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...Paula Jones lawyers, appeals to Americans' sense of privacy and fair play--and that he treated the prosecutors like reporters at a press conference, ignoring their questions when it suited him, making sure to get his message out. "He just did it again," says one conservative House Democrat, marveling at a politician who is extremely hard to kill...
...Democrats hope people will also focus on Starr's de facto messenger in Congress, House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Attacking Gingrich is a standard Democratic ploy, but in the Lewinsky affair it had been hard to do as long as Gingrich stayed behind the curtain, venturing forth only to make high-minded statements about the need for civility at a moment of this historic magnitude. But on Wednesday he went before the microphones--without Judiciary committee chairman Henry Hyde--and trampled all over the idea of a censure deal that would pre-empt impeachment proceedings. He also ruminated in a closed...
...Judiciary chair Henry Hyde rang the changes Monday. There would be, he said, one Democrat and one Republican dispatched to the independent counsel's office to root through the piles of evidence Ken Starr didn't send to Congress -- even though the Dems lost a vital vote on this issue Friday. What's more, Hyde wants ranking Democrat John Conyers to have equal say in calling witnesses to an impeachment inquiry. The criticism that he was no Peter Rodino seems to have struck the silver-haired chairman Hyde harder than we knew...
...year career, Conyers has distinguished himself mostly as a truculent ideologue. Among his causes have been a guaranteed annual income for the poor and reparations for descendants of slaves. "A fox knows many, many things, while a hedgehog knows only one larger truth," says a House Democrat, paraphrasing the ancient Greek poet Archilochus. "John Conyers has been a hedgehog...
...wandered off before returning to the microphones to offer something about Watergate. Still, no one doubts that Conyers will say his piece once impeachment hearings begin. That prospect hardly cheers the President's supporters. But given the determined way Republicans are running the committee, even the most dynamic Democrat wouldn't be able to stop the impeachment onslaught. Of course, that's not exactly cheering news for Clinton defenders either...