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I really wish the Republican House would impeach Obama.
That would sew this election up for Obama.
I really wish the Republican House would impeach Obama.
That would sew this election up for Obama.
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Let em.
Unfortunately, they may have already learned their lesson with that ill-fated strategy against Eric Holder.
Let em.
Unfortunately, they may have already learned their lesson with that ill-fated strategy against Eric Holder.
Impeach Obama Robocall Campaign Launched By Conservative Group
source: Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- The movement to impeach President Barack Obama has been launched, just days after he won a second term in the White House.
The Conservative Majority Fund, a conservative group known primarily for its birther conspiracy spreading, has launched a robocall campaign to gin up support for the president's impeachment.
The call, emailed to The Huffington Post by Shaun Dakin of StopPoliticalCalls.org, reads in part as follows:
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Conservative Majority Fund is on the fringe of the conservative fringe. And their outlandish drives are often done with an eye towards exploiting people's dark political fears as a way to raise money. So it's not terribly surprising that they moved this quickly to start the drumbeats for the president's impeachment.
Among the "misdemeanors" they cite are the president's proposals to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay -- an idea supported by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) -- and to give "full amnesty" to undocumented immigrants. Indeed, a pathway to citizenship has, in recent days, been endorsed by McCain and other Republicans.
The group is casting a wide net with the calls. According to Dakin, people in Washington, Colorado, New Jersey and Virginia have so far reported receiving the call.
source: Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- The movement to impeach President Barack Obama has been launched, just days after he won a second term in the White House.
The Conservative Majority Fund, a conservative group known primarily for its birther conspiracy spreading, has launched a robocall campaign to gin up support for the president's impeachment.
The call, emailed to The Huffington Post by Shaun Dakin of StopPoliticalCalls.org, reads in part as follows:
Our only recourse now is to move forward with the full impeachment of President Obama. We suspect that Obama is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and that there may be grounds for impeachment as is laid out in the constitution. Further, he may not even be a U.S. citizen because nobody, I mean no one, has seen an actual physical copy of his birth certificate. Impeachment is our only option. And Republicans are already considering Obama investigations. As the nation's most effective conservative group we are launching the official impeach Obama campaign.
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Conservative Majority Fund is on the fringe of the conservative fringe. And their outlandish drives are often done with an eye towards exploiting people's dark political fears as a way to raise money. So it's not terribly surprising that they moved this quickly to start the drumbeats for the president's impeachment.
Among the "misdemeanors" they cite are the president's proposals to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay -- an idea supported by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) -- and to give "full amnesty" to undocumented immigrants. Indeed, a pathway to citizenship has, in recent days, been endorsed by McCain and other Republicans.
The group is casting a wide net with the calls. According to Dakin, people in Washington, Colorado, New Jersey and Virginia have so far reported receiving the call.
The Case for Impeaching Obama
SOURCE
The Case for Impeaching Obama
Conservative activists across the country are more obsessed
than ever with removing the president from office.
What do they think he's done to deserve it?
than ever with removing the president from office.
What do they think he's done to deserve it?
There’s a hot new idea sweeping the conservative grassroots: impeaching the president.
Republican members of Congress home for the August recess have been pressured by their constituents on the subject at town halls across the country. Indeed, if Democrats thought that President Obama, having produced his original birth certificate and gotten himself easily reelected, might have finally put to rest the right-wing conviction of his illegitimacy, the opposite seems to have occurred: In certain conservative precincts, the determination to oust him is stronger than ever.
At a meeting of a local Republican club in Michiga/b]n[ last week, a woman asked Rep. Kerry Bentivolio, “Who is going to stop Obama from everything that he’s doing against our Constitution?”, while a man chimed in, “Articles of impeachment!” Bentivolio responded, “If I could write that bill and submit it, it would be a dream come true. I feel your pain.” But, he said, he didn’t have the evidence.
At a town hall in Texas, Rep. Blake Farenthold was confronted by a constituent with a dossier she said proved Obama’s birth certificate was fraudulent. Farenthold said it’s “a question that I get a lot: If everybody’s so unhappy with what the president’s done, why don’t you impeach him?” The congressman said there were probably enough votes in the House, but impeachment would die in the Senate.
In Muskogee, Oklahoma, the question was posed to Senator Tom Coburn, who said that while he called Obama a “personal friend,” he considered the administration to be lawless and incompetent, and “getting perilously close” to impeachability. In Conroe, Texas, Senator Ted Cruz said a query about impeachment was “a good question,” but just not realistic; he later told National Review, “That’s not a fight we have a prospect of winning.”
The impeachment activists are undeterred by the lawmakers’ reluctance, however. The website overpasses.org records impeachment “rallies” -- often a few people with posters waving at highway traffic from above -- in 17 states.
This week, the movement stands to get a shot in the arm with the release of a new book, Impeachable Offenses: The Case for Removing Barack Obama From Office. Co-author Aaron Klein, a reporter for the website WorldNetDaily, says preorders of the book by retailers and book clubs were “approaching six figures” prior to its release Tuesday, and the publisher plans to deliver copies to the offices of members of Congress shortly after they return to Washington on September 9.
WND is known for its pursuit of the birth-certificate non-issue, but Klein, a radio host whose other books include The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists, said no space is devoted to birtherism in his book. Its aim, despite the title, is not to advocate impeachment, he claims, but to dispassionately lay out the potential grounds. “I’m trying to present the case journalistically and allow the public to decide,” he said in an interview. “I personally think, yes, there is a strong case for impeachment proceedings on multiple fronts.”
Klein insists this is not a partisan endeavor -- he calls himself an independent and quotes the ACLU and the lefty antiwar group Code Pink in his book, which focuses on alleged overreaches of executive authority. “This is about individual liberty. It’s about the rule of law,” he said. “It’s about whether the separation of powers means anything or not.” While Klein wasn’t on the case when George W. Bush was in office, he says many of the Obama Administration’s alleged national-security offenses might have applied then, too.
For now, the impeachment movement is too fringe even for the likes of Cruz, the capitol's chief boat-rocker. But I was curious: What does Klein’s case for impeachment consist of? There’s a lot in the book, he told me, but he gave a few examples. The constitutional standard for impeachment is "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." Klein's claims fall under the second two categories.
