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Its time.  Bill Clinton, since you cannot save yourself, please save
your party.  Resign now.
As you can see, more and more people are calling for Clinton to vacate
the White House.  Its time.


Unlikely coalition seeks Clinton's resignation


By Joyce Howard Price
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Some are longtime Clinton supporters. Others are devoted
defenders-turned-critics.
And all have become the opposition, a growing lot from personalities as
diverse as Gloria Allred and the Rev. Jerry Falwell to 37 congressional
incumbents or candidates to newspapers across the nation.
This unlikely collection of pundits and lawmakers, newsmakers and
columnists, from the liberal to conservative, has voiced the same call:
President Clinton should resign.
"I'm making that call reluctantly, and I think I'm the first known
feminist to make that call," said Miss Allred, a feminist lawyer in Los
Angeles who describes herself as a longtime Clinton supporter and
contributor.
"I commend him for his overall record as president ... but his lying to
the American people is not acceptable. ... He should resign," she said
in a telephone interview Thursday.
The National Journal Group Inc., which keeps track of resignation calls
in the Hotline and on the Internet, even has former Rep. Patricia
Schroeder, Colorado Democrat, on its list of 70 politicians, would-be
politicians, pundits, and other celebrities who have urged Mr. Clinton
to step down in the aftermath of his Aug. 17 televised speech, in which
he acknowledged having an inappropriate relationship with Monica
Lewinsky. But in an interview Thursday, Mrs. Schroeder, now president
and chief executive officer of the Association of American Publishers,
said she's withholding judgment until she knows what Independent Counsel
Kenneth W. Starr has in the report he'll be submitting to Congress.
"I said I would resign [if I were Mr. Clinton], but obviously, he isn't
going to listen to me," Mrs. Schroeder said.
She added she "couldn't go out in public again," if she had confessed to
the kind of behavior Mr. Clinton acknowledged.  And she expressed pity
for "our poor fiction writers," saying it will be impossible for them to
top the real-life saga of Mr.  Clinton's affair with a former White
House intern only a few years older than his daughter.
Initially, it was mostly only Republicans, pro-family leaders, and media
organizations and pundits with a conservative bent that demanded Mr.
Clinton step down.
But now an ideological spectrum is represented on Hotline's growing
list. In addition to known Clinton opponents such as Sen. John Ashcroft,
Missouri Republican, and Gary Bauer, president of the Family Research
Center, the Hotline list includes former liberal Republican congressman
and television personality Fred Grandy; former Sen. Nancy
Kassebaum-Baker, a centrist Republican; and liberal pundits Bonnie Erbe
of Scripps-Howard and Al Hunt of the Wall Street Journal.
In a column Thursday, Mr. Hunt said the president's resignation would
probably be the "best solution" to getting through the remaining months
of his second term "with the least harm to the country and presidency."
But the columnist acknowledged it 's unlikely the president will leave
the White House of his own volition.
The Hotline's "Resignation Watch" includes Democratic congressman Paul
McHale of Pennsylvania, the only Democratic incumbent congressman so far
to seek Mr.  Clinton's ouster.
Hotline also wrongly identifies Rep. Ralph M. Hall, Texas Democrat, as
having called for Mr. Clinton's resignation. "I wouldn't lose any sleep
over it [if he resigned], and 99 percent of my constituents are against
the president," Mr. Hall said Thursday in a telephone interview.
But he said he is not calling for the president to step down.
"I think he's entitled to a fair hearing," the congressman said.
But the Hotline list does not include former Sen. Sam Nunn, one-time
chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who wrote in an op-ed
piece published Sunday in The Washington Post saying the president may
have to resign "to fulfill his oath ... and preserve and protect our
nation."
Nor does the list include Sen. Russell D. Feingold, Wisconsin Democrat,
who told The Post that resignation is "one of a series of options that
may be necessary" for Mr.  Clinton to consider "if it's not possible to
have the confidence of the American people."
And Sen. Robert F. Bennett, Utah Republican, is not on the list,
although he has stopped just short of urging Mr. Clinton to resign. Mr.
Bennett has said Mr. Clinton's "credibility is damaged beyond repair,"
the senator's spokeswoman Mary Jane Colliprest said.
Earlier this week, Americans for Democratic Action, the president's most
loyal supporters, criticized him for a lapse "of serious judgment" but
stopped short of calling for his impeachment.
House Democratic Leader Richard A. Gephardt called the president's
actions "reprehensible."
Tim McCown, a Democratic candidate for Maryland's Sixth District
congressional seat, is the only Democrat among 20 House and Senate
candidates on the Hotline list who believes Mr. Clinton should resign.
The Denver Post, The Washington Times, the Manchester Union Leader, the
Orlando Sentinel, and the York [Pa.] Daily Record are among the daily
newspapers that Hotline says want Mr. Clinton to resign. It also
identifies several magazines-the National Review, Weekly Standard, and
the Economist-as sharing that sentiment. 
Dennis Hetzel, editor and publisher of the 43,000-subscription York
Daily Record, described that newspaper as being "moderately
left-of-center."
"We endorsed Clinton for president twice, and we were enthusiastic about
him both times," Mr. Hetzel said in an interview. "I thought he was what
this country needed."
But given the "tone of Clinton's [speech] and the obvious deceit that
went on at taxpayer expense, we crossed our last bridge with that guy,"
Mr. Hetzel said.
Said the Denver Post in an editorial: "We have no reason left to hope
that Clinton, in the seemingly interminable two years that lie ahead,
can rally his resources to serve meaningfully in his high office or to
lift the national pall of dismay and cynicism. The most honorable course
remaining is resignation ... out of respect for the office, he should
step down."