Comedy Gold from Karl Rove
Karl Rove slammed Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) decision to delay sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate in an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
The former adviser to President George. W. Bush argued that President Trump deserves a “dignified” impeachment process as he claims was given to former President Bill Clinton.
“Americans deserve a dignified conclusion to impeachment, as the Senate gave them with Mr. Clinton in 1999,” Rove wrote. “Impeachment always inflicts trauma on the nation. We can accept that. What the country shouldn’t accept is a continuation of this Democrat-led circus.”
I don’t think I have to remind you of how “dignified” the Clinton impeachment was. Clinton agreed to testify under oath for the Grand Jury via video. Ken Starr said they needed to record it because one of the jurors had to be absent and they would need to show it to her/him at a later time. He turned it over to the House Republicans. Then Newt Gingrich released it to the world.
No other Grand Jury testimony in any case has been released in this way. Here’s a little “dignified” tid-bit:
Q. If the person being deposed kissed the breast of another
person, would that be in the definition of sexual relations as
you understood it in the Jones case.
A. Yes, that would constitute contact . . .
Q. So, touching, in your view then and now–the person
being deposed touching or kissing the breast of another person
would fall within the definition?
A. That’s correct sir.
Q. And you testified that you didn’t have sexual relations
with Monica Lewinsky in the Jones deposition, under that
definition, correct?
A. That’s correct, sir.
Q. If the person being deposed touched the genitalia of
another person, would that be” and with the intent to arouse
the sexual desire, arouse or gratify, as defined in definition
(1), would that be, under your understanding then and now—-
A. Yes, sir.
Q [continuing]. Sexual relations?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Yes it would?
A. Yes, it would. If you had direct contact with any of
these places in the body, if you had direct contact with intent
to arouse or gratify, that would fall within the definition.
Q. So, you didn’t do any of those three things—-
A. You—-
Q [continuing]. With Monica Lewinsky?
A. You are free to infer that my testimony is that I did
not have sexual relations, as I understood this term to be
defined.
In other words, they were demanding to know if he had tried to make Lewinsky orgasm. Lindsey Graham pursued that line of questioning in the hearings.
They based the impeachment of a president on the fact that he lied in a dismissed civil case about specifically where he had touched a woman he was having an improper but consensual affair with.
That’s what Karl Rove considers “dignified.”
The equivalent would be to depose Stormy Daniels.
Maybe the Democrats should give them the “dignified” process the Republicans gave to Clinton. Lord knows there’s plenty of that kind of material out there. He’s been accused of assaulting at least 20 women.
I doubt that Rove is this deluded. But you really have to wonder what’s in the water at the Trump hotels that all these people are talking about the Clinton Impeachment like it wasn’t a humiliating spectacle for everyone concerned, not the least of whom were Lewinsky and Hillary Clinton.
Not that they cared about any of that, of course.
Grrrrr.
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