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6/8 George Bush's approval rating is now twenty points lower than that
of Bill Clinton's on the day that he was impeached.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8118278/#050607
"Your work sucks and everyone hates you, but I'd hire you all over
again if given the chance."
\_ I must have been asleep for a while...when was Clinton
impeached?
\_ iirc, the house voted to impeach Clinton but the senate
didn't agree.
\_ Uhm, no. The House impeaches the president. The Senate
has the trial. Clinton is the 2nd president to be impeached
after Johnson in the history of the U.S..
\_ You are correct, but pp's error is in terminology.
The House did vote to Impeach. The Senate vote on
the first article of impeachment (perjury) was 45-55;
on the second (obstruction) it was 50-50. Clinton
was acquitted of both articles of impeachment.
http://csua.org/u/cb2 (rutgers.edu)
\_ To impeach is basically to indict.
http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/e-gov/e-politicalarchive-Clintonimpeach.htm
\_ Correct. The House votes to impeach/indict;
the Senate convicts or acquites. This time,
they acquitted. |
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| msnbc.msn.com/id/8118278/#050607 From Bloomberg's Ryan Donmoyer: The US Interior Department inspector general concluded that the Bush a dministration offered in 2002 to overpay a prominent Florida family for oil and gas rights on Everglades land, according to people familiar wi th the matter. In a report to the Senate Finance Committee to be made public today, Ins pector General Earl Devaney says the department nearly tripled earlier estimates of the value of the mineral rights, the three people said. Th e agreement wasn't completed and the people familiar with the situation said Devaney's findings would scuttle it. The report says that Ann Klee, a Bush administration political appointee , led the effort to reach an agreement with the Collier family shortly after she was named in January 2001 to administer the transition at the Interior Department between presidential administrations. Klee, and two Interior Department lawyers, Barry Roth and Peter Schaumbe rg, relied on a private sector estimate that recommended the $120 milli on payment after soliciting several appraisals, all of which were lower , Devaney's report says. It also says at least one career Interior Depa rtment official contested the high estimate. Declaring that opponents of a West Side stadium "have let down America," Mayor Michael R Bloomberg said yesterday that the city's Olympic pros pects were all but dead and that New York had suffered a blow to its co llective psyche. Funny, and The Nation seems to be selling out agai n, even without me. One minute on 2008 Reading the ABC/WP poll, I do not relish a Hillary Clinton/John McCain ra ce. Senator Clinton has a 51/46 favorability rating, before being elect ion-campaign slimed. John McCains is 57/32, though I dont see how McC ain can get the Republican nomination, given that he turns out to be a l iberal almost any time he decides to give any issue any thought. At a d inner party last week, we had an argument over whether Connie Brucks Ne w Yorker profile was a mash note or not. But tw o editors insisted no, it made him seem to be a boorish egomaniac. Anyw ay, as of now, it seems that Hillary will get the Democratic nomination unless the opposition coalesces around someone else, rather quickly. Th e most obvious choice is Edwards, assuming Al Gore does not run. But I also keep hearing terrifi c things about Mark Warner, about whom I know nothing. Father knows best Apropos of nothing, heres a funny story I received from a friend: At a funeral for a friend's father today, fourteen-year-old in tow, pis sy because he had to put on a jacket and tie. Just about to start when in walk three scrawny men in their mid-sixties, looking like s**t in tight black suits and boots, a nd stand just in front of us off on a side pew. He gives me the "no one's stupider than my Dad" snort, and says, "How am I supposed to know who they are?" Alter-reviews: Concord Picante Im about as far from expert on Latin Jazz as a person can be, I just kno w what I like. here) that provides just about all the education Ill ever need. Its an extremel y catholic collection, including not only the obvious choices like Mongo Santamaria, Tito Puente and Eddie Palmieri but Charlie Byrd and the gre at (but inconsistent) Chick Corea. Read the essay by Mark Holston if yo ur ignorance is anything close to as shameful as mine, and you can feel virtuous about having a great time. And while youre thanking our friend Norman Lear for putting some of thos e big bucks to work at Concord, check out the new compilation called To ny Bennett sings the Rogers and Hart Songbook. Aside from Christian humility, in which I assume w e're not placing a good deal of stock 'round these parts. Eric replies: Or I could just ask Cathy Young/Nick King. Name: Jeff Hamman Hometown: Butler, IN Whenever someone mentions the Africa problem, why is it the most practica l way of helping is never mentioned? The desalinization of salt water w ould be the biggest step we could take to alleviate the suffering on the African continent. This would provide for improved sanitary conditions and the ability to irrigate cropland. We need to offer them support for all their problems, not just the ones that might affect our economic interests. This solution could even be applied to some of the biggest problems in our own country . Forest fires, drought, and crop irrigation are just a few of the ways . I'm sure there are many more if we would give our scientists more lat itude to solve our countries' problems without them being tied down by e conomic interests of the large corporations and our government. Alterman, As we see yet another opinion poll showing us that Bush is enormously unpopular two things