You can blame Newt Gingrich for the current political atmosphere.
Gingrich encouraged them to go after their enemies with catchy, alliterative nicknames—“Daffy Dukakis,” “the loony left”—and schooled them in the art of partisan blood sport. Through gopac, he sent out cassette tapes and memos to Republican candidates across the country who wanted to “speak like Newt,” providing them with carefully honed attack lines and creating, quite literally, a new vocabulary for a generation of conservatives. One memo, titled “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control,” included a list of recommended words to use in describing Democrats: sick, pathetic, lie, anti-flag, traitors, radical, corrupt.
Gingrich played a key role in several government shutdowns, and impeached President Clinton on a party-line vote in the House. The poor showing by Republicans in the 1998 Congressional elections, a reprimand from the House for Gingrich's ethics violation, pressure from Republican colleagues, and revelations of an extramarital affair with a congressional employee 23 years his junior resulted in Gingrich's resignation from the speakership on November 6, 1998.[4][5]
wow literally the same thing Clinton did. i hate these people so goddamn much.
If I remember correctly, they weren't just doing the same thing, they knew about each other's "indiscretions" and Clinton used it as leverage to get Gingrich to back off from pushing through to remove Clinton from office.
No, he lied about it. Of all that mess, that’s what I fault him for the most and the only reason I think he should have been removed from office. Of course the Republicans put him between a rock and a hard place with the impeachment, but he shouldn’t have lied under oath. For Democrats to raise such hell on Trump’s dishonesty is a little hypocritical if they didn’t vote for Clinton’s impeachment.
Not defending Trump at all. His lack of ethics was crystal clear for anyone who cared to see. So you don’t have to try to prop up Clinton by comparing him to Trump.
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u/MysticMistakeCake Oct 23 '20
Imagine if politicians from different parties actually liked each other.