Perhaps sensing that the public does not buy the defense of Clinton’s statements as "legally accurate," Ruff recently argued on Meet the Press that perjury is not an impeachable offense anyway: "Whatever the president did or whatever the president said, whether it was in January or in August, there simply is no basis for removing the president from office."
Congress may disagree. A recent paper from the Cato Institute notes that most constitutional scholars take the position that "indictable offenses fall within the class of impeachable offenses. There is a fundamental inconsistency, they argue, between a president’s oath to faithfully execute the law and his having himself committed offenses indictable under that law."
I have to say I find that position compelling, even though it raises a prospect that is hard for me to view with equanimity: President Gore.
Now I really feel sick.
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