The unlikely spectacle of impeachment proceedings. Or, even less likely, a presidential confession and call for forgiveness.
Apology is in the air.
From the pope, to the French, to Joe Kennedy Jr., to the Swiss, to Mike Tyson, it seems as if the end of the millennium has become a deadline of sorts for big apologies. And there was a moment at last week's National Prayer Breakfast when I looked at the president and thought that he might in fact decide to join the newly conscience-cleared. But it was clear when his press conference with Tony Blair came around the following day that whatever noble sentiments might have inspired him at the National Prayer Breakfast had been overwhelmed by the imperatives of survival that now dominate his every moment. His warm and lofty breakfast thoughts cooled as fast as his eggs. For the president, survival is all smoke and mirrors, denial of the truth and a reliance on one virtuoso performance after another.