Clinton impeachment anniversary

[Loonman]

Handjob Kristinn and the rest of the slimepigs are remembering their, errr, wallow in filth.

Posted on 12/19/2003 5:09:03 AM PST by kristinn
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1043404/posts

Congratulations! It was five years ago today the House of Representatives impeached President William Jefferson Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice.

Those brave representatives survived an all-out war of political brinksmanship which included public threats of retaliation and private threats to bring down the government if Clinton was impeached.

James Carville threatened Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr with "kneecapping;" Alec Baldwin called for the murder of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde; George Stephanopoulos passed along the threat to employ the "Ellen Romesch defense"--a public blackmailing of Congress; Hillary Clinton said on the Today Show that those plotting against her husband "would have alot to answer for" when this was done; Paula Jones was called "trailer trash" and worse for simply seeking justice and an apology; Linda Tripp had her reputation destroyed by a conspiracy of Clinton administration officials and media operatives. Even Monica Lewinsky feared for her life and kept the infamous blue dress stained with presidue for insurance.

Thank God that people like Linda Tripp stood tall and refused to back down in their determination to see that a president of the United States could not commit felonies in office with impunity.

And thank God for people like Jim Robinson, Bob Barr, Gary Aldrich, Alan Keyes, Larry Klayman, Lucianne Goldberg, Billy Dale and all the rest who spoke at, organized and attended Free Republic's nationally televised rally supporting Clinton's impeachment on October 31, 1998.

You done good! Impeachment is forever. You can be proud that in America's hour of need, you answered the call to preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.

[bryant69]

1. Yep

And the great thing is it allowed us to see the hypocricy and double speech in the Republican Party. It turned out we had more than one conservative paragon who turned out to have dirty underwhere. Why, Newt Gingrich, had to resign in disgrace. What a great victory for Conservativism.

Bryant
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[Coldgothicwoman]

5. I guess the term Pyrrhic Victory is lost on them. :) <n/t>

[buycitgo]

27. hate to disagree, but.......

their plan of nine straight years of going after WJC came to fruition in 2000.

perfecting their campaign of vicious smears, eagerly and endlessly repeated by a complicit corporate media, they were able to accomplish exACTly what they wanted.......it just took two years longer than they'd hoped.

Also, they're too 'smart' (cunningly Machiavellian, maybe) to have entertained ANY hope of succeeding in convicting WJC in the Senate.

I've always thought that the plan was to poison the well so much against WJC that it'd be EASY to do the same to Gore, given his connection to the tainted admin.

only other possibility, and it has been seriously discussed, was to get Clinton, then immediately impeach/remove Gore, paving the way for the speaker of the house. sounds crazy, but they ARE, after all, mentally ill, aren't they, and their delusional approach to politics, has proven, unfortunately, very successful.......AND their hubris in 97-98 was at least as great as it is now, just centered in the House, rather than the Exec branch.

haven't read the rest of thread, so if this obvious point has already been raised, sorry

[leetrisck]

2. Is it possible to undo an impeachment and

bring the House Managers up on charges? And can you impeach a president after the fat - george bush 1 and Ronald Reagan? Just wondering.

[thehonesttruth]

3. yeah

and it was 5 years and about a week ago, that clinton had sites bombed in iraq that housed and made WMD, and now we finally know, he destroyed them all then. oh, politics...

[MrBenchley]

4. Too TOO funny...

"And thank God for people like Jim Robinson, Bob Barr, Gary Aldrich, Alan Keyes, Larry Klayman, Lucianne Goldberg, Billy Dale and all the rest who spoke at, organized and attended Free Republic's nationally televised rally supporting Clinton's impeachment on October 31, 1998."
That was a hilarious bit of televised history...the speakers actually outnumbered the attendees...and the counter-demonstrators outnumbered both by about five to one. Passers-by stopped to jeer.

Let's not forget some of the "high points"....like the witnesses the GOP called in the House to demonstrate that people were indeed convicted of perjury over sexual matters. Unfortunately, since the people they called were the victims and not the prosecutors who railroaded them, and thus had to be questioned in a sympathetic manner....by the time the hearing ended, no viewer in the world could have escaped the distinct impression that a serious travesty of justice had already been committed in those cases.

