Reply #2: The thing that snagged President Clinton [View All]

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was the "oath." The canoodling wasn't the Constitutionally wrong part---Lord knows, there were plenty of precedents---but it was the lying/prevaricating under oath that snapped the trap shut on him. For nothing, not even the 9/11 Commission (where Bush and Cheney had to appear TOGETHER and off the un-sworn---already suspicious) has the fake cowboy had to swear to tell the truth. That is the Rubicon that has to be crossed for any censure/impeachment efforts to proceed.

If he won't be sworn to truth-telling, he has only to resort to the same-ole-same-ole lying of a politician...the same way he got elected and the way he "governs."

Otherwise, I agree with the original post...the circumstances and stakes are much different of course, horribly so now, but much of the template is already there....