HoonieSkoba on the Clinton Caper: Is Impeachment a Cheap Partisan Tactic or A Legit Method to Remove Corrupt Leaders?
Had a thought while I was out running this morning which I decided to pitch 'out there' to see what others think.
If one accepts the premise of NWO, 9-11 conspiracies, etc., then it has to be recognized that these people plan things years in advance. Is it possible that the Clinton impeachment in the late Ninties was planned in order to allow less public pressure against a future Bush/Cheney impeachment? Here's my thinking:
The Clinton impeachment basically divided people into three camps: support, against, don't care. The loudest voices were obviously Support vs Against, and importantly, even voters who consider themselves Independent/Swing had strong views. It was a tiring experience, but watching from the sidelines it was clear from the start that even though they went through the impeachment, Clinton was never going to get more than a slap on the wrist. So, what was the real reason behind it?
Here's my contention:
The purpose was to wear down the general public's taste for impeachment, especially the Independent/Swing voters, and 'cheapen' impeachment as a concept, to where it would be harder to impeach future presidents.
I have to admit that for awhile when I heard people calling for Bush/Cheney's impeachment, I just rolled my eyes and said, "you're just a partison democrat looking for revenge." Impeachment HAS been cheapened and the only people who seem to support for Bush/Cheney are generally either (A) hard core democreats or (B) those who truly believe they are involved with NWO and/or 9-11 conspiracy, etc.
It's all about controling the mood of the greater population, and if they can make impeachment seem like a cheap partison tactic rather than a legit method of removing corrupt leaders, then they've essentially increased their power.
OK, throw your stones...
HoonieSkoba


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Too much credit.
I think you give the Republicans too much credit! The end results of the Cinton impeachment on our situation now is just dumb luck!
Al K.
You May Have a Point There
First of all, I want to say that the actions of the current administration has given more validity to the possibility that such 'conspiracy theories' are likely true. I think in years past that the US had this squeaky clean image that despite little bumps in the road-the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, Nixon, Reagan/Iran-that basically these were isolated incidents in an otherwise perfect world.
So since you're taking this 'conspiracy theory' perspective of it....
You've got to be open to the idea that this Republican/ Democrat thing is just a whitewash and the real shots are being called by a global elite who have planned these things that you are suggesting.
It has recently been revealed that early in Clinton's term of office it has been revealed that Laurence Rockefeller started an initiative to have Clinton disclose the truth about UFOs. Hillary was highly involved and interested in this. You may laugh at this, but documents that show that the Clintons were working with Rockefeller are being released.
You can go here to review these:
http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/Rockefeller...
I believe the impeachment of Clinton was inspired due to him looking too closely into these things. Perhaps he was set up from the beginning as a likely candidate for what you are suggesting. I don't think that is a far cry from the truth at all.
Clinton impeachment
There is another factor which people are forgetting. Bush Sr. and the republicans never thought Clinton had a chance in h... of winning and when he did the Bushy and the republicans were mad as h....
This is one point that Hillary was right about when she said there was a right wing conspiracy against them.
But why in the h... did Clinton ever pass the NAPA bill which was the start of what Bush and the republicans have wanted for many years.
Bush has used this bill to completed kill our unions , slash our jobs/wages/benefits. This has given corporations a global work force in which they can tell Americans to go to hell , they can do any d... thing they please.
With this bill plus illegal immigrants ,, American worker's unions have lost their only bargaining powers they had for their employees wages and benefits.
But this administration plans were lay out far in advance by Cheney and his group which also setup the thief of the 2000 election and they hit the ground running and I believe there is nothing they would not do to destroy our democracy and hand the power , wealth and control over to corporations and their military...
There is a pattern that goes beyond impeachment
The same assertion about whether it was deliberate can also be made about media consolidation, severely reduced taxes on the wealthy, "free-trade" agreements and the suppression of a green energy revolution by King C.O.N.G. (Coal, Oil, Nuclear, Gas) not to mention the stacking of the Courts. All of these, including the "cheapening" of impeachment fit into a scheme as described by Naomi Wolfe in her book "The End of America" and the 10 Steps to Fascism.
In depth studies of the current, very definitely fascist cabal and their histories and connections to the military industrial complex include extensive revolving-door activities in the CIA, the DoD and many Wall Street defense-contractors and other multinationals involved in energy, weapons, intelligence and lobbying groups, Congress, as well as foreign powers and networks like Israel's MOSSAD, Pakistan's ISI, Saudi Arabia's Royal GID, and Britain's SIS/BAE complex.
