Removing bad presidents from office should be easier

Washington Examiner ^ | MAY 13, 2014 | GENE HEALY

[kingattax]

“Don't stop thinking about tomorrow,” commands the relentlessly chirpy Fleetwood Mac tune that served as Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign theme.

But last week, in an exclusive article for Vanity Fair, “that woman,” Monica Lewinsky, forced Bill, Hill and the rest of us to take a look back.

Lewinsky, now 40, is someone who definitely didn’t “love the ‘90s.” “The Clinton administration, the special prosecutor’s minions, the political operatives on both sides of the aisle” and the emerging new media turned Lewinsky’s youthful indiscretion into a life-wrecking mistake, making her the permanent punchline to a dirty joke.

It seemed like great fun at the time, I’m embarrassed now to admit, digging through the Starr Report and cackling over the naughtiest footnotes. With the benefit of 15 years of mature hindsight, what should we make of the Clinton impeachment imbroglio?

Clinton figured out what he thinks long ago: he's the hero of this sordid little drama. “I am proud of what we did [on impeachment]” he proclaimed in April 2000: “I think we saved the Constitution of the United States."

[IamConservative]

What you are in effect saying is that men cannot be trusted with power over other men.

IMO, history has proven this many times. Our founders gave us very good protections from this reality in the constitution and I believed recognized this reality themselves as expressed in the Federalist papers and other writings of the time. Unfortunately, the "better at living than you" crowd is slowly chipping away at and redefining the plain language of these protections.