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Santorum kills Impeachment proceeding against Bill Clinton
The Freedomist ^ | 1-20-2012 | Collier Brothers

Posted on 02/07/2012 11:50:33 AM PST by TitansAFC

Rick Santorum tells South Carolina voters that he is the only conservative purist in the field, attacking Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney for being unreliable conservatives. Well, THE FREEDOMIST has already exposed Rick Santorum for his betrayal of a core conservative value, the right to work, the protection against Union thuggery. He is FOR right to work but NEVER votes for right to work legislation. He also endorsed Arlen Specter in his 1996 Presidential run, in 2004 against true conservative Pat Toomey, AND even endorsed Mitt Romney in his 2008 Presidential run. Well, worse than even his right to vote betrayal and his endorsements of RINOS and future democrats was the work that he did as a Senator in the Clinton years, when he and Trent Lott undermined the Senate efforts to bring Bill Clinton to trial after the House impeached him for lying under oath.

That’s right, this pure conservative, who attacks like a tiny lap dog (see Thursday’s debate for a classic example of what an attack lap dog looks like when he nips at the heels of others), was instrumental, along with Trent Lott, in stopping the Clinton Impeachmment proceeedings, in rescuing Bill Clinton from facing a fair trial of his peers. This action should not be surprising to the people who remember how aggressively Rick Santorum worked to torpedo a true conservative, Pat Toomey, in 2004, from removing a future democrat and former RINO, Arlen Specter.

Here is all the proof you need to see that Santorum, in fact, killled the impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton, just another reflection of how Santorum is the face of Conservative Purity in Name Only (CPINO- which also sounds like the name of an exotic small wolf dop that yips and yips and yips at everyon’e ankles):....

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To: libertarian neocon

Wow, how human of him to act in the interests of his and his supporters’ politics... wow, just wow, I’m floored, can’t get up, I’ve fallen and can’t get up, HELP! and to think, I’ve already voted for Santorum here in MO... maybe I can go back and cancel out my vote and re-vote for Gary Johnson, or somebody, can’t vote for Newt though, he was too lame to get his name on the ballot... Oh, looky, I could have voted for Mitt, dang, somehow I passed right over his name... oh-well, all is lost, oh-worrah, worrah, worrah!!


21 posted on 02/07/2012 12:08:40 PM PST by dps.inspect (the system is rigged...)
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To: TitansAFC
Seeing threads like this, it's hard to remember FreeRepublic's mission - somehow I don't think its purpose is as a clearinghouse for a vicious smear campaign against Rick Santorum.

Gallup national tracking poll, Jan 31 to Feb 6th, published Feb 7th

Gingrich 22%
Santorum 16%

If & when Santorum moves into 2nd place in national polling, will the vicious backstabbing of Santorum cease? Or will FReepers still go around calling him a baby-killer and accusing him of invading their bedrooms?

22 posted on 02/07/2012 12:09:52 PM PST by RygelXVI
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To: Williams
fact is Santorum is the one truly consistent conservative in this race.

Sure he is...

Rick Santorum’s Senate voting record:

What A Big Government Conservative Looks Like

NEA
Voted for taxpayer funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts.

Bankruptcy
Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy.

Defense and Foreign Policy

Voted for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
Voted against requiring the President to certify that the CWC is effectively verifiable.

Voted against requiring the President to certify that that Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, China, and all other countries determined to be state sponsors of terror have joined CWC prior to submitting the instrument of ratification.

Voted for the START II Treaty.
Voted to allow the sale of supercomputers to China.
Voted to ban anti-personnel landmines.
Voted against increasing defense spending offset by equivalent cuts in non-defense spending.
Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same pay raises as uniformed military.
Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyrannical regimes such as Libya and Cuba.
Voted to limit the President’s authority to impose sanctions on nations for reasons of national security unless the sanctions were approved by a multilateral regime.
Voted against requiring Congressional authorization for military action in Bosnia.
Voted to give $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea.
Voted to weaken alien terrorist deportation provisions. If the Court determines that the evidence must be withheld for national security reasons, the Justice Department must still provide a summary of the evidence sufficient for the alien terrorist to mount a defense against deportation.
Voted against delaying the India Nuclear until the President certified that India had agreed to suspend military-to-military exchanges with Iran.
Voted against the Conventional Trident Missile Program.

Nominations

Voted for Richard Paez to the 9th Curcuit (cloture).
Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge.
Voted for Richard Holbrooke to be Ambassador to the UN.
Voted for Margaret Morrow to be District Judge.
Voted twice for Marsha Berzon to the 9thg Circuit.
Voted for Mary McLaughlin to be District Judge.
Voted for Tim Dyk to be District Judge.
Voted for James Brady to be District Judge.