I would be less inclined to believe there is a deliberate effort to undermine our Constitution if it weren't for the fact that the Bush Crime Family was involved in an attempted coup on the US in the 1930's. I would also be less inclined to believe it if I didn't Know a good deal about 9/11 and its cover up. Maybe if it simply was not true that these same interested parties were actually raking in trillions in War and Energy Plunder and building a new base of operations for Halliburton in DuBai I might not give any weight to the undermining of Constitutional Impeachment in advance of Bush's "US Coup pt. II"... but then, I need a lot more ignorance than I currently have.
Who is to say what these untaxed bloodlines have accomplished in the backrooms of Bohemian Grove, Skull and Bones, Crawford Ranch and the multi-billion dollar law offices of DC's power-lobbies? I don't think they're playing bridge. One thing we can say though is that right now we have a carnival of un-investigated crimes being protected by un-touchable power-elites financed to the hilt with Wall Street and Public Treasury trillions... What are we going to do about it?
Help Expose the overwhelming evidence that 9/11 was a False-Flag Operation of the highest-order involving many/most of the same parties, then with or without Congressional help, Launch a Public Investigation which is already advanced enough for trials and indictments thanks to the courageous independent researchers in the movement, then conduct a another more comprehensive Citizen's Grand Jury with or without the help of the DoJ. The Citizen Grand Juries already conducted reached Unanimous Indictments and one even expanded them in the Verdict, then file RICO's and Class Action Suits against the perps and start seizing assets. No American exposed to the Facts of this case can ever look at war, its machinery, and its advocates the same, but perhaps even more important, like the Nuremberg Trials, all the main assholes, whether caught in the act or not, will ever be able to show their criminal faces in public again.
Instead of wondering whether we're the victims of manipulation we should begin hoisting the 9/11 False Flag into their face, joining the anti-war, anti-corporate press, anti-King CONG movements together. All it needs right now is a magnifying glass and all kinds of changes can begin.
ixoxi
concur
i concur with that conclusion
Jefferson Rules move by day and by night
Impeachment is USA Imperative
Undermine our constitution
There can be no doubt that Bush/Cheney have and planned to destroy our constitution and democracy so they could do as they please.
Bush have illegally passed his our laws , attached his signing statements to bills which were signed into law that he will not obey them.
They are even getting arrogant In their lies and abuse of our law and their program on torture , treason and the list goes on.
If it looks like a skunk , walks like a skunk , and stinks like a skunk , you can d... well be sure it is a skunk.
Bush stated in the beginning that he thought the constitution was a G.D. piece of paper and he could do anything he please and with the support of Cheney he has done just that.
How can anyone not know about Bush/Cheney illegal and criminals activities , even with the news media censoring as much as they can.
I have a problem with the elected democrats which have arrogantly given Bush/Cheney every thing they demand and "more". How did we let these republican-democrats take over our party and it's policies.
Please prove Bush said Constitution was a piece of paper
This comment has come up over and over. I would be happy to add it to my bookmarks of Bush related quotes. Please supply a believable source.
Yup, it looks, walks, and stinks like a skunk...
"How did we let these republican-democrats take over our party and it's policies."
I don't think we "let" them. Do you or I have millions in slush-lobbying money to hire DC Law Offices to cram our members with agendas? No, but the MIC certainly does. Do you or I own major stakes in energy or other high-profit industries in our home districts and endowed with the ability to reserve the local country club for a cash-sweetener/fundraiser to schmooze & booze our rep? No, but every MIC sympathizer does. Do you or I own the local media and continue pumping mis/dis-info or watered-down trash coverage down our district's throat? No, but sure as hell, fascist media-consolidated sympathizers do.
This whole thing reminds me of the game we used to play when we were kids, "pig slaughter", and once a few overly-greedy scumbags started succeeding in their profiteering through official congressional manipulations, the more others in similar positions began piling on. Now that the greedy have inherited the Earth, the pile is a mountain that ordinary people can barely see around, much less do something about. Fortunately, there are relatively few areas of law that have been contorted into fascist-appeasing agendas, and pulling these out from under them will shrink their bloated powers...