Remember Ken Starr, fresh from a highly publicized appearance on ABC TV, beginning his testimony with the bizarre and gratuitous lie that he hadn't been on television?

Then there was the day during the Senate trial when it was revealed that the "witness" Bill Clinton supposedly "tampered with" had not been on anybody's witness list.

Remember how nobody was able to bring up what it was Bill Clinton actually SAID that was supposed to be perjury? Remember the GOP house managers trying to analyze which way Bill's eyes moved as he answered the grand jury...like that meant anything?

Who can forget the imbecile (damn, I've forgotten his name) who asked Monica on national TV: "Why didn't you tell anybody?"
only to have Monica answer "It wasn't anybody's business."

Remember Trent Lott desperately proposing that he be allowed to bring out some secret evidence that only the Senate would be able to see so that Clinton and his lawyers would be prevented from hearing or responding to it?

And perhaps the funniest part.....after the impeachment fell apart like a wet paper bag, the GOP sulking and pouting and refusing to bring up censure.

Left unsaid throughout was the 800-lb. gorilla in the corner....that a huge chunk of the country thinks the President of the US getting a little squack on the side is no big deal (and that about half the country thinks oral sex isn't really "having sex.")

Yeah....good times.

And by the way, let's not forget that the entire GOP and their scummy crew howled and yowled every time Bill Clinton tried to take action against Osama Bin Laden that Osama was unimportant and Bill was just distracting us all from Penisgate...

[Loonman]

6. A disgrace to Americans everywhere

What those bastards did to Clinton, the Presidency and America in general.


Then the pompous pricks have the stones to wonder why people are still angry.


I will curse Kenneth Lay and Lucianne Goldberg and Linda Tripp to my dying day.

A hex on thee!
A hex on thee!
A hex on thee!

[MrBenchley]

11. Sounds good to me.

By the way, Ken Lay was the lead attorney in the challenge to Campaign Finance Reform that failed the other day...guess the NRA should have hired a REAL attorney.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

7. No kidding...

Any time Clinton took ANY action, he was condemned by the Repugs. THEN they have the balls to condemn him for not acting after the fact while going on to do the exact same thing they condemned him for in the first place. My favorite was the aspirin factory. They hammered him to death on bombing an aspirin factory because he thought it was producing WMDs. Well, Bush just destroyed an entire country he thought had WMDs. I guess we all make mistakes, eh? :shrug:

[MrBenchley]

14. Worth noting

that when The Sudan tried to make a case in the UN that it was only an aspirin factory they got a big fat horselaugh from the delegates...because the Sudan was using chemical warfare at the time against its own people.

[grannylib]

8. CNN decided this anniversary was more newsworthy than the 9/11

report...and did you hear Chimpy ask, real belligerently and with his usual arrogance, "What's the difference..." between having WMDs and being an imminent threat, and having WMD programs and being an emerging threat??
How about this for a difference: our troops at home, safe and whole and alive, or fighting your grudge war for Daddy's sake and losing limbs and lives, you bastard?:puke:

[Cocoa]

16. I'm surpised CNN brought this up

the impeachment was a huge black mark for the whole media, raising it again just reminds people of the double standard.

I hope Gephardt says something. He gave a great speech against the impeachment vote, he said it all that day.

[Robb]

9. Woo hoo!

Yeah! Woo! :toast: :party:

...

Oh, wait. ;)

[prisonerseven]

10. Now now

We celebrate Nixon getting the boot so we can handle them having their picnic too.

[catzies]

13. Nixon's resignation was for REAL crimes committed.

Not the same thing. :mad:

[Bush is a chimp]

12. In recongnition..

I am going to get a Blowjob! :7 Man I miss Bill Clinton!

[MrBenchley]

15. One of the funniest parts

is that AFTER the fiasco, whenever it was brought up in an online forum, dittoheads would blame Clinton FOR HIS OWN IMPEACHMENT! Yup, Slick Willy railroaded himself, and Ken Starr was an innocent slave of duty.

They would say crap like, "If only Clinton had come clean at the beginning, the country could have been spared this ordeal."

Yeah, I can just see it...he answers the first questions about Whitewater by saying "It's all horseshit, but in a couple years, I plan to get me a big old humjob." Think that would have quieted the GOP down?

