Hillary: Right Wingers 'Peverted' Constitution to Impeach Bill

NewsMax.com ^ | 6/08/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

In an interview with Barbara Walters to be broadcast tonight, Sen. Hillary Clinton insists that a right wing conspiracy "perverted" the Constitution in a bid to destroy her husband's presidency.

Speaking in the present tense, Mrs. Clinton complained, "I would say that there is a very well financed right wing network of people that was after his presidency from the very beginning. [They] really stopped at nothing, to the point of perverting the Constitution, in order to undermine what he was trying to do for the country."

Discussing Mrs. Clinton's allegation on ABC's "This Week," Ms. Walters sounded uncomfortable with her use of the word "pervert," replacing it in her own account of the Clinton comment. "She thinks the impeachment was the subversion - the subversion of the Constitution."

But seconds later, Washington Post Watergate sleuth Bob Woodward took issue with Mrs. Clinton's "perversion" charge, telling "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos, "That's not true."

"The Constitution makes it very clear that [impeachment is] a political process and the House and the Senate get to say what is an impeachable offense," Woodward explained. "It's not an argument that even legal scholars on her side would adopt."

Still, Ms. Walters suggested that Mrs. Clinton's book takes the scandal issue off the table for any future presidential run.

"At least this book clears up a lot of things that she won't have to face in a campaign," the ABC star volunteered.

Former Clinton spinmeister Stephanopoulos sounded skeptical, telling Walters, "We all can't wait to see what she does clear up."

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[harpo11]

Darn it, Mrs. Clinton, you were the one who told your dear beloved hubby to fight Paula Jones. Just because you made a very bad decision and ordered your husband to cover-up, lie, perjure, which resulted in getting him impeached, to be held in contempt of court, and lose his law license, does not speak very highly of you as his loving spouse.

Admit it, you were gulping in anger over the fact that he got caught, and your sorry arses may have been booted out of the WH.

Why harrass the people hired by Congress to do their jobs when you orchestrated the precarious and perfidious course you and Bill took.

[CyberAnt]

You might want to check with Angelwood - she keeps all those records. But ... I'm quite confident x42 is not allowed to bring a case to the USSC - ever!!