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Another reason, of course, is to placate conservative supporters by giving them a longer show of Oval Office sins, especially since these Senators cannot deliver the final act that Clinton haters crave. And the Senators are counting on national amnesia to set in among moderate voters, so they'll remember only that the Senate did not remove Clinton, not that it dragged everyone through a couple of unnecessary weeks. These penultimate votes will serve as keepsakes for the core constituency, the kind of folks who can still tell you who gave away the Panama Canal...
Some Democrats seem to feel that this is the best way to go; traditionally there is party pressure not to challenge an incumbent or heir apparent to the Oval Office. Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 experienced the wrath of his colleagues when he ran against President Carter in 1980. By lining up behind Gore, the party can avoid a potentially acrimonious primary season. But in the long term, the Democratic Party will suffer if it foregoes this opportunity to reexamine its values and agenda...
...political implications for the already besieged White House in the Ickes case were immense because a green light for an investigation could have impacted not only the President's tenuous control over the political agenda in Washington but also Al Gore's own ambitions to run for the Oval Office. Placing the Ickes case into the hands of an independent counsel could have opened up a broader inquiry into 1996 Democratic campaign finances. Reno's refusal gives her critics one more reason to accuse her of being a political attorney general. In the poisonous partisan atmosphere swirling over Washington these...
Perhaps I'm naive, but I think most young people are a little more concerned about those issues Clinton skimmed over in his speech--immigration and education, just to name two--than who did what to whom in the Oval Office. We grew up watching more scandalous things than the Kenneth Starr report on TV, and it neither shocks nor titillates...
Jenny E. Heller, in her piece "Ashamed to Be an American Abroad" (Opinion, Jan. 6) feels ashamed to be an American because her president had oral sex in the Oval Office. True, America has become a laughing stock. But this is not because President Clinton had an extramarital affair, but because the nation--especially its politicians and its press--have become obsessed with the issue...