pop into my mind. The first is somewhat snarky: I wonder what words were used to describe Clinton during his im peachment, or even during his entire tenure as president. I suspect wor ds like "embattled," "controversial," "oft-criticized," (okay, I doubt " oft-criticized" would make it into the papers--too "intellectual," perha ps) or even "unpopular" were used with abandon. The second thought is less snarky: all the negative polls do no good if e lection day doesn't follow suit. Bush's approval ratings were, if I rec all correctly, never above 49% for the two or three months prior to the 2004 election. Furthermore, the exit polls that day also showed Bush lo sing quite handily that day. Short of claiming that the R epublicans rigged the election in 2004, which they very well may have do ne, something is clearly rotten in our political system. Somehow, the p eople of this country need to be brow-beaten into accepting that voting against their own self-interests is not somehow in the interest of the c ountry (I believe Mr Dowd of the GOP conceded on NPR last Friday mornin g that that happened in 2004); One can only hope that the great entropic mass of this country will finally get tired of being bitten in the ass and do something about it in 2006 and in 2008. Speaking of 2008, which poll was it that showed that 53% of th e country leans toward Senator Clinton for President over any Republican nominee? ") Your oh-so-esteemed colleagues at the America n Heritage Usage Panel indicate that, while an etymological snob might f eel otherwise, the single or plural may be appropriate, depending on the context. To wit: "Usage Note: The etymologically plural form media is often used as a sin gular to refer to a particular means of communication, as in The Intern et is the most exciting new media since television. Many people regard this usage as incorrect, preferring medium in such contexts. People a lso use media with the definite article as a collective term to refer n ot to the forms of communication themselves so much as the communities and institutions behind them. In this sense, the media means something like "the press." Like other collective nouns, it may take a singular o r plural verb depending on the intended meaning. If the point is to emp hasize the multifaceted nature of the press, a plural verb may be more appropriate: The media have covered the trial in a variety of formats. Frequently, however, media stands as a singular noun for the aggregate of journalists and broadcasters: The media has not shown much interest in covering the trial. This development of a singular media parallels t hat of more established words such as data and agenda, which are also L atin plurals that have acquired a singular meaning. The singular mediu m cannot be used as a collective noun for the press. The sentence No me dium has shown much interest in covering the issue, would suggest that the lack of interest is in the means of communication itself rather tha n in its practitioners." I think it's a close call, certainly more op en to a writer's judgment than you might allow. Name: Denizen of an Ohio university English department Hometown: Kettering, OH Eric, Again with the grammar lecture? You write: 'Um, could someone tell the T imes copy editors that media is a plural noun. may take a singular or plural verb depending on the intended meaning. If the point is to emphasize the mu ltifaceted nature of the press, a plural verb may be more appropriate: The media h... |
| csua.org/u/cb2 -> www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/e-gov/e-politicalarchive-Clintonimpeach.htm Paula Corbin Jones in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. In her complaint initiating the suit, Ms Jones alleged violations of her federal civil rights in 1991 by Presid ent Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas and she was an Arkansas st ate employee. According to the allegations, Governor Clinton invited Ms Jones to his hotel room where he made a crude sexual advance that she rejected. F ollowing the Supreme Court decision allowing the Jones lawsuit to proce ed, pre-trial discovery commenced in which various potential witnesses were subpoenaed for information related to the Jones incident and, over objections of the President's attorneys, Mr Clinton's alleged sexual approaches to other women. summary judgment in favor of President Clinton, dismiss ing the Jones suit in its entirety, finding that Ms Jones had not offe red any evidence to support a viable claim of sexual harassment or inte ntional infliction of emotion distress. Ms Jones appealed Judge Wright 's decision to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, but before a decision on the appeal was rendered, Ms Jones and the President settled the cas e on November 13, 1998. who had worked in the Wh ite House in 1995 as an intern, was first included on a list of potenti al witnesses prepared by the attorneys for Ms Jones that was submitted to the President's legal team. affidavit was sent by her lawyer s to the Jones attorneys in which she asserted in part: I have never had a sexual relationship with the President, he did not pr opose that we have a sexual relationship, he did not offer me employmen t or other benefits in exchange for a sexual relationship, he did not d eny me employment or other benefits for rejecting a sexual relationship . On January 15, Starr obtained approval from Attorney General Janet Reno, who in turn sought and received an order from the United States Court of Appeals, to expand the scope of the Whitewater probe into the new al legations. On the following day, a meeting between Ms Lewinsky and Ms Tripp at a hotel was secretly recorded pursuant to a court order, with federal agents then confronting Ms Lewinsky at the end of the meeting with charges of her perjury and demanding that she cooperate in provid ing evidence against the President. Ms Lewinsky