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So how many of the 34 were you aware of?
POSTED BY: SoupCatcher
UPDATED: Sunday, January 23, 2005 16:28
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Sunday, January 23, 2005 3:45 AM
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Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
Clinton wasn’t impeached for getting a blowjob. He was impeached because there were so many scandals of such huge repercussion and so much corruption during his administration that people just got fed up with it.
Which begs the question, how did Reagan, LBJ, W avoid the axe? Because, if you think the minor league antics of the Clintons (Whitewater, Hillary's futures trading, puh-lease) were justification for impeachment, whoo-hooo man do we have about a dozen doozies of legal procedures coming up against the current administration, boy howdy.
And if you're as committed to wanting to do what's right over partisan politics as I believe you are Finn, then you'll go back and check for yourself. And I don't mean at the cop-out discredited sources, like the NYT, or NewsMax, or DailyKos, or the Washington Times.
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Sunday, January 23, 2005 5:49 AM
Quote:Not doing what Liberals want is not an impeachable offensive, at least in current law, so I think the Bush Administration is safe.
Originally posted by NeutrinoLad:
Which begs the question, how did Reagan, LBJ, W avoid the axe? Because, if you think the minor league antics of the Clintons (Whitewater, Hillary's futures trading, puh-lease) were justification for impeachment, whoo-hooo man do we have about a dozen doozies of legal procedures coming up against the current administration, boy howdy.
I don’t know for sure whether the activity during the Clinton administration was necessarily worthy of impeachment or not, but Clinton brought it on himself. All administrations have a seedy side to them; Clinton’s was just bigger; more obvious and/or less justifiable then recent administrations. He ran the Whitehouse like a frat party, and Liberals act shocked when they find out corruption was rampant.
But setting all that aside, it should be noted that Johnson was a Democrat, so your own examples belie rue’s argument that Democrats are picked on in a cruel Republican world. It’s just not true. Then of course there’s Nixon. An example you left out. I'm sure many Liberals have not granted a fraction of the time they spend worrying about Clinton to ponder whether Nixon’s threatened impeachment was justifiable.
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