The county commissioners apply the Republican standard to their Democratic chairman

It's instructive to compare the reaction of the other county commissioners to Jeff Cogen's affair with the impeachment of President Clinton.  Both involved  a leader having a consensual affair with an indirect subordinate who worked in the White House, though Mr. Clinton was impeached not for his involvement with Monica Lewinsky but for lying about it under oath.  A mostly party-line vote in the Senate acquitted Mr. Clinton, with the Democrats arguing that Mr. Clinton's private involvement with a subordinate did not reflect on his fitness to hold office, and the Republicans maintaining that it did.  One oddity of the current situation in Multnomah County is that the four other commissioners, all Democrats, want Mr. Cogen to resign for conduct eerily similar to President Clinton's.  This implies that if they had been Senators in 1999 they would, under the same principles, have all voted to convict President Clinton and remove him from office.  That's going to make for some interesting conversation if Hillary Clinton should ask for the commissioners' support in the 2016 presidential primary.