{"id":12224,"date":"2016-01-05T04:38:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T04:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12224"},"modified":"2016-01-05T04:38:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T04:38:24","slug":"yes-impeachment-was-about-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12224","title":{"rendered":"Yes, impeachment was about sex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bumpers.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12226\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12226\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bumpers-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"bumpers\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bumpers-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bumpers-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bumpers-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bumpers.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that Donald Trump has dredged up the Bill Clinton impeachment travesty, it&#8217;s good to take a brief moment to remember someone who arguably had the best sound bite of all regarding that tawdry political episode.<\/p>\n<p>Dale Bumpers was a former governor and U.S. senator from Arkansas, President Clinton&#8217;s home state. Bumpers died this week at the age of 90.<\/p>\n<p>He once described himself as the &#8220;best lawyer in a one-lawyer town.&#8221; His self-deprecating wit would be welcome today in an era when too many politicians take themselves as seriously &#8212; if not more so &#8212; than their public service calling.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it was Bumpers who offered up a fascinating quote regarding the president&#8217;s impeachment. You&#8217;ll remember that special counsel Kenneth Starr started looking at a real estate deal involving President and Mrs. Clinton. He expanded his probe to include a wide range of issues.<\/p>\n<p>Lo and behold, he discovered that the president had improper relationship with a White House intern. A federal grand jury questioned Clinton about it; the president was less than truthful. Thus, came the ostensible grounds for impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>Bumpers, though, told the truth about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When they say this impeachment isn&#8217;t about sex,&#8221; Bumpers said, &#8220;it&#8217;s about sex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was right.<\/p>\n<p>The impeachment itself turned out to be a political travesty of the first order.<\/p>\n<p>The House did its job by impeaching the president. The Senate &#8212; which included Bumpers &#8212; did <em>its<\/em> job as well by acquitting him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Donald Trump has dredged up the Bill Clinton impeachment travesty, it&#8217;s good to take a brief moment to remember someone who arguably had the best sound bite of all regarding that tawdry political episode. Dale Bumpers was a former governor and U.S. senator from Arkansas, President Clinton&#8217;s home state. Bumpers died this week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12224\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yes, impeachment was about sex<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,14],"tags":[631,1035,5838,2659,5256],"class_list":["post-12224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-bill-clinton","tag-clinton-impeachment","tag-dale-bumpers","tag-kenneth-starr","tag-whitewater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12227,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224\/revisions\/12227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}