[steve-b]

his impeachment had nothing really to do with the formal charges against him - that was just something for them to hang their hats on

You're giving me Carvile flashbacks. ;-)

[H.Akston]

If you go back and study the allegations against Johnson - the articles of impeachment and the hysteria used to impeach him, it's uncanny - the similarities - between what actually happened to Johnson, and what Clinton's defenders were SAYING was happening to Clinton.

The Johnson impeachment was like the complete opposite of the Clinton impeachment. All the charges were false, and it was a political lynching designed to subvert the Constitution.

It shows you how radical republicans back then, slip so easily into the bleeding heart liberal's orthodoxy of today. Liars, all of them.
It kind of follows, that after "REconstruction", everything gets REversed.