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The personal rancor fomented by impeachment blocks bipartisan cooperation.
I was remembering the rancor that followed two previous revisionist works on Vietnam--by Norman Podhoretz and Richard Nixon, to say nothing of Robert McNamara's 25-years-after-the-fact revelation that he'd made a little mistake back in the '60s.
In Paris, Le Monde said Clinton "staked his all" in his address, challenging the Republicans to work with a president they want to topple, or else enter the November 2000 elections under the banner of an "impeachment party" that abandoned a popular program to satisfy its rancor.
But after millennia of arrogance laced with sensuality for some and awe laced with rancor for most, fur has been tamed and put in its place.
This Republican rejoinder grants that the House impeachment process was politicized but argues that 1) the Senate should be above such tawdry politics; and 2) the way to regain public confidence is to transcend partisan rancor and skepticism by reverting to the innocence of a jury.