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Clinton ignores impeachment, calls for Social Security reform (1999 article)
CNN ^ | Jan 19, 1999

Posted on 01/31/2020 7:26:32 PM PST by 11th_VA

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, January 19) -- Vowing first to protect Social Security with trillions in expected budget surpluses, President Bill Clinton unveiled on Tuesday a variety of initiatives in his seventh State of the Union address to Congress.

The president did not mention his impeachment trial during his 77-minute speech. Most members of Congress routinely applauded, but some Republicans shook their heads, frowned or refrained from clapping during Clinton's forceful, smooth and sometimes light-hearted delivery.

At one point Clinton, only the second president in history to be impeached, left his prepared remarks and bantered with the audience, making a seesaw motion with his hands and joking about how much applause came from which section of the chamber.

Several GOP House members boycotted the speech to show their displeasure with Clinton, who faces removal from office for charges of perjury and obstruction of justice stemming from an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

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So it’s happened before ...
1 posted on 01/31/2020 7:26:32 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

They’d love to believe this impeachment is on the same level as Clinton’s impeachment.

They are in denial.


2 posted on 01/31/2020 7:28:57 PM PST by DoughtyOne (It's a New Year, and time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll <hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: 11th_VA

“Vowing first to protect Social Security with trillions in expected budget surpluses, President Bill Clinton ....”

With lying on this scale, I don’t think anyone at the time would have thought there could ever be a bigger liar in the White House.

And then the American people elected Barry Hussein Soetoro.


3 posted on 01/31/2020 7:37:53 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: DoughtyOne

All i know is the house didn’t need to call witnesses to get votes for the articles of impeachment. They did their damn job.


4 posted on 01/31/2020 7:39:16 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 11th_VA

Now she ignores process servers.


5 posted on 01/31/2020 7:39:26 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Secret Agent Man

I agree.


6 posted on 01/31/2020 7:42:16 PM PST by DoughtyOne (It's a New Year, and time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll <hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: 11th_VA

I seem to remember that all of the Supreme Court Justices were absent from Clintons State of the Union.


7 posted on 01/31/2020 7:44:00 PM PST by ArtDodger
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To: 11th_VA

I seriously doubt President Trump is going to ignore the impeachment during his State of the Union address.


8 posted on 01/31/2020 7:54:14 PM PST by TaxPayer2000 (The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government...)
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To: 11th_VA

Who were the witnesses at Clinton’s trial?


9 posted on 01/31/2020 9:10:38 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

The most important one was Clinton, who appeared in video.


10 posted on 02/01/2020 8:31:10 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.)
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