Hyde to Hastert to Kavanaugh, a simple thread connecting decades of Republican hypocrisy

Supreme Court nominee and likely drinking-problem sufferer Brett Kavanaugh made most of his Republican bones under Ken Starr. Starr ran the famously insane Clinton-Whitewater investigation that mostly just led to exposing Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, while creating conspiracy theories for the right wing in our country to marinate in for the next 30 years. President Bill Clinton was something of a dirtbag, but the men that went after him were real scum-of-the-earth types. Journalist David Greenberg put together a Twitter thread reminding everyone how terrible the Republican cabal in this country really is.  

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Twenty years ago this month the Starr Report came out. Let’s review what happened to some of Bill Clinton’s antagonists. (1/7)

— David Greenberg (@republicofspin) September 26, 2018

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One of the House leaders, Henry Hyde, was revealed to have had an extramarital affair of his own. He called it a “youthful indiscretion” because he was, at the time, a mere 41 years old. (2/7)

— David Greenberg (@republicofspin) September 26, 2018