I decided to look up the Senator's Wikipedia page to see how long he's been on The Hill, turns out he went to Washington in '95. I found this excerpt quite interesting:
He was a member of the Judiciary Committee during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998.[31] He was the only Republican on the Committee to vote against any of the articles of impeachment (the second count of perjury in the Paula Jones case), famously asking: "Is this Watergate or Peyton Place?"
I don't know about Whitewater, but I think it would have taken an indictment from law enforcement to sway him. But of course that was then, this is now. His Wikipedia entry says he's a staunch opponent of the Tea Party, so who knows.
My wife likes to say of Clinton vs Bush, 'When Clinton lied, no one died.' Dubya lied to Congress during his State of the Union address, but it could be argued that he wasn't under oath, therefore it was not a crime. Clinton's peccadillo certainly didn't rise to the level of "high crime and misdemeanor."
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Date: 2014-11-30 05:16 am (UTC)He was a member of the Judiciary Committee during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998.[31] He was the only Republican on the Committee to vote against any of the articles of impeachment (the second count of perjury in the Paula Jones case), famously asking: "Is this Watergate or Peyton Place?"
I don't know about Whitewater, but I think it would have taken an indictment from law enforcement to sway him. But of course that was then, this is now. His Wikipedia entry says he's a staunch opponent of the Tea Party, so who knows.
My wife likes to say of Clinton vs Bush, 'When Clinton lied, no one died.' Dubya lied to Congress during his State of the Union address, but it could be argued that he wasn't under oath, therefore it was not a crime. Clinton's peccadillo certainly didn't rise to the level of "high crime and misdemeanor."