For Sanford, Karma is an Argentinian

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Flashback: Sanford Voted To Impeach Bill Clinton

By Eric Kleefeld

TPM reader JP reminds us that Mark Sanford, who was a Congressman back in 1998, voted for three of the four articles of impeachment against Bill Clinton.

You can check out the roll call votes, here, here, here and here.

Think Progress has rounded up some of Sanford's comments at the time, both about Clinton and the sex scandal that derailed the leadership ambitions of Rep. Bob Livingston (R-LA).

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1. Sanford's wife: He's earned a second chance

Sanford's wife: He's earned a second chance

Wonder what he did to earn a second chance after disappearing for six days, including Father's Day?

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2. Allegdly she kicked him out and told him not to call

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3. Oooh,

fishy!

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4. Does anyone remember this from way back on 6/22/09?

sarah553807 (182 posts) Mon Jun-22-09 06:45 PM
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"Govenor Sanford Predicts Stimulus Will Result In ‘A Thing Called Slavery’"

Speaking to the Lexington County GOP last week, Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) lamented his defeat in his quest to reject American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds for schools, the unemployed, and for job creation and retention. On June 4, the South Carolina Supreme Court ordered Sanford to accept the $700 million in stimulus funds he had opposed.

To defend his grandstanding, Sanford has previously lashed out at his critics, saying it would be tantamount to “fiscal child abuse” to accept the federal money. He has also compared President Obama to Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, because of his fiscal policies. But now Sanford is taking his hyperbolic rhetoric to another level, claiming that the stimulus will result in “a thing called slavery”:

SANFORD: A guy from the northeast did a study on generational accounting. Generational accounting says what is the imputed tax for a young person born in America today? And remarkably, that number is 82, which at all ain’t that far from a thing called slavery. If you’re giving away 82% of every dollar you earn every day and every week and every month, A, it’s not a good deal, B, it collapses the capitalistic system because nobody has any initiative to work at that point, and C, it really isn’t that far from slavery. And what the Republic was originally set up was on the notion that was just talked about a moment ago, which is this larger notion of freedom. And economic freedom is a part of the larger notion of freedom.

"UPDATE:Gov. Sanford has gone missing. No one knows where he is, nor has anyone seen him in the last four days. Sanford spokesman Joel Sawyer told the AP that Sanford was taking time to "recharge" after his failed fight against federal stimulus money."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8489248

And, the rest is history. From reading jenny sanford's statement in the paper today..I'd say she wants give him another chance for those boys' sake.

http://www.thesunnews.com/news/breaking_news/story/952470.html