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.