Klein says its careful, investigative, nonpartisan approach distinguishes his book from the various Tea Party email forwards and impeachment petitions that offer a laundry list of conspiracy theories. His book even debunks some claims, such as the allegation that the Department of Homeland Security is buying ammunition in bulk.
To the Obama Administration, such claims are simply further proof of the wild-eyed intransigence the president faces. To Republican lawmakers who’d like to present a constructive face for the party, they’re a nuisance. But Klein’s book is only likely to bolster the conviction of the impeachment-seeking conservative grassroots. The passion for ousting Obama may be here to stay.
Republican members of Congress home for the August recess have been pressured by their constituents on the subject at town halls across the country. Indeed, if Democrats thought that President Obama, having produced his original birth certificate and gotten himself easily reelected, might have finally put to rest the right-wing conviction of his illegitimacy, the opposite seems to have occurred: In certain conservative precincts, the determination to oust him is stronger than ever.
At a meeting of a local Republican club in Michiga/b]n[ last week, a woman asked Rep. Kerry Bentivolio, “Who is going to stop Obama from everything that he’s doing against our Constitution?”, while a man chimed in, “Articles of impeachment!” Bentivolio responded, “If I could write that bill and submit it, it would be a dream come true. I feel your pain.” But, he said, he didn’t have the evidence.
At a town hall in Texas, Rep. Blake Farenthold was confronted by a constituent with a dossier she said proved Obama’s birth certificate was fraudulent. Farenthold said it’s “a question that I get a lot: If everybody’s so unhappy with what the president’s done, why don’t you impeach him?” The congressman said there were probably enough votes in the House, but impeachment would die in the Senate.
In Muskogee, Oklahoma, the question was posed to Senator Tom Coburn, who said that while he called Obama a “personal friend,” he considered the administration to be lawless and incompetent, and “getting perilously close” to impeachability. In Conroe, Texas, Senator Ted Cruz said a query about impeachment was “a good question,” but just not realistic; he later told National Review, “That’s not a fight we have a prospect of winning.”
The impeachment activists are undeterred by the lawmakers’ reluctance, however. The website overpasses.org records impeachment “rallies” -- often a few people with posters waving at highway traffic from above -- in 17 states.
This week, the movement stands to get a shot in the arm with the release of a new book, Impeachable Offenses: The Case for Removing Barack Obama From Office. Co-author Aaron Klein, a reporter for the website WorldNetDaily, says preorders of the book by retailers and book clubs were “approaching six figures” prior to its release Tuesday, and the publisher plans to deliver copies to the offices of members of Congress shortly after they return to Washington on September 9.
WND is known for its pursuit of the birth-certificate non-issue, but Klein, a radio host whose other books include The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists, said no space is devoted to birtherism in his book. Its aim, despite the title, is not to advocate impeachment, he claims, but to dispassionately lay out the potential grounds. “I’m trying to present the case journalistically and allow the public to decide,” he said in an interview. “I personally think, yes, there is a strong case for impeachment proceedings on multiple fronts.”
Klein insists this is not a partisan endeavor -- he calls himself an independent and quotes the ACLU and the lefty antiwar group Code Pink in his book, which focuses on alleged overreaches of executive authority. “This is about individual liberty. It’s about the rule of law,” he said. “It’s about whether the separation of powers means anything or not.” While Klein wasn’t on the case when George W. Bush was in office, he says many of the Obama Administration’s alleged national-security offenses might have applied then, too.
For now, the impeachment movement is too fringe even for the likes of Cruz, the capitol's chief boat-rocker. But I was curious: What does Klein’s case for impeachment consist of? There’s a lot in the book, he told me, but he gave a few examples. The constitutional standard for impeachment is "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." Klein's claims fall under the second two categories.
* Obamacare: Klein describes a number of arguments involving the health-care legislation, with the crux being that Obama committed a crime against his office by bypassing Congress in some way. "An obvious response is that the healthcare legislation was upheld by the Supreme Court," he noted. "But the book reports the White House has been hard at work changing the implementation of key sections of Obamacare without Congressional oversight."
* Immigration: Did Obama’s executive orders and interagency directives usurp Congress’s legislative authority? “President Obama has bypassed Congress, which has legislative authority for setting immigration policy in America,” Klein says. Last summer’s temporary reprieve for young undocumented immigrants, for example, “seems to be de facto amnesty without congressional approval.”
* Benghazi: In the attack last fall that killed four diplomatic workers, Klein sees a new version of the Iran-Contra scandal, claiming his original reporting has uncovered arms trafficking that wound up in the hands of al-Qaeda fighters.
* Fast and Furious: “I would think it would be very easy to argue that sending weapons deliberately with the intention of getting them in the hands of the drug cartels is a very clear violation [of the law], especially since it resulted in the murder of a U.S. border agent.”
* Surveillance: Klein claims to have uncovered much of the expansive surveillance regime that’s now coming to light; his book went to press before NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden went public.
* The Libya campaign: “There’s a chapter that questions whether the entire campaign was unconstitutional. We don’t conclude it was or wasn’t; we present both sides of the debate.”
* Bribery: “There are a lot of questions about stimulus-bill money that went to campaign donors. There’s money that went to different green companies that some of the top leaders then popped up as members of the Obama administration.”
* Immigration: Did Obama’s executive orders and interagency directives usurp Congress’s legislative authority? “President Obama has bypassed Congress, which has legislative authority for setting immigration policy in America,” Klein says. Last summer’s temporary reprieve for young undocumented immigrants, for example, “seems to be de facto amnesty without congressional approval.”
* Benghazi: In the attack last fall that killed four diplomatic workers, Klein sees a new version of the Iran-Contra scandal, claiming his original reporting has uncovered arms trafficking that wound up in the hands of al-Qaeda fighters.
* Fast and Furious: “I would think it would be very easy to argue that sending weapons deliberately with the intention of getting them in the hands of the drug cartels is a very clear violation [of the law], especially since it resulted in the murder of a U.S. border agent.”
* Surveillance: Klein claims to have uncovered much of the expansive surveillance regime that’s now coming to light; his book went to press before NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden went public.
* The Libya campaign: “There’s a chapter that questions whether the entire campaign was unconstitutional. We don’t conclude it was or wasn’t; we present both sides of the debate.”
