Posted on 12/19/2018 8:39:51 AM PST by Borges
Did not see this event noted today.
Though undoubtedly an unmitigated @hole, the worst thing about Bill Clinton is Hillary.
What a legacy ! !
Without Hellary Slick is just another charismatic corrupt southern pol - Congress or at best Governors’ mansion would have been his terminal position.
Impeachment is Forever!
Many Blessings to you and yours on Clinton Impeachment Day!!
Yep, I’d agree with that.
Just think, if those spineless Republicans led by Trent Lott had convicted the bent one instead of playing Kabuki theater, the trajectory of our history would be in a totally different and more positive direction. No Hillary, no Obama and maybe no 9/11. The repercussions will take 100 years to flush out of our system, if the republic makes it another 100 years.
We never see the accurate wording: “The Impeached former president Bill Clinton.”
BACKSTORY -— when the sitting president, Bill Clinton, was mired in the lewinsky sex mess,
he and his wife liberally used tax dollars to protect his (and her) election chances.
ITEM----Bill’s intimate pal, Vernon Jordan, arranged a $40,000-per-year cushy government job for Lewinsky shortly after she signed ......but before she filed...... a falsified affidavit saying she had NOT had sex with the president.
ITEM----Clinton then had another pal, his Ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, personally visit Lewinsky at the Watergate to offer her a government job to shut her up.
They even went so far as to have Lewinsky give Linda Tripp instructions
coaching Linda on how to properly perjure herself in the Willey matter to save Clinton’s presidency....
and Hillary’s ambitions. tax-paid govt workers including then-Clinton aide George Stephanopolous....now at ABC-TV.
The tax-paid office operated for eight long years.....and did nothing but shoot down, demean, defame and
lacerate any woman who dared surface about Bill’s sexual activities.
These expenditures of tax dollars saved Bill’s presidency, got Hillary elected to the US Senate...... and gave Hillary prominence to launch the rest of her political ambitions.
The FEC uttered not a word.Dec 12
Chafee Collins Jeffords and Specter were the Not Guilty votes from the R side on Obstruction of Justice.
They had 50 Guilty votes, which was 17 short of conviction. It never had a chance.
Yeah. A waste of time because the cowards in the RINO party in the senate did not have the balls to finish the job. They looked at the polls and were afraid they would lose the next election thus did not kick his sorry ass out into the street along with that slut of a wife of his, the murdering B*$ch of Benghazi.
Collins is a master at the go along to get along game. She is certainly no leader.
I don't know that it would have been more positive. As I recall, the impeachment did not enjoy widespread public support. And Clinton would have been succeeded by Gore, who came very close to winning in 2000. A conviction might have actually strengthened the 'rats.
THE IMPEACHMENT OF BILL CLINTON----- Attorney David Schippers became a public figure when a friend of his, Congressman Henry Hyde, asked him to be the Chief Investigative Counsel for the US House Judiciary Committee. Schippers was a lifelong Democrat but accepted and took the job in April 1998. The Hyde Committee was holding an inquiry on whether President Bill Clinton had committed impeachable offences in his handling of the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit..... during which he committed perjury regarding his affair with then-White House Intern Monica Lewinsky. After an investigation, the committee in December 1998 voted to impeach Clinton, a decision supported by Schippers.
On December 10, 1998, Schippers said to the committee: The President, then,
<><> has lied under oath in a civil deposition,
<><> he lied under oath in a criminal grand jury.
<><> he lied to the people,
<><> he lied to his Cabinet,
<><> he lied to his top aides,
<><> and now he's lied under oath to the Congress of the United States.
There's no one left to lie to."
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Upon the passage of H. Res. 611, Clinton was impeached on December 19, 1998, by the House of Representatives on grounds of perjury to a grand jury (by a 228–206 vote) and obstruction of justice (by a 221–212 vote).
The Senate voted not to remove the impeached president.
All 45 democrat senators voted not guilty on both the charges, perjury and obstruction of justice.
45 republican senators voted guilty on both the charges, perjury and obstruction of justice.
5 republican senators voted not guilty on both the charges, perjury and obstruction of justice: Spector, Jeffords, Chafee, Snowe, & Collins.
5 republican senators voted not guilty on perjury and guilty on obstruction of justice: Thompson, Warner, Shelby, Gorton, & Stevens.
Just think how Republicans had the juice and the confidence to hound and harass that verified piece of shit Bill Clinton. Now Democrats have the mass ability to screw Donald Trump and his family/
I still think there are so many unknowns coming up that Trump will come out Ok and us too.
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