buffytheslayer wrote:Ken Starr investigated Whitewater, Filegate, Travelgate, Foster, campaign finance, and just a whole sundry of topics. After finding no evidence of wrongdoing in any of those investigations, they stumbled across consensual sex between two adults.
After Ken Starr spent $70 million of your taxpaying dollars, you'd think it would behove people to actually read the report and learn the outcome.
But that would force the Bushinista ninnies to realize Clinton was exonerated on every one of those investigations.
So it cost us $70 million to learn of three blow jobs between consenting adults.
The overwhelming weight of evidence is that Slick is a serial rapist who was allowed to serve out his second term for purely political reasons, i.e. ecause nobody could stomach the idea of turning the presidency over to Al Gore at the time.
Ken Starr clearly figured that the perjury case against Slick for lying to a federal grand jury was the simplest and easiest to prosecute of all Slick's various crimes and he was basically correct. Sadly, given the political realities, it didn't matter.
Jerome Zeifman, the chief council for the house judiciary committee at the time of Watergate and the man most responsible for getting rid of Nixon, noted that he would impeach Clinton for three obvious cases of bribery, i.e.
Quote:
"In his conduct of the office of the president of the United States,
William J. Clinton has given or received bribes with respect to one or
more of the following:
"(1) Approving, condoning or acquiescing in the surreptitious payment
of bribes for the purpose of obtaining the silence or influencing
the testimony of Webster Hubbell as a witness or potential witness in
criminal proceedings.
"(2) Approving, condoning or acquiescing in the use of political
influence by Vernon Jordan in obtaining employment for the purpose of
obtaining the silence or influencing the testimony of Monica Lewinsky
as a witness or potential witness in civil or criminal proceedings;
and
"(3) Approving, condoning or acquiescing in the receipt of bribes in
connection with the issuance of an executive order which had the
effect of giving Indonesia a monopoly on the sale of certain types of
coal." [the Grand Staircase scandal]
Item three, in fact, clearly shows the worst aspects of democrat gangsterism. The real problem here is that the democrats no longer truly represent anybody who could support a political party either in terms of money or in terms of votes, and so they are seen raising money in every country on earth other than the United States in which they supposedly live, and trying to forge voting majorities out of collections of little imaginary victim groups.
The fundraising activities, in particular, are highly leveraged in that very large items of national treasure and assets are being sold off for relatively miniscule sums of campaign cash. In the case of Utahgate which Zeifman mentions as item 3, something like a trillion dollars was pulled out of the American economy for the benefit of Clinton's Lippo buddies in Indonesia, whose donations to the various slick slush funds could not have amounted to more than a few tens of millions at most.
Like I say, it should not be easy to remove a president, but it should not be impossible either, and at this time, it IS impossible and the system is clearly broken.
We need a constitutional ammendment which says that if a president is impeached and removed, his veep goes out with him, and the presidency is handed over to the oldest US senator of the president's party, on condition that he not run for the office again.
