Special Editorial: The President's Impeachment
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
SPECIA EDITORIAL Who's Responsible? by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The President's Impeachment Who is responsible for the Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton—the event, not...
...The one figure who played a dominant part in almost 3o years of Clinton scandals, Boy Clinton...
...and so, lest he "go too far," Monica converts to his theory of exculpatory fellatio...
...Yet today many Americans, particularly among the intelligentsia, are grimdefenders of this reckless adolescent...
...With admirable scholarship legal aides to the Rodino committee in 1974 drew up the grounds for presidential impeachment...
...Will the United States Senate remain comfortable with him in the White House...
...Others are under investigation and indictment...
...His endorsement last year of the "roving" wiretaps legislation...
...Probably they were right...
...I am not a literary scholar, but all the major facts are here...
...Christmas 1996 witnessed the Washington Post's report of the administration's campaign finance excesses, including the hiring out of the Lincoln Bedroom...
...Starr records that on one occasion he takes a few steps over to the office of Deputy Assistant to the President Nancy Hernreich, where Monica observes him "manually stimulating" himself— foot- note 31...
...His 1996 support of the "Effective Death Penalty Act...
...The Starr Report's footnotes represent a literary breakthrough...
...Clinton, however, turned his pale blue eyes on them and blurted out, "But I didn't lie...
...He may from time to time pump out some populist rhetoric, but always he steers towards the center of the road...
...She follows him to a public handshaking appearance at a rope line and the brain goes off...
...Starr's report makes clear that through crises, domestic and international, Clinton kept calling Monica on the telephone...
...At one point he tells Monica that he fears becoming "addicted" to her...
...Starr's narrative moves briskly, the sensuality often enhanced by, mirabile dictu, the nocturnal use of the common 16 February 1999 • The American Spectator telephone...
...Though the relationship lasts 18 months, he only meets with her ten times for44 Beyond Falstaff, beyond Gargantua, he is utterly 1990's, alternately passive and ruthless...
...Clinton's advisers were bewildered...
...He has adopted Republican welfare while making a mockery of "two decades of hard-earned gains in sexual harassment law...
...Thus most Liberal leaders will defend him to his last hour...
...The meeting ended...
...There were the reports of foreign funding of Clinton's campaigns, most troubling his 1996 campaign, and of technology transfers to the Chinese...
...She gooses him...
...Is the president who pursued this idiot (and wait until the other idiots are revealed) the kind of man Americans want fingering the nuclear trigger...
...No other burning issue has moved them to such intense hysteria, except perhaps war and nuclear disarmament...
...His conversation extends from the lewd to the commonplace to pure psych °babble...
...and Anonymous, Washington: Regnery, 1997...
...How have the Liberals come to defend such a scoundrel...
...In e-mail she writes her great soliloquy: "I don't care what you say, but if you were lop% fulfilled in your marriage I never would have seen that raw, intense sexuality that I saw a few times—watching your mouth on my breast or looking in your eyes while you explored the depth of my sex...
...Start with the Starr Report...
...Whether in the bawdy scenes of Monicagate or in the scramble to fund the 1996 campaign even at the risk of allowing Chinese espionage, Boy Clinton's behavior is eminently impeachable...
...Can anyone believe that she was but one of several women he ill-used...
...He is their present Alger Hiss...
...She administers oral sex...
...This sex must not become adulterous...
...His defenders call this a conspiracy...
...Do we really want the power of the presidency in the hands of a nut...
...Kenneth Starr's report bids fair to become a classic, a bawdy epic, weighing in somewhere between Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel...
...Also terrifying to the White House at Yuletide 1996 was for18 February 1999 • The American Spectator mer Clinton aide David Watkins's confirmation in The American Spectator of prior Clinton scandals first published here...
...At Christmas in 1994 there were the reports that Webb Hubbell was cooperating with the Independent Counsel...
...The Secret Service is helpless...
...Neither Chaucer nor Rabelais thought to use them...
...1992 campaign of an Arkansas murderer incapacitated by brain damage...
...They blame his plight on the Republicans, "the vast right-wing conspiracy," Neo-Puritans, even Zionists...
...As in the case of 2 Incidentally, in his book Secrecy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan relates that this is precisely the term applied by the far left to conservative businessmen and the military during the Cold War...
...P erhaps I do not quite have the above chronology right...
...Is it mere coincidence that so many of the Boy President's scandals made headlines around Christmastime, or was it God's will...
...The President's Impeachment Who is responsible for the Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton—the event, not the docudrama?' How has it come to pass that a superbly educated aspirant to the Liberal glory of John F. Kennedy and Roosevelt II slid from his 1992 campaign promise of the "most ethical administration in American history" to an ignominy that Congress has reserved for only one other president, a common drunkard, Andrew Johnson...
