Asa Hutchinson: 10 Years Later, No Impeachment Regrets

[The Straight Story]

Asa Hutchinson: 10 Years Later, No Impeachment Regrets

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Ten years after he argued before the U.S. Senate that Bill Clinton should be turned out of office for lies he told in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, Asa Hutchinson says he doesn't have any regrets for being one of House managers in the 1999 impeachment trial.

The former Republican congressman from Clinton's home state said he was at first reluctant to be one of the prosecutors in the Senate trial of the 42nd president. Next month marks a decade since the Senate trial of Clinton began and Friday was the 10-year anniversary of the House approving two articles of impeachment against the president.

"I knew it wasn't good politics for Arkansas, being the president's home state," Hutchinson said in an interview last week. "My firm reaction was thanks but no thanks."

But Hutchinson said he decided to accept the post because of his responsibility as a congressman and as a former U.S. attorney.

"I came to the conviction that I had a higher responsibility and that I could actually help our country go through a difficult time, and so I accepted that responsibility reluctantly," he said.

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=110985.54928.123130

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Asa is no longer in political office here

good riddance.

[Wapsie B]

2. I wonder did he feel the same way after Poppy's affair?

Just wondering.

[Liberal Veteran]

3. What a tool.

He can feel good to know he'll go down in history as one of the prosecutors in one of the silliest moments in American history.