Remember when Republicans pretended to care about a President having an affair and lying about it? That lying about that affair was so egregious that they needed to impeach him for it? It’s not quite “20 years ago today” but that anniversary will be here soon. Dec 19th, 1998 was the day nearly 230 Republicans in the House decided that William “Bill” Jefferson Clinton needed to be impeached for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky and sexual harassment of Paula Jones.
Now we have a serial rapist and Olympic class philanderer sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office and they can’t be bothered to care about it. They can’t find evidence of collusion because they weren’t looking for it. They’re like the 3 Monkeys who “See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil.” Well, unless they’re coming up with the umpteenth attempt to find something criminal about Hillary Clinton. That they’re always ready to do.
I can hear you saying, “What brought this trip down nostalgia lane on?” Yet another Republican or two has decided they’ve finally had “enough” of this current bunch of quiver masses of gelatinous slime. And it got me thinking of just how horrible and hypocritical the Republican party has been for most of my entire life. When they welcomed the bitter, racists holdout Dixiecrats into their ranks that’s when I think they became the merchants of sleaze they are today. I was just a kid when Nixon pulled his dirty tricks and reinvented Hoover’s “Southern Strategy” but I remember my parents excusing him for it with “Well, better him than that ‘commie’ Humphrey!” Even after he resigned they were glad Ford granted him clemency because “The country needs to heal and move on.” Yeah, I was raised by Republicans, fortunately I broke their hold on me when I was in college and saw the bullshit that was Reaganomics unleashed on the nation.
I get that we need every American possible on our side to fight against Tr*mp and Putin. (Or should that be Putin and Tr*mp?) But goddamn I am sick and tired of Republicans being OK with so much crap until something impacts them that they finally have the “courage” to speak out. And it’s usually ones who have long ago left the world of politics. Where are the currently serving Republicans that are speaking out against Tr*mp? Are there any? Or are they all worried that CA and Putin have kompromat on them? God, what a bunch of spineless cowards.
Thanks for reading my little rant. Of course Clinton got impeached for a blowjob but Ronnie and Little Georgie did far, far worse and never suffered for it. I’m worried that Tr*mp will join them in that “honor”. Here’s a little something from 2008 to remember those bygone days when Republicans “cared”.
And if you think Republicans will impeach one of their own even if he is caught lying under oath about an affair and blowjob well there’s a bridge in Brooklyn that I can relocate to some prime real estate in Florida that I’m willing to sell you if the price is right.