initially declined to cooperate, and told the FBI and other investigators that much of what s he had told Ms Tripp was not true. H e denied having "sexual relations" with Ms Lewinsky under a definition provided to him in writing by her lawyers, and also said that he could not recall whether he was ever alone with her. On January 21, The Wash ington Post, the Los Angeles Times and ABC News reported that Starr had expanded his investigation of the President to include the allegations related to Lewinsky. After repeated media inquiries, on January 26 Pre sident Clinton asserted in an appearance before the White House press c orps: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky," and denied urging her to lie about an affair. The President's attorneys failed in efforts to block Starr's expansion o f his investigation, which also included whether the President himself had lied under oath in his own deposition taken in the Paula Jones liti gation. In July 1998, after being granted sweeping immunity from prosec ution by Special Prosecutor Starr, Ms Lewinsky admitted that she in fa ct had had a sexual relationship with the President that did not includ e intercourse, but denied that she had ever been asked to lie about the relationship by the President or by those close to him. deposition because he did not interpret the conduct with Ms Lewinsky as constituting sexual relation s On the same evening, he appeared on national television and admitted that he had an "inappropriate relationship" with Lewinsky and had misl ed the American people about it. repor t to the Congress in which he contended that there was "substantial and credible information that President William Jefferson Clinton committe d acts that may constitute grounds for an impeachment" by lying under o ath in the Jones litigation and obstructing justice by urging Ms Lewin sky "... to to file an affidavit that the President knew would be false ". Comm ittee on the Judiciary of the report of the Independent Counsel to dete rmine whether sufficient grounds existed to recommend to the House that an impeachment inquiry be commenced and also approved the public relea se of the Starr report. Henry J Hyde, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, was approve d by the House in a 258 to 163 vote to authorize and direct the Judicia ry Committee to investigate whether sufficient grounds existed for the impeachment of the President. statement by Congressman Hyde followed by additional hearings in which the Committee reviewed the issues and allegations of the Starr report and additional testimony provided by wi tnesses to its staff. The Committee also heard contrasting views from c onstitutional experts on the legal basis for impeachment as applied to the factual allegations pertaining to the Lewinsky matter. saying in part: I have accepted responsibility for what I did wrong in my personal life. And I have invited members of Congress to work with us to find a reaso nable, bipartisan and proportionate response. That approach was rejecte d today by Republicans in the House. I hope there will be a constitutional and fair means of res olving this matter in a prompt manner. commenced on January 7, 1999 , with the announcement by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the presence of the managers on the part of the House of Representatives to conduct proceed ings on behalf of the House concerning the impeachment of the President of the United States. voted to adopt a series of motions to limit evidence primarily to the previously video-taped de positions, affidavits and other documents previously introduced, and al so voted to close its final deliberations to the public. corr upt efforts to influence the testimony of witnesses and to impede the d iscovery of evidence" in the Paula Jones lawsuit, the President was fou nd not guilty with 45 Senators voting for the President's removal from office and 55 against. Ten Republicans split with their colleagues to v ote for acquittal; said: Now that the Senate has fulfilled its constitutional responsibility brin ging this process to a conclusion, I want to say again to the American people how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did to trigger the se events and the great burden they have imposed on the Congress and on the American people. I also am humbled and very grateful for the support and the prayers I ha ve received from millions of Americans over this past year. Now I ask all Americans, and I hope all Americans here in Washington and throughout our land, will rededicate ourselves to the work of serving our nation and building our future together. This can be and this must be a time of reconciliation and renewal for America. |
| www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/e-gov/e-politicalarchive-Clintonimpeach.htm Paula Corbin Jones in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. In her complaint initiating the suit, Ms Jones alleged violations of her federal civil rights in 1991 by Presid ent Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas and she was an Arkansas st ate employee. According to the allegations, Governor Clinton invited Ms Jones to his hotel room where he made a crude sexual advance that she rejected. F ollowing the Supreme Court decision allowing the Jones lawsuit to proce ed, pre-trial discovery commenced in which various potential witnesses were subpoenaed for information related to the Jones incident and, over objections of the President's attorneys, Mr Clinton's alleged sexual approaches to other women. summary judgment in favor of President Clinton, dismiss ing the Jones suit in its entirety, finding that Ms Jones had not offe red any evidence to support a viable claim of sexual harassment or inte ntional infliction of emotion distress. Ms Jones appealed Judge Wright 's decision to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, but before a decision on the