Memo to the Senate Leadership

You're not here to defeat a Democrat; you're here to fulfill your oaths.

by Rod D. Martin
January 8, 1999

Well, after four years in the majority, gentlemen, it appears you've finally learned how the game is played. It's a shame that it took the November elections to wake you up, but very fortunate indeed that you figured it out in time for the trial of the century. Now you just have to carry it through.

For four long years, you've let the media obscure, distort, and generally frustrate your message. Not that we can blame you, really: they buy ink by the barrel, and you are the new kids in town. Even so, it's been frustrating. Dan Rather used to tell their story each night exactly as they wanted; he'd even spruce it up a little. Not so for you.

The House showed you your way. After the election, everyone in America -- myself certainly included -- believed that impeachment was a dead letter. Gingrich and Hyde did nothing to dissuade us of this; in fact, they encouraged it. Increasingly angry at their apparent willingness to sell out, our outrage grew by the week,…