Word: bipartisanship
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...will be sealed by a full floor vote due later this week. Not in terms of the probe itself; Republicans have more than enough votes to make that happen. Rather, it's a question of moral legitimacy: Will 50 or 60 Dems cross the aisle in a show of bipartisanship, as they did for the release of the Starr report? Or will it be no more than a handful, signaling open warfare between the parties and burying comparisons with 1974 once...
...money. Despite being touted as a lifelong Democrat and the ultimate bipartisan choice, Schippers arbitrarily dropped, subdivided and renamed Starr's impeachment charges, accused the President of "conspiracy" and made comments so skewed they were struck from the record. If there is a Peter Rodino-style poster boy for bipartisanship, he hasn't shown his face around here...
Whisper it low -- bipartisanship is coming back in fashion. Just when Capitol Hill looked as if it couldn't get any more riven over the Clinton impeachment process, the Republican leadership has made a number of concessions to disgruntled Democrats -- and a tiny knot of centrist lawmakers from both sides of the highly partisan House Judiciary Committee are making a show, at least, of working together...
...this was bipartisanship," Barney Frank sputtered after Democrats lost yet another vote in the House Judiciary Committee, "the Taliban wins a medal for religious tolerance." But as long as awards are being handed out, Frank should get an Emmy for standing in front of the TV cameras and managing to look so surprised. It didn't take last week's string of straight-party votes--on everything from which evidence to release to the ground rules for impeachment--to prove what most of Capitol Hill already knows. Clinton's fate lies in the hands of one of the most doggedly...
That dynamic explained why, for all the professions of decorum, Republicans were playing for keeps and Democrats were trying to make it all a fairness issue. It was hard to square Gingrich's talk about sober bipartisanship with the impeachment war room set up by Republican whip Tom Delay, who has already called for Clinton to resign. Staff members from his office had compiled binders full of material on impeachment procedures. By waging a phony war over whether to give Clinton an advance look at Starr's report, Democrats laid the groundwork for a claim that the whole process ahead...