appeal was rendered, Ms Jones and the President settled the cas e on November 13, 1998. who had worked in the Wh ite House in 1995 as an intern, was first included on a list of potenti al witnesses prepared by the attorneys for Ms Jones that was submitted to the President's legal team. affidavit was sent by her lawyer s to the Jones attorneys in which she asserted in part: I have never had a sexual relationship with the President, he did not pr opose that we have a sexual relationship, he did not offer me employmen t or other benefits in exchange for a sexual relationship, he did not d eny me employment or other benefits for rejecting a sexual relationship . On January 15, Starr obtained approval from Attorney General Janet Reno, who in turn sought and received an order from the United States Court of Appeals, to expand the scope of the Whitewater probe into the new al legations. On the following day, a meeting between Ms Lewinsky and Ms Tripp at a hotel was secretly recorded pursuant to a court order, with federal agents then confronting Ms Lewinsky at the end of the meeting with charges of her perjury and demanding that she cooperate in provid ing evidence against the President. Ms Lewinsky initially declined to cooperate, and told the FBI and other investigators that much of what s he had told Ms Tripp was not true. H e denied having "sexual relations" with Ms Lewinsky under a definition provided to him in writing by her lawyers, and also said that he could not recall whether he was ever alone with her. On January 21, The Wash ington Post, the Los Angeles Times and ABC News reported that Starr had expanded his investigation of the President to include the allegations related to Lewinsky. After repeated media inquiries, on January 26 Pre sident Clinton asserted in an appearance before the White House press c orps: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky," and denied urging her to lie about an affair. The President's attorneys failed in efforts to block Starr's expansion o f his investigation, which also included whether the President himself had lied under oath in his own deposition taken in the Paula Jones liti gation. In July 1998, after being granted sweeping immunity from prosec ution by Special Prosecutor Starr, Ms Lewinsky admitted that she in fa ct had had a sexual relationship with the President that did not includ e intercourse, but denied that she had ever been asked to lie about the relationship by the President or by those close to him. deposition because he did not interpret the conduct with Ms Lewinsky as constituting sexual relation s On the same evening, he appeared on national television and admitted that he had an "inappropriate relationship" with Lewinsky and had misl ed the American people about it. repor t to the Congress in which he contended that there was "substantial and credible information that President William Jefferson Clinton committe d acts that may constitute grounds for an impeachment" by lying under o ath in the Jones litigation and obstructing justice by urging Ms Lewin sky "... to to file an affidavit that the President knew would be false ". Comm ittee on the Judiciary of the report of the Independent Counsel to dete rmine whether sufficient grounds existed to recommend to the House that an impeachment inquiry be commenced and also approved the public relea se of the Starr report. Henry J Hyde, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, was approve d by the House in a 258 to 163 vote to authorize and direct the Judicia ry Committee to investigate whether sufficient grounds existed for the impeachment of the President. statement by Congressman Hyde followed by additional hearings in which the Committee reviewed the issues and allegations of the Starr report and additional testimony provided by wi tnesses to its staff. The Committee also heard contrasting views from c onstitutional experts on the legal basis for impeachment as applied to the factual allegations pertaining to the Lewinsky matter. saying in part: I have accepted responsibility for what I did wrong in my personal life. And I have invited members of Congress to work with us to find a reaso nable, bipartisan and proportionate response. That approach was rejecte d today by Republicans in the House. I hope there will be a constitutional and fair means of res olving this matter in a prompt manner. commenced on January 7, 1999 , with the announcement by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the presence of the managers on the part of the House of Representatives to conduct proceed ings on behalf of the House concerning the impeachment of the President of the United States. voted to adopt a series of motions to limit evidence primarily to the previously video-taped de positions, affidavits and other documents previously introduced, and al so voted to close its final deliberations to the public. corr upt efforts to influence the testimony of witnesses and to impede the d iscovery of evidence" in the Paula Jones lawsuit, the President was fou nd not guilty with 45 Senators voting for the President's removal from office and 55 against. Ten Republicans split with their colleagues to v ote for acquittal; said: Now that the Senate has fulfilled its constitutional responsibility brin ging this process to a conclusion, I want to say again to the American people how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did to trigger the se events and the great burden they have imposed on the Congress and on the American people. I also am humbled and very grateful for the support and the prayers I ha ve received from millions of Americans over this past year. Now I ask all Americans, and I hope all Americans here in Washington and throughout our land, will rededicate ourselves to the work of serving our nation and building our future together. This can be and this must be a time of reconciliation and renewal for America. |