Posted on 07/10/2014 9:58:18 AM PDT by yoe
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), one of the president’s fiercest critics, says President Obama shouldn’t be impeached.
On “Imus in the Morning” Thursday, McCain was asked to react to Sarah Palin’s call this week for Obama to be impeached.
“Well, I don't agree and I remember going through an impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton,” he said. “There are not votes here in the United States Senate to impeach the president of the United States and I think that we should focus our attention on winning elections.
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Palin made a good point in her statement: if these scandals don’t call for impeachment, what does?
Juan McCain is right. Senate is controlled by the Dems.
Heck it didn’t even succeed when the GOP controlled BOTH houses when Clinton was impeached.
mclame spent too much time in the Hanoi Hilton. They beat him like mclame now beats America ... mclame the America beater!
Amen! I looked at that and did a double-take. We’re largely governed by low-grade cretins! :(
McCain helped elect Obama and destroy the country in the first place with me to comments such as that.
Mccain is a traitor to this country. Wave the surrender flag before the first shot.
Without impeachment when it is warranted due to blatant lawlessness, it turns off the Republican base, increases their disgust with the GOPe, and dampens their desire to participate in mid-terms.
Basically, impeachment is a two-edge sword...
True, but the problem there is timing. We can’t take the Senate for a few more months, and then those new Senators won’t be seated until January 2015. Congress will recess at the end of July, and then in August 2015, we hit the Iowa straw poll, and nobody is going to bother with impeachment after that, as Obama is essentially a lame duck.
So you’re talking about a 6 month window in which it might be possible, if anyone in Congress actually had any interest in doing this, to investigate, impeach, and convict. Good luck with that.
Beat me to it. Anything McCain has to say, do the opposite.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Obama is deserving of a criminal trial and impeachment may be one way. There are others.
Can the impeachment process span congresses? Can House impeachment occur in this congress, and then conviction in the next congress?
All too true. The real target should not be Obama. At this point in the game it would be only a moral victory. However, going after those around Obama would be very useful as it would eliminate a number of unsavory characters from every holding any other US office.
Can you imagine how entitled “Senator Holder” would feel?
Yes, that could happen, sure. There is no time limit on an impeachment proceeding. However, nobody in the House is going to start the process if we don’t already have the votes in the Senate to finish it.
Hey McLame,
The 186 men and women at the Alamo did not have a snowball chance in hell of winning either but they died to free Texas from tranny. It’s nice to know you would have joined forces with the demon Santana I guess. So long John we hardly knew you
Freegards
LEX
The House will vote to Impeach. Especially before an election. The US Senate is another story since it has been rubber stamping and protecting Obama from day one.
Back stabbing traitorous RINOs would certainly make an impeachment difficult.
There are definitely some that would proceed as well as those that would not. The American public has to be behind things, and that means education and leadership. It is an evolving process, and the act of house impeachment is part of it. Itself, it would generate much discussion and coverage, opening peoples minds and view to the corruption.
Criminal trials don't wait for any definitive jury that would convict... they have to be convinced. Granted, there is much less convincing and more politicking in the Sinate, but that is why I suggest start impeachment now... convict after mid-terms.
Wouldn't make any difference. Black, white or polka-dot the Democrats won't vote to convict Obama. And unless the GOP picks up 22 seats in November then he won't be removed from office.
Not unless they're going to pick up 21 or 22 seats it won't be.
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