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Two months after the impeachment vote, the Senate failed to convict the president--a highly significant event of 1999 that, for some bizarre reason, slipped Chatterbox's mind until several indignant readers wrote in to remind him of it.
The conventional wisdom says if Clinton fails to strike a censure deal with Senate Democrats and Republicans, they might vote to convict him.
In Flannery O'Connor's story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," a crotchety and self-centered grandmother, held at gunpoint by an escaped convict in rural Georgia, becomes suddenly sensitive.
They even touted the 45 to 50 Republican votes to convict Clinton--which they had unanimously opposed--as suitable punishment.
It may be symptomatic of such losses that today the adverb of choice is clearly, used even more often than the hucksters' Free! , and, since clarity of expression and thought is seldom evident, this frequent repetition of clearly can be seen as a kind of mantra, a prayer that begs our indulgence, asks us to take the wish for the deed, and, what is far worse, seeks to convict us of ignorance and stupidity should we look elsewhere for enlightenment.