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...what? Most Republicans now concede that any effort to unseat Clinton will almost certainly fail, barring a Republican landslide in the November midterm election or some unforeseen bombshell from independent counsel Ken Starr. Even if the House votes articles of impeachment against the President, and even if the Republicans pick up as many as five seats in the Senate this fall, they will still be seven short of what the Senate needs to convict Clinton and remove him from office. "Do the math," says a Republican Senate aide. "Clinton may have to go through the disgrace of articles...
...supremo Rupert Murdoch, who reportedly put a cool $3 million on the table in return for a full hour of Monica. With cable and computer screens out of bounds, Clinton's only choice for R&R will be to dive into a good book. May we suggest the Starr report...
Despite Kenneth Starr's prodigious output, important and unanswered questions remain: Did the President obstruct justice? Did he use White House staff to cover up his affair and his lies about it? Did he tamper with witnesses...
...House's decision today will probably mark the beginning of a new stage in this saga, one which we hope will be what Starr's investigation was not--fair, decent, efficient and speedy...
...After this initial phase of the hearings -- the "stipulation" phase -- come the subpoenas. Will we see Monica Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan, Linda Tripp and all your other favorite characters from the grand jury hearings? Will Democrats call even the elusive Mr. Starr to account for his actions? That's up to Judiciary chair Henry Hyde and ranking member John Conyers, drawing up subpoenas together or -- as is more likely -- unilaterally. Barring the release of a politically timed second Starr report, which the independent counsel says he is still mulling over, there'll be few earth-shaking developments until after the November...