Maureen Dowd Quotes
These are not grounds for impeachment. These are grounds for divorce.
The Republican Controlled House of Representatives impeached Clinton without a single Democratic vote. The Senate rejected the House blatant political maneuver and while 2/3 of the Senate was required for conviction, the Impeachment forces could not even get a majority in the most farcical impeachment in American History.
Maureen Dowd, Political Columnist, Comment on the Lewinsky affair—President Clinton’s sexual scandal, New York Times column, September 14, 1998
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The irony of this quotation is that in later years, Sanford, was involved in his own sex scandal. Sanford refused to resign - see related quote.
The sexual behavior of President Clinton with a White House intern had started a sequence of events and investigations, eventually leading to an impeachment inquiry. The Republican House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, resigned (later admitting that he was having his own adulterous affair with a member of his staff). Henry Hyde, the Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee handling the impeachment hearings, admitted to adulterous conduct and fathering an illegitimate child. Livingston was then selected by the Republicans to be House Speaker. He then shocked the country with this announcement, and refused the Speaker’s post and then resigned as a member of Congress. The impeachment was voted by the House on a partisan vote, but failed in the Senate.
Colton also ordered the Abbot to have no further mistresses. There was a basic concern about and prejudice against the Irish for their relatively promiscuous norms regarding sex. See {639438}.
Nixon’s remark {583773} had been suppressed by the Nixon family and McGovern and the world first heard it 40 years after the fact.
Weyrich and many other extreme religious conservatives are often loose with legal and political facts. Actually President Clinton was impeached by the Republican Controlled House of Representatives, but was acquitted by the Senate which decided that he was not guilty of what his political enemies had accused him of or those things were not of sufficient import to warrant impeachment. What Weyrich probably meant was that if there had been a moral majority in America, Clinton would have been convicted and removed from office. Ironically, the Republican Speaker of the House which impeached Clinton had been Newt Gingrich, who abandoned his first wife and was having an affair with a staff member. Livingston who was then elected speaker of the House also was committing adultery as were many in the group who found Clinton morally wanting for his sexual activity with am intern and his attempted coverup. They too, tried to cover up their scandalous behavior.
Later, DeLay was convicted and sentenced to jail for money laundering and illegally spending and raising campaign funds. He was also reprimanded by the House Ethics Committee for unethical methods of fund raising for other earlier actions.
Maureen Brigid Dowd is an American columnist for The New York Times and an author.
