Why is it that clinton was nearly impeached?

Question

I know why but, I'm trying to prove a point. Wasn't the Congress back in Clinton's administration a majority of Dems? So why would Dems vote to impeach their own president?

my bad. he did get impeached. Sorry the lib news is brainwashing me..AHHH!!

Answer 1

actually, in 95 congress became republican for the first time in something like 40 years. They were voted out after the racial intigration of the military during korea, which then gave Truman the political power to fire Mcarthur, which then caused us to get stuck in a stalemate. People always connected korea and blacks with republicans until people became retarded in the 90's and started believing weird crap about the past that didnt happen.

Another thing, Impeaching the president does not mean removing him, it simply means investigating him.
It wasnt nearly as big as people thought. there was only one investgator, ken lay, and it was only about him lying to congress not about lewinsky.

People blew it out of proportion in order to make it look like the republicans were crazy zealots. The truth is that they went weeks without talking about it, but the news repeated it over and over so much that it made us feel like he was in big trouble.

The investigation did lead to the election reforms that we saw in the 2000 election. It was discovered that Clinton had accepted $250,000 from china, which was not illegal, but was highly suspect since chinese spies were discovered in our nuclear labratories.

Answer 2

The House impeached him but not the Senate. The House vote was on December 19, 1998. The impeachment counts were the following: On grounds of perjury to a grand jury, the vote was 228-206, and on obstruction of justice it was a 221-212 vote.

The reason? Clinton is a lying and cheating scoundrel whose numerous scandals go far beyond the Lewinsky affair and anything the Bush administration has ever done! The House Judiciary Committee led the charge and voting to impeach him by a 21-16 vote. Members Henry Hyde, James Sensenbrenner, Lindsey Graham and Asa Hutchinson were prominent members.

During the 106th Congress (1999-2000), in the Senate there were 55 Republicans and 45 Democrats and in the House 223 Republicans and 211 Democrats and 1 Independent.

Answer 3

Perhaps cooler heads prevailed in the end. And Mr. Clinton was not a bastard he had a father and he did get caught cheating with some piece of opportunistic trash, I'm sure he wasn't the first to do so nor will he be the last.
But I think starting unwinable,needless,wars,
pandering to the wealthy and being very ignorant ,trumps cheating every time. Why is Mr. Bush not impeached by his own republican majority? Oh I get it now you can do anything you want and as long as you admit it ,the slate is cleared . How wrong is that ?

Answer 4

They voted therefore he wasn't.The house voted to but the senate didn't therefore he was not Impeached. Personally I was sad when my 9 year old daughter saw him on TV trying to deny his infidelity. I'm an Independent that usually votes Republican yet I just wanted the nonsense to stop. Ken Lay really pissed me off. These independent councils are everything but independent. They are witch hunters that disable our government. I'd also be against an independent council and or a vote to impeach Bush. The political strife in this country has almost paralyzed us. We really need a viable 3rd and 4th party to lessen the stranglehold the Dem's and reps have on the power and the money in our country. United We Stand Divided We Fall!

Answer 5

You really want to know. I will answer you.
fact one it was that Jewish woman who have done him and kept her address UN washed for 6 months i believe .
Clinton wanted to end his time in office as a peace maker in the Middle East and to do so he must come hard on the Israeli side they are the occupiers and no peace will come without ending the occupation. the Israeli lobby which is made of the 2 American political parties had plan for Mr Clinton good one i think . No Middle east peace plan for no impeachment and his wife will be a senator in a Jewish state of New York . Now you know why do not you. Do you need more INFO
"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." -- Ariel Sharon to Shimon Peres, October 3rd, 2001, as reported on Kol Yisrael

Answer 6

It was such an outrageous stunt he pulled and then kept lying about it (purgury!)
He should have been thrown out of office.I really do not see this as a Rep/Dem position but a public outrage and neither side could possibly condone what he did.He was a worthless president who had nothing better to do for 8 years and Hillary is no better.She will ride that so called pity train as far as she can.I pray it isn't back to the White House or God help us all.

Answer 7

Um, I believe he was impeached. The first president since Nixon to be. He was a man of high authority who did not deserve that power, and he used it to cheat on his hideous wife. However, the problem America had with the situation wasn't so much his indescretions, but the fact that he lied to the people about it, and lied under oath. Who needs a president that lies and commits purgeory? I certainly dont.

Answer 8

Nearly or was?

"Clinton was one of only two Presidents in American history to be impeached. The vote to impeach was along party lines in the Republican-dominated congress."

Check your facts, "smart guy" and then "educate". Or maybe just learn to spell educate.

Answer 9

The Republicans took control of both houses of congress in 1994, and have held it since.

Bill Clinton had a Democratic congress for two of his eight years in the White House.

Answer 10

He was impeached, he just wasn't convicted. The issue wasn't Monicagate, the issue was lying under oath to a Federal Grand Jury. That tends to be a no-no even to Democrats.