank ".Sen. Daniel Moynihan has thrown his considerable prestige behind censuring President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal, informed sources told the Daily News yesterday. But Moynihan (D-N.Y.) also has told friends and allies in recent days that any censure resolution must have teeth in it to attract Republican senators - teeth that Clinton may not accept - and shouldn't be considered until a Senate trial is fully under way..Moynihan, a key swing Democrat in the impeachment jockeying, met secretly for about an hour Tuesday in a hideaway Capitol office with Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), dean of the Senate Democrats. "It's fair to say their thinking is pretty similar," said a well-placed source aware of the meeting. "They want to make sure this is done correctly and thoughtfully." Though Moynihan is described as keeping his options open, "the will of the Senate is drifting in the direction of censure, and he's amenable to that," the source said. "But he also thinks the Constitution is very plain about how you proceed, and it's the Senate's duty to follow those historical procedures." For that reason, Moynihan agrees with Byrd and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) that a trial must proceed for more than a token period of time before censure or other alternatives to a vote on Clinton's guilt or innocence are broached."Other options can be considered," said the source, "but at a minimum that shouldn't happen until all the wheels are in motion" in a trial.."

TIME 12/98 Eric Pooley Michael Weisskopf "."You know the tortoise and the hare? I'm the tortoise, moving along slowly, and hopefully getting across the finish line without getting run over." Then the independent counsel chuckles, gives one of his mild, impenetrable smiles and adds a few quiet words that make it clear this tortoise-and-hare business involves more than study habit. "It is dangerous crossing the road, isn't it?".."

............... I am the last one on the boat that believes our President is involved in murder...Im open to the possibility

Washington Post 12/23/98 Peter Baker ".A few days before President Clinton would be impeached last week, his extended defense team dialed in for its daily strategy conference call. With the outcome of the vote seemingly preordained, the mood was demoralized, the ideas scant. "It was so pathetic," one member of the team said after hanging up. "No one had anything to say except the pollsters." Their message? "Everything's great." Indeed, as he has throughout the crisis, pollster Mark J. Penn told the lawyers and political strategists how the public remained strongly behind Clinton in his impeachment fight. Yet never had the disconnect between those numbers and the far disparate political reality in the U.S. Capitol been more clear. Heartening as they were, the polls were doing nothing to save Clinton from becoming only the second president to be impeached. As this presidential adviser explained how matters had gotten so out of hand, there was no hesitation: "The mesmerizing power of Mark Penn." Penn may have been the messenger, but he was hardly the only one in Clinton's camp to take too much comfort from the president's strong poll numbers. As his team sifts through the wreckage of the House's votes and begins preparing for the next stage when the matter moves to a Senate trial, many inside and outside the White House are trying to answer a variation on the half-century-old question that echoed through Washington after China's revolution: Who lost impeachment? .."

NY Post 12/24/98 David Gelernter "..IT'S an old story: When you reach a certain point, emotion takes over and requires that you hit back. Last week we saw two versions of the same ancient tale. We hit Iraq, and the House of Representatives hit President Clinton. ''Rightly to be great,'' says Hamlet, ''is not to stir without great argument, but greatly to find quarrel in a straw when honor's at the stake.'' A less- exalted version of the same drama plays every day at the nation's grade schools. Some obnoxious child decides to torment some other forbearing child and does, relentlessly - until the forbearing child finally smacks him. Whereupon the first child is mystified, and goes crying to the authorities to report himself the victim of an outrageous, bullying attack. But there are times when honor requires any normal human being to stop calculating and let go. Former-future-Speaker Robert Livingston did nearly the same thing on the same weekend. The time came for him to quit, and ... he quit! The nation was stunned. Ordinarily, when the time comes for a man to quit nowadays, the done thing is to hire a lawyer and have a tantrum. The sight of plain, ordinary human behavior venturing outside without 15 layers of padding and camouflage confuses us. Our children don't know what ''honor'' is; we don't teach them. The word makes us squirm. The weekend's events were simple, but we were in no condition to understand them. .."