...And remember her idiot explanation to the grand jury...
...The Arkansas state troopers' stories of their former boss's abuse of power for sex were published to international acclaim in December 1993...
...She thought the president's sperm sample on her navy blue dress from the Gap "could have been spinach dip or something...
...Bill Clinton is a nut...
...What the hell is going on in the land of the free, the home of the brave...
...Were those two alive in the 1990's, could either imagine the simple earthy pleasure Bill and Monica experienced from a cigar...
...They also contain passages best left to the adepts of sexual hygiene, for instance: "They [Monica and the President of the United States] engaged in oral-anal contact as well" — footnotes 210 and 237...
...He was a foolish rustic whose coarse racism enhanced his incompetence...
...They have not been caused by bold policy but by bad character...
...It is not as though he suffered this one brief moral lapse or was impeached because of a zealous prosecutor's brilliant entrapment...
...Days pass in the Oval Office.,., C__)N His pants are up...
...In Starr's great work we read of our big lovable lug of a president lumbering through the West Wing of the White House during the 1995 Government Shutdown...
...He is political putty in the pollsters' hands...
...They had discovered what those of us who have studied him these past six years now know...
...In the years to come they will look stupid or corrupt or both...
...The world will rally to them...
...It does not matter if these conservatives are right...
...physical sex or whatever he calls it...
...Callahan is fully clothed...
...There were the ongoing revelations about Whitewater, corrupt officials in the administration, and Chinese agents in the White House...
...She wears sweat pants but insists they are silken and seductive...
...And so practically every' time Monica fellates him, Boy Clinton, devoted husband and father, breaks from her embrace...
...Starr has mastered them...
...Clinton has been accused of barbarity and abuse of power through three decades by all manner of witnesses...
...His cowardice during and after the Branch Davidian massacre...
...With almost no victories to show for it, let us note...
...On January 27, 1998, when Hillary Milhous Clinton laid all these scandals to the energies of "a vast right-wing conspiracy,"2 she made the following judgment of the allegations against Monica and the president: "If all that were proven [sic] true, I think that would be a very serious offense...
...With the rude exposure of his improbity the past year, the Liberals' defense of him has become positively emotional but at enormous cost in policy and in principle...
...And just after Christmas four years later Monicagate broke, containing all the dramatic elements of Troopergate, including exculpatory fellatio...
...Already a dozen of his cronies stand convicted...
...During one session from abroad the president allows as how his lines may be tapped by "foreign agents...
...If the "foreign agents" ever betray him, he tells Monica that they can claim the calls are a "put-on...
...More masturbation...
...The constitutional crisis worsened...
...And the president...
...Now the president is on Air Force One somewhere over Europe, panting into the telephone to Monica who is splayed across the creamy sheets of her Watergate bed...
...He represents no threat to any vested interest aside from the law-abiding...
...He also comes across as a man with very bad judgment...
...He gropes her...
...Interlarded between all the Christmas exposés were the many other scandals: Travelgate, Filegate, the furtive disposition of Vincent Foster's files...
...Fellatio when administered upon Clinton cannot be adultery...
...History is ceaseless motion...
...20 February 1999 • The American Spectator...
...They speak not only of presidential masturbation but of much gift giving, gift receiving, and gift hiding...
...The burden of proof reposes on them and grows weightier with each scandal...
...So how has it come to pass that the Liberal elites defend him so violently...
...Clinton is the preeminent motivating force here...
...Well, "all that" has been proved, through witnesses, outside corroboration, footnotes, and a famous dress stain...
...Nineteen ninety-seven was Monica's hour, and Christmastime 1998 brought denouement, the Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton...
...Clinton's role in the cruel and illegal execution during his 'The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...More and more congressmen and senators are making this discovery...
...Monica comes across as a bawd, well beyond the earthiness of Chaucer's Wife of Bath...
...In any other decade of the modern era, the literary set would esteem it a work of art...
...No other politician in American history has over three decades tracked so much dog dirt into public life...
...So how has it come to pass that this implausible fellow has bamboozled the Liberal elites into defending him as though he were their latest version of Sacco and Vanzetti or the Hollywood Ten or the Hero of Chappaquiddick...
...On another occasion he repairs to the Oval Office's bathroom for "manual stimulation"—footnote 25...
...Caddell and Cooper save their most grievous blow for last: "The most disturbing consequence of the surrender to Clinton has been the self-strangulation of the Democratic peace constituency" pursuant to defending an administration that has more frequently resorted to military action abroad than any other administration in this century...