Only the most aggressive, progressive candidates deserve our resources, Golub and Sheehan vs Pelosi for instance. we have to attack corporate law, government secrecy, the mic, big-money campaigns and government accountability all at once. This is no small order for ethical people to pull off, but we also should remember that the founder's challenge was even greater against the Brits, but it still might get that bad so, get ready.
ixoxi
The point of the impeachment proceedings was to gut impeachment
as a tool to remove corrupt leaders... it has had the effect of causing great reticence on the part of citizens and the congressional leaders to open that can of worms again any time soon- even when is so clearly and desperately needed.
Yeah, I believe that was the point of the whole pointless exercise.
I'd say your contention is right on
What's been happening under Bushco has been in the works for about 30 years.
Cheney and Rumsfeld have been buddies since the Nixon administration. Uncle Dick was also Ford's Chief of Staff while Rummy was doing his first stint as Secretary of Defense.
During this time they managed to steer billions of dollars in contracts toward the "defense" industry (from which they would each eventually realize handsome financial benefits), by claiming that the Soviets had super-secret nuclear sub technology that they could hit us with at any time. They actually claimed that the fact their claims couldn't be proven was proof that the Soviets' secret nuke subs existed. It was all eventually proven to be a lie, but few people remember.
Gee, doesn't the fear mongering seem eerily familiar?
Here is a must-read piece by Thom Hartmann that details that era.
Cheney was also Bush 41's "Defense" Secretary, and of course Rumsfeld would reprise his role in that position under Dubya.
They have certainly brought many friends into the neocon fold over the years, including Paul Wolfowitz (whose "Wolfowitz Doctrine" was the forerunner of the PNAC manifesto) and many on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill.
The Clinton impeachment charade was orchestrated to prepare the masses for what the cons knew was coming under the Pretender-in-Chief, whose role as governor of Texas was clearly nothing more than an exercise in grooming their stooge.
Throw in the stolen elections, the constitutionally non-existent "Unitary Executive" theory, the illegal signing statements, the illegal invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the "Protect" America Act, the illegal warrantless spying on law abiding American citizens (which they have publicly confessed to), the torture, the illegal detentions, the bogus military tribunals...
And suddenly it becomes pretty clear that Americans would be plenty pissed off and want to impeach and arrest these bastards.
Which is why they needed to cheapen impeachment as much as they could before King George was appointed.
Your TV is not your friend.
Video Commentary:
"John Conyers Brings On the Deja Vu"
DEMAND IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS NOW:
johnconyersjr@gmail.com / john.conyers@mail.house.gov
When I Began Thinking Clinton Was In On It!
Like the rest of us, I was appalled at the Clinton Impeachment. The amount of time and money expended to get Clinton over the infamous "semen-stained blue dress" by Kenneth Starr as the "Special Prosecutor" was the epitomy in partisan smearing. Or so I thought!
We all know that the move was ultimately unsuccessful and Clinto served out his second term. Golly gee Batman, what did the middle class gain from that? Not a hell of a lot in retrospect.
When I actually began thinking that Clinton was a lackey for the neocons came when Clinton paled around with Daddy Bush as a result of the tsunami relief effort. I thought that relationship odd at the time. Now however, it looks more and more to me that there ws nothing very odd about it. Clinton and the Bush clan are really peas out of the same wealth ridden, golden lined pod.
It makes so much more sense in light of what has happened at the hands of Sonnyboy Bush that what we have had here is a giant sized scam of the American people, especially middle class Americans.
As I posted over the weekend, I have started reading Paul Krugman's THE CONSCIENCE OF A LIBERAL. If you want a detailed analysis of what has happened to the middle class over the last 30 years, pick up this book and study Krugman's analysis closely. It may be very enlightening and hit very close to home.
Partisan Democrats?
"I have to admit that for awhile when I heard people calling for Bush/Cheney's impeachment, I just rolled my eyes and said, "you're just a partison democrat looking for revenge.""
And what partisan democrats are looking for revenge? Please tell me, because we have been trying for years to get the democrats to support impeachment. Actually the most partisan Democrats are not looking for revenge or impeachment. They just want a stranglehold on government the same way the Reupublicans have had under Bush.
Your main premise is certainly possible. After all the revelations of the absolute criminality of our government, I wouldn't put anything past them.
Nick Egnatz
NW Indiana Veterans For Peace