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...course, it may not be as simple as Ray's deciding whether or not to go ahead: Ray's continuing investigation creates a complex (and very Clintonian) triangle of power, stretching from Ray himself to Bush and the GOP back to Clinton...
...What is emerging is a political chess game: Already, some in the GOP, no doubt concerned at the specter of Clinton continuing to dominate the Washington landscape, are urging Bush to consider a pardon. "I would pardon [Clinton]," Republican senator Orrin Hatch told Fox News Sunday. "I think it's time to put this to bed." And while the senator's interest in a pardon is likely based in political self-interest - how better, after all, to finally clear Clinton from the national radar - his message is not easily ignored. (Hatch to Ray: The GOP has lost its bloodlust...
...Clinton, meanwhile, is comfortably ensconced in the catbird seat: He knows that a pardon, or his embrace of such an idea, would only fuel continuing doubts about his innocence. Far better, from his vantage point, to let the GOP do his work for him - so he's stubbornly refusing to consider such a possibility, insisting instead that he will fight every charge and eventually prove his innocence. And that promise, of course, raises the scenario that makes Republicans cringe: A wildly popular ex-president with plenty of time on his hands dusting off the old law books and planting...
...frequently missed by such surveys generally fall in the former category. As could be expected, the debate turned on whose ox was gored; in 1991, Newt Gingrich wrote a letter urging the use of sampling to correct an undercount in Georgia, but six years later, as the GOP recognized the potential of sampling to increase Democratic influence, he wrote a similar letter opposing...
...Prediction: Some pundits say Norton could be the GOP's second sacrificial lamb - an easily replaced functionary who, like Chavez, isn?t not worth the political capital it would take to defend...