New York Times 12/25/98 Richard Berke ".Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York made clear on Thursday that President Clinton should be censured but not removed from office, warning that the moves to oust Clinton might threaten to "very readily destabilize the presidency.".. His seniority, scholarship and independence make him an influential member of the Senate. "We are an indispensable nation and we have to protect the presidency as an institution," Moynihan, a Democrat who has been a fixture of American politics for five decades, said in a telephone interview from his home here, where he was preparing for a Senate trial by reading The Federalist Papers. "There has to be a commander in chief," he said. "You could very readily destabilize the presidency, move to a randomness. That's an institution that has to be stable, not in dispute. Absent that, do not doubt that you could degrade the republic quickly." ."

New York Times 12/25/98 Richard Berke ".Although he made clear that he was not pleased with how the House acted in voting to impeach Clinton, Moynihan refrained from directly criticizing the other chamber. "Look, they had responsibilities on the House side and they carried them out in a manner that is not enviable," he said. "No one would wish that on them. I don't have any animus whatever." Imploring people to read the Constitution, Moynihan said, "Pick up the Constitution. Read it. They came to their judgment. Now it's with us." .."

The Washington Times 12/25/98 Ralph Z. Hallow ".Some Republicans say Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and other GOP leaders have abandoned the work ethic this holiday while the White House and Democrats continue their public campaign against a Senate impeachment trial of President Clinton. Worried Republicans complain that the leadership and Senate offices of Mr. Lott, Mississippi Republican, have been closed since the beginning of this week for the duration of the Christmas-New Year's holiday season. "The idea that we are going to shut down for two weeks, with the White House still out there spinning is -- well, it's just crazy," said one senior aide to a GOP lawmaker, who asked not to be identified. "We are about to make one of the most important decisions we've ever made as a party in the Senate, and we're not even on deck," the aide said.."

The Washington Post 12/25/98 Mitch McConnell ". Reasonable people can, do and surely will disagree over the substance and merit of the House-passed articles of impeachment. What should not be in dispute is the fact that there is absolutely no merit to the "lame duck" legal argument advocated by some of President Clinton's advisers. They wrongly contend that the 105th Congress's articles of impeachment somehow expire and will not be valid for consideration by the Senate after the 106th Congress convenes in January. To press such an illegitimate legal theory would be to forestall resolution of a serious and divisive debate. While this time-consuming maneuver certainly would be a more enjoyable exercise for the Clinton team than a defense of the actual case against the president, it would be a disservice to the Senate and the country. In 1988 the Senate Rules Committee, then controlled by Democrats, studied this question thoroughly and concluded that "[t]he clear weight of precedent and sound policy supports the conclusion . . . that the Senate may continue" an impeachment into the next Congress.."

The LA Times 12/24/98 ".The gavel that slammed down on the House votes to impeach President Clinton also signaled the opening shot of the 2000 congressional campaign. A moderate House Republican from New York who opposed impeachment already has drawn a primary opponent angered by his stand. A likely Democratic challenger to Rep. Brian P. Bilbray (R-San Diego) in 2000 went to Balboa Park to denounce the incumbent's support for impeachment. And some liberal activists, not content to wait until 2000, are looking into whether they should mount recall campaigns against impeachment advocates.."The fundamental irony is, if impeachment goes to its logical conclusion, the party of the president will be most benefited," said Rep. James A. Leach (R-Iowa), a moderate who voted for impeachment. "And I accept that I, as an individual representative, will be severely jeopardized.".."

New York Post 12/24/98 Vincent Morris ".President Clinton's hope of avoiding an impeachment trial dimmed yesterday as Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle and other Democrats left town, ready to let the proceeding go forward. Although censure remains the punishment of choice for most senators, Democrats decided not to go against Majority Leader Trent Lott's desire to begin the trial after Congress returns to work on Jan. 6. The decision not to stall came as Democrats realized a trial will both appease Republicans and buy time to draft a censure resolution that might pass muster with liberals and conservatives. "So far, very little progress has been made," an aide to one key Democratic senator acknowledged. "When the trial begins, everyone will be more willing to negotiate." Jim Kennedy, a Clinton spokesman, said yesterday that the White House hasn't tried to avert an impeachment trial, but it does want the matter resolved...The main stumbling block continues to be the substance of a censure resolution..In the meantime, Clinton continues to defend himself by insisting he did not commit perjury when he swore before a federal grand jury that he did not fool around with then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky.."He is more likely to be hit by a meteor than he is to make a decision to resign," the veep said..."

