Posted on 12/07/2015 8:19:01 AM PST by huckfillary
I just returned from the grocery store. While waiting in line, as usual, I checked out the tabloid headlines. One particular headline, from The Globe I believe, caught my immediate attention. It read: IMPEACH OBAMA: He’s a disgrace. No thinking person could be opposed to such a thing. It would make for the ultimate national Christmas stocking-stuffer. On the way home, however, I asked myself, “Would impeaching Obama really change anything, I mean, fundamentally and systemically? And the answer was unequivocally, “No.†Even if you impeached Obama, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and Harry Reid, it wouldn’t make a difference. And even if you impeached every single member of Congress, the Supreme Court, and every Cabinet officer on top of that, nothing would change. At least nothing discernable. You see, it’s the System that really needs impeached, the whole, corrupt, rotten Crony-Socialist State. Elections only decide who gets to pick your pocket and hold the boot over your neck. Changing the warden and the prison guards doesn’t change the prison. The prison may occasionally get a new coat of paint, but that’s about it. It remains fundamentally unchanged.
The next election will be no different. There will be a new president, new congressmen and congresswomen, new Cabinet officers, and armies of new toadies and ass-kissers to fill the ranks of the countless bureaus and agencies. But the elephant in the room, the ever-metasticizing Welfare-Warfare State will not change.
So, while impeaching the top level of the American political class might feel great to a lot of people and entitle us to a coast-to-coast high-five, it would be a very short-lived moment of national euphoria. We would soon wake up to the realization that the plantation overseers were new, but not improved. And alas, the plantation would still be a plantation.
When you come right down to it, it’s the American people that deserve to be impeached. All of this convoluted mess in which we find ourselves happened on our watch. I think the vast majority of the American people are politically clueless. Or at least challenged. Political ignorance is, after all, a politician’s greatest asset. And they have leveraged our ignorance beyond their wildest dreams. The average American can be trusted with a deadly weapon but not the right to vote. Our current predicament is neither an economic crisis nor a foreign policy crisis. It is a moral crisis, a crisis of virtue. Once a proud, self-reliant, thrifty, hard-working citizenry, we have become a nation of dependents and parasites. We’ve become addicted to our neighbors’ largesse. And when our neighbors run out of money, we outsource the costs to our children and grandchildren, even the unborn. Our legacy is making them lifelong debt slaves. We may have the distinction of being the first generation of Americans to leave the place worse than we found it.
I can remember my parents saving for new livingroom furniture or their first color TV. That’s just what people did. If you told someone today you were saving for something, they would look at you as though you had three heads. Being on “relief†was something you never dared admit. It was embarrassing; it called your work ethic and character into question. And if you were on public assistance, it was a short-term fix, never meant to be a way of life. When I graduated high school, three students out of a class 700 received awards for outstanding scholarship. At my son’s high school graduation, about 207 out of 209 students received an award. Everyone gets a trophy, every Precious Snowflake.
Work today has sort of become an option; it’s just so yesterday. And why not? Why work to support your neighbor when you can stay home and have your neighbor support you? It’s called the Socialist Paradox. Success and self-improvement are values of a by-gone era; some call it “acting white.†Saving for college is likewise for suckers. Why save when it’s so much more fun to spend? Our college-aged generation have completely embraced the New Ethic. Witness the student uprisings at Mizzou and elsewhere. Among their beliefs—a student with a degree in Transgender Climate Studies should reap the same financial rewards as a student with a degree in aeronautical engineering. And why not? As Karl Marx taught them, if it takes you four years to earn a degree in 12th-Century Aztec Poetry, it is worth just as much as a four-year degree in physics. He called it the Labor Theory of Value. But what do you expect from the “everyone gets a trophy†generation? What do you expect from a generation where victimhoom is worn as a badge of honor? What do you expect from a generation that thinks “community organizing†is a real job. We live in an age historians will call The Triumph of the Incompetent.
