Clinton "suffered a terrible moral lapse, a marital infidelity," Bumpers told his former colleagues in 1999. "Not a breach of the public trust, not a crime against society."
Posted on 01/05/2016 10:14:11 AM PST by Rummyfan
Dale Bumpers, former Arkansas Governor and Senator, lived a long life, most of it spent in "public service". But it is strangely apt that he should have died as his protégé Bill Clinton's serial abuse of women should be back in the news. Until Trump came along, Republicans had steered clear of Clinton's sexual pathologies for the entire millennium thus far, following the mordant advice of my own senator, Bob Smith. ("He's won. He always wins. Let's move on.") If one had to date precisely the moment when it became clear that Clinton had won against multiple accusations any of which would today sink anybody else, it would be the speech Dale Bumpers gave during the Senate impeachment trial in January 1999.
I was present in the Senate that day and felt queasy for a good 48 hours afterwards. Few self-respecting men, even senators, could have given that address with a straight face, but Bumpers, a courtly southern slicker, did so with accomplished ease. God evidently had more difficulty than I in keeping his lunch down, marking the historic occasion by afflicting Clinton and Bumpers' native Arkansas with a barrage of freakish tornadoes. The Almighty is, of course, not a US senator, lacking the necessary gravitas, solemnity and dignity. If He were a senator, He would have recognized Bumpers' sticky goo of Ozark swamp gibberish for the stroke of genius it was: an awesome invocation of senatorial self-importance. "Oh, colleagues!" wailed the former senator. "You have such an awesome responsibility!"
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it is very sickening.
But....Bumpers was an amazing speaker.
I was hoping for a thread on sandwiches. I am ready for lunch.
“public sucking”
Clinton "suffered a terrible moral lapse, a marital infidelity," Bumpers told his former colleagues in 1999. "Not a breach of the public trust, not a crime against society."
Which was exactly the wrong lesson to learn from this affair. The correct lesson would have been:
He's Won. Because that lying media is deliberately covering up for this vile bastard. They are using the power of their communication assets to protect this vile man from his rightful retribution. They are using the broad cast media to push nothing but Democrat activism and Democrat Politics.
Therefore...
We should destroy this existing media structure. We should smash it root and branch, and FORCE the replacement media to be objective in their coverage. We should file lawsuits against all the media corporations for deliberate discrimination against conservatives in their hiring practices. We should file FEC lawsuits against these media corporations for billions of dollars worth of "In Kind" Campaign contributions to Liberal Democrats and left wing causes.
WE should destroy the media that let this vile man do this and get away with it, and we should use every means at our disposal to make them wish they hadn't allowed Clinton to win.
THAT is the lesson which should have been learned from Clinton "winning."
One of the more startling realizations of my adult life is that the wing of a typical prison that is filled with child molesters has more honor and decency than the U.S. Congress.
” wing of a typical prison that is filled with child molesters has more honor and decency than the U.S. Congress.”
The difference is we pay Congressmen a lot of money, and rarely jail them.
Some thought Bumpers might run for president in 1984 and 1988. He didn’t. But even back then, Bumpers kept an eye on Clinton. In a diary entry from the early 1980s about the Clintons, during the years Bill was the Arkansas governor, Bumpers described him and wife Hillary Clinton as “the most manic obsessed people I have ever known in my life.†And he called the future president “a truly tragic figure.â€
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During Bumpers’s administration, according to Arkansas Gazette political reporter Doug Smith, “there was more substantial progressive legislation enacted than in any other four-year period in Arkansas history.
he proposed to raise income taxes to provide funds to increase teachers’ salaries. This proposal to increase income taxes and make the tax rates more progressive required, under the state constitution
In his first term, he sponsored a home rule law that gave more powers to cities, the creation of a consumer protection division in the attorney general’s office, repeal of the “fair trade†liquor law, expansion of the state park system, a prison construction program, and improvements in social services for elderly, disabled, and developmentally challenged citizens. During Bumpers’s second term, his legislation included creation of a state-supported kindergarten program, free textbooks for high school students, a major construction program at the state’s colleges, elimination of the prison trusty system, and the encouragement of a community college system through increased state payments of the operational costs of these institutions.
Bumpers consistently opposed efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution. He voted against thirty proposed amendments, including one to allow prayer in public schools.
He voted for the treaties, which returned ownership of the canal to Panama, in the late 1970s.
After leaving the Senate, Bumpers became director of a Washington DC think tank, the Center for Defense Information, which is concerned with defense and defense expenditure issues. In 2000, he joined the law firm Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn in Washington DC.
Accurate tho.
Lying under oath in federal court is a felony, a crime against the person harmed by the lie, a crime against the court, a crime against society and a breach of public trust.
Count on Dale Bumpers to ignore the obvious as Bill Clinton’s defense attorney.
Ross Perot, the little nut-job, was at least somewhat close to the mark with that comment of a “giant sucking sound”.
Between the Bushes of the Lone Star
Arose the Mediocre Leader
A hideous Witch by his Side
The head of a rotund Woman in his lap.
When my daughter graduated from the U of Arkansas, he was a guest speaker. When he walked up the isle I was tempted to put my leg out and trip him and watch him fall on his face.
Then he gave his speech. This was not long after the Columbine shootings and he gave one of the most Down speeches I ever heard.
One of the students graduating with my daughter said, about Bumpers’ speech. “Well I guess we all should just go out and kill ourselves!”
"We all have a little Clinton in us," wrote Time's Margaret Carlson in a somewhat infelicitous formulation.
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he was a serious liberal, so of course he was down!
but I’m sure he gave his downer of a speech very eloquently....ugh
I will never get away from that legendary Nostradamus prophecy! LOL!
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