Saturday, August 25, 2018

Here Comes That Clinton Impeachment Rerun You Asked For

Remember how you were just saying the other day that you enjoyed the Clinton impeachment so much you wanted to live through it again, and the only thing that would make it more fun is if everybody switched sides this time around?

If any of this sounds familiar, consider the parallels to the Clinton impeachment, as I laid them out earlier this year.

So investigators have no choice but to look seriously at this case, just as they couldn't give Clinton a mulligan on perjury.

If Bill Clinton had been caught using the presidency to sell special favors - and I still suspect he did, given how he minted the presidency into a vast fortune after leaving office - that would have related directly to the duties of the office.

It got to the point where Republicans were complaining that Clinton was "Stealing our agenda." But to the political partisan, a public policy win matters less than a political win, and Republicans had tried everything to take Clinton down and failed.

They don't yet have a congressional majority, and they are as far away from the next presidential election as Republicans were when they impeached Clinton.

Who won the Clinton impeachment crisis? Bill Clinton remained in office but was politically damaged, a cloud that still hung over his wife in the last election.

http://thefederalist.com/2018/08/24/here-comes-that-clinton-impeachment-rerun-you-asked-for/

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