I watched with great interest the latest impeachment hearing of the House Judiciary Committee that contained the testimony of a woman convicted of obstruction of justice.

Dr. Barbara Battalino, a Veteran's Administration psychiatrist, was prosecuted for denying she performed oral sex on a Vietnam veteran on June 27, 1991. The patient happened to have 25 hours of taped phone conversations with Dr. Battalino on which she confirmed that the act took place.

The patient sued her for medical malpractice and sexual harassment but both charges were dismissed before they went to court, just as the charges against Bill Clinton were dismissed in the Paula Jones lawsuit.

But, using the tapes, Clinton's Justice Department charged Battalino last April with obstruction of justice in the fact that she denied having sex with the patient. Bill Clinton testified that oral sex was not even considered sex.

Dr. Battalino pleaded guilty and is suffering the consequences: a $3,500 fine and a year's probation, including six months of house arrest monitored by an electronic bracelet.

She lost her ability to practice medicine. She lost her federal job. She also has a law degree that she cannot use. That seems fair. She pays... He skates.

No Democrats came to her rescue claiming that perjury about sex is normal. The White House certainly did not come to her aid.

This is blatant hypocrisy, a true double standard, and should be embarrassing to any supporter of Bill Clinton. But, yet, the Democrats on the committee are still standing by the Philanderer in Chief.

Bill Clinton is daring the Congress to enforce the law because he feels like he is above the law. It looks like he may actually be. Either the Congress must find him guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice and impeach him or else make him King William I.

One thing is certain, Bill Clinton has been impeached from my consciousness. Whenever he comes on the TV or the radio, I turn the channel. He is the most pathetic excuse for a president in the history of the nation. I refuse to listen to anything the scoundrel has to say.