Washington Times 12/24/98 Joyce Howard Price "..Vice President Al Gore says he believes President Clinton's enemies are motivated by the president's efforts to improve race relations and enhance the status of women and the poor. In a CNN interview on Dec. 25 , Mr. Gore was asked by Jesse Jackson if he believes the president's "commitment to racial reconciliation" -- the same commitment of such great emancipators as Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson, the talk show host said --is driving the "anti-Clinton mania." "President Clinton and I have been trying to bridge the historic divide that has come about because of race and ethnicity in this country, elevate the role of women in our society, and bring about some other changes -- lifting the poor -- that have caused many to feel a little unsettled as old patterns begin to give way," Mr. Gore said."

Washington Times 12/25/98 ".Edwin Meese, who was attorney general under President Reagan, says censure of the president, in place of a Senate trial, is a terrible idea. "I hate to say this because of my respect for both President Ford and President Carter, but actually what they are advocating is the formation of a conspiracy to circumvent the Constitution. And I think it's absolutely wrong," Mr. Meese said on the America's Voice television network. "There is no constitutional basis. I can't think of anything that is worse. We could have a trial for six months in the Senate, or we could have all kinds of other things that might happen that have been conjured up by people talking about this, but I don't think anything would be worse in terms of the destruction of the separation of powers in terms of a violation of the clear-cut constitutional mandate of the responsibility of Congress than that kind of a circumvention that has been suggested." ."

Washington Times 12/25/98 ".Not everyone on the left is rallying to the support of President Clinton. Patrick H. Caddell -- who worked as a pollster and strategist for George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Gary Hart and Walter Mondale -- and Marc Cooper, a contributing editor of the Nation, say "the last supper" of Mr. Clinton's presidency is "being paid for with the bankrupting of the liberal moral treasury." The two men, writing in the Wall Street Journal, say they do not favor Senate removal of Mr. Clinton, but they believe the president deserves whatever he gets for betraying the liberal cause on any number of issues... "The refusal to speak out on the possible Sudan deception led us directly to last week's tragedy of Operation Desert Fox. As the missiles exploded in Iraq, Democrats cheered. House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt and Minority Whip David Bonior -- both of whom voted against the 1991 Gulf war and argued for the right to publicly challenge the wisdom of George Bush's decision -- this time pontificated shamelessly about threats to national security. The low point came when Rep. Patrick Kennedy [Rhode Island Democrat] on the House floor resurrected -- nearly word for word -- the scurrilous language the LBJ White House used in 1966 when it questioned the patriotism of his uncle, Robert F. Kennedy, who had begun to speak out against the Vietnam War. Rep. Kennedy even suggested that Congress should ask the CIA for permission to go ahead with the impeachment debate." .."

Washington Times Dan Freedman 12/25/98 ".EXCERPTS: "...The group includes...Sen. John Ashcroft...Sen. Rick Santorum...Sen. Robert C. Smith...and Sen. James M. Inhofe..."...this group dismisses the possibility of a Senate censure as "virtually nothing," as Mr. Inhofe put it...these senators...push for a full trial of Mr. Clinton on the two impeachment articles approved by the House....Mr. Inhofe said..."I think we should go on with a trial....When you look 10, 20 years into the future and the possibility of a corrupt president in office, we have to make sure we protect this constitutional process....The White House fears something we don't know may be brought out at trial. Prejudging the disposition of this is not appropriate."...The conservative senators (have) personal contempt for Mr. Clinton. Mr. Ashcroft has called for Mr. Clinton to resign because he has "disgraced himself [and] broken faith with the American people."...they...doubt...that censure of a president is constitutional..The Constitution directs the Senate to hold a trial...but says nothing about censure...."

