The last legal proceeding this absurd was documented by Charles Dickens in his Pickwick Papers. If the U.S. Senate were a ship, the crew would abandon it. If it were The Alamo, posterity would forget it. If it were the Yellow Brick Road, Dorothy would not follow it. This Senate has demonstrated its belief, things that are relevant are not interesting, only threatening.
Fear hangs in that chamber like the acrid aroma of camphor balls.
The smoking gun is never found, because Clinton hides all his smoking guns in plain sight where he knows the Senate is fearful to search. Instead the Senate floated a lot of hollow warnings. Worthwhile parents know you never threaten and not deliver, unless you're eager to change places with the child as to which one is in charge. In their longing for a Clinton-free society, even the most ardent of his detractors feel the highest office in the land will be better served by replacing a smart criminal with a stupid one. Yet, the Senate trembles that without Bill Clinton diddling interns in the Oval Office, the stock market will get the sniffles, the sun will refuse to rise in the east, and Dorothy will never get her cute little ass back to Kansas.