The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ Well, I had to check wikipedia, and it seems like he wasn't Elph: he stayed in office.
It prob felt like impeachment because the long-drawn-out Starr investigation was continuously leaking titillating details to the press. Starr leaked over the press even more than Clinton leaked over Monica's dress, knowodahmsayin?

Being impeached doesn't mean being removed from office. The impeachment is the "trial".

[Lisnaholic]

^ Thanks for clarifications

[OccultHawk]

I think they just make it up as they go...

Wiki on Clinton’s impeachment trial in the senate

A resolution on rules and procedure for the trial was adopted unanimously on the following day; however, senators tabled the question of whether to call witnesses in the trial.

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by elphenor

it's important to consider when talking about "lowering the bar" for impeachment that it's entirely a political process and no bar exists

^ Well, that's something to take up with Anteater, who led me right off the fact map into that favourite GOP terrain: the land of lies. As a Russian political saying apparently has it, "If you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth," which is what Trump, Barr and co seem to be banking on.

[The Batlord]

I wonder if the congressmen with legal backgrounds are sitting back secretly hating their colleagues for being law retards during any kind of congressional investigation?

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by elphenor

they just wanted to try and tie up his administration

Republicans never give a ****kk

That’s one thing I respect about them. They play to win.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg

I wonder if the congressmen with legal backgrounds are sitting back secretly hating their colleagues for being law retards during any kind of congressional investigation?

They don’t even pay any ****ing attention.

[The Batlord]

Just imagine you were in congress during the whole PMRC thing and you had to sit through those plebes figuring out music and art.

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

That’s one thing I respect about them. They play to win.

^ You'd have to lose that attitude if you went to an English school, OH!
"It isn't about who wins or loses, it's about how you play the game." For a hundred years, this had all the force of an eleventh commandment for Brit schoolchildren.

[OccultHawk]

The British Empire played to win.