Word: hydes
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While gubernatorial candidate Dean E. Cook is an ardent Libertarian, heavily involved in the party and committed to the party's standard of keeping government out of personal lives, Congressional candidates Philip Hyde III and Anthony A. Schinella chose their affiliations more haphazardly...
Which is why Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde last week tried to shift blame for a protracted process to the White House. Just a week after his chief counsel, David Schippers, had outlined 15 charges against the President, Hyde was telling reporters he planned to "streamline" the inquiry by limiting the case to three core allegations--that the President lied, obstructed justice and tampered with witnesses. But any hope of finishing the inquiry by year's end, Hyde warned, depended on the White House's willingness to stipulate that at least some of the facts in Starr's report...
Instead of taking Hyde at his word when he promised a speedy inquiry, the White House took his new stance as a sign of weakness--a reaction to polls showing an incipient public backlash against the G.O.P. And contrary to its Democratic allies in the House, who are inclined to negotiate with Hyde, the President's team thinks the best strategy is to take on Starr, refuse to concede any facts that might put Clinton in future legal jeopardy, and dare House Republicans to impeach him in a party-line vote. If they do, the assumption is that the Republicans...
...into an early deal. After all, pursuing acquittal in a Senate trial would mean Clinton would have to accept a place in history as the second President to be impeached by the House. Top House Democrats will be encouraging the White House to avoid that fate and negotiate with Hyde. Democrats may even be willing to jettison their plans to call Starr as a witness--if Hyde agrees to a debate over whether any of Clinton's alleged offenses merit impeachment...
...weeks, former Senator Bob Dole has been warning the Republicans investigating Bill Clinton to avoid overreaching, which may explain why House Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde last week floated the idea that the panel might focus on just a few of the 15 charges that are facing Clinton. Such downsizing may be a shrewd move, considering some of these great moments in the history of overreaching...