Posted on 12/18/2009 9:03:50 PM PST by kristinn
Happy Clinton Impeachment Day!
As I recall it was on a saturday and I believe I was watching a football game on tv when it happened.
We were probably watching the same game.
Sadly, things under Clinton's 8 years with the early R congresses were darn nice.
scratch that, it was 1998 and I was still boycotting the NFL.
What is needed, obviously and painfully, is a voters' bill of rights and the first item of such a bill HAS TO BE runoff elections or instant runoff elections for all public offices.
Nobody should ever fear to vote his first choice, at least on a first ballot, and nobody should ever hold any public office with less than 50% of the vote.
There should also be a None-Of-Above choice on all ballots for public office and if that choice ever wins, then the other candidates should be barred for life from holding any public office and the parties sponsoring them should be barred for at least ten years from sponsoring candidates for that particular office. The penalty for running dead wood for public offices should be severe.
Another item on such a voters' bill of rights should be something which would eliminate voting fraud for all time and if that means getting rid of the secret ballot or at least limiting it somehow or other, so be it, we're paying too high a price for it. Somehow or other it has to be possible to check up on votes when there are questions or evidence of fraud.
One last item on such a list would be a provision that when a president is impeached and removed, his VP goes out the door with him and the office is either vacant until the next election or an emergency election is held to fill the office for the remainder of the current term. Granted removing a president should be difficult but it should not be impossible and if we couldn't remove Slick, we'd not have been able to remove Hitler or Nero either.
What happened in 98/99 was that Trent Lott simply refused to hand the presidency over to Algor with a year to go on Slick's second term, for obvious reasons. The situation should not be possible.
Ahhhh...the good ole days!
Wish we could impeach the current freak!
Well, if you consider selling out our national security to the ChiComs, a truly illegal war in Kosovo over truly made up reasons, a totally corrupt Justice Department, cozying up to terrorists, blackmailing Congress and the media, siccing the IRS on political enemies, and on and on “darn nice” your Bush hatred has truly made you ‘sick’.
Al Gore should have been impeached for Chinagate as Clinton should have been too in addition to the perjury and obstruction of justice.
This was the day that the Democrats proved party was stronger than ethics. They could have uninimously impeached him, then not voted to remove.
Instead, they would not hold Clinton accountable, nor would they address the ethics. In the end, Clinton accepted the punishment, after he claimed to be not guilty.
With that, our nation took another step into the sewer.
I’ve got some copies tucked away, also.
The ‘Rats put party before country. I remember Chuck Schumer saying, “So what!” when called to hold Clinton accountable for his crimes.
...and the republic’s slide into hell hasn’t abated. The republican party was not the answer to that situation, and is even further removed from the present situation. We’re in deep um, trouble, Bucko.
Impeachment should’ve been over all of that and not about Monica.
Great post, kristinn. Thanks to those who were there and YOU for all of your work/dedication/activism. FR’s finest.
They and the media made it all about Monica 24/7, and it worked.
I was at the MFJ with Gracie, Humidston, BlackBeret, and Rejoice. It was a fabulous time.
I also have the Houston Chronicle annoucing impeachment.
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