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UTUSN

(70,711 posts)
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 12:20 PM Dec 2019

Sit down: A repentance redemption story by a "sanctimonious" Repuke

He lost his seat to Trey GOWDY, so two steps back before taking one step forward. And his copping to Repukes' would be impeaching/removing *YESTERDAY* if OBAMA had ever done one-millionth of what SHITLER has done is covering for his Repukes who know this totally well but don't admit it.

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https://news.yahoo.com/republican-who-wanted-to-destroy-bill-clinton-during-1998-impeachment-has-regrets-100011971.html

Republican who 'wanted to destroy' Bill Clinton during 1998 impeachment has regrets

(Bob Inglis, R-S.C.) …. Inglis visited Clinton a few years ago at the former president’s office in Harlem, he said, in what he described as a “very interesting” meeting. Inglis informed Clinton that he joined the Judiciary Committee as soon as he was elected to Congress in 1992, the same year Clinton was elected president, with the intent of impeaching him.

“I hated you so much that I wanted to impeach you,” Inglis told Clinton.

Clinton “sort of flinched,” Inglis said. “I said, ‘Yeah, I know you hadn’t done anything yet, but so much did I hate you.”

“I told him that it wasn’t good for my soul, it wasn’t good for the country, for me to have that level of animosity toward him,” Inglis said. “He didn’t say the words that you would hope to hear, which is, ‘You’re forgiven.’ But in every way he has expressed that to me. He’s been very kind to accept the apology for sure.” ….

In the years following that defeat, Inglis says he evolved as he worked through anger and sadness over the loss. He described himself as “sanctimonious” during his stint in Congress in the ’90s, but softened and became more empathetic to people who didn’t share his political views.

When he decided to run for the House again in 2004, his son challenged him to do better on environmental policy. That led Inglis, once he began his second stint in Congress, to join the Science and Technology Committee, where he studied the research on climate change and became convinced that he had been wrong to reject the issue as partisan.

“I used to pooh-pooh climate change. In my first term in the Congress, six years, I said: ‘A bunch of nonsense. Al Gore’s imagination,’” Inglis told PBS in 2012. ….

As to whether Trump should be impeached, Inglis said that Republicans should try to think about what they would do if the president were a Democrat.

“What would we do if Barack Obama had done this?” Inglis said, referring to Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden. “I think the answer is pretty clear. We would have impeached him and removed him from office very quickly. I just want fellow Republicans to think about that.”

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Sit down: A repentance redemption story by a "sanctimonious" Repuke (Original Post) UTUSN Dec 2019 OP
"I just want fellow Republicans to think" gratuitous Dec 2019 #1
I guess he's got Al GORE penciled in for an appointment... UTUSN Dec 2019 #2
When the mind his filled with hatred and delusions vlyons Dec 2019 #3
It's wasted breath trying to appeal to the better nature of today's crop of republicans. CrispyQ Dec 2019 #4
I remember him vividly. He was a slimy prick then but now PCIntern Dec 2019 #5
I'm with you. UTUSN Dec 2019 #6
Yeah.. czarjak Dec 2019 #7
I love the way he reads what he wants into Bill's reaction... JHB Dec 2019 #8
Thanks for posting Sherman A1 Dec 2019 #9
Well, you're welcome! --------- (insert "bow" here!1) UTUSN Dec 2019 #10

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. "I just want fellow Republicans to think"
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 12:25 PM
Dec 2019

How's that workin' out for ya, Bob?

I don't mean to demean his journey, but god damn! How many years (27 and counting) do you have to watch Republicans descend deeper and deeper into their hyper-partisan madness before you realize you're pumping a dry well?

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
3. When the mind his filled with hatred and delusions
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 12:38 PM
Dec 2019

people and things appear to us the way that we label them.

CrispyQ

(36,478 posts)
4. It's wasted breath trying to appeal to the better nature of today's crop of republicans.
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 12:42 PM
Dec 2019

They are vile, power-hungry, & inhumane. They are this close to one-party rule. There is nothing they won't do. Not a goddamned thing is too low for this mob. And the base will eat it up. There is nothing the base loves more than owning the libs. They love it even more than an economy that works for everyone.

PCIntern

(25,556 posts)
5. I remember him vividly. He was a slimy prick then but now
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 12:52 PM
Dec 2019

he’s STILL a slimy prick.

These guys were so venemous and for WHAT AND WHY?

Fuckers...no quarter from me. Not a bit.

JHB

(37,161 posts)
8. I love the way he reads what he wants into Bill's reaction...
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 01:43 PM
Dec 2019
“He didn’t say the words that you would hope to hear, which is, ‘You’re forgiven.’ But in every way he has expressed that to me. He’s been very kind to accept the apology for sure.


All Clinton had to do was treat him normally, noddingly accept Inglis' acknowledgement about how awful he was, and it's "forgiven".

Not, "Well, he was polite and cordial to me, didn't openly show any bitterness or animosity, and didn't tell me 'Good to know that you finally got your foaming head out of your flaming ass' or anything like that, so I'll count that as going well and putting it all behind us."

Nope, he's been "forgiven."

Did anyone take the time out of their day to listen to the full interview? Was there any sign he's reflected on why he was so damn angry about Clinton and sure he was right? Not "bad for the soul and bad for the country," but why he believed what he did in the first place. Y'know, like "well, I realized that I'd been steeped in the sort of horseshit conservatives tell themselves..."?
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