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...only sensible alternative, which House Speaker-elect Robert L. Livingston has irresponsibly vowed to block from coming to a vote, is censure. Moderate Republicans hold the key to rejecting the articles of impeachment and pressuring Livingston to allow censure to come to the floor. To impeach Clinton this week would be to belittle the awesome mechanism our Founders provided for the removal of our most powerful officer...
...recognize and whose name they may never have heard. It won't be Ken Starr, the independent counsel who brought the Monica Lewinsky affair to the House of Representatives. Or Henry Hyde, the silver-haired chairman of the House committee where articles of impeachment originate. Or even Bob Livingston, who will soon replace Newt Gingrich as Speaker. Instead the author of Bill Clinton's most historic defeat, if it happens, will be Tom DeLay, a flinty former pest exterminator from Sugar Land, Texas, with a tense smile and a talent for making offers his fellow Republican lawmakers can't refuse...
...move on. In the House, G.O.P. members began discussing milder presidential punishments as if they were debating different models of a new car. Formulations like "censure," "censure plus," and "censure with teeth" came in and out of fashion. With Gingrich out, Hyde's committee in obvious disarray and Livingston showing no stomach for dealing with the impeachment mess, the troops had no leader to guide them. But before the agitated Republicans could flee the House in a stampede, DeLay, the third-ranking Republican and the man whose job it is to round up votes, started nailing the exits shut...
...amassed the old-fashioned way: by doling out favors and exacting revenge when crossed. Last week some Republicans who had been wavering on what to do about the President began stiffening their positions in favor of impeachment after conversations with DeLay or one of his lieutenants. And Livingston too, under pressure from DeLay, began sending signals that he was not inclined to let a censure alternative come to the House floor. DeLay predicted to TIME last week that if, as expected, the Judiciary Committee sends an impeachment resolution to the full House, the Speaker-elect will vote yes. "Knowing...
...Hyde will allow a vote in committee just to appear to be fair to the Democrats, even though it obviously has no chance of passing," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "But for those who will decide whether to allow the full House to vote -- Speaker-elect Livingston and Majority Whip Tom DeLay -- the appetite for it just isn't there." Meanwhile, Hyde says that Judiciary's specialty, the inevitable article(s) of impeachment, is a dish that's nearly ready to be served. Foot-stomping about censure -- and there'll be plenty of that on the House floor come...