{"id":14375,"date":"2016-05-03T21:59:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T21:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14375"},"modified":"2016-05-03T21:59:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T21:59:26","slug":"glass-house-suffers-a-lot-of-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14375","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Glass house&#8217; suffers a lot of damage"},"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\/05\/t1larg.bill-clinton-explains.t1larg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14378\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/t1larg.bill-clinton-explains.t1larg-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Former US President Bill Clinton speaks during the 2011 Fiscal Summit by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC, May 25, 2011. AFP PHOTO \/ Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB\/AFP\/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/t1larg.bill-clinton-explains.t1larg-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/t1larg.bill-clinton-explains.t1larg.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An item showed up on my Facebook feed that I must share here.<\/p>\n<p>It points out that three men who were involved with the impeachment of President Clinton have been themselves caught up in sex scandals.<\/p>\n<p>All three were &#8212; or presumed to be &#8212; speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans Newt Gingrich, Bob Livingston and Dennis Hastert? Stand up and take a bow.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton got impeached because he lied to a federal grand jury about a dalliance he was having with a White House intern. Members of the House were so incensed that they just had to impeach the president for &#8220;breaking the law.&#8221; The impeachment in reality, though, also was about sex.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate saw through it during the trial and acquitted the president of any &#8220;high crimes and misdemeanors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then the nation learned:<\/p>\n<p>Speaker <strong>Newt Gingrich<\/strong> was fooling around with a congressional aide while he was married to another woman. He was doing this while excoriating the president for his own bad behavior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob Livingston<\/strong>, who was supposed to become speaker after Gingrich quit, himself had to bow out because he, too, was having an extramarital affair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis Hastert<\/strong>, who became speaker after Livingston admitted to his own failings, paid hush money to keep quiet his own misdeeds involving teenage boys many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that saying about those who reside in glass houses?<\/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>An item showed up on my Facebook feed that I must share here. It points out that three men who were involved with the impeachment of President Clinton have been themselves caught up in sex scandals. All three were &#8212; or presumed to be &#8212; speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives. Republicans Newt Gingrich, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14375\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Glass house&#8217; suffers a lot of damage<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[1035,1345,2183,3299,6192],"class_list":["post-14375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-clinton-impeachment","tag-dennis-hastert","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-sex-scandals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375","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=14375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14379,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375\/revisions\/14379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}