Posted on 02/14/2009 8:42:09 AM PST by CrystalD
February 13, 1999
Ending a tumultuous year of political scandal, the Senate acquitted President Clinton of high crimes and misdemeanors yesterday, after House prosecutors failed to muster even a bare majority of senators in favor of removing the nation's 42nd president from office.
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Five Republicans -- Sens. Olympia J. Snowe and Susan M. Collins of Maine, John H. Chafee of Rhode Island, James M. Jeffords of Vermont and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania -- voted to acquit on both articles of impeachment.
Appears these traitors have a long history of "crossing the asile"
Suggestion, does anyone think that a petition to Michael Steele, from FReepers requesting the three be stripped of their Committee appointments and then booted from the party, would do any good?
Second question, have FReepers ever thought of forming a PAC?
To the mods, I searched before posting this thread. This is my first post, If I made an error I apologize.
you did real good!
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Their vote for this abomination, this latest attack on our next generations, is serious enough that these turncoats should be stripped of their assignments.
You know when you clean house you need to get the stuff from under the bed too.
Well, there are never any ramifications for the sellouts, so they continue to sell us out. And there are never any ramifications for the Democrats and their treason, so they continue. At some point, the feeling these people have of being insulated from all of us needs to be, uh, disrupted.
Great post and thanks.
It’s important to remember how far back the treachery of these RINOs goes.
BTTT
I doubt anyone will punish these three at all though loss of election. All three will keep their seats until they decide they don’t want it anymore. We are a country of weaklings. Look at Lindsey...everyone hates that freak and he won election easily this year. He is a disgrace and still won. Another disgusting creature about to be reelected next election is that sex crazed Vitter in Louisiana. He probably will be reelected because voters forget about wrongs after awhile.
Marking
Did anyone watch CSPAN during the vote, Susan Collins was glad-handing and yukking it up with Harry Reid and the rest of the commies.
Maine, you know what to do.
The GOP has put up with these infiltrators way too long. They were allowed to remain and cripple the party in the most important times.
Now, the national economy must die to educate the people and Republicans to the error of their ways.
Two of them are now gone, but no thanks to the Republican leadership.
Jim Jeffords made the fatal mistake of switching parties. The Democrats used him up and then threw him away. Unlike the Republicans, they don’t tolerate traitors.
Lincoln Chaffee saw what happened to Jeffords and therefore declined to switch parties. But he continued to betray the Republican party. Nevertheless, Bush and Rove and the RNC supported him in the primary. He is now gone, not because the Republicans gave him the boot, but because the Dems preferred to replace him with one of their own, even if he did vote with them on every important bill.
Now it’s predictable that the Republican leadership will do nothing to punish the traitor three, who voted against the party on what was perhaps the most important vote since the founding of our Republic.
I’ve said it before. These traitor RINOs are like yellow dogs or cowardly Muslim terrorists. The more you ignore or tolerate them, the more they will creep out and bite you on the ankle at the worst possible moments.
If you reward bad behavior, bad behavior is what you will get.
Before Maine does a thing, we need some “balls of Steele” and kick these turncoats out of the party. Make a public scene about it.
That both days are Friday 13th should echo into history with their shame.
Conservative Freeper PAC? by Jim Robinson
In each Primary, going back as far as one cares to remember, our established GOPers either held their voice even endorced and campaigned for these three “incumbents,” particularly Specter, over conservative challengers. From Bush to Dole and McCain, they all did the ‘loyal’ party thing. They were able to do so because there was no price to pay for such hypocracy.
The way to rid the party of these RINOs is to start a national pledge stating that the signers will not vote for any Republican that supports, campaigns for or endorses any of these three jerks.
The Dems will not rescue them if they see a chance to pick up their seats. Remember Packwood. Loved by Dems, always the so called Mavrick or liberal Pub. Once the Dems did not need him, they turned on him with a vengence and he got flushed from the Republican party.
I’d like to see the group of drooling, mouth breathing, kool-aid drinkers come to this and defend their grand thoughts on how “that’s the best we can do in that district” “we need a big tent”.
Those people can KMA!
“crossing the asile”
They democrat moles, just sitting on our side of the aisle!
Oops!
“They democrat moles” should read,’Dey be demoquack moles!”
We have to be careful about such purity. I agree with your sentiments, but not always with the technique.
That's basically what happened to Rick Santorum. He was one of the most solid and reliable conservatives in the Senate. But Bush and Rove twisted his arm and pushed him to endorse Specter. He agreed, partly because Specter had earlier endorsed him in a previous election.
How did that work out? Just the opposite of what one would have hoped. Specter got re-elected, did nothing to help Santorum in the 2006 election, and Santorum lost, partly because the Specter endorsement angered many of his base, so they stayed home. Thus they bit off their noses to spite their faces, ending up with Specter and a fake "pro-life/blue-dog" Democrat.
Steele can't strip them of their committee appointments, but I would support anything else he is able to do. I think a subtler approach would be better. Simply have the Republican leadership on the hill ignore them. Don't help them with any legislation and block their amendments and ear marks whenever possible.
“It’s important to remember how far back the treachery of these RINOs goes.”
Yeah, it’s amazing anyone is suprised by their actions. Bush made a huge mistake helping Specter win reelection.
So the acquittal actually happened on the 12th not the 13th. Maybe that was Bama's plan to present this legislation as 'reenactment' of Lincoln instead of the proper date that forever will be attached... black Friday the 13th...
Arlen Specter’s political career started as the Democrat Philadelphia DA.
Working undercover successfully for 40+ years may be a record.
Could also be his reward for his part in the Warren Commission.
>>>>>Suggestion, does anyone think that a petition to Michael Steele, from FReepers requesting the three be stripped of their Committee appointments and then booted from the party, would do any good?
Michael Steele wants to reach out to moderates, centrists and RINO's and make a big tent GOP. Steele is part of the problem, not the solution.
“Arlen Specter’s political career started as the Democrat Philadelphia DA.”
This is so typical. Just like Bloomberg, they join the R’s because it’s a weaker field & then they win & THEN we’re stuck with them.
And of course, the down side to stripping them of their seats may be that they go back to their real party & we lose the ability to filibuster.
The GOP’s refusal to act againt this cancer is the reason they will remain a permanent minority
Snow, Collins, Specter - The Three Stooges - and that is exactly what they are. The Democrats are laughing their heads off about these three convenient stooges.
They have lost all respect and credibility, and it is time for them to go. They are really not Republicans, and they certainly are not patriots. I, for one, will never forgive them for this vote.
They should be thrown out of the party. I would like to see an enforceable set of penalties for voting with the opposition, from an absence of funding to expulsion. How about it Steele?
You are right. Not stripped of assignments—thrown out. Why? Because they voted on a massive funding boondoggle - a monstrosity they did not bother to read even. They violated their oath of office and they violated the citizenship.
They are nothing less than crooked politicians. If not the slammer the Dem party should be home enough for them.
The good thing is, the directions that accompanied the birth of our Nation said Americans are not necessarily stuck with anything. Including political parties if they do not represent the will of the People.
The not so good thing is I don't think the Founders anticipated such a vast and successful program, capable as it turned out to be, that made so many people so complacent so fast.
But complacency didn't kill our resiliency and our resiliency may make filibuster capable not so important
For a brief time, anyway.
Laura Ingraham likes calling them SpecColSnow. (Pronounced
Specklesnow).
Neither have ever replied to any of my communications since.
Stupendous arrogance.
I sent all three of them email messages - just one word that I think sums it up: “Collaborator.”
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