[Mia T]

 

The president can be prosecuted for his alleged felonies after he leaves office. (Nota bene ROBERT RAY.)

 

This clinton-created censure contrivance -- borne out of what I have come to call the "Lieberman Paradigm" (clinton is an unfit president; therefore clinton must remain president) -- is nothing less than a postmodern deconstruction in which the Oval Office would serve for two years as a holding cell for the perjurer-obstructor.

 

Such indecorous, dual-purpose architectonics not only threatens the delicate constitutional framework -- it disturbs the cultural aesthetic. The senators must, therefore, roundly reject this elliptic scheme.

In this postmodern Age of clinton, we may, from time to time, selectively stomach corruption. But we must never abide ugliness. Never.

 Mia T, THE OTHER NIXON

[chimera]

During the impeachment trial, I must have sent a letter to every Senator pointing out the hypocrisy of those calling for censure as an alternative to conviction. Censure is traditionally viewed as a form of punishment, a punishment that would be born of shame. But, with Clinton, what good would that do? Just look what he did. The man has no shame. Further, I pointed out that the framers didn't really view impeachment and conviction so much a punishment as a correction of a system gone awry. Censure has no such corrective function. Things would just go on as they did before after the passage of a meaningless gesture.

So the whole sordid episode goes to reveal the vain and vapid nature of Lieberman's Big Idea, that Clinton should be censured in place of conviction. If it didn't involve a matter so serious, it would be laughable.