"[Clinton should] accept full responsibility for his actions, as well as for his subsequent efforts to delay or impede the investigation of them . . . No spinning, no semantics, no evasiveness or blaming others for his plight."
"Some are concerned about timing. Believe me, nobody wants to end this any sooner than I do."
Rep.Henry Hyde, R. Il.
"I will have no part in the creation of a constitutional double-standard . . . He is not above the law. If an ordinary citizen committed these crimes, he would go to jail."
"No man is above the law and it is the Christian Coalition's fervent hope that Congress will apply this principle and meet their sworn obligation, should they be called upon to do so."
"The president is a citizen with the same duty to follow the laws as all other citizens . . . With a commitment to the principles of the rule of law which makes this country the beacon of hope for political refugees like myself throughout the world, I cast my vote in favor of the resolution to undertake an impeachment inquiry of the conduct of the president of the United States."
"Shall we follow the rule of law and do our constitutional duty no matter unpleasant, or shall we follow the path of least resistance, close our eyes to the potential lawbreaking, forgive and forget, move on and tear an unfixable hole in our legal system? No man is above the law . . ."
"Our laws promise a remedy against sexual harassment. But if we say that lying about sex in court is acceptable or even expected, then we have made our sexual harassment laws nothing more than a false promise; a fraud upon our society, upon our legal system and upon women. . . ."
B. 1952, GA, USA. D. To Be Determined. Beloved husband, father, grandfather, lover, confidant and friend of many from bikers to Zen masters; American writer and speaker, known for his criticism of Mammon's unholy trinity of big business, big government and big religion; served the least of them professionally as psychologist and voluntarily as activist for decades; loved to shoot basketball, billiards and the bull; lived free, died game. (memorial sketch by davidhewsonart.com)
Dear Mr. Mathis,
At least Congressman Foley did the right thing and resigned. How I wish Mr. Clinton would have practiced what so many democrats are now preaching and done the right thing, too. While the democrats are calling for everyone to resign, from Foley to the Speaker of the House to just about anyone else not a democrat, the democrats "circled the wagons" to protect Clinton and to deny that he had done anything wrong. I do not recall ever hearing Mrs. Clinton, after accusing the "right" of making up lies about her husband, apologize and admit that her husband was an adulterous, felonious, womanizing, embarrassing excuse for a president. It appears that it is the democrats who are practicing the double standard, not the republicans.
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vsdaddy (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4 comments)
on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 11:19:17 AM
As vsdaddy illustrates, the Republicans are still desperately trying to make Bill Clinton into the national bogeyman. Because he had a meaningless fling with an intern, a woman of legal age? That somehow compares to what Mark foley has done? I'll never be able to understand how these Ann Coulter wannabes can live with themselves. They live ion some right wing wunderland where they imagine that their boys are somehow morally superior. What a farce they have become, no longer funny, merely pathetic.
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Bruce (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments)
on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 12:00:22 PM
Let's see, yes, I recall now that for years prior to the Lewinsky scandal that Democrats had been posturing as morally superior on issues of sex and accountability, and had been campaigning as God's chosen agents to drive sin and immorality out of America. Democrats certainly are not saints but at least they generally don't claim to be occupying the seat of Moses like the Republicans do.
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Richard Mathis (130 articles, 108 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 120 comments)
on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 1:41:19 PM
Luckily for the Republicans, the democrats who have been out of power for six years are responsible for the government's neglect when N. Korea began building nuclear bombs three years ago. And the democrats are also responsible for getting the liberal news media to lie about how voters really feel about the republicans. The media says voters want change, but luckily that's just a lie created by people like Bill Clinton. So there's much to be happy about.
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Dean Powers (125 articles, 8 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 61 comments)
on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 5:51:26 PM
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