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After months of predictions that we would never arrive here, that impeachment was dead after the election, that the House could play with matches because the Senate was fireproof, that Monica was more likely to be invited to tea with Hillary than to testify before the heirs of Daniel Webster, we begin a brand-new year full of startling events to misinterpret and fresh expectations to defy. And so on cue the Senate set about defying them, managing to do what no politicians on this stage had done last year: remain calm, act like grownups and find the safest...
...there were Republicans who felt differently. In a G.O.P. meeting, Mike DeWine of Ohio made a practical case: "When there are disputes over facts, like the gifts [from Bill to Monica], I don't know how you can ask us as jurors to decide without hearing from witnesses," he said. "I need to be able to look at people involved in that and hear them tell me who called whom and who did what. And you're telling me I shouldn't be allowed to hear those people?" Others were adamant about not playing hanky-panky with the rules...
...Washington heard enough about presidential sex? Apparently not, because the town is starting to buzz about yet another Oval Office affair. This one has nothing to do with Monica--or Bill. The latest White House romance unfolds in a novel called Face-Time by Erik Tarloff, a screenwriter and occasional Clinton speechwriter who's married to Laura Tyson, formerly Clinton's top economist. But the reason people are talking about Face-Time, which Tarloff began long before the Gap dress went under an FBI microscope, isn't that it offers an insider's look at explicit sex. These days...
...Moreover, while a Democratic majority looks possible in the next Congress, it is by no means certain. A year and a half is an eternity in politics, and much can happen. After all, it's been only a year since we first learned about a woman named Monica Lewinsky...
...During one of the presentation's merciful breaks, CNN reported that the attitude among the Senate jury remained "professional." The trial felt at times like a Bizarro-world business meeting: handheld pointers, video clips and bold-colored charts listing the occasions that Monica and the President exchanged gifts. But by the time the fourth manager, Asa Hutchinson, asserted that "the big question is, does the President return Monica Lewinsky's call? Yes he does," you could almost hear the thunk of Senate foreheads hitting tabletops in stultifying-speech-induced slumber. "For the majority of Americans, who believe that what...