* Bribery: “There are a lot of questions about stimulus-bill money that went to campaign donors. There’s money that went to different green companies that some of the top leaders then popped up as members of the Obama administration.”
Klein says its careful, investigative, nonpartisan approach distinguishes his book from the various Tea Party email forwards and impeachment petitions that offer a laundry list of conspiracy theories. His book even debunks some claims, such as the allegation that the Department of Homeland Security is buying ammunition in bulk.
To the Obama Administration, such claims are simply further proof of the wild-eyed intransigence the president faces. To Republican lawmakers who’d like to present a constructive face for the party, they’re a nuisance. But Klein’s book is only likely to bolster the conviction of the impeachment-seeking conservative grassroots. The passion for ousting Obama may be here to stay.
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Re: The Case for Impeaching Obama
The GOP’s ‘Mission: Impeachment’
Outrage over Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s release is just the latest chapter in
the Republican plan to impeach Pres. Obama if they win Congress this fall.
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The GOP’s ‘Mission: Impeachment’
Outrage over Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s release is just the latest chapter in
the Republican plan to impeach Pres. Obama if they win Congress this fall.
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They could win both houses and I still don't think they would do it.
The modern GOP has made a tradition to talk recklessly when they don't have to back up their words with actions. But if they actually had full control of Congress, a measure of responsibility goes with that and with responsibility comes consequences. They already impeached one Democratic President and it harmed their party. Enough of them are still there to remember how that went and would stop the crazies from pushing this.
Impeach the President who brought home a POW? Yeah, try that and see how it goes.
The modern GOP has made a tradition to talk recklessly when they don't have to back up their words with actions. But if they actually had full control of Congress, a measure of responsibility goes with that and with responsibility comes consequences. They already impeached one Democratic President and it harmed their party. Enough of them are still there to remember how that went and would stop the crazies from pushing this.
Impeach the President who brought home a POW? Yeah, try that and see how it goes.
IDK U.D. What you say is surely logical, but can THIS republican party actually control its crazies when it comes to the Black Guy ???
I haven't seen it thus far and while some say this mid-term election is supposed to be a test as to whether the establishment can reign in the crazies, I'm not so sure the evidence is there to say they're going to be successful, especially when it comes to, The Black Guy.
Not only the crazies, but seems to me much of the so-called mainstream (is McCain a part of the mainstream?) can't control the salivation when it comes to, The Black Guy.
AND, impeachment seems all about, The Black Guy.
Hell, LOL, pick an issue; they become rabid at whatever position The Black Guy takes, even if it is the same damn position they had previously taken on the same issue. (John McCain, I dare yo ass to speak right now . . . )
I haven't seen it thus far and while some say this mid-term election is supposed to be a test as to whether the establishment can reign in the crazies, I'm not so sure the evidence is there to say they're going to be successful, especially when it comes to, The Black Guy.
Not only the crazies, but seems to me much of the so-called mainstream (is McCain a part of the mainstream?) can't control the salivation when it comes to, The Black Guy.
AND, impeachment seems all about, The Black Guy.
Hell, LOL, pick an issue; they become rabid at whatever position The Black Guy takes, even if it is the same damn position they had previously taken on the same issue. (John McCain, I dare yo ass to speak right now . . . )
I was talking to one of my democrat friends who staff for State Senator West about this POW scandal. He kinda tipped me off about how the Dems in heavy Republican districts are going to push an impeachment in the senate. This is why the President is doing what he is doing right now.
This is all a political trap.
This is all a political trap.
they need to get the fuck outta here,
whoever the republican tactician is,
needs to retire, they need new blood like
ten years ago...
oh an tell them take their fuckin impeach cobbler pie
and shove it up their elephant ass!!!
whoever the republican tactician is,
needs to retire, they need new blood like
ten years ago...
oh an tell them take their fuckin impeach cobbler pie
and shove it up their elephant ass!!!
Well if you can't defeatt a Democratic president with the peoples votes, republicans try to defeat him with impeachment.
Hell why not, a republican won't become president any time soon!
you are quoting me, but didn't understand what I was saying
Because as usual you're saying nothing.
BTW is that from the same people that said Obama was going to loose to Romney?
Remember, "Deleting Obama"?
All true but one thing I've noticed about Boehner and McConnell is they let the nutty wing of the party talk big and say all kinds of crazy shit but they never do anything. They're obstructionists but not activists.
I can't believe you posted that.
What does a state senator, an important positions no doubt, know about the inner workings and machinations of the national party?
On it's face, does it even make sense what you posted?
You're not trying anymore, AAA.
A Black man Elected and Re-Elected president, is the subject of impeachment conjecture.
A Republican president Selected by the Supreme Court, who brought the country to war
that cost trillions and lost thousands of American lives -- all over some mythical WMD's was
immune to such consideration.
As I intimated above, your reasoning (as usual) is pointedly on point.
But, they keep beating those damn drums, in spite of Boehner's diversions . . .
Some on right push to impeach Obama
McClatchy Washington Bureau
By William Douglas
July 2, 2014
WASHINGTON — For many on the far political right, it’s high time to charge President Barack Obama with high crimes and misdemeanors.
The “I-word” – impeachment _ is creeping back into the political lexicon nearly 16 years after the House of Representatives impeached President Bill Clinton for lying under oath about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
From conservative media outlets to the campaign trail to book stores, chatter about impeaching Obama and members of his administration has heated up in recent weeks. It’s fueled by conservative anger over the president’s increasing use of executive actions on issues such as immigration and air pollution regulations, the exchange of Taliban detainees for the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdhal, and the familiar issue of the Affordable Care Act.
“I submit that Barack Hussein Obama’s unilateral negotiations with terrorists and the ensuing release of their key leadership without consult – mandated by law – with the U.S. Congress represents high crimes and misdemeanors, an impeachable offense,” former Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., wrote on his website in June.
South Dakota’s Republican Party passed a resolution at its June convention calling for Obama’s impeachment for violating “his oath of office in numerous ways.”
“We wanted to have a shot across the bow to the president and Congress that nobody is above the law,” said Dr. Allen Unruh, the delegate who sponsored the resolution. “Our goal is to embolden Congress.”
Unruh said he has a “thick book on impeachable offenses of the president.” So does Andrew McCarthy, who’s been making the conservative media rounds with his recently released book “Faithless Execution: Building the Case for Obama’s Impeachment,” which offers a sort of template for removing Obama from office.
