Word: republican
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...also difficult for Americans to invest in the spectacle because committee members, Republicans and Democrats alike, checked all pretense of impartiality in the cloakroom, with Democrats aiming a fusillade of sneers at Republican chairman Henry Hyde within minutes of the opening gavel and with Hyde clapping approvingly as Starr left the room 12 hours later. What should have been an uplifting display of American democracy at work had become so tedious and so illegitimate to the Americans who bothered to tune in that even Starr suggested he might rather be elsewhere. If not for his commitment to duty, the witness...
...Bittman would not elaborate further. But it was a bad time to raise even the slightest of doubts about the methods of Starr's investigators, as Republican staffers on the House Judiciary Committee are earnestly scribbling away at three articles of impeachment ? for perjury, obstruction of justice and witness tampering. A bad time, because only one of those articles (perjury) has even the slightest chance of squeaking through on a House floor vote next month. And further down the road, the independent counsel statute itself is up for renewal. Already, lawmakers are suggesting that in the wake of Starr...
...there was ever any doubt that President Clinton would survive this latest crisis, that doubt was buried along with the slew of losing Republican candidates in the mid-term elections. While presumably Congress must go through the motions dictated by law, nobody believes that these impeachment hearings will conclude in any serious result. They are a waste of time and, quite frankly, an embarrassment...
...caption with your story "Why the Midterms Matter" [NATION, Oct. 19], you said of my ex-husband, Republican Congressman Rick White of Washington State's 1st District, that "he's had his own marital problems: his wife recently divorced him." You didn't do your homework. The statement should have read, "He recently divorced and left his wife and four young children." VIKKI KENNEDY WHITE Bainbridge Island, Wash...
Most of the Nation's 31 Republican Governors will meet in New Orleans this week to chew over the election results, install Oklahoma's Frank Keating as their new leader and discuss a possible coup. The target is JIM NICHOLSON, the G.O.P. party chairman who many Republicans say shares the blame for making a hash of the recent elections and for being, looking and sounding too conservative in general. Several of the Governors, including Michigan's JOHN ENGLER, have said in public that it's time for Nicholson to pack his bags. Following the model used by the Democrats...