… I’ve been through the impeachment process up close and personal as director of planning for former Speaker Newt Gingrich, and I can say definitively that the decision to move forward on the impeachment of President Bill Clinton was a sobering experience, not the stuff of parody.
But back then, when the president in question was a member of their party, Democrats saw things quite differently compared to today. Pelosi described Clinton’s impeachment this way: “It’s about a punishment searching for a crime that doesn’t exist.” Sound familiar?
Chuck Schumer said at the time, “My fear is that when a Republican wins the White House, Democrats will demand payback.”
Nadler said, “An impeachment of a president is an undoing of a national election.” And that goes to the very heart of the matter.
Our republic was founded on the dual ideals of equality and liberty, with government “deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” To overturn the people’s electoral verdict without sufficient cause puts the country’s democratic foundation at risk and should be taken on only in the most dire circumstances and with seriousness and gravity. CONT.
David Winston (Winston Group), Roll Call