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Gather evidence and prosecute

Which is just what the house managers did to Clinton. However, the Senate voted to let him skate. Clinton is just as guilty.

I would say that we have been pretty successful at voting in good people despite the fact that democrats routinely use fraud and deceit in order to make gains at the ballot box.

BTW - didn't the Bill and Hillary systematically get rid of a whole slew of federal prosecutors when he got to the White House? Some of which were working on cases involving the Clintons themselves? How convenient.

The clintons replaced ALL the United States attorneys.

"...he replaced all the United States attorneys in New York."

The New York Times

Oh, so Clinton only replaced the US attorneys in NY now?
If this isn't an example of purposeful omission in reporting facts I don't know what is!

4 Posted on 03/15/2001 21:39:23 PST by Registered

If the clinton debacle teaches us anything, it is this: If we are to retain our democracy in this age of the electronic demagogue, we must recalibrate the constitutional balance of power.

Mia T, THE OTHER NIXON

The Common Man
by Mia T

Balance is anathema to bill clinton.
bill clinton thrives on instability.
He gets off living on the edge.
Disequilibrium undergirds his every scheme:
An electorate distracted,
a balance of power fractured.

Filegate and The clinton Putsch,
committed in tandem,
the product of a careful criminal calculus,
at once empowered clinton
and disemboweled his opponents.
clinton was now free to betray with abandon
not only our trust,
but the Constitution as well.

As if threats of extortion and injustice were not enough,
clinton also embarked on a campaign to quash dissent
-- "partisan, mean-spirited!" he said --
demonstrating once again his distaste for democracy
and his predilection for criminal overkill.

It's easy to see
how the common man in the 1990s
could imbibe such notions.
And the Zeitgeist emboldened the Philanderer-King.

Distrusting
the common man's essential wisdom,
the founding fathers appropriately distanced him
from the decision-making process.

But the founding fathers did not anticipate
electronic media or demographic science
which transmuted our democratic republic
into an illusory direct democracy,
into a de facto -- if indirect -- dictatorship.

By conservative estimate,
there is now enough fiberoptic cable
for the MTV tyrant to hang us all
(and to make it look like suicide).

It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope.
We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth,
and listen to the song of that siren
till she transforms us into beasts.
Is this the part of wise men,
engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?
Are we disposed to be the number of those
who, having eyes, see not,
and having ears, hear not,
the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost,
I am willing to know the whole truth;
to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Patrick Henry

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Theodore Roethke