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Originally Posted by spence
Bush didn't do it alone, and I think it goes back to the Republican leadership in the House under President Clinton.
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I tend to agree with that. I think it all started when the GOP Congressional leadership made the fools' choice to impeach a lame duck president in the last year and a half of his term, for reasons that still escape me. Knowing that there wasn't a snowball's chance in hell of removing him from office on a 2/3rds vote in the Senate.
It was the ultimate political show trial
It hardened the party lines and made bi-partisanship almost impossible. It became more like a cultural war than a political debate.
We haven't recovered from it. The 2000 Florida fiasco might have been resolved without all of the personal rancor on both sides, absent the impechment sideshow.
