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...pretty afternoons in late July. People dress well for the White House tour, keep their voices down because that is the President's House, but this is Our House. That was the whole idea. We come by the hundreds, thousands, in tank tops and flip-flops, to see where Webster debated and wars were declared and National Mushroom Month was inscribed onto the nation's calendar. Boy Scouts pose for pictures, senior citizens wear buttons and troll for a Congressman to pester, Pentecostal pilgrims deliver copies of the Ten Commandments and pray outside on the lawn, heavyweight champs and movie...
WASHINGTON: This time, Ken Starr squeezed his potential witness a little too hard. A federal judge Wednesday dismissed all tax evasion charges against Webster Hubbell on Wednesday, allowing the central Whitewater figure to slip out from under Starr's thumb and dealing a major blow not only to the independent counsel's case against the President but also to his reputation...
...Webster, look at this...
...Webster Hubbell had really said, as Dan Burton's creative transcript had it, "The Riady is just not easy to do business with me while I'm here," what language was he supposed to be speaking? Did people on the staff of Burton's Government Reform and Oversight Committee actually take that to be an English sentence? Do they talk that way themselves? Outside of chairman Burton's earshot, do they say things like "The Burton are just too much of loony to conduct this investigation...
...last week Webster Hubbell--a man who admits to having stolen from the law partners and clients who put their trust in him--was beginning to look like a victim, and Dan Burton had tossed David Bossie, his pet viper, overboard in an effort to save himself. Newt Gingrich, trying to figure out how the campaign-finance investigation could be done anywhere other than Burton's committee, may have been wondering if declaring the subject within the purview of, say, the Agriculture subcommittee on livestock, dairy and poultry would be seen as too much of a stretch. The Clinton...