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 That's Why They Call it a Trial
* What is with CJ Rehnquist’s graduation robes? I fully
expected him to begin the trial proceedings with the words:
“The very definition of ‘commencement’ indicates a
beginning, not an ending.”
* Here’s a suggestion regarding witnesses: Have a small number of Senators, say 10, sit in on the
depositions in a rotating fashion; ten sit in on the Monica deposition, ten others to sit in on
Vernon Jordan’s, ten more to listen to Betty Currie, and so on.
* In that way a majority – perhaps the entirety – of the Senate would get the flavor of the
testimony which might change some minds as to whether live witnesses are necessary prior to
voting which might prevent that voting to be solely along party lines.
* Speaking of witnesses, we’ve heard the tentative lists of the prosecution witnesses, where is the
list of witnesses David Kendall and the crack White House legal team wants to call?
* The White House, which has been in something of a slump since Newt hasn’t been around to
blame Bill Clinton’s problems on, will respond to the impeachment summons of the Senate today.
I am praying they trot Kendall out to explain it.
* I hate to agree with Don Imus, but in addition to Kendall I want Maxine Waters and Barney
Frank added to the White House defense team to get something going.
* What is in the unpublished documents which caused nearly all the House Republican
moderates to vote for impeachment and which has led a significant number of Republican
Senators to back off their “no witness” stance of 10 days ago?
* The consternation among the press corps about the way the Senate is proceeding is amusing.
To review the bidding, all 435 voting members of the U.S. House are elected every two years. The
whole bunch is out every two years. Only one-third of the 100 Senators are elected every two
years, 66-or-so have at least four years to go before they must face re-election.
* The current pace of Senate activity, in the context of the Senate, is positively warp factor 10.
Under normal circumstances it might have taken the Senate five or six weeks to get to the point
they reached this past Friday.
* Why is it that the word “partisan” is only used as a negative by the Democrats when they are
describing the Republicans’ voting patterns? Why isn’t it “partisan” when the Democrats all vote
like they are Dolly’s offspring?
* That sound you heard yesterday was the sound of bookers scratching Danny Williams off their
lists in New York, Washington, Secaucus, and Fort Lee.
* On a chat show last night, I was thrown for an existential loop by the following question from the
studio host to the White House reporter: “So, can we expect some surprises?” If we knew the
answer to that question would the surprise, in fact, be a surprise?
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