The impeachment drumbeat from the right has gotten loud enough that House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, flatly stated last month that his planned lawsuit against Obama for alleged overreach of his executive authority isn’t a prelude to impeaching the president, something establishment Republicans feel would be a wasted endeavor that could hurt the party at the polls.
“I don’t see the passion for it, quite honestly. It obscures the issues we want to talk about,” said former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. “I don’t think Speaker Boehner or (Senate Minority Leader Mitch) McConnell want to dance on that pin. People remember 1998.”
Republicans were expecting a midterm election boon that year powered by their dogged pursuit of the Lewinsky scandal. Instead, the party lost five seats in the House and failed to pick up seats in the Senate. It marked the first time since 1934 that a sitting president’s party gained seats in a midterm election. The failure led then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., to relinquish his gavel.
Fast-forward to 2014, where some Democrats predict that an Obama impeachment would be bad for the country but good for the party.
“From the Republican perspective, it may be good politics in their primaries but it would also be helpful to Democrats in midterm elections to bump up Democratic turnout,” said Chris Lehane, a Democratic Party strategist who worked in the Clinton White House. “It would be the GOP ‘Thelma and Louise’ approach: Let’s get in the car and drive off the cliff.”
And that even worries some major tea party supporters, who often clash with the Republican establishment. Sal Russo, a co-founder of the Tea Party Express, calls impeachment talk an unwanted distraction.
“You have to think we learned a lesson from Clinton’s impeachment,” he said. “To do it, you have to have public support for it, and I don’t think that’s present. I don’t see it (impeachment) as an issue today.”
Though he believes Obama has committed offenses against the Constitution, conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh agrees with Russo about the lack of a public appetite for impeachment.
“Without that, it is a waste of time, if you don’t have the political will,” Limbaugh said recently. “Meaning, if the Republican Party doesn’t have the gonads, and if the American people are not desirous of it, then it’s just whistling into the wind.”
But that’s not stopping people from talking about it – or trying it. Last year, Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, reportedly gave all House members copies of the book “Impeachable Offenses: The Case For Removing Barack Obama From Office” by Aaron Klein and Brenda Elliott.
Stockman had a pro-impeachment petition on the website of his failed 2014 Senate campaign. The Internet is full of similar drives: The Americans for Legal Immigration PAC’s “Impeach Obama” Facebook page has more than 203,000 “likes.”
Someone identified only as S.M. of Greensboro, N.C., filed an impeach Obama request on the White House website’s “We the People” petition page. The petition, which says Obama illegally waged war against Libya, unconstitutionally implemented the Affordable Care Act and breaks the law by appointing “czars” without Senate approval, has 48,890 signatures.
The White House response to S.M.’s request was obvious.
“The short answer is that we won’t be calling for the president’s impeachment,” the White House said in its official response, “and given the fact that you made your appeal to the White House itself, we doubt you were holding your breath waiting for our support.”
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/07/02/232163/time-to-impeach-obama.html#storylink=cpy
Be careful, all of these stunts to excite the the so called republican base seems to be energizing the so called democratic base. Bad news for the GOP.
source: NBC News
Democrats Continue to Rake In Money After Boehner Lawsuit Threat
Democrats say that House Republicans' expected lawsuit against President Barack Obama has had one immediate effect: It has raised a lot of money for the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tells NBC News that it has raised more than $2.5 million from 118,000 online donations (including 30,000 first-time donors) over a six-day period. June 25 was the day the lawsuit against Obama became news, and the DCCC raked in $588,000 on that day after aggressive email solicitations highlighting the lawsuit.
On June 30, when Obama announced he would be taking executive action on immigration, the DCCC had its best online fundraising day of the cycle, bringing in $800,000.
“Our grassroots supporters are highly motivated by this Republican Congress and are showing that with record levels of support," said DCCC chairman Steve Israel.
Republicans dismissed the Democrats' fundraising success. “If Democrats think the president’s blatant disregard for the constitution is a reason to celebrate, they’re even more out of touch than we thought,” said National Republican Congressional Committee spokeswoman Andrea Bozek.
source: NBC News
Democrats Continue to Rake In Money After Boehner Lawsuit Threat
Democrats say that House Republicans' expected lawsuit against President Barack Obama has had one immediate effect: It has raised a lot of money for the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tells NBC News that it has raised more than $2.5 million from 118,000 online donations (including 30,000 first-time donors) over a six-day period. June 25 was the day the lawsuit against Obama became news, and the DCCC raked in $588,000 on that day after aggressive email solicitations highlighting the lawsuit.
On June 30, when Obama announced he would be taking executive action on immigration, the DCCC had its best online fundraising day of the cycle, bringing in $800,000.
“Our grassroots supporters are highly motivated by this Republican Congress and are showing that with record levels of support," said DCCC chairman Steve Israel.
Republicans dismissed the Democrats' fundraising success. “If Democrats think the president’s blatant disregard for the constitution is a reason to celebrate, they’re even more out of touch than we thought,” said National Republican Congressional Committee spokeswoman Andrea Bozek.
White House taking impeachment seriously
July 25, 2014
Senior White House advisers are taking very seriously the possibility that Republicans in
Congress will try to impeach President Obama, especially if he takes executive action
to slow deportations.
Dan Pfeiffer, a senior adviser to Obama, said Friday that the White House is taking the
prospect of impeachment in the GOP-controlled House more seriously than many others
in Washington, who see it as unlikely
Pfeiffer noted that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has a large following among Tea
Party conservatives, has called for Obama’s impeachment and a large block of the GOP’s
base favors it.
“I saw a poll today that had a huge portion of the Republican Party base saying they
supported impeaching the president. A lot of people in this town laugh that off. I would
not discount that possibility,” he told reporters Friday at a breakfast sponsored by
The Christian Science Monitor . . . nearly 60 percent of Republicans said they would
support impeachment proceedings against Obama.
[BUT] A poll by CNN/ORC International released Friday shows a majority of the U.S. public
say Obama should not be impeached.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/213329-white-house-gop-might-try-to-impeach#ixzz38atUmafY
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Will they pull the trigger ???
I believe the President is best suited to use it all to his advantage.
I wonder if they seriously think the GOP will really move toward impeachment, even if they win the Senate, or if this is just them fundraising off the GOP crazytalk.
