by Patrick J. Buchanan – Sepetmber 14, 1998

“If it were done when ‘t is done, then ‘t were well/It were done quickly.” So said Macbeth — about the assassination of the king.

Sound advice now. For the impeachment of a president is the republic’s bloodless way of dethroning and beheading a monarch.

But this episode needs cloture now. The swaggering, cocky Bill Clinton of weeks ago, with his rakish “I’m-going-to-get-away-with-this” attitude, was an exasperating figure, but that Clinton could better command a country than the pathetic puppy of today, burbling endless, whiny apologies in which he does not believe.