Thanks to Varmint Al for hosting the ad online..
Posted on 12/19/2012 5:33:26 AM PST by kristinn
It's been 14 years since President Bill Clinton was impeached. Free Republic played a key role.
On October 31, 1998, Free Republic held the first online-organized national protest to call for Clinton's impeachment and removal from office. The rally was broadcast live on C-SPAN for over four hours. Speakers included a who's who of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
The rally can be viewed in its entirety online at C-SPAN
As the Senate trial drew to a close in Feburary 1999, FReepers came together online to design and fund a full page ad in the Washington Times urging the Senate to do its Constitutional duty by convicting and removing Clinton for committing perjury and obstruction of justice in office.
Thanks to Varmint Al for hosting the ad online..
More at the 2010 annual Impeachment Day post.
Amen! I hardly recognize FR these days and rarely post anymore because of the acrimony.
Do you remember the USA v Clinton daily countdown thread?
I remember you were right in the thick of it. Thanks for all your hard work. He may not have been removed, but impeachment is forever.
Good on the House, however.
BOR has been pwned by the leftist freaks since at least his weird harassment suit in 2004.
Around the same time Chief Justice Roberts was pwned by the leftists over his shady South American adoption records....
I fondly remember seeing a bumper sticker: “We elected a president, not a sexual predator.” How fitting that this piece of trash can be remembered.
I am a strong believer in impeachment, which congress has mostly done for corrupt federal judges (14 of them), but should be far more willing to do.
The Constitution grants the House the power to impeach “The President, the Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States.” But only once has congress impeached a cabinet officer (William W. Belknap (Secretary of War)).
If there was a Republican senate right now, the House could immediately begin impeachment proceedings against Holder, Sibelius, Napolitano, etc. But there are lots of questions that need to be addressed, like “Can congress impeach a ‘Czar’ unapproved by the US senate?”
Yes, I sure do. Some part of the change is due to our inability to post full articles nowadays. Having to go to another website ends up distracting from making comments here.
My Congressman Florida District 1 Voted to Impeach him, Joe Scarbough
I remember you were right in the thick of it. Thanks for all your hard work. He may not have been removed, but impeachment is forever.
YUP! The unanimous vote to call NO WITNESSES at the very start of the proceedings told me that the fix was in.
Thank you for posting Kristinn! Fond memories of those days.
Thanks for this reminder... I’m proud to have made the 6 hour drive down I-95 (seeing numerous cars with Freepers enroute) to be a part of that first march, joining fellow Freepers down on the Mall. I felt that each of us in that crowd of 4,000 was representing hundreds of thousands of others who hadn’t yet figured out what tyrants the Clintons were.
Hopefully, sanity will one day be restored to our Republic.
Kristinn, it’s difficult to remember all of the legal details, but as I recall, the Judge (who had some kind of relationship with Clinton prior) in the Paula Jones case in Little Rock refused to make her ruling until after the impeachment proceedings... Afterwards, she would rule that (or something like) Clinton suborned perjury in that case and granted Paula Jones some large (for Arkansas) monetary award. Clinton was later stripped of his law license in the state of Arkansas. I’m sure some Freeper can clean-up my spotty recollections but that’s the way Clinton made it through the Impeachment process — delay, obfuscate, and have friendly allies in the judiciary and, of course, the media.
Makes me wonder if the whole Petraeus “scandal” weren’t exactly the same scenario, with him set up (not that he had to take the bait) so he could be blackmailed.
Cheers,
Jim
December 19th - the one day where both parties put aside politics and did the Constitutionally right thing.
We shall not see such justice be done with Odinga in our lifetimes.
And look what his better half has done. Systematic Failures at her State Department that got 4 Americans killed including a US Ambassador. She was not qualified to be Secretary of State. Bill was not qualified to be President. The results speak for themselves.
Socks C. is with Buddy and is patiently awaiting a grand reunion.
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