Censure
Now that the House of Representatives is almost evenly balanced it is unlikely that impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton will get the majority required for a yes vote.
The Republicans overplayed their hand with regard to the Clinton, Monica Lewinsky sex scandal. The attacks on Mr Clinton reminded one of the McCarthy witch-hunts.
In the end of the day, in the mid-term elections, the voters were concerned with more important issues - that affect their daily lives - than a sex scandal.
The message from the people throughout the US was quite clear, let us censure Bill Clinton in the same way a prefect would punish a badly-behaved pupil at school and then get on with more pressing public issues.
I hope that during the forthcoming hearings of the Judiciary Committee of the House, chairman Henry Hyde will listen to the views of legal scholars and historians, so that the whole impeachment question can be put into its proper perspective. This is what the US people want.
We have already wasted enough resources, both fiscal and human, on this long, drawn-out fishing expedition.
Gerald C W HENG Framingham Massachusetts, US
