Gingrich, Livingston & Hastert Impeached Clinton for What?

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21. No matter what it was, knowing they'd been after him, he sat in front of TV cameras and in

depositions and lied. This plays into exactly what is said about them. That they don't think the laws apply to them. And when they're found out, they blame the messenger. Remember Hillary on the Today Show, Matt Lauer about the "vast right wing conspiracy" that was falsely accusing her husband of having an affair with Monica? It's the Republicans. It's the media. It's the left. It's never them.

As for whether it was worth impeachment, imagine if it had been Dimson who had been sued for harassing women who worked for him while he was Governor and lying to the court about it. Sent his security team to bring a state employee to his hotel room, so he could proposition her. I think she married at the time, too.

Dimson, sitting in front of TV cameras and lying while giving grand jury evidence about a young white house intern whom he was cigar fucking. A President and an attorney, each of which takes an oath about upholding the law, one of which is an officer of the court, lying under oath.
And, though I don't think this was in the articles of impeachment, how about getting a blow job while on the telephone with another head of state, conducting official government business?

Would we not have screamed for impeachment? Would we have said he was impeached over nothing but a blow job? Would we have said, awww, chill out, this is no one's business but his and Laura's? And why did everyone say that? Because we really thought it was ok or because we got convinced it was?

Christ, there's more hullabaloo on DU over Sanders 1971 essay than there's ever been over this. I pity most of all the poor junior high school and high school history teachers who have to teach this impeachmment in their American history units.

As far as the witch hunt, Starr chose to proceed with this, because proof was easy, but there was not nothing either. Maybe nothing was prosecutable, but why was the First Lady of Arkansas a director of the largest corporation of Arkansas? No conflict of interest there? How about getting a partnership in a law firm that got work from the state of Arkansas while her husband was Governor? Why were papers under subpoena supposedly lost for a year. Why did people in the Clinton circle go to jail for contempt of court rather than testify against them?