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"You don't even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic if this body determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role. Impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office."
-- Republican House Representative Lindsey Graham, 1999, during the impeachment of Bill Clinton, a Democrat
"Why am I not going to watch this hearing tomorrow? Because I think it is a threat to the presidency. I don't want to legitimize it. It's un-American. It denies the basics of due process."
--RepublicanTrumpublican Senator Lindsey Graham, 2019, during the impeachment of Donald Trump, a RepublicanTrumpublicanTrump
If I were forced to choose only one thing that I hate most about Republican politicians, from the huge list of things I hate about Republican politicians, that one thing would be this: their egregious, abject hypocrisy. (See also: Bitch McConnell.)
-- Republican House Representative Lindsey Graham, 1999, during the impeachment of Bill Clinton, a Democrat
"Why am I not going to watch this hearing tomorrow? Because I think it is a threat to the presidency. I don't want to legitimize it. It's un-American. It denies the basics of due process."
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If I were forced to choose only one thing that I hate most about Republican politicians, from the huge list of things I hate about Republican politicians, that one thing would be this: their egregious, abject hypocrisy. (See also: Bitch McConnell.)
