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WASHINGTON: It's getting dirty out there. House Judiciary Chair Henry Hyde got slung with a faceful of mud Wednesday night when it was revealed -- by the pro-Clinton netzine Salon -- that he had an extramarital affair with a married woman for five years back in the late 1960s. Soon enough, the aggrieved husband was telling reporters that Hyde was a "super hypocrite" who ruined his life and broke up his family. "He had an affair with a young woman with three children," said 76-year-old retiree Richard Snodgrass. "At least the President didn't do that...
...timing of this relevation, of course, is extraordinary, given that the 30-year-old adultery came to light the day before Hyde's committee is scheduled to vote on whether to release the President's grand jury testimony. The 71-year-old Hyde put the affair down to "youthful indiscretion" -- even though he was in his forties at the time, not much younger than Clinton is now. Other GOP luminaries cried conspiracy: "The President's attack dogs," said Majority Whip Tom DeLay, "don't know the difference between breaking the law and making a mistake decades ago." For its part...
...President Clinton's bid for the White House in 1992, sang "Who's Got the Last Laugh Now?" and "Why Haven't I Heard From You?" during her performance at the Electronic Retailing Association's annual conference at the MGM Grand Hotel. Flowers declined to comment on Clinton's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky because, she said, she has no interest in generating any more publicity on the issue. "They don't need any of my help on that...
...embarrass and intimidate political enemies by dredging up ancient sex scandals and leaking them to the press. After Dan Burton and Henry Hyde each got slimed at extraordinarily opportune times, who could blame them? The webzine Salon denies that their story about Hyde's 30-year-old extramarital affair came from the White House, but the bomb threat against their San Francisco offices Friday suggests that not everybody is convinced. Majority Whip Tom DeLay has already asked the FBI to investigate whether Salon's scoop can be traced to the West Wing. Intimidation, he suggests, might be added...
Neither of these two cases is directly comparable to the Clinton situation and only the first has even a remote correlation. Having an affair, and then lying about it during a deposition taken in the course of a politically motivated lawsuit, are not grounds for impeachment, much less a $40 million investigation gone awry. The President made a mistake, he suffered a "critical lapse in judgement." But the tawdry details aside, he did not commit an impeachable offense. And he should certainly not be only the second President to resign from office simply because he succumbed to the temptations...