Please get it right. Nobody impeached Clinton over sex. The charges were perjury, obstruction of justice, and abuse of power.
You can lie all you like as President. Sometimes it's required and necessary (national security and all). But when you're in front of a Grand Jury and
you lie and GET CAUGHT, it's PERJURY. And that's a crime.
You can complain all you like about WHY he was in front of a grand jury. Whether it was fair or not. Whether it was petty or not. Arguably, to be fair, the
case should never have gone that far or in that direction, and there were worse things the Clintons were accused of that perhaps
should've been pursued more.
But the FACTS are the FACTS. He was impeached for perjuring himself to a Grand Jury.
"Upon the passage of H. Res. 611, Clinton was impeached on December 19, 1998, by the House of Representatives on grounds of perjury to a grand jury (by a
228-206 vote) and obstruction of justice (by a 221-212 vote)."
He was acquitted by the Senate. Frankly I'm fine with that. He was an inconsequential President in an inconsequential time. The historical equivalent of
Calvin Coolidge. If being mentioned in the same breath as Andrew Johnson is the most anyone will ever remember him for in the centuries to come, he should
consider himself lucky.
But I find it annoying that people shorthand the whole thing as "He was impeached over sex." No.
One. More. Time.
He was impeached for PERJURY.
You can lie all you like as President. Sometimes it's required and necessary (national security and all). But when you're in front of a Grand Jury and
you lie and GET CAUGHT, it's PERJURY. And that's a crime.
You can complain all you like about WHY he was in front of a grand jury. Whether it was fair or not. Whether it was petty or not. Arguably, to be fair, the
case should never have gone that far or in that direction, and there were worse things the Clintons were accused of that perhaps
should've been pursued more.
But the FACTS are the FACTS. He was impeached for perjuring himself to a Grand Jury.
"Upon the passage of H. Res. 611, Clinton was impeached on December 19, 1998, by the House of Representatives on grounds of perjury to a grand jury (by a
228-206 vote) and obstruction of justice (by a 221-212 vote)."
He was acquitted by the Senate. Frankly I'm fine with that. He was an inconsequential President in an inconsequential time. The historical equivalent of
Calvin Coolidge. If being mentioned in the same breath as Andrew Johnson is the most anyone will ever remember him for in the centuries to come, he should
consider himself lucky.
But I find it annoying that people shorthand the whole thing as "He was impeached over sex." No.
One. More. Time.
He was impeached for PERJURY.