Posted on 11/20/2015 8:23:47 PM PST by granite
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told Newsmax TV on Friday that if President Barack Obama implemented a plan to require background checks on some gun sales by executive order and without congressional approval, the House should consider impeachment proceedings.
"The very fact that you might bring it before the Judiciary Committee and investigate it and determine whether it's an impeachable offense is a very healthy thing to do," DeLay, the Texas Republican who served in the position from 2003 to 2005, told "Newsmax Prime" in an interview.
Earlier this month, The Washington Post reported that Obama was considering circumventing Congress and imposing an executive order requiring high-volume gun dealers to perform background checks on their buyers.
Obama was weighing the move after the Oct. 1 shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore.
Nine people were killed and nine others were injured in the attack by Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26, who asked people to state their religion after bursting into a classroom shortly after 10:30 a.m.
If a student said that they were a Christian, Harper-Mercer shot them. He later killed himself in a gun battle with police.
DeLay, 68, who also served as Majority Whip, says Congress needs to stand strong against Obama on any such unilateral action.
"The House needs to use its power of hearings to start letting the American people know that this is a lawless president, we have a lawless Supreme Court -- and the judiciary needs to step up and show the American people what this president is doing, which will support any other efforts to defund the president."
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They can consider all they want ... ain’t gona’ happen. Not a pair in Congress.
Obama’s actions over the last year prove the he is invincible because of his skin color. No one in congress will dare talk of removing him from office, no matter what he does during his last destructive year in office.
I realize this is a month old, but I did not find it posted and in light of recent events, it may be worth mentioning.
Congress is way too cowardly to even mention the “I” word and all only because of the color of the guys skin.
Proof of that is the BLM movement that he finally stirred up into an Army, just to show us we dare not try anything against their holy Blackboy.
Tom DeLay should have a place in a Trump administration. Just, if for no other reason than to rub the lefts nose in their own S*it.
Is Delay a lawyer? Could he be an Attorney General? Director of the FBI?
thanks for the fix........
If anything, they will appoint a special investigator who will harrumph loudly for months, until Obama leaves, then they will drop the matter.
“Just as powerful, just as well-funded.”
Soros.
Uh, Tom, Barky said last week that he wasn’t interested in defending this country, you should have pinched his ass right then.
Does he not understand we now appear to have Boehner Part Deux?
He’s already telegraphed he will not defund the Syrian immigrant mess.
So there you have it, a trifecta of liars, clowns, buffoons, feckless wonders, and simpletons whose only goal is their continuation in power at the expense of everyone else while the country and the world goes to hell. Don't worry, the rich shall get richer and the the corrupt will continue the debasement of our currency and society.
Provers 17:12: Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly. The bear is gone and we continue to deal with these charlatans and buffoons. Heaven help us.
Obama has free rein.
How about a "bitch-slapping" offense, where somone like LTC Allen West bitch-slaps the Muslim-In-Chief on live TeeVee, and OMuslim craps his Big Girl panties?
You are right. Those pissed off can confront their own congresscritters. No tyrant should die a natural death.
He ought to go to prison and not receive any post-presidential benefits.
He deserves a cell in hell.
“Obama’s actions over the last year prove the he is invincible because of his skin color. No one in congress will dare talk of removing him from office, no matter what he does during his last destructive year in office.”
Exactly. He is using his Black Privilege to the max.
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