Hillary-Feingold Screamfest Tied to Impeachment?

NewsMax.com ^ | 7/22/02 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's hysterical tirade last Thursday against campaign finance reform crusader Sen. Russ Feingold may have been connected to her husband's impeachment.

Hillary "screamed" (the AP's word) and "shouted" (the New York Daily News said) at her Wisconsin colleague during a closed-door Senate meeting, and then later apologized after word of her meltdown leaked out.

Ostensibly, Mrs. Clinton's attack was prompted by restrictions in the new campaign finance law that Feingold championed.

But according to Roll Call's Ed Henry, "Clinton has probably been waiting a long time to strike back at Feingold."

Why? The Wisconsin reformer was the only Democrat during Bill Clinton's 1999 Senate impeachment trial to vote against a motion to dismiss the charges.

"Feingold did, however, vote to acquit in the end," Henry notes.

Asked whether he thought his support for a Clinton trial was responsible for Hillary's meltdown, Feingold told Roll Call, "Not at all."

Others, however, recall that the former first lady and her husband have very long memories when it comes to personal betrayal.

"I would not cross these people for fear of my life," Monica Lewinsky told Linda Tripp - words that Sen. Feingold, not to mention his Senate colleagues, had best remember.

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[mhking]

It's just Hillary jockeying for position - she has to assert herself as "alpha wolf" before she can get the rest of the pack in line behind her...

[Pharmboy]

Ahhhh. Now it makes perfect sense.

[Alberta's Child]

Does this mean that they're all going to sniff each other's @sses before going out on the hunt?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

In my humble opinion, Russ Feingold is the only honest liberal in the US Senate. I base this soley on his vote FOR John Ashcroft. The fact that he pi--es off Hillary confirms my opinion.

[SJackson]

ping

[Cyber Liberty]

It's a pity Feiny's best friend is John McCain, the arrogant pr**k.

[MozartLover]

From Feingold's biography:

" Rhodes Scholar, Final Honours School of Jurisprudence, Magdalen College, Oxford University, Bachelor of Arts with Honours, 1977 "

Hmmmmm.........when was what's-his-name there???

[Catspaw]

There are times I wish I was a little mouse in the corner, scurrying around the Senate back halls....and I would've paid big bucks to see Russ quietly slap down Her Highness.

[Catspaw]

1968 through 1970 (do a google search on Clinton Rhodes). I don't think they met at Oxford.

[MozartLover]

Yup, I did that right after I posted.

I had no idea Feingold had attended Oxford.

BTW, nice to be able to breathe again today, isn't it? (heat-wise)

[Catspaw]

I walked outside yesterday afternoon & it was like walking into a blast furnace. I quickly beat a retreat into the bedroom, the only room with AC and huddled there (with my laptop) the rest of the day, only making forays out to eat & get another Coke or lemonade.

Remind me again why I so arrogantly thought people who live in Wisconsin don't need central air?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

There were a couple of nanoseconds early in the GOP primary that I liked McPain. He has turned into a media-pig RINO too stupid to know he's being used to advance their biased agenda.

[steveegg]

In my humble opinion, Russ Feingold is the only honest liberal in the US Senate.

Slimeroad is not an honest lieberal. He used the very tactics he sought to outlaw in a last-ditch effort to stave off Mark Neumann in 1998 (loads of advocacy ads, truckloads of not-reported-on-time cash).

There is no such thing as an honest lieberal.

[SoDak]

Perhaps, but I'd only hope that Feingold would show he has a pair and rip into her too. I'd surely not have stood up for that sort of brow-beating from anyone, whether in my party or out.

[Paul Atreides]

That's quite a little prize you have there, NYC!

[stumpy]

If there were no ashtrays thrown, there was no conflict.

[Cyber Liberty]

Well, he's been that way for a while, but only us desert rats knew anything about it.

Oh, how different the world would be if the lapdog media would only pay a bit of attention to the constituents of the hacks that they keep trying to foist on the rest of the country. See also: Numerous reports about what a total a**wipe Clinton was known to be in his home state.

[razorback-bert]

Ole 97 must be having trouble raising money and wants to sell tickets to a coffee club in her Senate office.