Hey conspiracy theorist, you don't have the right

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Polls conducted during 1998 and early 1999 showed that only about one-third of Americans supported Clinton's impeachment or conviction. However, one year later, when it was clear that House impeachment would not lead to the ousting of the President, half of Americans said in a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll that they supported impeachment but 57% approved of the Senate's decision to keep him in office and two thirds of those polled said the impeachment was harmful to the country.[33]

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Hey do you have 'proof' that you condemned the following GOPER assholes for their double standards and rank hypocrisy?

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What We Now Know About The Men Who Led The Impeachment Of Clinton

Judd Legum  May 30, 2015, 5:43 pm



Bob Livingston in 1998 CREDIT: AP

On December 19, 1998, the House of Representatives impeached Bill Clinton on two charges related to his extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky. (The charges were for perjury and obstruction of justice.)

The historic vote, and subsequent trial in the Senate, involved the work of three men who were elected Speaker of the House Of Representatives by the Republican majority, Newt Gingrich, Bob Livingston and Dennis Hastert.

Almost 17 years later, with the federal indictment of Hastert for illegally concealing up to $3.5 million in hush-money, we finally have a more complete understanding of the men who led this effort.

Newt Gingrich

Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) led the push for Bill Clinton’s impeachment. Following a disappointing election in November 1998, he announced he was stepping down as Speaker and resigning from Congress.

Gingrich later admitted that, while he was pushing for Clinton’s impeachment, he was engaged in an affair with a Congressional aide. “There were times when I was praying and when I felt I was doing things that were wrong. But I was still doing them,” Gingrich said in 2007. He later said the situation was “complex and, obviously, I wasn’t doing things to be proud of .”

Shoulda prayed harder, dickhead.

Bob Livingston

After Gingrich announced his resignation, Republicans unanimously selected Rep. Bob Livingston (R-LA) to succeed him. Livingston represented the party as Speaker-elect in the led up to the impeachment vote.

On the day of the impeachment vote, Livingston announced he was resigning following revelations that he had engaged in an extramarital affair. According to Hustler Magazine Publisher Larry Flint, who offered a reward for information about the sex lives of members of Congress, he “found four women who said they had been involved with Mr. Livingston over the last 10 years.”

Dennis Hastert



Dennis Hastert (behind Bill Clinton) in 1999 CREDIT: AP

Following Livingston’s resignation, which occurred on the same day the House voted on impeachment, Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) quickly gained support of the Republican leadership to succeed him as Speaker-designate. He began formally serving as speaker in January 1999, and held that role while the Senate conducted their trial on the articles of impeachment.

On Thursday, Hastert was indicted on charges that he illegally structured $1.7 million in payments to an individual in an attempt to cover up prior misconduct. According to reports, the payments were allegedly intended to “conceal sexual abuse against a former male student he knew during his days as a teacher in Yorkville, Ill.” The LA Times also reported that “investigators also spoke with a second man who raised similar allegations that corroborated what the former student said.”

Hey coach, wanna move that chair out of viewing distance of the boys' shower area?

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On April 27, Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for improperly structuring payments to cover up the abuse. In open court, a federal judge repeatedly called him a “serial child molester.”


Rep. Henry Hyde

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By TIME StaffFriday, Jan. 09, 2009


Then: Probably remembered as one of the House of Representatives' most stalwart conservatives, Illinois Republican Henry Hyde waged battles to defeat federal abortion funding, partial-birth abortion, flag-burning, doctor-assisted suicide, same-sex marriage. But his most notable battle — and loss — was the fight to remove President Clinton from office.

Early on, Hyde is said to have not taken the possibility of removing Clinton very seriously because he considered it sexual misconduct and not a concern of Congress. That changed, however, after Clinton testified before the House Judiciary Committee, of which Hyde was chair, that he had not had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky — before evidence emerged that there had in fact been sexual contact. Clinton was accused of perjury and the House voted to impeach him and pursue his expulsion from the White House, with Hyde leading the charge.

When Clinton was tried in the Senate in early 1998, however, Hyde and his Senate allies were not able to muster enough votes to convict him. Clinton was acquitted of the charges and served out the rest of his term. Hyde continued to lead the House Judiciary Committee until 2001, then moved on to the House International Relations Committee, where he remained for the rest of his tenure.

Now: Ironically, Hyde turned out to have been guilty of his own extramarital indescretions. In a September 1998 article, Salon.com reported that Hyde had carried on an affair with a married woman named Cherie Snodgrass during the 1960s, a story the Congressman later acknowledged was true.

The admission dogged him for the rest of his political career and he was repeatedly criticized for his zeal in prosecuting Clinton while failing to mention his own transgressions.

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