RiverDog wrote:I agree with you, but that's not what we were being told in real time. I distinctly remember John Chancellor of NBC, on the eve of the Saturday Night Massacre, saying that we were in the midst of the gravest Constitutional crisis in our country's history. That type of rhetoric is eerily similar to what's being used to describe the current predicament we have in Trump's Ukrainian scandal.
Specifically what section of the Constitution is compromised due to anything in the Clinton years? Even though Clinton wasn't held accountable for his lying under oath, we still prosecute and imprison people for committing perjury, don't we? As much as I disliked Clinton, there was nothing that he did while he was in office that permanently affected our democratic form of government.
We're just going to have to agree to disagree on this issue. We're engaging in a circular argument.
The only people that think this is a grave Constitutional Crisis are people that aren't particularly aware of our history. They want to exaggerate this whole thing into a much bigger thing than it is. This is small potatoes compared to say the Civil War, any of our wars really, or The Great Depression or McCarthyism.
Presidents been getting away with vile crap for a while. I have no idea why people even consider this that bad save that Trump is terrible at hiding this or just doesn't have the established people in government to cover it well. I'd bet money what Trump is accused of doing happens nearly every administration. Washington D.C. is a corrupt place. It doesn't at all operate according to the laws. They're very walk the grey line in government. Look at our State Government. they change the Constitution whenever the people do something they don't like such as voting for lower tabs.
Now that government officials garner votes with handouts in Washington State, hard to get them out of office as the people getting the handouts seem to vote en masse at the state level.
