omega minimo (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-06-08 03:31 PM
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Here's the answer to the question Chelsea won't answer because it's none of your business:
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Q. "What affect has the Monica Lewinsky scandal had on the campaign?"
A. Bush and Cheney have not been impeached.
Bush and Cheney have not been impeached because Bill Clinton was.
The purpose of the bogus impeachment of Clinton -- aside from justifying the outrageous expense and distraction of the Ken Starr investigations -- was not to uphold the law or bring down President Clinton.
The purpose of the bogus impeachment of Clinton was to subvert the Constitutional process, to obfuscate the significance and (potential future) power of impeachment and to trivialize the integrity of the Presidency itself.
The sick farce perpetrated on the public by Republicans -- and the Democrats who went along with it -- was the biggest disinformation turning point in American history since Reagan's phony "landslide" and split screen inauguration. (The next one was probably Katrina, overshadowing the stolen elections. If you'll accept televised genocide, you'll fall for anything). Absurdist pomp and circumstance -- and the demented yellow racing stripes Justice Rehnquist slapped on his black robe just for the occasion of gutting the People's justice -- at the phony trial in the Senate chambers, lent the Wag the Dog performance a sense of legitimacy for future generations to swallow, ponder or laugh at.
Clinton was impeached for the crime of shaking his finger at the American public on TV. For the luxury of feeling outraged by oral sex in the Oval Office, the court of public opinion was manipulated into squandering their own -- and only -- Constitutional power to remove a criminal adminstration from office.
The sham impeachment paved the way for Dubya or any other "likeable," bad actor like Reagan to play the now ridiculous role of President while those behind the Bushco. curtain amassed more and more and more power. As they deconstructed government and constructed their Frankenstein's monster of Imperial "Unitary" Executive power, the neutered threat of impeachment and the deluded American people were conveniently out of the way.
Americans supposedly liked the likeable Alzheizmer's president who "could not recall" his complicity in Iran/Contra. Reagan's popularity was the excuse used for not impeaching him. People supposedly wanted to have a beer with the alcholic AWOL president who "fixed the intelligence around the facts" to wage preemptive war. Now Bush's lack of popularity doesn't matter to him or Dick "So?" Cheney. Talk about Teflon.
In 2006, Americans voted in a Democratic majority. Conscientious Americans demanded accountability in the form of impeachment and investigations. However, impeachment was "off the table" and Clinton and Obama were on the campaign trail. Neither candidate has run against the Bush administration or their crimes, nevermind staying at their jobs in Congress to do something about it.
The purpose of the bogus impeachment of Clinton was to subvert the Constitutional process, to obliterate the significance and (potential future) power of impeachment and to trivialize the integrity of the Presidency itself.
Mission accomplished.
SeattleGirl (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-06-08 03:45 PM
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4. My thoughts exactly, omega.
The Republicans did a "great" job in subverting one of the most important parts of the Constitution -- the ability to impeach a truly incompetent, dangerous President via the impeachment of Clinton.
It was another example of a pre-emptive strike against We The People perpetrated by the Republicans, in an effort to keep us quiet and subservient, via those who are supposed to represent us.
You can just bet, though, that the next time a Democrat gets into the White House, they will be back with yet more trumped up charges, and try the same damned thing again.
omega minimo (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-06-08 03:50 PM
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11. the only hope
is for folks -- including in Congress -- to understand the system and defend it
JVS (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-06-08 04:04 PM
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19. Our leaders assumed that because we rallied behind Clinton when he was impeached...
that Bush would get a similar boost.
johnnydrama (970 posts) Sun Apr-06-08 04:50 PM
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20. and the worst part is
Edited on Sun Apr-06-08 04:51 PM by johnnydrama
Rove knows this, and this is why the Bush administration went further over the line.
They knew the country had a distaste for impeachment after Clinton, and they knew that there was virtually no shot of their being back to back impeachments.
Everybody would say it was just the Democrats getting back at the Republicans, they would over look the legitimacy of impeachment, and it would just be seen as partisan games.
And they were right.
But the fact is, people were upset that Clinton was impeached for nothing, not the fact that he was impeached in the first place, but it's too fine a line for the people in charge to see.
puebloknot (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-06-08 05:01 PM
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21. Because the Repubs were alredy planning to take back the presidency...
...any which way they could, by hook or by crook, or through a backroom deal with the SCOTUS. Their "far vision" told them that impeachment could prove to be a cause of "mischief" in their grand judicial coup scheme.
Can someone explain to me what was phony about President Reagan's landslide?
Oh! My! God!
:bwah:
I'm glad to see all that remote viewing research paid off.
Q. "What affect has the Monica Lewinsky scandal had on the campaign?"
Oh! My! God!
:bwah:
I'm glad to see all that remote viewing research paid off.::::: WARNING! :::::Remote View at Your Own Risk!
I initiated a remote viewing session of random DUmp Monkeys when because of a slight maladjustment of the VRWC approved remote viewing parameters, I landed smack-dab in the middle of Greenbriar's bedroom.MY EYES!! MY EYES!! MY EYES!! MY EYES!! MY EYES!! MY EYES!! MY EYES!!
Of course I am now emotionally maladjusted for the remainder of my life. :bawl:
Can someone explain to me what was phony about President Reagan's landslide?He was a Repubilcan.
Cindie