You are exactly right. And if you read the excerpts from Catch The Flag - A diary of presidential impeachment - you will see that Sanctimonium and Trent Lott were best friends in selling out the House republicans... and blocking their strategy that might very well have been successful...
But mostly, because of Sanctimonium et al - the Women never got to speak... and things in this country might be vastly different now. No, Rick, some of us don’t forget. I’m just learning the history now, and I know I won’t ever forget.
That link is nothing but one big lie.
um, Clinton was impeached by the House, and tried by the Senate but not removed.
Many people were uncomfortable with impeachment of a sitting president, it is a road many just did not want to go down.
Interesting grudge to hold in the scheme of things, however.
If you honestly think that’s true, how do you explain this?
Santorum voted to impeach Clinton on two counts.
http://www.weyrich.com/ameriroots/impeachment/senator_santorum.html
Thank you for putting up this link. I do remember being furious at the time that witnesses would not be called against Clinton during the impeachment. I did not realize Rick S. was a part of this with Trent Lott whom I deplore.
...makes Newt (who I already favored) look more attractive for the Georgia primary.
You know, Clinton was my governor before being elected president. I wrote that he’d have a constant stream of women in and out of the oval office and was ridiculed in print! Santorum was right not to want to go forward with impeachment for this. To be honest, nearly all the democratic presidents, and a couple republican ones had also had dalliances going on. That was not a reason to impeach. We SHOULD have tried to impeach on articles of treason, for selling the Chinese our submarine intelligence and other things, lots of them. But letters to our Congressmen/women were not returned. Some were taking up the issue, but it was not making traction where it needed to be. Anyway, the point is that his infidelity and his lying about it were not really impeachable things, just contempt of court issues. Anytime republicans take issue with democrats on character issues, it never ends pretty for the republicans. They then went after several republicans who then resigned or were asked to step down, and though most of them were later exonerated, it was not publicly. The republicans were making a circus out of the whole affair. I’m glad that someone had the sense to stop it. It should’ve been handled in a private manner, not open public hearings. I was living overseas by then and it was embarrassing. The world was not shocked by his behavior...they had read enough about him to know what he was going to do, but they felt that we republicans had handled the issue poorly.
The Christian manner of dealing with this type of thing is to talk to the person privately. If that does not work, you take your clergy, or his, and talk with the person. IF that does not help, you then denounce the person publicly. Bill Clinton did not run as a conservative, you remember. He made no pretenses of being a conservative. Before him, you had Barney Franks affair with an intern and running a gay brothel from his home, with no penalties. To me, that was a breach of trust because of the abuse of the young intern, and if the public pays rent for the Congressman’s house, then that was criminal use. He should’ve been thrown out. So, this was small potatoes in relation to that. I realize you must hate Santorum, but had you been in his shoes, you might have done the same thing. To save the republicans from the total disaster of making a fool of themselves, and they were well on the way to it.
Had Clinton been a Republican, he would have been forced to step down a la Nixon. Democrats, now Socialists, are rarely expected to be above the salt............