Posted on 06/08/2014 10:18:03 AM PDT by Resettozero
On Thursday, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) stated that he was "not, at this point, calling for impeachment." He continued, "The president has two years left in his term. We hope they pass quickly."
That hope is empty. They will pass slowly. And even should Republicans win back the Senate in 2014, President Obama promises heavy executive action--action that will surely violate the Constitutional delegation of powers.
Which is why, says Breitbart senior editor-at-large Ben Shapiro, impeachment isn't the answer: prosecution is. And in his new book, The People vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against The Obama Administration, Shapiro lays out the charges.
"A criminal administration can do virtually anything, without any sort of real consequences," Shapiro writes. "Impeachment is rarely used - in the entire history of the United States, there have been just 19 House impeachments, and just eight of those ended with full removal after a Senate trial. No doubt the founders intended impeachment to be utilized far more often than it has been...But in practice, impeachment has been a failure."
Instead, Shapiro proposes, criminal prosecution of the Obama administration under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act should be on the table.
That act was created as a response to the mafia--it was designed to undermine mob claims of plausible deniability. It was created to hold command and control structures accountable for activities taking place down the chain. Shapiro writes, "Congress expressly worried in the RICO law itself that organized crime was using its money and power to 'subvert and corrupt our democratic processes.' Those worries were understated. Now the chief threat to the democratic process comes not from the mafia but from within the government itself."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Obama in a courtroom with his slick tongue might get out of it....I go for Impeachment as a traitor. Definitely gave ‘aid and comfort to the enemy’ with releasing the 5 top generals of Al Quaeda from Gitmo....and in 2012 not securing Ambassador Stevens or helping out our guys in Benghazi.
“Evil flourishes when good men do nothing.”
After he has been impeached, convicted, and removed from office, yes. While he is in office, no. Separation of powers.
1. Federal prosecutors work for the injustice department. That means Eric Holder.
2. Courts have in the past said that there's a mechanism for removing bad presidents, which is impeachment.
Not by the Attorney General.
This is one of the stupidest and most unconstitutional ideas I've seen recently.
The Constitution provides explicitly for control of a rogue President by impeachment and removal from office. Requires a majority of the House and 2/3 of the Senate.
Shapiro would apparently prefer to replace this constitutional provision for a political process with a criminal trial before a judge and 12 jurors. I strongly suspect the Founders would recoil in horror.
I firmly believe our Union would be much stronger today if every fourth or fifth president on average had been impeached and removed from office. None of this idiocy about "three co-equal branches of government."
The Founders intended the representative of the people and states, in Congress, to be in ultimate control of the government. This intent has arguably been denatured by direct election of the Senate, but the principle still survives, albeit somewhat damaged.
The very last thing we need to do is empower unelected judges to decide when a president should be removed from office.
Read his book if you please. I’m not familiar with the guy, but I’ve seen a number of favorable references to him on FR recently.
Just think the idea of prosecuting rather than impeaching a President is unconstitutional on its face.
For later.
I voted for Romney - still not sure that he didn’t actually win. We’d be in way better shape if he had.
Unfortunately some lo-fo types will have to see this country destroyed before they realize what they’ve done - that is IF they even figure it out then. The government schools have done a really good job of making idiots.
Obama is going to get a whole lot more people killed - and I suspect that mentally he’s coming unglued.
...reading his book...
Well, there is at least one thing more rare than impeachment of a President - criminal charges against a President. Shapiro is just talking through his hat.
I think that at this point, GOP leaders have to come to terms publicly with their fears of performing their duty to impeach when impeachment is appropriate. Marco Rubio has always been a coward. His finger is always either testing the wind or hiding in his rear end.
I'll bet Ted Cruz is more courageous when it comes to impeachment.
Ted Cruz in 2016!
I am damned tired of idiots who cannot understand the concept of minimum standards.
Like you, for instance.
There were people in the R party who stated very clearly they would not vote for Romney, for a variety of valid reasons, during the primaries. Romney won the nomination, with a lot of backing by the R establishment. They then “called the bluff” of those who stated they could not vote for Romney.
Those folks weren’t bluffing.
And yet you decide its the people who warned the R party what would happen in Romney was the nominee that are to blame for his loss?
Laughable, and exceedingly stupid, as an opinion.
“Prosecuted? by whom? Impeachment is the intended vehicle to stop a President that is out of control.”
Normally the prosecutor would be the U.S. Attorney-General, but Holder is a co-defendent in this prosecution and cannot be expected to prosecute the case. So, the U.S. House of Representatives would appoint a Special Prosecutor to handle the case against defendent Obama and the co-defendents. This move would be intended to sidestep the Democrat majority and its control of the U.S. Senate who are obstructing any hope of an effective impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate.
Members of the House who believe that the President is trashing the Constitution must call for impeachment. Otherwise, they’re just confessing to be moral cowards.
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