Labor

Voted against National Right to Work Act.
Voted against repeal of Davis-Bacon Prevailing union wages.
Voted for Alexis Herman to be Secretary of Labor.
Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding.
Voted for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Voted for Job Corps funding.
Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization.
Voted against allowing a waiver of Davis-Bacon in emergency situations.
Voted for minimum wage increases six times here here here here here and here.
Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board.
Voted to exempt IRS union representatives from criminal ethics laws.
Voted against creating independent Board of Governors to investigate IRS abuses.

Guns

Voted to require pawn shops to do background checks on people who pawn a gun.
Voted twice to make it illegal to sell a gun without a secure storage or safety device.
Voted for a Federal ban on possession of “assault weapons” by those under 18.
Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools.
Voted for anti-gun juvenile justice bill.

Reform

Voted for funding for the legal services corporation.
Voted twice for a Congressional pay raise.
Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapists, arsonists, drug kingpins, and all other ex-convicts to vote in Federal elections.
Voted for the Specter “backup plan” to allow campaign finance reform to survive if portions of the bill were found unconstitutional.
Voted to mandate discounted broadcast times for politicians.
Voted for a McCain amendment to require state and local campaign committees to report all campaign contributions to the FEC and to require all campaign contributions to be reported to the FEC within 24 hours within 90 days of an election.

Immigration

Voted against increasing the number of immigration investigators.
Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens.
Voted to give SSI benefits to legal aliens.
Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to the earnings of their sponsors.
Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border patrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants.

Taxes

Voted against a flat tax.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for Medicare prescription drugs.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to fund health insurance subsidies for small businesses.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an $8 billion increase in child healh insurance.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an increase in NIH funding.
Voted twice for internet taxes.
Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak.
Voted to strike marriage penalty tax relief and instead provide fines on tobacco companies.
Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase.
Voted to increase taxes by $2.3 billion to pay for an Amtrak trust fund.
Voted to allow welfare to a minor who had a child out of wedlock and who resided with an adult who was on welfare within the previous two years.
Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans.
Voted to say that AMT patch is more important than capital gains and dividend relief.

Welfare

Voted against food stamp reform.
Voted against Medicaid reform.
Voted against TANF reform.
Voted to increase the Social Services Block Grant from $1 billion to $2 billion.
Voted to increase the FHA loan from $170,000 to $197,000. Also opposed increasing GNMA guaranty from 6 basis points to 12.
Voted for $2 billion for low income heating assistance.

Waste

Sponsored an amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million.
Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (RI) and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA).
Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion.
Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion.
Voted to increase NIHnding by $700 million.
Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL).
Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry.
Voted against requiring that highway earmarks would come out of a state’s highway allocation.
Voted to allow Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies.
Voted to allow OPIC to increase its administrative costs by 50%.
Voted against transferring $20 million from AmeriCorps to veterans.
Voted for the $140 billion asbestos compensation bill.
Voted against requiring a uniform medical criteria to ensure asbestos claims were legitimate.
Voted to increase community development programs by $2 billion.

Spending and Entitlements

Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies a new entitlement.
Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years.
Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF.
Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.

Health Care

Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker.
Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance.
Voted against allowing consumers the option to purchase a plan outside the parity mandate.

Education

Voted to increase Federal funding for teacher testing.
Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion.
Voted against requiring courts to consider the impact of IDEA awards on a local school district.

Energy

Voted to allow the President to designate certain sites as interim nuclear waste storage sites in the event that he determines that Yucca Mountain is not a suitable site for a permanent waste repository. Those sites are as follows: the nuclear waste site in Hanford, Washington; the Savannah River Site in South Carolina; Barnwell County, South Carolina; and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.

Voted to make fuel price gouging a Federal crime.

23 posted on 02/07/2012 12:10:45 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: dps.inspect

Don’t forget to attend the MO caucus in March. The MO primary doesn’t award delegates.


24 posted on 02/07/2012 12:11:01 PM PST by KansasGirl
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To: kidd

Facts. All you’ve got are stinkin’ facts. What are they compared to an emotional rant?


25 posted on 02/07/2012 12:11:44 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: kidd
However SENATOR Santorum voted ‘guilty’ on both accounts (Perjury and Obstruction of Justice)

Exactly... so, how again did he "stop" it? I'm sick of propaganda... from either side.

