Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that is just among Democrats. The possibility of judicious, bipartisan proceedings dissolved when Republicans accused the President's allies of declaring open season on anyone who presumed to sit in judgment of him. The disclosure of Chairman Henry Hyde's adultery of 30 years past in the online magazine Salon represented a knife in the heart of compromise. The House G.O.P. leadership fired off a letter to the FBI asking it to investigate the White House for trying to intimidate lawmakers, without being able to prove it was behind it. The White House put out frantic calls to its Hill...
...would not stop there: it is no use letting the President remain in office if the government can't function with him there. So a thorough housecleaning would have to come next. Republicans may demand that anyone found to have leaked damaging material about Hyde or other lawmakers be fired. Or Clinton may have to do something really hard: ask for the resignation of the fixers, the enablers, people who have served him most faithfully, like his longtime confidant Bruce Lindsey...
...Hyde and Speaker Gingrich have it within their power to call a truce, but that's not in their interest. The problem here is that everything is already going their way: Republicans now talk of winning 15 to 20 new seats in November, a prospect that has the faithful and the financiers wanting to barbecue Clinton for at least a few more weeks. The party's social-conservative flank, meanwhile, is opposed to mercy on ideological grounds, determined that the President must be spanked and spanked hard. But if the G.O.P. drags Clinton's carcass around the arena too many...
...they voted for an inquiry when the original case has not only been dismissed, but settled? At the very least, a settlement would make it hard for the committee to justify releasing the videotape of the President's Jones testimony from January. Clinton may wish he could negotiate Henry Hyde's price as easily as Paula Jones...
WASHINGTON: The Democrats, of course, never had a chance. Not long after a dueling-banjos press conference between Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde and official minority wag Barney Frank, the timetable was set: the Clinton tapes, along with 3,183 pages of transcripts and additional materials, will hit the airwaves at 9:00 ET Monday morning. Republicans, naturally, want to convict the President in the court of public opinion, and Democrats -- well, Democrats would obviously like this whole thing to go back in the vault. Consequence: the statesmanship charade is off. "If this is bipartisanship, then the Taliban wins...