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Feb 1999
"Time after time, the President came to a fork in the road. Time after time, he had the opportunity to choose the noble and honorable path. Time after time, he chose the path of lies and lawlessnessfor the simple reason that he did not want to endanger his hold on public office."
"The President would seek to win at any cost. If it meant lying to the American people. If it meant lying to his Cabinet," he continued. "The name of the game was winning. Winning at any cost."
"He took an oath to faithfully execute the laws of this nation, and he violated that oath," the senator said. "He pledged to be the nation's chief law enforcement officer, and he violated that pledge. He took an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and he willfully and repeatedly violated that oath."
"I think that the United States Senate has a clear choice," McConnell said at the time. "Do we want to retain President Clinton in office, or do we want to retain our honor, our principle, and our moral authority?"
"For me, and for many members in my impeachment-fatigued party, I choose honor," he said.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)mountain grammy
(27,129 posts)StClone
(11,869 posts)Clinton was set up to be forced to admit an adult consensual affair or be impeached.
This is what Reps do. Secret meetings on how to destroy Dems. Harass our Progressive leaders. Not for better interests. Not the work of the people. Ignore The Constitution (except to use it as a hammer). No they have one goal and that is to fulfill the wishes of their masters.
mountain grammy
(27,129 posts)1963 to 1968 Four assassinations of our progressive leaders. Worse than harrassment. set us back decades.
Guess Carter, Clinton and Obama were the lucky ones.. they were only harrassed.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Sigh.
BigmanPigman
(52,133 posts)yonder
(9,984 posts)and finally looking for which president he was referring too.
Wouldn't that have been something?
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Times a day lately. I can relate.
It really would have been something and for about 10 minutes I thought it was. LOL that's what I get for trying to absorb a years worth of news in 24 hours, it's like the news God's have unleashed a hurricane this week.
malaise
(276,960 posts)Get thee to the greatest page
Srkdqltr
(7,455 posts)Not nice too post today.
world wide wally
(21,802 posts)ChoppinBroccoli
(3,888 posts)Put his hypocrisy on full display. Then at the end, say something like, "Now that the country knows how you feel about Presidents who put themselves above the law, we'll all be watching very carefully to see how you vote."
If nothing else, you've just handed a solid gold campaign ad to the person challenging him for his Senate seat.
yonder
(9,984 posts)bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Today..
DFW
(56,261 posts)Except if the name of the sitting president should happen to have changed to Pelosi.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Response to ChoppinBroccoli (Reply #7)
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USALiberal
(10,877 posts)bdamomma
(65,631 posts)that over and over again, McConnell has sold his soul to the devil in this case it's tRump and Russia.
Moscow Mitch, you are a disgrace.
Alwaysna
(577 posts)Bettie
(16,831 posts)if he ever goes before the press. Just read it and ask him to comment on the difference.
bucolic_frolic
(46,366 posts)but how do you reach MAGAt's in trailer parks?
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(36,270 posts)MyMission
(1,990 posts)And it would make a great PSA. On Faux.
ancianita
(38,012 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)The Mouth
(3,262 posts)forced another SCOTUS justice through the Senate if he has the chance, even if it's a day before the election.
exboyfil
(17,917 posts)If Dems win both Pres and Senate, Thomas retires the next day.
The Mouth
(3,262 posts)Prayers for RBG, and hopefully good security, too.
pandr32
(12,061 posts)It should be! Mitch needs to be confronted with his own words over much less.
ecstatic
(34,171 posts)Saviolo
(3,321 posts)Texin
(2,627 posts)Doodley
(10,097 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,495 posts)... want the votes of their base. It is that simple. They are morally bankrupt.
lastlib
(24,607 posts)Cosmocat
(14,885 posts)I lived through that shit, and even as a young man I saw them for the craven partisan scumbags they were then.
They spent Clinton's entire term relentllessly doing what they claim Ds are doing with 45 now, trying to take him down.
They investigated the fan mail to their fucking pet cat, it was nuts.
Never found anything of any substance, until they stumbled on the blue dress, and they made Clinton's stepping out on his wife into the kind of end times bullshit that statement relayed.
As with BHO, they acted similarly and inversely to how they make 45 out to be so great - making two good presidents into all that was unholy and unamerican (and frankly Carter, too, long before these puke bags took over).
mahatmakanejeeves
(60,360 posts)steventh
(2,156 posts)Please update your OP to show the 1999 statement date so your headline is no longer misleading. Thank you.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)The edit does help anyone not acutely attuned to irony.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Maybe Steyer can rent the big screens in Times Square showing loops of sensible Lindsay and hypocrite Moscow Mitch.
Let everyone see the change based on politics.
How is a BJ worse than treason?
lastlib
(24,607 posts)....and treason was more profitable.
marble falls
(61,291 posts)his economy is the basis of a lot of their business success and wealth. And at the same time Black Americans started redeveloping a middle class and had falling unemployment rates. Truly a tide that raised all boats and lowered deficits. Something no Republican ever did. Particularly W and Donnie Two Scoops.
onenote
(44,137 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,477 posts)exercised about someone who actually breaks the law.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)yellowcanine
(36,265 posts)McConnell would never say that about the current resident of the WH.
The Mouth
(3,262 posts)Brilliant post.
Response to d_r (Original post)
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eppur_se_muova
(37,216 posts)Not into Twitter myself, but imagine 45's reaction before he figures out (i.e.: someone else points out) that it's not about him.
Beartracks
(13,421 posts)The last several years of his performance say "no."
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joost5
(421 posts)jayschool2013
(2,445 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)Hope Cheetolini gets subpoenaed. I hope Congress doesn't allow him to get away with a drafted, crafted written statement like the Mueller investigation did. Make shitbag appear in person. He'll incriminate himself without his teleprompter and carefully prepared statements.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,686 posts)JDC
(10,431 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)He just hates Democrats. And loves money. The scumbag.
GETPLANING
(846 posts)Mark these words
SCantiGOP
(14,150 posts)The GOP will agree to stand with the Democrats for the good of the country and impeach .... Bill Clinton again!
And by the way, fuck you Lindsey Graham.
PatrickforO
(15,040 posts)It totally blows me away, McConnell mentioning honor and saying he chooses it.
What a joke.
notinkansas
(1,106 posts)Doesn't have any of his own. Did he plan on stealing it from somebody?
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)people who called for Obama to be impeached, including Dennis Kucinich (D) (for Libyan bombing) and Blake Farenthold (R-of dick pic fame) for not being American (birtherism). What. A. World...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efforts_to_impeach_Barack_Obama
Rhiannon12866
(219,573 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)DFW
(56,261 posts)That some Democratic Senator would read the first three paragraphs, make sure it got into the Congressional Record every day, citing the author of those three paragraphs, and then say, "WELL, Senator McConnell? Do you stand by your words?"
Brainstormy
(2,415 posts)Here'e the form. https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contactform