Thread by @almostjingo

#ThrowbackThursday @RepJerryNadler
"impeachment of a President was reserved by the Framers of the Constitution for only the most severe threats against the nation and our system of government..It should not be used for mere partisan purposes to overturn the will of the people"

@RepJerryNadler @SpeakerPelosi @HouseDemocrats "It would be a regrettable legacy of this matter if Congress gets into the business of issuing sweeping statements on the conduct of future Presidents" @RepJerryNadler 1998

@RepJerryNadler @SpeakerPelosi @HouseDemocrats "Impeachment Inquiries are serious. In our partisan zeal, we have diverted attention from other important issues.. which could not be considered because we were focused on the inquiry..this has unnecessarily trampled on the rights of innocent citizens" @BobbyScott 1998

@RepJerryNadler @SpeakerPelosi @HouseDemocrats @BobbyScott "impeachment of a @POTUS is a grave step for the nation, it is to be predicated only upon conduct seriously incompatible with either the constitutional form and principles of our gov. or the proper performance of constitutional duties of the Presidential office.'' @RepZoeLofgren

@RepJerryNadler @SpeakerPelosi @HouseDemocrats @BobbyScott @POTUS @RepZoeLofgren "Founders designed this safety valve for abuses so grave that, in Franklin's words, they suggested assassination as a remedy. #Impeachment was the Founders' civilized substitute." @RepZoeLofgren 1998

@RepJerryNadler @SpeakerPelosi @HouseDemocrats @BobbyScott @POTUS @RepZoeLofgren "It is clear that the Founders did not want the @POTUS to
serve at the pleasure of the Congress. That is why they
rejected a proposal that the President be impeached for
`maladministration' " @RepZoeLofgren

@RepJerryNadler @SpeakerPelosi @HouseDemocrats @BobbyScott @POTUS @RepZoeLofgren "How ironic that the public was barred from knowing what
Committee members said about the Constitution and due process while we deluged that same public with lurid materials in the name of openness and informing the public's discretion." @RepZoeLofgren 1998

@RepJerryNadler @SpeakerPelosi @HouseDemocrats @BobbyScott @POTUS @RepZoeLofgren "this Congress shall likely become a humiliating object lesson for unborn historians to describe how this legislative assembly, riven by partisan differences, compromised rather than preserved the Republic." @RepZoeLofgren 1998

@RepJerryNadler @SpeakerPelosi @HouseDemocrats @BobbyScott @POTUS @RepZoeLofgren "it is inevitable that impeachment will become the routine tool of the losing party. They will seek to win in the House what they cannot gain in the polling booth."

You are a fortune teller @RepZoeLofgren and a massive hypocrite. #ImpeachmentHoax

@RepJerryNadler @SpeakerPelosi @HouseDemocrats @BobbyScott @POTUS @RepZoeLofgren "Our Country will lose much that has made it strong in that process. I am deeply troubled and saddened that the Republican party would inflict such injury to our country to achieve this short term political goal."

@RepJerryNadler @SpeakerPelosi @HouseDemocrats @BobbyScott @POTUS @RepZoeLofgren "George Mason, a Framer of the Constitution, stated that
`high crimes and misdemeanors' refers to Presidential actions that are `great and dangerous offenses' or attempts to subvert the Constitution... This is the proper standard for impeachment." @JacksonLeeTX18

@RepJerryNadler @SpeakerPelosi @HouseDemocrats @BobbyScott @POTUS @RepZoeLofgren @JacksonLeeTX18 "I did not violate the Constitution.. I voted no on each and every vague and general article of impeachment presented by this committee. Let history record that I fought against the impeachment of the @POTUS in every way that I know how" @RepMaxineWaters 1998

@RepJerryNadler @SpeakerPelosi @HouseDemocrats @BobbyScott @POTUS @RepZoeLofgren @JacksonLeeTX18 @RepMaxineWaters Anyway here are the articles of Impeachment against @BillClinton and the amazing hypocritical dissents from @HouseDemocrats that ARE STILL THERE #termlimits please.
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