HYPOCRISY, THEY NAME IS REPUBLICAN

Comparing the Trump impeachment to the Clinton impeachment emphasizes the hypocrisy of the Republican Party.

Ken Starr investigated the Clintons, Bill and Hillary, for a long time and could not find any evidence of actual legal wrong-doing.  After an extensive investigation all he could come up with was Bill’s consensual marital infidelity with Monica Lewinsky.  Clinton was impeached for lying about a blow-job.  The impeachment had absolutely nothing to do with any government or political corruption or wrong-doing.

{As an aside, it is interesting that the Republican leading the campaign for impeaching Trump for a consensual marital infidelity, Newt Gingrich, was himself engaging in consensual marital infidelity while he was criticizing Clinton’s.}

Trump’s impeachment involves actual corruption and a specific identifiable government and political wrong-doing.

{Another aside – during the Clinton impeachment process the Democrats supported and defended a highly intelligent, experienced and competent President.  Today the Republicans are supporting and defending the most ignorant and incompetent President in at least my lifetime with no government experience who is totally devoid of humanity.  Clinton was very often the smartest man in the room.  Trump is always the dumbest man in the room.}

Today’s Republicans, trying to defend the indefensible, say the impeachment of Trump is a purely political move by the Democrats to remove a Republican President from office. 

It seems to me that Republicans using a marital infidelity to impeach an otherwise qualified and competent President who was performing his duties properly is a purely political attempt to remove a Democratic President from office. 

And, while since taking office Trump has been guilty of a multitude of unethical, corrupt and potentially impeachable acts, Democrats put off calling for impeachment until there was a specific identifiable act that truly “crossed the line”.

The dictionary recently added a new additional definition of “hypocrite” –

hyp·​o·​crite |hi-pə-ˌkrit

noun

1: a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion

2: a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings

3. a leader of the National Republican Party and Republican member of Congress

A picture of Lindsey Graham appears next to the definition.