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Newt Gingrich is the petulant asshole who forced a government shutdown and impeachment of a president because of a "snub" he got from Clinton during a flight.
Normally a character like Gingrich would have been out of the political game for the rest of his life. He's been disciplined by congress for financial shennigans and he was eventually booted. But in the GOP, everything old is new again. Romney is populating his "cabinent" with former Bushie PNAC wackos while talking about invading Iran. Even Ralph Reed is making a comeback. What's next? David Duke?
Ooookay, now you need to take the thorazine the nice doctor gave you and calm down a bit.
To clarify -
1) The GOP Congress shut down teh government because Clinton refused to go along with spending controls HE already insisted were necessary. The GOP wanted to limit Medicare increases to 6%- twice the rate of inflation. Clinton had already proposed this in HillaryCare. then he refused to go along with it and shut down the government. It wasn't just Newt, it was BOTH houses of Congress.
2) After 63 investigations into various activities, there were 62 vindications, and one case where they found underlings had not filed the proper paperwork. That was the so-called "ethics violation".
3) Clinton lied in court, subourned perjury and abused his office. He settled his case and surrendered his law license. A lot of other politicians resigned for a lot less than he did. Sanford, Ensign, Weiner, Spitzer, to name a few. You guys started this sexual McCarthyism bullshit with Clarance Thomas, don't come whining to me when it bites one of your guys in the ass.
4) Not voting for Romney, but give him props for hiring people who know what they are doing, as opposed to the community organizer...
That was a GOP led shutdown. They were braying on and on about how nobody needs the government and it should be smaller. And yeah..they wanted to cut Medicaid..and villified Hillary Clinton for "daring" to come up with a real live workable plan to reform healthcare. They shut 'er down..and people missed the government services. The GOP lost big..really big. And Gingrich's "ethics violation" was exempting his wages earned from a class he taught from taxes. And he was using that class for political purposes. He then LIED about it to congress. That was a real live lie.
And Clinton didn't "lie" in court. He gave them the answers as he understood them to be. Had it been a court case..it would have been laughed right out. He really should have told them to go fuck themselves. It would have saved his law license and a good deal of embarrassment in the long run. And it probably would have been backed by America in general.
Clinton was totally blameless in the government shutdown. Nah, he didn't do anything except veto the budget.