Chicago Sun-Times 12/21/98 John O'Sullivan ".How is it that the best natural politician to occupy the White House since FDR now finds himself impeached and facing possible disgrace and ejection from office? That is the mystery of Bill Clinton. When it comes to public policy, Mr. Clinton succeeds by being infinitely flexible. Having vetoed welfare reform twice, he then signed the Republicans' third welfare bill and toured the country taking credit for it. He raised taxes sharply in his first budget, and a few years later told wealthy taxpayers he had raised them too much. He even called on teenagers to show sexual responsibility. But the flexibility he shows on serious political questions deserted him completely on his private vices. Since the Lewinsky story broke, he has stonewalled, perjured himself, taken refuge in absurd legal and semantic evasions. And when the truth was finally dragged from his reluctant mouth, it was always too little, too late, and too qualified. It was almost as if he felt he was entitled to use power to get sexual favors and that he really had nothing to apologize for. And the record suggests that is precisely his view. When he was governor of Arkansas, he treated the office as an escort agency. State troopers scouted out likely prospects, delivered him to assignations, and helped to keep Hillary off the scent. In the White House, he used his secretary Betty Currie to shuttle Monica Lewinsky past suspicious aides..Now that Clinton has been impeached, will the Senate convict him? Conventional wisdom asserts not, arguing that Democratic senators will prevent the necessary two-thirds majority and that Republican senators may even halt the trial in return for Clinton signing a censure and paying a fine. But conventional wisdom asserted a month ago that there was no prospect of impeachment. In reality, it is impossible to forecast the effects of such powerful political theater as a trial of a president conducted before the full Senate by the chief justice of the United States. It will compel the attention of the many millions who have paid little heed to the details of the charges. It has extraordinary power to change public opinion. And Mr. Clinton can only halt it now by making the full admission of his past lies and evasions.."

Chicago Trib 12/25/98 Naftali Bendavid "."It is unfair and unproductive to compare this to an American criminal trial," said Larry Pozner, president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. "This is a political trial. This is the ultimate camel designed by committee. You make it up as you go along, and none of the rules that apply in an ordinary trial apply here." With impeachment trials so rare, and the rules so untested, many attorneys said it will be hard for lawyers on either side to know how to frame the issues or how to predict senators' reactions. ..In the past, senators have felt free to make whatever decisions they want, leaving lawyers little to go on. In the 1986 impeachment trial of U.S. District Judge Harry Claiborne, for example, Claiborne filed a motion seeking to establish that the Senate must find him guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt" for him to be convicted of "high crimes and misdemeanors." The senators voted him down. An impeachment trial is a unique blend of politics and law. It is run by a group of officeholders who not only wield the powers of judge and jury, but also have partisan political agendas they are free to indulge..."

Deb Riechmann AP 12/25/98 ".Impeachment. The Olympics. Northern Ireland. At crunch time, people tackling thorny issues like these have all turned to the same troubleshooter -- George Mitchell.. He turned down a chance to sit on the Supreme Court, telling Clinton he wanted to shepherd health care through the Senate -- an effort that died amid partisan bickering... During his six years as Senate majority leader, Republicans saw him as a sharply partisan fighter, and he angered colleagues from both parties when he held them in session to debate the health bill, even though it was doomed..As Clinton's impeachment trial looms, presidential aides say they expect Mitchell, who has been advising the White House informally, to play a larger role in contacting his former colleagues who would make up an impeachment jury. That could prove difficult. Democratic senators, including Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., have warned the White House not to tamper with the jurors. So Mitchell's task would be to mediate without meddling. ``They couldn't find a better person,'' says Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe, who occupies Mitchell's former Senate seat. ``He has a lot of integrity and understands Congress and the presidency. He would be a wise choice at a time when Clinton obviously needs it.'' ."

James Gerstenzang 12/25/98 San Francisco Chronicle ".The battle over President Clinton's impeachment, nasty during the House debate, threatened yesterday to grow nastier as the president's trial looms in the Senate. The White House and its Democratic allies cried foul over unpublished and uncorroborated evidence collected by investigators about Clinton's private life. House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said senators should consider the material, in addition to the formal record compiled as part of the House debate that led to the president's impeachment. Senator Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, responded by calling DeLay ``a frustrated moral ayatollah.' .``He wants to impose his twisted morals on everyone else,'' Harkin said, adding that out of frustration of failing to gain popular support for his position, ``DeLay must be approaching an apoplectic state.'' ``We know what the evidence is'' against Clinton, said Harkin. ``What the Republicans are afraid of is (that) Clinton will win big.'' ."

