Our Moral Betters, In Context
By If I understand the history correctly, in the late 1990s, the President was impeached for lying about a sexual affair by a House of Representatives led by a man who was also then hiding a sexual affair, who was supposed to be replaced by another Congressman who stepped down when forced to reveal that he too was having a sexual affair, which led to the election of a new Speaker of the House who now has been indicted for lying about payments covering up his sexual contact with a boy.
And let us not forget the youthful indiscretions of Henry Hyde, Dan Burton, and Helen Chenoweth.
My opinion has always been that being a good spouse and being a good public official have pretty much nothing to do with one another. But if you’re going to make lies about sexual infidelity an impeachable offense…