It may be a fundraising by some elements of the GOP (the lawsuit-in-lieu-of-impeachment crowd may be about fundraising and whipping-up support of the midterm race) but I believe the tea-party-extremist wing may be more serious about giving it a go -- and it is against that latter group that I believe the President might be able to seize the high road and maybe even help progressives in the midterms.
I have no doubt there are some of the hard right wing that are dead serious about impeachment. None. But I don't see the people really in charge of the GOP letting it happen.
Riling up the base for midterms is exactly why I think the President and his people are even entertaining this like it's a serious subject.
"If you let them win, they're going to impeach me. Is that what you want?"
That's the message I'm getting and it's a good strategy. Too many in the Democratic base only seem to pay attention when there's a Presidential election going so he has to find a way to get involved without hurting Dems in vulnerable states.
Speaking of that
I think Dems like Kay Hagan and others are making huge mistakes not having the President come to their states to campaign with them. He shouldn't be in Kentucky (maybe) but NC is a purple state that he won the first time. She's going to need Black folks to turn out in Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Winston Salem, and Wilmington if she's going to win.
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Yeah, and all that is really how you know all this talk of tyranny is bullshit. Because when your main concern about deposing a tyrant is how it will affect your party's chances in the upcoming midterm elections, that's not tyranny. -Jon Stewart
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Yeah, and all that is really how you know all this talk of tyranny is bullshit. Because when your main concern about deposing a tyrant is how it will affect your party's chances in the upcoming midterm elections, that's not tyranny. -Jon Stewart
AAA gets told on again!
source: Media Matters
Conservatives Blame Democrats For Conservative Impeachment Threats
Right-wing media and Republicans are blaming Democrats and President Obama for allegedly "ginning up" the issue of impeachment for political benefit, but that Pandora's Box was opened by conservatives themselves, who have been demanding impeachment since Obama first took office.
In an interview with conspiracy website WND (which has its own "Impeachment Store"), Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) told conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi that President Obama "wants us to impeach him now" because "his senior advisors believe that is the only chance the Democratic Party has to avoid a major electoral defeat. Evidently Obama believes impeachment could motivate the Democratic Party base to come out and vote."
Stockman's proclamation that the president is "begging to be impeached" was quickly trumpeted as the top story on the Drudge Report and Fox Nation, and Stockman isn't the only one trying to pin the increase in impeachment discussion on Democrats. While refusing to answer whether impeachment is off the table for House Republicans, incoming House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) claimed "this might be the first White House in History that's trying to start the narrative of impeaching their own president."
Fox News America's Newsroom host Martha MacCallum also attempted to distance impeachment rhetoric from the right and pin it on Democrats, claiming that while "some" Republicans have called for impeachment, "The White House itself has been talking a lot about this potential impeachment, even though a lot of members of the GOP want nothing to do with it."
She continued, saying impeachment was "kind of crazy when you think about it," and dismissed Fox News contributor Sarah Palin's impeachment call, saying "it really gained no traction among Republicans. A couple talk show hosts also liked the idea, apparently, but that seemed to be pretty much as far as it went. And now, there seems to be a move to convince Americans that all Republicans are interested in that option." Her guest, Republican New Hampshire Senate candidate and former Fox News contributor Scott Brown, responded by saying that there is "no appetite" for impeachment among Americans.
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While MacCallum claimed Palin's call for impeachment "gained no traction among Republicans," in Fox News' own poll released last week, a majority of Republicans (56 percent) endorsed the idea of impeaching Obama.
Furthermore, these attempts to pivot and shift blame towards Democrats for invoking impeachment severely downplay conservatives' responsibility for the narrative.
A number of conservative media figures -- including some on Fox News -- have been floating impeachment since Obama's first few months in office. Less than fifty days after Obama's inauguration, conservative radio host Michael Savage told his audience that Obama was already "out of control" and concluded, "I think it is time to start talking about impeachment." By 2010, Dick Morris, Sean Hannity, and others had all also invented reasons for impeachment -- with Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) giving credence to Morris' claims on Fox News. Impeachment talk continued unabated after Obama's re-election, with a Fox News contributor telling his Twitter followers the night of the election, "the first order of business should be a full investigation of Benghazi -- followed by impeachment proceedings." Since then, right-wing media figures have called for impeachment over sequestration, the Boston Marathon bombings, and Obama's "dictatorship," among other things.
In this most recent round of impeachment threats, a handful of figures on Fox News have spoken out against impeachment, claiming the move would hurt Republicans in the November midterm elections. However, Palin is far from alone among Fox News employees in trying to breathe new life into the impeachment movement.
Allen West, a former Republican congressman and Fox News contributor, has repeatedly called for impeachment this year while using the issue to fundraise for his PAC.
Fox News' flagship news program Special Report with Bret Baier found the calls for impeachment from Palin and West notable enough to highlight them on July 10, calling them two examples of how "some prominent outside conservative voices" have been demanding Obama's removal from office.
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro has given at least two separate monologues in recent months calling for impeachment, while Fox News contributor Andrew Napolitano has brought the issue up repeatedly since Obama took office.
While House Speaker John Boehner has waved off impeachment talk, members of the Republican caucus have not been nearly as dismissive. Appearing this weekend on Breitbart News Saturday, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) reportedly told listeners that if President Obama enacts executive actions regarding immigration, "we need to bring impeachment hearings immediately before the House of Representatives."
source: Newsweek
Who Started the Impeach Obama Rumors?
House Speaker John Boehner says that “talk about impeachment is coming from the president’s own staff, and coming from Democrats on Capitol Hill.”
Republicans opened a Pandora’s box when they started talking about impeaching President Barack Obama.
Now they want to shut it again. But they can’t.
For the past year, conservative Republican lawmakers have hinted at the possibility of impeaching the president, a drastic action that ultraconservative members of Congress likely want to pursue and an issue that rallies the GOP’s conservative base. As it turns out, it rallies the Democratic base as well.
“Look, I understand their strategy is intended to gin up their base, but it’s having the unintended consequence of moving our base in a midterm election and also moving persuadable voters, swing voters to us in a midterm election,” Rep. Steve Israel, D-New York, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), told reporters Tuesday.
Speaking of the lawsuit the House plans against the president over an employer mandate delay in Obamacare, as well as the impeachment talk, Israel said, “I think that the Republican strategy of lawsuits, approaching impeachment, is fundamentally misfiring.”
