From dday at Daily Kos:
In December of 1998, the House of Representatives, through a bill authored by serial adulterer Henry Hyde, during a lame-duck session of Congress where Speaker and serial adulterer Newt Gingrich (who started up with a mistress while his wife was in the hospital with cancer) had to hand over his gavel to Ray LaHood, during a floor debate marred by the resignation of potential House Speaker candidate and serial adulterer Bob Livingston, voted to impeach the President of the United States for only the second time in American history. The count was 228-206 on the perjury charge, and 221-212 on obstruction of justice (two other counts failed).
That episode was fairly instrumental in getting me fed up with the national Republican party. I had been pretty happy about the GOP sweep in 1994, but by the end of 1998, I was livid with them for toying with the very serious business of impeachment. And it wasn’t because I was a devout Clinton supporter — I never voted for the man — it was because the Republicans were making a transparent power play on trumped up charges you knew they didn’t care about. Had a Republican committed the very same acts, there is no way on earth that Gingrich, Hyde, et al. would have lifted a finger in opposition.
It was pretty common knowledge a few years before that that George H. W. Bush had a long-running affair with Jennifer Fitzgerald, and that he was lying about Iran-Contra. If he had just lied about the sex, rather than the arms sales…
What I remember most was C-Span following Strom Thurman after the senate vote. It was obvious that no one was home; and I think that was why they focused on him.