Word: barreness
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...news is old news. In December newspapers reported that Georgia Congressman Bob Barr, Clinton's attacker-in-chief, had delivered a keynote speech to a white-supremacist group called the Council of Conservative Citizens. Not long after that, it came out that Senate majority leader Trent Lott had also been cozy with the C.C.C. When confronted, both Barr and Lott denied that they were aware of the group's racist agenda, though the organization's officers have never made any secret of their views--and Lott's uncle Arnie Watson is a member of its executive board...
...flattery ("We want you to know how much we respect you") and abuse (each speech duplicated others, with lectures on the law to lawyers, who had to sit there and take it). The House managers are such unknowns that photos were circulated so the Senate wouldn't confuse Bob Barr with George Gekas...
...long as McCollum and Barr and Starr are working so feverishly against the President, Clinton's supporters will continue to see their tactics as more of a threat to the Republic than the President. Quiet the extremists, move to censure, and his support will evaporate. And unlike the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, now dismissed by history as a partisan act, Clinton's trial would end in his near universal condemnation, a judgment made by all of us, not one faction of us, that will stand the test of time...
Henry Hyde wasn't there, citing a bad back and advancing age. And Bob Barr made a very public boycott, saying that it was inappropriate for the President to speak before the people who are currently judging him. And throughout the State of the Union, Republicans could be seen primly sitting or looking sour while President Clinton gave the speech of his life. But afterward, rather than raising the impeachment scandal, members of the GOP mostly confined their gripes to White House policy -- which is just what Clinton wanted. "The President is trying to set up the same trap...
...those few liberal Democrats like me who have argued that the president should resign or else be removed from office will be relieved when this is all over. We are exhausted from arguing with our friends and embarrassed to be associated with the likes of Tom DeLay and Bob Barr, whose hatred of the president changed the focus of this story from the president's lying to the Republicans' own bitter partisanship. It's been a very long year...