Arizona Republic 12/25/98 Mike McCloy ".As U.S. senators consider whether to go ahead with an impeachment trial of President Clinton, some House members are urging them on with tales of lurid evidence hidden away in a government office building. Rep. J.D. Hayworth, R-Ariz., joined in waving the bloody shirt Wednesday, volunteering on talk radio that the secret information portrays Clinton as a "sexual predator." But Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., is concerned about the fuss over the mystery evidence because it was excluded from the House Judiciary Committee report that was used as the basis for Saturday's vote to impeach Clinton. Shadegg voted for impeachment but, he said, he did not review the evidence before he voted. Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., was one of the congressmen who did review the evidence. In remarks that appeared in The Arizona Republic on Sunday, the day after the impeachment vote, Salmon said of his reaction to the material: "I came away nauseated. There are things that go far beyond what we've heard.".. When Starr's evidence was turned over to the Judiciary Committee in September, entire sections of the Starr report were deemed too sensitive for public view and blotted out. The Starr report opened with a list of explanations for the redactions, including "national security," "privacy" and "personal identifying information." A fourth category was labeled "sexual description." ..Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported House Republican leaders as saying said "they don't rule out" introducing new evidence against the president about women other than Monica Lewinsky in a Senate trial, including the cases of Kathleen Willey and another woman who claimed to have had an affair with Clinton.."

AP 12/25/98 Larry Margasak ".With Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan now favoring censure, the White House Friday welcomed new signs that momentum is growing in the Senate for a penalty short of removing President Clinton from office. Moynihan, D-N.Y., who had not previously revealed his position, did so Friday in a published report. Administration officials quickly expressed new hope for ``a bipartisan solution'' that would avoid Clinton's removal through a Senate trial.. It would take a two-thirds vote - or 67 of 100 senators - to remove the president from office. With 45 Democrats and 55 Republicans, at least 12 senators from Clinton's party would have to vote against him to reach 67 - a scenario few see as realistic. But Clinton's supporters worry about what could happen once a trial gets under way, and they are hoping for a quick resolution to the two articles of impeachment approved by the House.. Moynihan added that ``you obviously can infer'' that he supported censure. Lieberman has suggested that Democrats should not be taken for granted. ``As far as I know, hardly any of my colleagues in the Senate have said how they would vote,'' he said.."

The Mirror/UK newspaper 12/24/98 ".Sources in Washington D.C. say that the First Lady, stressed out by his self-confessed womanizing and threats of being booted out of office, smacked him so hard she left a visible mark on his face. Clinton told one agent: "Keep that bitch away from me," according to the Enquirer magazine which reported the shocking bust-up. She hit him soon after they arrived back in the US. from Israel when they had a screaming match in the White House on December l9th. On the trip they had separate compartments on Air Force One and she was noticeably cool to the president, drawing away from him on more than one occasion in public.."

Jewish World Review 12/25/98 Thomas Sowell ". Bill Clinton is not simply a "flawed" man, as some of his apologists now say. He is a thoroughly corrupt man, cynical and shamelessly selfish. He has corrupted every institution of government that he has touched. Arkansas health officials who threatened legal action against the Clintons' business partner Jim McDougal for not putting adequate sewage facilities into a project he was building were summoned to Governor Clinton's office and told that McDougal was "a supporter of mine." Shortly thereafter, these health inspectors were fired. A state medical examiner who ruled the mysterious deaths of two teenage boys "accidental" was given a hefty raise by Governor Clinton, even though a later autopsy and grand jury investigation concluded that these deaths were homicides. Later the medical examiner was promoted to a job as consultant to Joycelyn Elders, even though a prosecutor linked these deaths to drug traffickers. A convicted drug trafficker who had hired Clinton's brother was given a pardon by the governor. Earlier, Clinton had awarded this same drug trafficker a $30 MILLION state bond underwriting contract. In short, the law has long taken a back seat to Clinton's own interests and agenda. Whether as governor or as president, Bill Clinton has attacked those who have tried to enforce the law and come to the aid of law- breakers ranging from a drug dealer in Arkansas to Webster Hubbell in Washington. British statesman Edmund Burke said it all two centuries ago: "There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men." This has long been a thoroughly corrupt man and the only question now is whet