26 posted on 02/07/2012 12:11:44 PM PST by ScottinVA (GOP, meet Courage... Courage, meet GOP.)
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To: RygelXVI

Right on!


27 posted on 02/07/2012 12:12:03 PM PST by Titus-Maximus (Light from Light)
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To: TitansAFC
Thank you for posting this. I consider it a tribute to an authentic American Patriot, James Rogan. Amazing isn't it when ‘truth’ is exposed some people want to know who turned on the ‘light’.

Well I remember the outright LIES blaming Newt for the ‘failed’ impeachment. BJClinton was IMPEACHED, NEWT never interfered. IT was the Senate led in part by that sanctimonious Santorum that refused to do his ‘oath’ of office.

28 posted on 02/07/2012 12:12:24 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: KansasGirl

Will be there Kansas Girl...


29 posted on 02/07/2012 12:13:21 PM PST by dps.inspect (the system is rigged...)
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To: TitansAFC; DJ MacWoW; trisham; RedMDer; musicman; RitaOK; glock rocks; katiedidit1; caww; ...

He was Senator Chester Lott’s boy!


30 posted on 02/07/2012 12:13:58 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

I believe you need to check your figures again. RS’ conservative cred is not nearly that good .


31 posted on 02/07/2012 12:14:09 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: TexasFreeper2009

I thought the slime was coming from the Democrats - initially.

But you notice - NONE OF THIS STUFF is EVER directed at Mr. Hairstyle Himself - just his conservative opponents. He figured early on he couldn’t defeat ANY conservative Mano y Mano and so he determined to deliberately engaged in a proxy stealth war of slime spreading by his surrogates - Big Money Pacs and revolting attack dogs like Chris Christie.

My guess is the entire flotilla of Bimbos who came out to attack Hermann Cain were on Romeny’s payroll in some faashion.


32 posted on 02/07/2012 12:15:05 PM PST by ZULU (LIBERATE HAGIA SOPHIA!!!!!)
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To: Neoliberalnot

Last I checked Santorums ACU rating was lower than both Ron Pauls and Newt Gingriches.


33 posted on 02/07/2012 12:17:24 PM PST by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: Just mythoughts

Newt ain’t got it together, my friend... if a candidate misses getting his name on a states ballot, see MO, he’s bombed out already...


34 posted on 02/07/2012 12:17:49 PM PST by dps.inspect (the system is rigged...)
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To: TitansAFC
So a diary is supposed to prove that Santorum did what exactly?

From what I've read...it appears he continued the impeachment trials....and even pushed for Lewinsky to testify in person...and ended up voting Guilty on the Perjury and Obstruction of Justice charges. So what am I missing?

Senate Sinks Clinton Case Dismissal * With 1 Exception, Senators Stuck To Party Lines In Voting To Go On With Trial, Witnesses.

January 28, 1999|by EDWIN CHEN, RICHARD A. SERRANO And MARC LACEY, The Los Angeles Times Morning Call reporter Pete Leffler contributed to this report.

Senate Republicans rejected a bid to dismiss President Clinton's impeachment trial Wednesday, rammed through their own plan to question three witnesses in the case and then immediately plunged into talks with Democrats on a plan that could end the trial by mid-February.

Although the dismissal motion lost, 56-44, the vote was noteworthy for Democrats -- and Clinton -- because it showed what until now has only been surmised: the two-thirds majority needed to convict the president of "high crimes and misdemeanors" simply is not there, barring some major unforeseen development.

"The president will not be removed from office," Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., declared moments after the votes. "For the good of the country, and in keeping with the Constitution, it is now time to end this trial. It is now time to move on."

But Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., ignored such talk and focused instead on the logistics of deposing the witnesses, all proposed by House Republican prosecutors. "I feel good about where we are, and we'll go forward," Lott said.

The questioning of the witnesses -- Monica S. Lewinsky, whose affair with Clinton sparked the impeachment case, presidential confidant Vernon E. Jordan Jr., and White House aide Sidney Blumenthal -- could occur as soon as this weekend.

As of Wednesday night, however, Lott and Daschle were unable to agree on a blueprint governing the logistics of the depositions, as well as the remainder of the trial.

Before leaving the Capitol, Lott said both sides hoped to unveil an agreement today that will win the blessings of Republicans and Democrats.

The vote approving witnesses mirrored the vote rejecting dismissal -- 56-44. The witness issue had loomed as the most contentious procedural issue since the Senate trial began earlier this month.

Except for a lone Democrat who twice sided with the GOP majority -- Russell D. Feingold of Wisconsin -- the back-to-back votes Wednesday broke along party lines .

