Posted on 02/11/2009 3:38:39 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
It’s been exactly ten years since the end of the Senate impeachment trial of William Jefferson Clinton. On Feb. 12, 1999, the Republican bid to prematurely terminate Clinton’s second term ended with an even party-line vote -- far short of the two-thirds majority required to force out of office the 42nd President of the United States.
I can still hear in my mind’s ear the voice of then-Chief Justice of the United States, William H. Rehnquist, saying the words: “Senators, how say you?” on that fateful day. The next day, The Washington Post’s front page offered stories like: “Alone, President Responds With Simple Apology;” “House ‘Managers’ Put Brave Face on Bitter Loss,” and “Hushed Galleries, Somber Senators, Powerful Moment.” The New York Times added that a “dispirited” Henry Hyde, GOP leader of the impeachment movement, opposed “indicting Clinton.”
Yet even while they were occurring, or at least being revealed to the public, the events which spawned the impeachment seemed unserious; a telling stain on a dress, a betrayal between friends, a cigar. But the intervening years, with their dramatic and deadly events, make the entire Clinton scandal (which I covered daily) seem like petty farce. [snip]
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suborning perjury? hey, no problemo
Actually he was guilty of PURJURY, a felony.
Either way you slice it.
And now we have Obama. Yay.
The two biggest under reported stories from that era:
1. The evidence (rape?) in the Ford building that caused one northeast RINO congressman to decide in favor of impeachment. (And reportedly leave the building in tears)
2. The line in the Star report that said something like “Mr. clinton called Lewinski at 2 am with 2 pieces of news. Betty Currie (who had been called to testify)learned her brother had just been killed and Lewinski was now scheduled to testify.
Tinfoil? but chilling stuff as this same brother was severely beaten the day before Curries testimony in Chinagate.
"Ms. Lewinsky testified that in the early-morning hours of December 17, at roughly 2:00 or 2:30 a.m., she received a call from the President.(791) The call lasted about half an hour.(792)
The President gave Ms. Lewinsky two items of news: Ms. Currie's brother had died in a car accident, and Ms. Lewinsky's name had appeared on the witness list in the Jones case.(793) According to Ms. Lewinsky, the President said "it broke his heart" to see her name on the witness list.(794)
Yep, that writer thinks that Clinton’s Impeachment was a petty issue.
However, he was Impeached. Failure to remove from office was a tragedy and a failure of political life in general, but he was still Impeached.
In every history book and account of his Presidency, it will have to include that he was Impeached.
Did I mention that he was Impeached?
Currie is demure but unflinching. Last summer she was ordered to testify to congressional investigators about visits and calls to the White House by various figures in the campaign-fund-raising scandal. For nearly five hours she was only a misstep or forgotten fact away from potentially implicating the president. She didn't make a mistake, and at one point even joked that she had no knowledge of the White House coffees "regular or decaffeinated."
The performance was remarkable for another reason. The day before, her brother had been mugged and severely beaten in Washington. She insisted on going ahead with her appearance as originally scheduled.
I can remember the Sunday afternoon after the scandal broke. I was doing my weekly radio program, and talking to the station owner. He said something about “Clinton getting a “blow j...” and he broke off and APOLOGIZED for saying that to me.
A week later, he and I and everyone else in the country was making jokes about blow jobs, hummers, etc., etc.
And kids in grade school, middle school, high school, and college were trying blow jobs for the first time—and the epidemic of oral sodomy has never abated.
Clinton is right: His side HAS won the culture war.
Our government became illegitimate on January 22, 1973—because on that day, it commenced, in earnest, to be “destructive of these ends.” I.e., it denied its obligation to protect the right to life.
The day the Senate declared a right to commit sodomy (illegal in Washington, D.C., while Clinton was committing it), perjury, and obstruction of justice—that day was just another milestone on the way to the fully visible end of the United States.
Bringing about the FORMAL end of the United States is the task assigned by the Democratic Party to Soetoro.
Remember: Not one Democrat signed in to look at the evidence in the Ford building.
Not a single one.
Ahhh. Good times.
Yet it was the Senate Republicans that refused to allow the evidence to be presented in a trial.
I think I heard Currie had a new position with the administration.
“Remember: Not one Democrat signed in to look at the evidence in the Ford building.
Not a single one.”
TRUTH BE TOLD: NOT ONE SENATOR, R or D, LOOKED AT THE EVIDENCE, NOT ONE.
Familiar names? Yep, they were practicing RINOs even then.
Did clinton sodomize that young girl?
I don’t recall what he did with the cigar.
I was referring to oral sodomy.
Our nation died on February 12, 1999.
A President who committed felonies such as perjury and suborning testimony was correctly impeached by the House, but thanks to Trent “Cheerleader” Lott and spineless Republicans and anti-American Democrats, the President was not convicted and removed from office.
The Starr Report also contained instances—two in fact, where a foreign power gave our intelligence agencies recordings of phone calls made by President Clinton to Monica Lewinsky on an unsecured phone line in the White House.
Who else had recordings of those phone calls? The President risked blackmail from a foreign power to play cigars with a government employee half his age.
Interestingly enough, most of the Senators present that day who failed to do their duty are still with us today.
Chief of which is Arlen Spector, who invoked Scottish Law when it came his turn to cast his vote on Clinton.
Only ten years later, the Democrats have been given total government control and are poised to pass, on their party vote alone, the biggest transfer of wealth from the people to the government, thus ending the free enterprise system that has served this country for 232.5 years.And who is in the center of this activity—why Arlen Spector, Mr. Scottish Law himself.
A nation dies not in one fell swoop, but in a series of events that cast it future into an inevitable slide toward destruction.
February 12, 1999 was the beginning of that slide.
February, 2009 will be, with the passage of the porkulus bill, another major waypoint on that slide downward.
America will be weakened, perhaps torn apart by a civil war in the future, or split on ideological and geographical fault lines into two or three entities, all to the joy of our very real enemies in the world.
With the events of just the last three weeks, a dividing line in American History has been drawn. Just like the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 set into motion irreversible events that led to the Civil War, the events of 2009 will led us into a conflict from which America will not emerge unscathed.
Atlas will not only shrug, he will stand up or lay down.
Either way, the balance of his load greatly shifts and ruin awaits.
The ruling class in Washington DC no longer responds to the people who they represent. Their power is entrenched and they will not give it up easily.
But if America is to survive, they must give it up. They have proven to be horrible stewards of the gift of liberty and of the wealth we have been forced to give them in trust for governing our land.
The question is: will we meet the test of our time, for ourselves and our posterity?
Or will we give up liberty for peace and security?
Yet it was the Senate Republicans that refused to allow the evidence to be presented in a trial.
And let’s remember it was Arlen Spector (RINO-PA) that declared that the charges were “not proven” under Scottish law. But he’s redeemed himself by voting for this stimulus plan. /s
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