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...suspense is also over in Washington, where the trial of the president began yesterday. There is no suspense surrounding the trial, whether or not witnesses are called, since everyone assumes that 67 senators will not vote to convict Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. It's a slam dunk for the White House, but in a way this game will have three winners: the president, who will hold onto his office; the Democratic Party, which has stayed or, recently, has become doggedly loyal to him: and the Republicans, who will claim that they were both high-minded...
...censure resolution that would satisfy all sides, the obsessively punctilious Lott had devised an exit strategy that seemed to have something in it for everyone. Conservatives would get a trial, albeit a brief one, and a chance to go on the record with a vote showing their desire to convict. Senate Democrats and moderate Republicans would get the promise of an abbreviated, dignified process and the option of voting to censure Clinton when it's over. The White House, meanwhile, would avoid the kind of lengthy regurgitation of the evidence that could cause a slow erosion of support among...
...President's senior political advisers and lawyers last week, bravado gave way to pragmatism, and a decision was made to go along with the Lott plan. Better to end it quickly, the thinking went, while the White House could be sure that Republicans lacked the 67 votes to convict. Chief of staff John Podesta told Daschle that the White House was on board, but both sides agreed that it was important to play down any White House role in the deal for fear Republicans might reject it. "Right now, this is the Lott plan," said a senior Clinton aide...
WASHINGTON: The House's older, wiser brother is finally living up to its deliberative billing. Senators on both sides of the aisle agreed Sunday that the apparent shortage of votes to convict Bill Clinton wouldn't -- and shouldn't -- stop the Senate from holding a trial. Censure, which Orrin Hatch on Sunday couldn't help qualifying as "the next best thing," now looks like the only thing left. For the bored majority of Americans, of course, the question is the same as it is for the White House: How much longer...
...Sunday, Christian-values stalwart John Ashcroft was promising that Clinton would get "a speedy trial just like any other citizen" deserves. If the votes to convict still aren't there by March, when the Senate normally begins its legislative year, then the escape hatch pops up. Hatch vowed to craft "the strongest censure resolution there is," and even Minority Leader Tom Daschle wasn't promising the White House any say in the deal. But if censure does come to pass, the Republicans who have hunted this President all year will have to face up to the political truth that this...