[mo]

Mia....in the end 911 needs to be thrown back into the Senate....which refused to complete the House impeachment in 1998. Clearly, the will of the American people toward a man consumately incapable of completing the responsibilities of the office elected to, expressed in the House action, was thwarted, with lethal consequences. While it is certainly NOT possible to assume that Gore could have prevented such disaster, it is certain that the subsequent distractions that plagued WJC's attention to duty would have not been "excusable". Impeachment should have been completed by the Senate for the sake of the country. In failing to do so, the Senat is complicit in Slick Willy's dereliction.

[Mia T]

 

 

in the end 911 needs to be thrown back into the Senate....which refused to complete the House impeachment in 1998.--mo

Indeed.

Nonetheless, if clinton wasn't the self-absorbed scum that he is, he would have resigned. Any other president would have put his country first. (Note how clinton continues to puff himself up at the expense of the country.) Nixon and LBJ, for example, understood that when their moral authority was gone, they had to leave.  For the country.

 

Historians will record that Republicans could not muster the necessary sixty-seven vote Senate majority to convict the President at trial.

Those same historians should note, if only in a footnote, that not a single senator made the trip to the Ford Building to review documentation of Clinton's "nauseating", "alarming" and "horrific" sexual misconduct; evidence that ultimately made the difference in the impeachment vote.

America's Impeachment Secret

 

Well, with the help of the 100 corrupt and cowardly cullions, clinton walked. The senators' justification for their acquittal votes requires the suspension of rational thought (and, in the curious case of Arlen Specter, national jurisdiction).

Musings: Senatorial Courtesy Perverted
by Mia T

the logic of pathologic self-interest

 

by Mia T

 

here was a third chance to get rid of the clintons. In '98, when there was still time to stop bin Laden...

The failure to remove the clintons in '98 was a monumental error and is directly traceable to the logic of pathologic self-interest.

Recall in particular:

• THE LIEBERMAN PARADIGM: (clinton is an unfit president; therefore clinton must remain president)
  
• THE SHAYS SYNDROME: (clinton is a rapist; therefore clinton is a fit president)

 

THE LIEBERMAN PARADIGM

Senator Joseph Lieberman's bifurcated Monicagate speech in 1998 on the floor of the Senate was almost universally misperceived as an act of honesty and courage.

In reality, it was neither.

Reduced to its essence, Lieberman's argument was this:

clinton is an unfit president;
therefore, clinton must remain president.

I have called this argument "The Lieberman Paradigm."

Lieberman's argument that sorry day was rightly headed toward clinton's certain ouster when it suddenly made a swift, hairpin 180, as if clinton hacks took over the wheel....

Which they probably did.

What was Joe promised? A place on the 2000 ticket, perhaps?

To be fair, it was not the Lieberman speech but rather a New York Times apologia that institutionalized this shameless scheme to protect a thoroughly corrupt and repugnant--and--as everyone except The New York Times now knows-- dangerous -- Democrat regime.

The Lieberman Paradigm made its debut in the Times' utterly loony 1996 endorsement of clinton. The Times actually argued--I kid you not--that although bill clinton was a "corrupt," "dysfunctional personality [with] delusions" -- the Times' own words -- we need not--we must not--remove bill clinton; we need only remove.the character lobe of bill clinton's brain.
 

THE SHAYS SYNDROME

Not an aberration, the Shays Syndrome was quickly adopted by the entire Senate as its impeachment show trial deus ex machina of choice.

Shays, you may recall, examined the evidence in the Ford Building, concluded that clinton did, indeed, rape Broaddrick -- "VICIOUSLY!" AND "TWICE!" he declared at the time-- and was planning to vote to impeach; he changed his mind, however, after a tete a tete with the rapist.

Any cognitive dissonance Shays may have experienced rendering that verdict was no doubt assuaged by the political plum clinton had given Mrs. (Betsi) Shays...

Each of the 50 senators, on the other hand, cured the cognitive dissonance problem pre-emptively by making certain not to examine the damning Ford Building evidence in the first place.