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It's funny how the only thing they ever got President Clinton on was perjury for lying about a BJ. After all that taxpayer money spent for all those investigations, that was the only thing they could find him guilty of.
Newt Gingrich, on the other hand, was guilty as hell:
Washingtonpost.com: House Reprimands, Penalizes Speaker
And so, it turned out that the Speaker of the House, a man who was arguably responsible for the giant circus of investigations that occurred during the Clinton administration, should have been the one being investigated.
That's known as "irony".
Newt Gingrich, on the other hand, was guilty as hell:
House Reprimands, Penalizes Speaker
By John E. Yang
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 22 1997; Page A01
The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reprimand House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and order him to pay an unprecedented $300,000 penalty, the first time in the House's 208-year history it has disciplined a speaker for ethical wrongdoing.
The ethics case and its resolution leave Gingrich with little leeway for future personal controversies, House Republicans said. Exactly one month before yesterday's vote, Gingrich admitted that he brought discredit to the House and broke its rules by failing to ensure that financing for two projects would not violate federal tax law and by giving the House ethics committee false information.
"Newt has done some things that have embarrassed House Republicans and embarrassed the House," said Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.). "If [the voters] see more of that, they will question our judgment."
Washingtonpost.com: House Reprimands, Penalizes Speaker
And so, it turned out that the Speaker of the House, a man who was arguably responsible for the giant circus of investigations that occurred during the Clinton administration, should have been the one being investigated.
That's known as "irony".