Over the past week, fundraising emails from the DCCC have focused on the lawsuit and on impeachment, and that strategy is literally paying off. “The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history. And if they do it, impeachment may very well be the next step,” says one email to supporters from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California. “It’s time to go all in defending President Obama.”
In a 24-hour period Monday, the DCCC raised $1 million. According to Israel, the group has raised $7.6 million online and gained 74,000 new donors since House Speaker John Boehner announced his lawsuit against the president.
On Tuesday, Boehner called out the Democrats’ efforts, in what has become a raging game of “who started it?” over the impeachment question.
“Listen, this whole talk about impeachment is coming from the president’s own staff, and coming from Democrats on Capitol Hill,” Boehner told reporters. “Why? Because they’re trying to rally their people to give money and to show up in this year's election.
“We have no plans to impeach the president. We have no future plans,” Boehner continued. “Listen, it’s all a scam started by Democrats at the White House.”
It’s true that a top White House aide recently said Boehner’s lawsuit “has opened the door to impeachment,” but as Democrats were quick to point out to Boehner, Republicans have been talking about it too.
Following Boehner’s remarks, the Democratic National Committee’s press secretary, Michael Czin, sent off an email to reporters pointing out that Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, recently elected to the No. 3 post in Republican leadership, refused to take impeachment off the table during an interview on Fox News Sunday. Pelosi’s office sent off a similar email, with quotes from 11 GOP lawmakers raising the issue of impeachment.
“Despite what Speaker Boehner claims—there’s only one party that’s been beating the impeachment drum for years, and that’s the GOP,” Czin said in the DNC email.
Who Started the Impeach Obama Rumors?
House Speaker John Boehner says that “talk about impeachment is coming from the president’s own staff, and coming from Democrats on Capitol Hill.”
Republicans opened a Pandora’s box when they started talking about impeaching President Barack Obama.
Now they want to shut it again. But they can’t.
For the past year, conservative Republican lawmakers have hinted at the possibility of impeaching the president, a drastic action that ultraconservative members of Congress likely want to pursue and an issue that rallies the GOP’s conservative base. As it turns out, it rallies the Democratic base as well.
“Look, I understand their strategy is intended to gin up their base, but it’s having the unintended consequence of moving our base in a midterm election and also moving persuadable voters, swing voters to us in a midterm election,” Rep. Steve Israel, D-New York, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), told reporters Tuesday.
Speaking of the lawsuit the House plans against the president over an employer mandate delay in Obamacare, as well as the impeachment talk, Israel said, “I think that the Republican strategy of lawsuits, approaching impeachment, is fundamentally misfiring.”
Over the past week, fundraising emails from the DCCC have focused on the lawsuit and on impeachment, and that strategy is literally paying off. “The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history. And if they do it, impeachment may very well be the next step,” says one email to supporters from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California. “It’s time to go all in defending President Obama.”
In a 24-hour period Monday, the DCCC raised $1 million. According to Israel, the group has raised $7.6 million online and gained 74,000 new donors since House Speaker John Boehner announced his lawsuit against the president.
On Tuesday, Boehner called out the Democrats’ efforts, in what has become a raging game of “who started it?” over the impeachment question.
“Listen, this whole talk about impeachment is coming from the president’s own staff, and coming from Democrats on Capitol Hill,” Boehner told reporters. “Why? Because they’re trying to rally their people to give money and to show up in this year's election.
“We have no plans to impeach the president. We have no future plans,” Boehner continued. “Listen, it’s all a scam started by Democrats at the White House.”
It’s true that a top White House aide recently said Boehner’s lawsuit “has opened the door to impeachment,” but as Democrats were quick to point out to Boehner, Republicans have been talking about it too.
Following Boehner’s remarks, the Democratic National Committee’s press secretary, Michael Czin, sent off an email to reporters pointing out that Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, recently elected to the No. 3 post in Republican leadership, refused to take impeachment off the table during an interview on Fox News Sunday. Pelosi’s office sent off a similar email, with quotes from 11 GOP lawmakers raising the issue of impeachment.
“Despite what Speaker Boehner claims—there’s only one party that’s been beating the impeachment drum for years, and that’s the GOP,” Czin said in the DNC email.
How the Tea Party Started Impeachment Talk
and Democrats Co-Opted It
Talk of impeachment has been all the rage in Washington this summer.
Democrats say Republicans are shilling for it. Republicans counter that the buzz is merely a Democratic fundraising ploy.
So who really started it, and when?
Almost immediately after Obama took office, conservative commentators on the fringes began toying with the idea of impeaching the president. Slowly but surely, the talk migrated into the mainstream as Republican lawmakers began to chime in.
Back in 2010, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, told Lou Dobbs that Obama’s actions on the border came “awfully close” to violating his “oath of office” -- an impeachable offense. And about a year later, Rep. Ted Yoho, an outspoken tea party congressman from Florida, outlined six reasons the president should be impeached in a post on his campaign website. Not long after, Texas GOP Rep. Michael Burgess said explicitly that impeachment “needs to happen.”
By this spring, at least 11 Republican lawmakers– Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, Rep. Steve Stockman of Michigan and Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas, had floated the idea of impeachment, and several high-profile Republican candidates, including Iowa U.S. Senate hopeful Joni Ernst, put impeachment on the table. As June rolled around, and the weather warmed, impeachment talk heated up, too.
Here’s a brief history of how Republicans started the most recent outbreak of chatter, and how the Democrats have sought to use it to their advantage:
Reality check: Despite all the gossip, history is on Obama’s side. Only two U.S. presidents – Andrew Johnson, in 1868, and Bill Clinton, in 1998 – have been impeached. (Richard Nixon voluntarily resigned before the House could impeach him.) And not once has presidential impeachment resulted in removal from office.
ABC News' Arlette Saenz and John Parkinson contributed to this report.
Democrats say Republicans are shilling for it. Republicans counter that the buzz is merely a Democratic fundraising ploy.
So who really started it, and when?
Almost immediately after Obama took office, conservative commentators on the fringes began toying with the idea of impeaching the president. Slowly but surely, the talk migrated into the mainstream as Republican lawmakers began to chime in.
