One-Way Bipartisanship

American Thinker.com ^ | January 25, 2020 | Derek Wilburn

[Kaslin]

Not a day goes by that citizens and pundits alike don’t decry how partisanship in Washington is worse than ever. This week, as the Senate trial over a completely partisan impeachment gets underway, they’re half right.

If “bipartisanship” can be defined as an ability to compromise, work or vote with the opposing political party, then there certainly is a lack of it on Capitol Hill. However, on the most serious matters before Congress in recent days and decades -- the remaking of healthcare, a Supreme Court appointee, and impeachment of a president -- the inability to compromise exists exclusively on the Democratic side of the political divide.

For all their talk about a “fair process” Democrats on Capitol Hill have demonstrated by their votes that they’re interested in anything but. The internet has a long memory.

Footage from 1998 of those leading the 2020 impeachment charge, claiming that an impeachment should never be completely partisan action, is swirling through social media. Jerrold Nadler, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Charles Schumer and others who were in office in 1999 howled loud and long that a partisan impeachment is not in the best interest of America or Americans.

They were right, but, of course, that was then, and this is now. That was their president, and this is #NotMyPresident.

President Bill Clinton, who was impeached by a partisan vote in the House, was acquitted of charges by a Republican-controlled Senate! Imagine the reverse happening to Trump.

President Clinton was impeached on December 18, 1998. As opposed to Trump, he had actually committed crimes. Clinton lied under oath about an extramarital affair with a White House intern half his age, then committed witness tampering and obstruction of justice in trying to cover it up.

[GailA]

All the higher ups serve on boards or have family that does, which drives up the medical cost. Canada has cheap drugs because they buy them from China cheaper than we do. Then you have the patent fraud to contend with.

[Kickass Conservative]

Democrats are never told to Reach Across the Aisle.

That’s all you need to know.

[Robert DeLong]

The author makes it sound as though no Democrats voted to impeach Clinton, but there were 5 that voted for at least some of the articles of impeachment:

Five Democrats (Virgil Goode of Virginia, Ralph Hall of Texas, Paul McHale of Pennsylvania, Charles Stenholm of Texas and Gene Taylor of Mississippi) voted in favor of three of the four articles of impeachment, but only Taylor voted for the abuse of power charge.

On Dec. 19, the House impeached Clinton of lying under oath and obstruction charges. Two other counts failed, including one accusing Clinton of abuse of power.