It's 1998 All Over Again

Slick Willy is still trying to wipe Monica Lewinsky's stain off his presidency.

"Former president Bill Clinton called Congress' impeachment of him an "egregious" abuse of the Constitution and challenged those who say history will judge him poorly because of his White House tryst with Monica Lewinsky.

Speaking at an academic conference examining his presidency here Thursday, Clinton challenged historian Douglas Brinkley's comments in a newspaper interview that Clinton would be deemed a great president were it not for his impeachment.

"I completely disagree with that," Clinton said in his speech at Hofstra University. "You can agree with that statement, but only if you think impeachment was justified. Otherwise, it was an egregious abuse of the Constitution and law and history of our country."

Let's see. Clinton admitted to perjury, suborning perjury, and obstruction of justice. He was almost certainly guilty of more. I think that easily clears the constitutional hurdle of "high crimes and misdemeanors."

I also think that Douglas Brinkley's full of shit. Tell one great thing that Bill Clinton accomplished. How can one be a great president without achieving anything great? Or ever good?