Back in 2010, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, told Lou Dobbs that Obama’s actions on the border came “awfully close” to violating his “oath of office” -- an impeachable offense. And about a year later, Rep. Ted Yoho, an outspoken tea party congressman from Florida, outlined six reasons the president should be impeached in a post on his campaign website. Not long after, Texas GOP Rep. Michael Burgess said explicitly that impeachment “needs to happen.”
By this spring, at least 11 Republican lawmakers– Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, Rep. Steve Stockman of Michigan and Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas, had floated the idea of impeachment, and several high-profile Republican candidates, including Iowa U.S. Senate hopeful Joni Ernst, put impeachment on the table. As June rolled around, and the weather warmed, impeachment talk heated up, too.
Here’s a brief history of how Republicans started the most recent outbreak of chatter, and how the Democrats have sought to use it to their advantage:
- June 4: Former Congressman Allen West, R-Fla., talks impeachment, calling Obama’s handling of the Bowe Bergdahl deal “an impeachable offense.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, I submit that Barack Hussein Obama’s unilateral negotiations with terrorists and the ensuing release of their key leadership without consult — mandated by law — with the U.S. Congress represents high crimes and misdemeanors, an impeachable offense,” West wrote in his Washington Post op-ed.
- June 4: Former Congressman Allen West, R-Fla., talks impeachment, calling Obama’s handling of the Bowe Bergdahl deal “an impeachable offense.”
- June 25: House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, quashes the impeachment question. Asked whether his lawsuit against the president could be a precursor to impeachment proceedings, Boehner insists the suit “is not about impeachment.”
- July 8: Sarah Palin raises the issue’s profile. In an incendiary op-ed published by Breitbert, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee says “it’s time to impeach” Obama.
“Enough is enough of the years of abuse from this president,” she writes. “His unsecured border crisis is the last straw that makes the president say, ‘No mas.’”
- July 8: Sarah Palin raises the issue’s profile. In an incendiary op-ed published by Breitbert, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee says “it’s time to impeach” Obama.
- July 10: When asked about her comments, Speaker Boehner brushes off Palin’s remarks, saying simply, “I disagree.”
- July 10: Palin’s running mate, 2008 Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, is also asked to weigh in. He says he “respect(s) always Sarah Palin’s views” but believes that impeachment “was not a good thing to do” to President Clinton and prefers to “devote our energies to regaining the majority in the Senate.”
- July 23: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sends the first in a veritable flood of emails warning of the threat of impeachment, and soliciting donations.
- July 24: First lady Michelle Obama reportedly predicts “more” talk about impeachment if the Democrats lose the 2014 midterms. "If we lose these midterm elections, it's going to be a whole lot harder to finish what we started, because we'll just see more of the same out in Washington -- more obstructions, more lawsuits, and talk about impeachment," Obama said, according to the Washington Examiner.
- July 25: Senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer tells reporters he “would not discount” the “possibility” of impeachment, noting that Boehner’s lawsuit against the president “has opened the door to Republicans possibly considering impeachment at some point in the future.”
- July 25: White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest reiterates Pfeiffer’s point, saying “there are some Republicans, including Republicans who are running for office, hoping that they can get into office so that they can impeach the president,” and rejects the notion that impeachment is a democratic fundraising ploy.
- July 27: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D- Calif., unprompted, raises the issue in an interview on CNN.
“The Republicans are … on a path to impeach the president while we're trying to create jobs and have stability in our country and in the world. And I'm sorry that we didn't get a chance to talk more about that,” she says.
- July 27: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D- Calif., unprompted, raises the issue in an interview on CNN.
- July 27: The DCCC circulates an email claiming that “House Republicans held a closed-door meeting to discuss impeaching President Obama,” and urging Dem supporters to “throw everything we’ve got at this.”
- July 29: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., also blasts impeachment chatter. “Isn’t it good that we’re talking about this, rather than impeachment of the president?” Reid says in reference to the VA deal.
- July 29: Boehner calls talk of impeachment “a scam started by Democrats at the White House.”
“This whole talk about impeachment is coming from the president's own staff. And coming from Democrats on Capitol Hill,” the speaker said. “Why? Because they're trying to rally their people to give money and to show up in this year's elections. We have no plans to impeach the president.”
- July 29: Boehner calls talk of impeachment “a scam started by Democrats at the White House.”
- July 29: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., echoes Boehner, saying, "the only people I've heard mention [impeachment] are the White House and the majority leader.”
Reality check: Despite all the gossip, history is on Obama’s side. Only two U.S. presidents – Andrew Johnson, in 1868, and Bill Clinton, in 1998 – have been impeached. (Richard Nixon voluntarily resigned before the House could impeach him.) And not once has presidential impeachment resulted in removal from office.
ABC News' Arlette Saenz and John Parkinson contributed to this report.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tea-...talk-democrats-opted/story?id=24762969&page=2
source: Media Matters
Allen West's Impeachment Flip-Flop
Allen West is chiding Democrats for fundraising off of the prospect of impeachment, which he assures his readers is "not happening." But in recent weeks, West has repeatedly solicited donations from subscribers to his email list to help bolster the impeachment movement, which he claimed was "gaining speed!"
In a July 30 post to his website, West, a Fox News contributor and former Republican congressman, advised readers, "As much as you'd like to, don't fall into the impeachment trap."
He explained that "evil" Democrats had "successfully made the word 'impeachment' verboten in America," adding, "In fact, they've managed to turn it into political heyday as they celebrate fundraising records based on generating fear among their base over something that's not happening."
West lamented how Democrats "have effectively outmaneuvered the fail safe measures entrusted to us by our Founding Fathers to replace the rule of law with the rule of one." Instead of impeaching the president, West posited that Republicans "must do that which the Democrats truly fear: ensure they lose control of the U.S. Senate and expand the GOP House majority."
West's warning about the dangers of impeachment stand in stark contrast to what he's been saying on the issue for months. In June, following the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, West called on the House of Representatives to "draft articles of impeachment as no one is above the law in America."
While he now claims impeachment is "not happening," fundraising emails he recently sent to his followers struck a decidedly different note. For example, on July 10, after fellow Fox News contributor Sarah Palin joined the conservative calls for impeachment, West sent out an email soliciting "emergency contribution(s)” to help his PAC distribute a survey asking people whether the House should impeach the president. According to West, Palin's support for impeachment was evidence "This movement is far from over....it's gaining speed!" He also described impeachment as a "growing movement" and a "huge grassroots movement."