[tom_paine]

17. You mean the Attempted Coup of 1998?

Oh yeah, something for all the little Brownshirts in Freepville to Seig Heil to...

Totalitarian Monsters, unthinking, unknowing, ready to obey every word of their Bushevik Masters...

Why Kristinn and his disgusting ilk would be more at home in Nazi Germany that the Old American Republic. Which is probably why they are helping to bring Totalitarianism to our shores.

[Loonman]

18. He's the charming fellow

He's the charming fellow who told a congressman walking to the WH with his young daughter if he would trust Clinton with his daughter.

The guy got right up in Kristinn's face with a wagging finger and read him the riot act in no uncertain terms.

Poor ol Kristinn was apoplectic with rage for weeks afterword.

[Zero Gravitas]

19. Ah the good old days

The Republicans exposed themselves to be craven hypocritical bastards who would put an inept attempt at short term political gain ahead of the good of the country. And then they got what the deserved, Ginrich had to reagign as did his designated successor and they lost big time at the next election.

unfortunately they learned from their mistakes and the electorate did not, hence we get George W. Bush a biiger more craven hypocritical liar than those that came before him who wasn't going to let bleeding heart liberal notions like the "will of the People" get in the way of siezing power.

[OneTwentyoNine]

20. I remember,his approval numbers kept climbing....

I'll bet Trent and his wig couldn't believe that anyone in the good ole' USA would even want a guy like Clinton around after their "coup" yet they did.

Yet Clinton never suffered declining numbers. I guess everyone having a FUCKING JOB and not getting KILLED in an OIL WAR mattered a wee bit more that a GD blow job.

David

[MrBenchley]

22. You might also remember

the right wing pundits all speculating that Clinton would be too ashamed to give his State of the Union address...and Bill came in and slam dunked them...Bill got a standing ovation out of the Republican women in the first three minutes and another one out of the northeastern Republicans a minute later...and Henry Hyde kept slipping further and further down in his seat...

After Clinton's brilliant speech, the GOP put up former football star Steve Largent for rebuttal, and Steve began by mentioning that he wasn't sure what the letters GOP stood for.

[Cat Atomic]

21. A note for lurking Freepers...

If you cheer the impeachment of Bill Clinton, and excuse the intentional deceptions of the Bush Administration, you are putting your party before your country. You're the lowest form of traitor.

[ComerPerro]

29. Amen

But, these people do but their loyalty to Bush before their loyalty to the US. This isn't news to them.

[HILLARY SUPPORTER]

23. What?

I hate the Free Republic!

[thissideup]

24. Clinton really hurt us

And for what? A piece of ass? What a conceited jerk!

[devilgrrl]

25. Yeah, I felt so put upon...

If only he had traded arms, drugs, and started illegal wars.

:nuke:

[buycitgo]

28. note the avatar.......does this imply anything about a person using it?

seen similar posts to this from this person elsewhere

anyone else?

[Piperay]

26. Clinton's response to the question

"How does it feel to be impeached?" was "not bad, not bad at all", I love the Big Dog! :loveya: The proceedings were a disgrace to our country, those assholes. :argh: :mad: :grr:

[buycitgo]

30. bringing this to bottom, for now

what about this?

Pugs' plan of nine straight years of going after WJC came to fruition in 2000.

perfecting their campaign of vicious smears, eagerly and endlessly repeated by a complicit corporate media, they were able to accomplish exACTly what they wanted.......it just took two years longer than they'd hoped.

Also, they're too 'smart' (cunningly Machiavellian, maybe) to have entertained ANY hope of succeeding in convicting WJC in the Senate.

I've always thought that the plan was to poison the well so much against WJC that it'd be EASY to do the same to Gore, given his connection to the tainted admin.

only other possibility, and it has been seriously discussed, was to get Clinton, then immediately impeach/remove Gore, paving the way for the speaker of the house. sounds crazy, but they ARE, after all, mentally ill, aren't they, and their delusional approach to politics, has proven, unfortunately, very successful.......AND their hubris in 97-98 was at least as great as it is now, just centered in the House, rather than the Exec branch.

haven't read the rest of thread, so if this obvious point has already been raised, sorry