...The Clintons' Christmas hex continued the week after Christmas with news reports that Our President had fathered a child by a prostitute some 13 years earlier and never paid child support...
...He was a foolish rustic whose coarse racism enhanced his incompetence...
...And "uncompleted" fellatio is probably not even sex...
...Two of those aides were Hillary Rodham and Bernard Nussbaum, the president's first White House counsel...
...Yet this is the White House, and Standards must be maintained...
...Were Boy Clinton any less reckless he would have recognized that the moment she was out of his presence she would be blabbing on the telephone about "Handsome," "the Big He," and "the Big Creep...
...Balderdash...
...Monica with her air-valve of a brain was a risky conquest...
...The footnotes bespeak more masturbation and "oral-anal" romance...
...Strictly speaking this is not "phone sex...
...The forty-second president is a married man...
...Yet let the dirty talk continue...
...Johnson was, of course, more than a drunkard...
...The scrapes he gets into are not a sad consequence of his reformist fervors but a result of his personal pursuit of pleasure...
...Once back at the White House, the president is again on the telephone, though this time in conversation with Congressman Sonny Callahan, not Monica, for she is right there at his side, or rather, at his groin...
...More likely they would simply light up, blithely disregarding the White House regulations against tobacco established by Hillary...
...Contrary to the claims made by Clinton's defenders today, the grounds did not involve threats to the state but rather the failure to maintain proper ethical standards...
...His tolerance of the government's summary deportation of some 30,000 aliens, though many were legal residents...
...Not long ago at the White House a small group of Clinton's advisers counseled him to admit that, upon careful reflection, he has concluded that what he said at the Jones deposition and to the grand jury were lies...
...The topic on his mind is Bosnia and the president's plan to send troops...
...For some reason it has fallen to conservatives to recognize the corruption of Boy Clinton...
...Read Carville, Dershowitz, and the Hollywood geniuses...
...Such qualities combined to make him easily the most boorish president of the nineteenth century...
...She rouses his jumpy libido with a saucy display of her historic "thong underpants...
...Johnson was more than a drunkard...
...Later Bill and Monica experiment with "cigar sex...
...77 all the aforementioned scrapes and scandals there was only one constant, Boy Clinton...
...They have only one principle left: opposition to conservatives, who are themselves dissimilar from the conservatives of thepast...
...As Liberal activist Patrick Caddell and Nation contributing editor Marc Cooper have written, the travesty has left the Liberals paying "a staggering price: unconditional surrender of their ideals...
...Caddell and Cooper marshal their evidence...
...Now along comes Clinton bereft of the excuse of drunkenness and yokelry...
...Such an admission followed by a public apology would get him off the hook with Congress and the courts, they had concluded...
...Employing the full power of the presidency he orchestrated the smearing of prosecutors, the courts, his critics, and the press...
...Let's get out of here...
...No, they are k down...
...The theory first reached a national audience when the Arkansas state troopers explained it in The American Spectator's Troopergate story...
...Cigars were unknown to Rabelais or to Chaucer...
...He lied to his staff and cabinet and sent them across the country spreading his lies...
...Today's Liberals are not liberal...
...Scripture says so...
...The Hon...
...Beyond Falstaff, beyond Gargantua, he is utterly 1990's, alternately passive and ruthless...
...Next Christmas brought the reports that the White House was giving up the long-subpoenaed White House notes over its White-water cover-up...
...On a lighter note, why have the Republic's literati received the Starr Report with a gasp rather than with rejoicing...
...A simple pizza brings him and the shapely Monica together...
...More likely for this 1990's kind of guy it is a New Age equivalent of the Heimlich maneuver...
...he gets into these messes on his own, and why would any group conspire against him anyway...
...No presidential campaign had dodged so many bullets, turned the character issue against its opponent, and brought so corrupt a candidate into the White House...
...Withal, no one has to conspire against Clinton...
...While the proof was being gathered Hillary's husband, of his own volition and with no help from "the vast right-wing conspiracy," lied publicly and under oath...
...Gabbing with her lewdly, asking her over to the White House...
...They rendezvousby the presidential toilet, and vavavav000m...
...God knows what is on the president's mind...
...Those who do not vigilantly maintain their principles against the erosion of time are left without principles or with principles disfigured by time...
...W ho then is responsible for the Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton...
...This is called "phone sex...
...In dramatic terms he is an innovation...
...Nonetheless he repeatedly calls her over to the White House or for "phone sex...
...All these revelations followed the 1992 campaign revelations about Clinton's marijuana experiments, draft dodging, Gennifer Flowers, and Whitewater...
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