Showing someone your dick is rape culture

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53. He was impeached but not convicted of the charges of impeachment.

If he'd been convicted, there'd have been cause for removal as the next step. But Bill Clinton was a mighty popular president by then. Many thought his persecution was overkill. He was impeached - in the House of Reps - for lying, they'd say. The inevitable response was "yeah. For lying ABOUT SEX." Enough members of the opposition, which had a majority in the House (led by then by vindictive, vicious, nasty, rabid Clinton-hater and headline-whore Newt Gingrich) but not in the Senate, were conscious of a tremendous public backlash to what was coming to be known as an inquisition.

Taken in context, Clinton's impeachment was the last gasp of a Ken Starr witch hunt that started with the purported Whitewater "scandal" and found nothing to hang him on, went searching and scrounging and scouring through several other "scandals" and found nothing, and finally wound up with a stained blue dress. Which they thought would stick and would give them momentum. It didn't provide them enough momentum, though, to close the deal. The deal, as suspected by many of us (myself included), was that THIS was the only way the GOP thought they could get rid of Bill Clinton. They'd been pecking at him since he got there. PLUS they had an added target in what they perceived to be the "uppity woman" he was married to, whose big sin was not knowing her proper place.

There was quite a pushback that developed. Clinton was in his sixth year of eight years in the White House. The middle of his second term, which he'd won handily. He'd had the unmitigated gall to interrupt the presumed entitlement of Bush 1 to two terms in the White House, and render him a one-termer. This young whippersnapper upstart from "Arkansas ???" had the nerve to unseat their king from what they (and I'm sure he himself, as well) felt was his rightful place - in the Oval Office. Royal entitlement dontchaknow. An invincible new "American Royal Family" dynasty born to supplant the Kennedys - this one would be better because it was the GOP. And Bill Clinton snatched that away from them. But Bill Clinton was doing a good job. And the voters knew it because they renewed his lease after his first term. So they couldn't get rid of him through the ballot box. We were enjoying peace and prosperity over a nice long period of time, as a nation, on his watch. He was popular. And the same fear of pushing against that kind of popularity then was what motivates the GOP now NOT to pull away from trump. That's when MoveOn.org was born. It's named for its first collective online campaign - urging voters to contact their reps to tell them to "move on" from the whole Monica mess. And the pushback was stronger and more forceful than their wish for vengeance.

Furthermore, let's also remember some other forgotten facts, and why I have such little sympathy for Miss Monica. She was no innocent! She wasn't some 14-year-old living with her mom and in school and not even driving yet and meek and impressionable as hell. She was a grown woman, over 21, no longer in school, who'd relocated across the country for her big break: a Washington DC internship. She wrote to her friends back home about how thrilled she was to land this opportunity because she intended to use it to earn her "presidential kneepads." From what I've read, she did a lot actively to encourage the later encounters with Bill Clinton.