Mark,

what business of Congress was it to find investigate his relationship to 
Lewinsky?

Now, the Republicans (Guiliani and Gingrich) say, that this is all a private 
matter. All their dirty divorces, their affairs their relationships.
Then you have that former head of whatever church that is now 100% 
heterosexual after receiving "treatment".
And of course if they ask for forgiveness then everything is forgiven.

Newt and his failing of god and then asking and of course receiving 
forgiveness.
Not only a hypocrite but also full of s...



On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:41:47 -0500, Mark Wonsil <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote:

>> What a bunch of hypocrites.
>
>Not really. For it to be hypocrisy, Newt would have had to say to a grand jury
>that he never had an affair.
>
>> "The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony
>> front of a sitting federal judge," the former Georgia congressman said of
>> Clinton's 1998 House impeachment on perjury and obstruction of justice
>> charges. "I drew a line in my mind that said, 'Even though I run the risk of
>> being deeply embarrassed, and even though at a purely personal level I am
>> not rendering judgment on another human being, as a leader of the
>> government trying to uphold the rule of law, I have no choice except to 
move
>> forward and say that you cannot accept ... perjury in your highest
>> officials."
>
>That's correct. Here are the four articles of impeachment. You will find no
>article impeaching the President for having an affair:
>
>1. The president provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony to the
>grand jury regarding the Paula Jones case and his relationship with Monica
>Lewinsky.
>House: Passed 228-206
>Committee: Passed 21-16
>
>2. The president provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony in the
>Jones case in his answers to written questions and in his deposition.
>
>House: Failed 229-205
>Committee: Passed 20-17
>
>3. The president obstructed justice in an effort to delay, impede, cover up
>and conceal the existence of evidence related to the Jones case.
>House: Passed 221-212
>Committee: Passed 21-16
>
>4. The president misused and abused his office by making perjurious, false 
and
>misleading statements to Congress. (Amended by a 29-5 vote. See draft
>version.)
>House: Failed 285-148
>Committee: Passed 21-16
>
>Only one article passed with the strength of Republican votes. The other
>article had enough Republicans voting against it to fail but enough Democrats
>joined in to pass it.
>
>Today, the irony is rich as Scooter Libby was just convicted for the same
>offense that President Clinton received a $90,000 fine and (temporary)
>disbarment.
>
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