Chairman Hyde, get a haircut. Members of the Committee, consult your tailors and television coaches. Though all the commentators who have been pronouncing Mr. Starr a failure seem to be ignorant of legal opinion and precedent, Starr, for one, knows that the indictment of a sitting president is awkward business. As Byron York explained in the December number of The American Spectator and Terry Eastland has now explained in the Wall Street Journal, the Constitution and precedent demand that a sitting president not be indicted but rather subjected to the political process. That means impeachment.
Indictment comes later.
Soon Starr is going to be handing the Judiciary Committee a bundle of probative evidence embracing a prodigious array of felonies, misdemeanors and stupidities committed by our big lovable lug of a president, graduate of Yale Law, professor at the University of Arkansas Law School, but governor of Arkansas during a period when there were just too many temptations for a party kind of guy. I suggest that Hillary ring up Mafia Don John Gotti at whatever federal hoosegow he now resides and inquire about the availability of the Don's consiglieri. She need not worry about the public relations problem she might suffer from hiring a lawyer from organized crime. The news stories have already revealed that the Clintons keep unsavory company. Maybe it would not even be imprudent to hold a coffee in the White House with those Mafiosi willing to cough up for the President's defense fund.