U.S. Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. and Rick Santorum, R-Pa. voted to continue the trial and to subpoena witnesses. Both lawmakers have urged colleagues to allow the proceedings to run their course as the fairest way for both the president and his accusers.

"If you limit one side's ability to present their case," Santorum said Wednesday, "I think you jeopardize the closure that's necessary" to end the ordeal. Specter has declined to comment publicly since the trial started because he is a juror.

Santorum said testimony from witnesses would help him make up his mind on whether Clinton should be convicted of the charges brought by the House.

"I've read the record. I've read the reports. I've read the testimony, and I just don't have a comfort level yet," Santorum said. "I think these witnesses might be able to help me come to resolution."

"Calling witnesses will not serve any good purpose, but will, instead, only intensify the spread of the cancer of the bitter political partisanship on the Senate floor and throughout the nation," said Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., author of the defeated motion to dismiss the trial.

With the approval of the witness list, the immediate challenge facing Lott and Daschle was to agree on the array of details surrounding the depositions -- such as what parties may attend, how much time each witness is to be deposed and whether the sessions will be videotaped.

Some Democrats expressed the hope that the three witnesses will add nothing new to the record -- and thus the White House would forego calling its own witnesses.

In such a case, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said, the trial could then go right to final arguments and then votes on the two articles of impeachment.

Republicans had offered a plan that they said could end the proceeding within 10 days -- if the president's lawyers do not call witnesses.

The GOP plan also contained a proposal to allow the Senate to adopt a "finding of fact," putting the chamber on record as stating that the allegations against Clinton are true -- but not require members to formally convict him, which would automatically lead to removal from office. But Democrats are vehemently opposed to that suggestion.

Another snag surfaced when some Republican senators expressed opposition to a plan to set a time for the trial to end -- because they fear that might foreclose the opportunity to call live witnesses, as sought by the House prosecutors, sources said Wednesday night.

Before leaving the Capitol for the night, Lott and Daschle said the two sides were narrowing their differences and that the final plan could end the trial by Feb. 12.

The two key roll-call votes early Wednesday afternoon came after more than 55 hours of arguments by House GOP prosecutors and White House lawyers and on the 13th day of the nation's second-ever presidential impeachment trial.

Aside from Feingold, the other 44 Senate Democrats voted to dismiss the case. Thus even if all 55 Republicans voted to oust Clinton, they would need 12 Democrats to join them to reach the required two-thirds majority.

By prior agreement, there was no floor debate preceding Wednesday's votes. Each had been debated by the Senate in closed sessions earlier this week.

If the three witnesses could be deposed this weekend, Lott said, the trial could resume as early as Tuesday.

35 posted on 02/07/2012 12:18:44 PM PST by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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To: RygelXVI

Who are you to call down Free Republic?

This is not a smear. It is fact. Get over your n00b self.

In case you haven’t heard, Free Republic has endorsed NEWT GINGRICH!


36 posted on 02/07/2012 12:19:20 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: ScottinVA
Exactly... so, how again did he "stop" it? I'm sick of propaganda... from either side.

Obviously you did NOT read the words of James Rogan. This is NOT propaganda. Snotty Santorumn betrayed US when he did the bidding for those unholy moderate Republicans. He wants to hold up his nose like he is a 'saint', well truth is he is a politician and can be bought and sold.

Sure does appear that it was no problem for people calling Newt 'ethically' challenged, but are willing to ignore the reality of what historically took place..... Have you heard one word out of Newt's mouth about what Santorum did to protect old BJClinton?????

37 posted on 02/07/2012 12:21:40 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Windflier

You convinced me Rick Santorum is a communist. Not.

What a pathetic tortured cherry picked list, like every vote for a democrat nominated judge.

I guess we will just have to reelect Obama.


38 posted on 02/07/2012 12:21:58 PM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: Windflier

You convinced me Rick Santorum is a communist. Not.

What a pathetic tortured cherry picked list, like every vote for a democrat nominated judge.

I guess we will just have to reelect Obama.


39 posted on 02/07/2012 12:23:46 PM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: Windflier

Q- what pieces of legislations were these votes attached to? For a more perfect understanding of any congressman’s votes, you need to show the entire bill. Every one knows horse trading occurs and many a congressman’s pet legislative measures become attached to bills that are unpalatable at best. Sheesh, who has all this data at their fingertips anyway, opposition research?


40 posted on 02/07/2012 12:24:25 PM PST by dps.inspect (the system is rigged...)
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