On June 28, West asked for "emergency donation(s)" to his PAC, telling subscribers, "the time has come to hold [Obama] accountable." West pointed to House Speaker John Boehner's lawsuit targeting the president as the "initial steps that I believe will lead to impeachment."
In a June 19 email to subscribers with the subject line, "Breaking- Enough votes to impeach Obama?", West touted comments from Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) claiming the House "probably" had enough votes to impeach the president. Once again asking for an "emergency donation," West explained, "Now - more than ever - we need to get the Guardian Fund's impeachment survey into the hands of every conservative in America."
Conservatives, who have spent years calling for impeachment, have recently tried to blame Democrats for supposedly "ginning up" the issue.
Allen West's Impeachment Flip-Flop
Allen West is chiding Democrats for fundraising off of the prospect of impeachment, which he assures his readers is "not happening." But in recent weeks, West has repeatedly solicited donations from subscribers to his email list to help bolster the impeachment movement, which he claimed was "gaining speed!"
In a July 30 post to his website, West, a Fox News contributor and former Republican congressman, advised readers, "As much as you'd like to, don't fall into the impeachment trap."
He explained that "evil" Democrats had "successfully made the word 'impeachment' verboten in America," adding, "In fact, they've managed to turn it into political heyday as they celebrate fundraising records based on generating fear among their base over something that's not happening."
West lamented how Democrats "have effectively outmaneuvered the fail safe measures entrusted to us by our Founding Fathers to replace the rule of law with the rule of one." Instead of impeaching the president, West posited that Republicans "must do that which the Democrats truly fear: ensure they lose control of the U.S. Senate and expand the GOP House majority."
West's warning about the dangers of impeachment stand in stark contrast to what he's been saying on the issue for months. In June, following the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, West called on the House of Representatives to "draft articles of impeachment as no one is above the law in America."
While he now claims impeachment is "not happening," fundraising emails he recently sent to his followers struck a decidedly different note. For example, on July 10, after fellow Fox News contributor Sarah Palin joined the conservative calls for impeachment, West sent out an email soliciting "emergency contribution(s)” to help his PAC distribute a survey asking people whether the House should impeach the president. According to West, Palin's support for impeachment was evidence "This movement is far from over....it's gaining speed!" He also described impeachment as a "growing movement" and a "huge grassroots movement."
On June 28, West asked for "emergency donation(s)" to his PAC, telling subscribers, "the time has come to hold [Obama] accountable." West pointed to House Speaker John Boehner's lawsuit targeting the president as the "initial steps that I believe will lead to impeachment."
In a June 19 email to subscribers with the subject line, "Breaking- Enough votes to impeach Obama?", West touted comments from Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) claiming the House "probably" had enough votes to impeach the president. Once again asking for an "emergency donation," West explained, "Now - more than ever - we need to get the Guardian Fund's impeachment survey into the hands of every conservative in America."
Conservatives, who have spent years calling for impeachment, have recently tried to blame Democrats for supposedly "ginning up" the issue.
Congresswoman who co-sponsored Bush impeachment bill said Democrats never tried to im
I really wonder why no psychologist has released a paper on BGOL-style denialism.
Congresswoman who co-sponsored Bush impeachment bill said Democrats never tried to impeach Bush
'She misspoke,' said a spokesman for Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
By Chris Moody, Yahoo News
1 hour ago
During a floor speech on Wednesday night, Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee voiced her opposition to the House Republican lawsuit against President Barack Obama and said that Democrats had never moved to impeach former President George W. Bush when he was in office.
“A historical fact that President Bush pushed this nation into a war that had little to do with apprehending terrorists,” Jackson Lee said. “We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush, because as an executive, he had his authority. President Obama has the authority.”
It's an odd thing for Jackson Lee to say, because it was just six years ago that she helped lead a movement to impeach Bush by co-sponsoring a bill accusing him of high crimes and misdemeanors.
“She misspoke,” Jackson Lee’s spokesman Mike McQuerry told Yahoo News on Thursday morning. He declined to elaborate on what she meant to say.
Some members of the GOP conference have stoked talk of impeachment, but House Speaker John Boehner has said there are no plans to pursue it. However, last night the House approved a lawsuit against the president, voting 225-201 to force him to carry out provisions in the 2010 health care law that his administration has postponed. Democrats say Republicans are using it merely as an election-year political ploy, because they know an impeachment effort would not succeed.
Despite Democratic protests on the House floor, however, party lawmakers seem downright gleeful about the exercise after fundraising successfully from the lawsuit and talk of impeachment.
https://news.yahoo.com/congresswoma...ts-never-tried-to-impeach-bush-142528358.html
I really wonder why no psychologist has released a paper on BGOL-style denialism.
Congresswoman who co-sponsored Bush impeachment bill said Democrats never tried to impeach Bush
'She misspoke,' said a spokesman for Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
By Chris Moody, Yahoo News
1 hour ago
During a floor speech on Wednesday night, Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee voiced her opposition to the House Republican lawsuit against President Barack Obama and said that Democrats had never moved to impeach former President George W. Bush when he was in office.
“A historical fact that President Bush pushed this nation into a war that had little to do with apprehending terrorists,” Jackson Lee said. “We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush, because as an executive, he had his authority. President Obama has the authority.”
It's an odd thing for Jackson Lee to say, because it was just six years ago that she helped lead a movement to impeach Bush by co-sponsoring a bill accusing him of high crimes and misdemeanors.
“She misspoke,” Jackson Lee’s spokesman Mike McQuerry told Yahoo News on Thursday morning. He declined to elaborate on what she meant to say.
Some members of the GOP conference have stoked talk of impeachment, but House Speaker John Boehner has said there are no plans to pursue it. However, last night the House approved a lawsuit against the president, voting 225-201 to force him to carry out provisions in the 2010 health care law that his administration has postponed. Democrats say Republicans are using it merely as an election-year political ploy, because they know an impeachment effort would not succeed.
Despite Democratic protests on the House floor, however, party lawmakers seem downright gleeful about the exercise after fundraising successfully from the lawsuit and talk of impeachment.
https://news.yahoo.com/congresswoma...ts-never-tried-to-impeach-bush-142528358.html