Posted on 07/04/2024 8:51:58 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Scattershot anger and disgust at President Clinton, combined with pervasive anxiety about the potential use and misuse of constitutional impeachment powers, left many editorial pages groping to find analytic prescriptions to ease the dilemmas facing Congress and the President.
At least 25 newspapers have called for the the President's resignation, including 7 that circulate 250,000 or more papers on Sundays: The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Seattle Times, The Des Moines Sunday Register, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The San Jose Mercury-News, The Tampa Tribune and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Albuquerque Journal on Sunday called Clinton "morally unfit to continue in office," while The Seattle Times said, "Without moral authority, the President cannot lead."
Focusing on the damage the President's affair with Monica S. Lewinsky has done to the dignity and effectiveness of the Presidency, The Journal-Constitution declared on Sunday that "only one person can spare us that nightmare" of a drawn-out discussion "of a particularly seamy Presidential scandal." The President's "only responsible option" -- resignation -- would entail a sacrifice that the newspaper said Clinton "has shown himself incapable" of making.
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Over all, the ideas and analyses that emerged from the editorial pages reflected ambivalence and a sense of being overwhelmed by the issues involved.
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The most common warning was crystallized by The Sacramento Bee, which wrote Saturday, "The Constitution is the sacred text of American life, overarching Presidents as they come and go beneath it." It added, "The accelerating hysteria that accompanied release of the prosecutor's report Friday is the enemy of constitutional self-government."
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So will Jill, erm Joe.
The irony:
Jake Tapper dated Monica Lewinsky through some Jewish singles outfit.
What are the odds?
Now, it is just web sites full of pop-up ads and “Doctors hate this” stuff.
We’ve changed so much.
MSM an aided in installing this corrupt SOB, now MSM will aid the Democrat Party in forcing a Deep State pawn down the throats of idiot Democrat voters.
Despite Clinton’s sullying the presidency, he went on to make billions, extorting foreign countries,
Some say the shady do-good “Clinton Foundation” was money laundering foreign assets for insiders.
Why would a foreign country give the C/F tens of millions of dollars for his “do-good” projects that were operating in their own domain?
America’s adversaries are empowered and America’s allies are alarmed with SloJoe Biden & Calamity Harris in charge.
(And the players on the democrat bench aren’t much of an improvement)
O voted for Clinton, was a liberal until December 2000. I wanted WJC to resign.
At that time there were only 30honest newspapers in America - now there 1/2 of one - New York Post.
I’m guessing that’s 30 papers that are pissed the truth got out about what they were hiding from their mentally deficient readers.
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