Oh sure, Obama and the rest of them deserve to be impeached, probably thrown in jail. They are as corrupt and criminal a bunch as mankind has ever known. But the American people are accessories to their crimes. Totally complicit. Unindicted co-conspirators. They have aided and abetted the crimes of the ruling class every step of the way. They have sold their birthright to feed at the public trough. As in–all you can eat. So if you’re looking to fix blame for our nation’s current mess, look no further than the mirror. And if you want real, fundamental, no smoke-and-mirrors reform, don’t bother voting in the next election. The Incompetent will win again and nothing will change. It’s as predictable as the tides.
Ultimate Impeachment Insurance: Joe Biden.
The act of impeachment without conviction and removal from office means nothing. Slick was impeached, big deal.
Crazy old uncle Joe would do no where near the damage that zer0 has caused.
Joe Biden is an American
The journey of a thousand miles.................
It would be months before the very first testimony was even given and well after Obama is out of office when democrats and a fair number of republicans vote against conviction.
Better to elect a president who will actively pursue punishment for the crimes of the various agencies which will likely lead to Obama.
What difference does that make? John Kerry is also an American and look at the damage he has caused (imminently catastrophic Iran deal) as SOS!
It would be better to have a crazy sex pervert in the White House than have a traitor in the White House, albeit that during 1993-2000 we had both.
It was his time on Vietnam that changed him, but you knew that!
It is a required step to regain some of the nation’s honor lost by the wholesale corruption of the Constitutional law.
If we give up, who is better for it?
He was a pinko long before he was in Vietnam (and Cambodia as he claimed)
I know obuma will be having a hay day in his last year of office, but it's not really the top of the chain, it's the links that cause the chain...the voters....we need to remove the people the House and Senate and bring in new blood, new ideas, and yes I'm sure there are going to be some that are going to voted out this election, but until we get rid of the ‘old guard’ in both the House and Senate, it's really not going to do very much good...
We almost had a chance in Kentucky with McConnell, he must really be bringing home the bacon for that State, they just keep voting him right back in, same in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, California, and what do you get for your votes?
Here in Utah, I don't see much...we have Common Core, Hatch took it upon himself to declare Utah was for Bush, well that didn't work...people here in Utah hate Bush...well they don't like Hatch either, so he isn't running again, thank goodness...
Mia Love went to the House, thought she was going to do really good, but the ‘angel painted ceiling’ in the Capitol building, the sounds of the Halls of Congress, it got to her, so she's out next time around, and she's in there working her little tail off for the lobbyists...she does not get my vote again...
So when thinking about all these things we need to change, we need to change the ‘old guard’ first then work up...if you leave the ‘old guard’ in there, and change the top, what good is that doing????
For emphasis!
“Oh sure, Obama and the rest of them deserve to be impeached, probably thrown in jail.
They are as corrupt and criminal a bunch as mankind has ever known. But the American people are accessories to their crimes. Totally complicit.
Unindicted co-conspirators. They have aided and abetted the crimes of the ruling class every step of the way. They have sold their birthright to feed at the public trough. As in–all you can eat.
So if youâ„¢re looking to fix blame for our nation’s current mess, look no further than the mirror. And if you want real, fundamental, no smoke-and-mirrors reform, don’t bother voting in the next election.
The Incompetent will win again and nothing will change. Its as predictable as the tides.”
FOR-SHAME!
Yes, Biden is an American. He is dumber than a box of rocks and would not benefit America in the slightest. That said, he wouldn’t intentionally cause the immediate destruction of America out of malice and due to holding foreign allegiances.
He is just... Biden.
Great article. We must charge the next President to reduce the size of the regime. Day 1- ask for everyone’s resignation. And don’t appoint replacements. Then close offices and don’t pay anybody when Congress is off on another vacation.
Actually it would be a big deal because while preparing the articles of impeachment, the House could subpoena all sorts of things which would not be to Hillary’s advantage. Obama would survive the Senate trial, if it happens, but Hillary would be roadkill.
The key thing is the media could not stay away. It would also suck the oxygen out of a lot of extraneous BS.
What’s not to like about that? Never let your true target know you’re coming for them.
I do not now remember which poster said it but he said, “Washington needs to be burned to the ground!”
I added, “While Congress is in session and all bureaucrats are sitting in their offices!” ;-)
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