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Does anybody remember when Bill Clinton was tried in the Senate for lying and obstruction?

I remember feeling embarrassed as an American that any president would do what he did RIGHT THERE in the Oval Office! I could understand why you would want to make an example of him. Draw a line.

You know what I can’t understand? Hearing Ken Starr, the guy who prosecuted Clinton, saying that tomorrow’s impeachment trial shouldn’t be happening:

“This is very unfortunate, perhaps reading Martin Luther King Junior’s letter from a Birmingham Jail might be helpful. It’s going nowhere, it should go nowhere …”

He brought up King’s . That letter was a call to action against white supremacy at a time King’s fellow clergymen wanted him to wait. Why would you invoke that in defense of egging on people who broke into the Capitol with a confederate flag? I don’t know.

What I DO know is there are five current members of the Senate – Grassley, Crapo, Inhof, Shelby, and McConnell – who voted guilty at Clinton’s trial, and who will now be voting on the case of a sitting president who told his own vice president to disavow the Constitution for the purpose of seizing a second term he didn’t win.

It appears they will let that slide. And if they do, I will at least take some consolation in knowing that they DID draw the line on a president lying about his erotic distractions.

Because nobody wants a guy like THAT in the White House ever again.

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