*February 12, 1999 Day Twenty. The Senate concludes final Impeachment Trial deliberations and votes.*
The Senate voted today on the fate of a president who his own fellow pervert, philandering advisor Dick " The Whoremaster " Morris, called, " ...demanding, hedonistic, risk-taking, sybaritic, headstrong, unfeeling, callous, unprincipled, and undisciplined ". Notice how Morris forgot to mention immoral, or is that covered by unprincipled and undisciplined? The Senators think their votes today will close this disturbing matter, but I am afraid they will just be closing their mouths on some deeply diseased feet. These wounds may tend to keep reopening themselves time and time again in the near future, with Democrats bowing to the will and direct ordersof their fearless leader and Republicans lacking the spinal rigidity to take a legitimate stand for decency, morality, the rule of law or just their ( constituent perceived ) conservative principles. If the Republicans ever want to be able to call Clinton or the Democrats unprincipled; they better stop acting so non-principled themselves!
The final vote in the Senate Impeachment Trial began with the reading of each article and a separate vote on each. Article One: Perjury failed by a vote of 45 guilty and 54 not guilty with Arlen Specter's joke vote of ' not proven ', not counted at this time. Article two: Obstruction of Justice failed by a vote of 50 to 50 with Arlen Specter's joke vote being counted as not guilty. Notably, on both articles all Democrats voted as a block not guilty. The following Republicans were included in the group who voted not guily on Article One: Chaffe, Collins, Gorton, Jeffords, Shelby, Snowe, Stevens and Thompson. On Article Two Gorton, Shelby, Stevens and Snowe were among those who voted guilty. I ' salute ' the Republican Senators who felt they had to vote for the acquittal of the first philanderer ( you can't call him the defendant-in-chief anymore ) and the Senate Democrats, who showed off their splendid level of Clinton/DNC/Whitehouse obedience training. Too bad there were not a few Democrats to jump ship ( oh, but that would have betrayed their level of training ); just one vote would have pushed Article Two to a simple majority. The Impeachment trial was then adjourned and regular business began.
Dianne Feinstein, either with great hoorah or her tail between her legs - take your pick, offered up a weenie motion of censure. This subsequent action of complete surrender was voted down by the action of Republican Phil Gramm offering a motion to postpone indefinately, the motion by Feinstein ( 43 to 56 ).
Republican Senator Gordon Smith said today ( before the final vote ), " The flag of truth is at half mast today ". He is right, you know.
The failure of the Senate to do impartial justice, but to instead validate the extreme partisan " win at all costs " nature of the Democrat party, may cause these impeachment wounds to stay open and fester. The loud-mouthed liberals may scream about how their precious perverted campaigner-in-chief escaped removal and was in fact exonerated by this failure to follow the House of Representitives vote of impeachment with a Senate trial vote by 2/3rds to expell our shameless temporary inhabitant of the Whitehouse. I believe Alan Keyes had it right when he said the Senate was offering up only, " the semblence of an appearence of there being a democracy " and the " totalitarianism that allows the President to be above the law ". Bill Clinton has not proven his innocence by this " Partisan Democrat Minority Acquittal " in the kennel-like atmosphere of the alleged impartial and dignified Senate, but he has solidified his sick dictatorial megalomaniacal control over everything DNC!
- Bongo ( Remember what they did to the cattle in the movie " Hud "? )
Updated ( 2-12-99 )
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