Impeachment Question Looms Divisive As Ever

Same impeachment process. Same Constitution. Different ideas.

“This farce by Congress has turned the Constitution into a mockery,” says Edward Thomas Jr. “The public should vote out the entire Congress.”

Forge ahead, says Charlotte Benjamin of Spokane. “To do anything else would be a violation of our Constitution.”

How do people reach such divergent conclusions?

“I try really hard not to use TV or your paper as a news source,” says Tom Frisque a businessman in Usk. “The obvious bias precludes any possibility of truth.

He said he listens to talk radio and converses with his customers, and when he does read “your propaganda sheet,” he balances it against “the Washington (D.C.) Times, James Dobson’s news magazine, ‘Focus on the Family.’ I watch some TV, America’s Voice, Cal Thomas, etc.”

But not polls.

“The questions asked, not asked or even how they’re asked, are all tools used by the 100 percent Democratic media,” Frisque says.

Frances Pearson of Medical Lake calls polls “a bunch of hooey.”

“They can’t seem to tell us who they polled, where the polls are from, what type of people are polled from the masses,” says Pearson.

Also suspicious is Agnes Suess of Cheney.

“There was a gathering that I was in from Billings, Mont., across Idaho into Washington. Not one of those people had ever been polled, nor did they know anyone who had been polled.”

Polls, says Wayne Lythgoe of Colbert, are a way for the media to disguise a favoritism for Clinton.

“Everyone that has a lick of sense knows that polls can and are used to get any answer you want.”

Lythgoe’s Colbert neighbor, Fred Ebel, thinks polls are irrelevant anyway.

“I did not vote for my representative so he could determine his position by reading the polls,” Ebel says.

Ebel himself assigns credibility this way:

“I trust the person with the least to lose, someone of proven integrity and who is guided by personal and professional ethics. By definition, that leaves out President Clinton, his lawyers, most of his aides and spinmeisters, and many politicians, both Republican and Democrat. In this case, Judge Starr appears the most trustworthy and in my judgment, the most impartial.”