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GOP REP: IMPEACHMENT AN OPTION IF OBAMA MOVES ON EXECUTIVE AMNESTY
Breitbart ^ | 11/13/2014 | Caroline May

Posted on 11/13/2014 12:52:51 PM PST by gwgn02

Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) says impeachment should be on the table if President Barack Obama moves forward with executive amnesty. Speaking with Breitbart News Wednesday evening, Jones explained that should Obama move to unilaterally legalize undocumented immigrants, it would be a constitutional issue, not an issue to be solved by restricting funding, as some Republicans have floated. “To me a constitutional question means that we have the option of impeachment,” Jones said, explaining that he thinks the best option to confront Obama’s executive amnesty would be impeachment. “We have a Constitution, and I am very disappointed from year to year that we do not follow the Constitution. To me, if you think the president has violated his trust of office, meaning with the American people, then follow the Constitution,” Jones added. The North Carolina Republican is no stranger to calls for impeachment, having at varying times seen impeachment as a way to deal with Obama on Obamacare and former President George W. Bush on Iraq. He voted against the Republican resolution earlier this year to sue the President over Obamacare because he said it would be kicked out. He told The Hill at the time that impeachment would be preferable if the GOP were serious about the issue. Jones further noted that he supported a resolution from former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) to impeach Bush over Iraq. “We continue to forget that we have a constitutional responsibility, and to me, look at the constitutional responsibility first before you look at something second,” Jones said to Breitbart News, then stressed that he thinks Obama is a “fine person.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; impeach; lawless; obama; tyranny
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To: Norm Lenhart

see, you’re full of shit again. Your conferring on me the power to do anything. I simply predicted it would not happen. Hasn’t a fkn thing to do with encouraging.

WTF can I do? Sheesh dude - you live on a bitter ugly planet


201 posted on 11/14/2014 2:39:53 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Warning..... there’s a troll among us


202 posted on 11/14/2014 2:47:26 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: bert

Indeed. Frauds on FR acting like libs.


203 posted on 11/14/2014 2:50:38 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: Jim Robinson

No Testicles Boehner will never do it. NEVER.


204 posted on 11/14/2014 2:52:17 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative
Not just Boehner, but even Trey Gowdy is telling us that Impeachment is never going to happen.

Trey Gowdy said his party can't impeach the president over his threatened immigration overhaul

It would not matter what Obama does because the Constitution no longer matters. We are a Fascist Oligarchy, and the rule of law no longer exists or applies to those who are in power.

205 posted on 11/14/2014 4:10:23 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

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“Not gonna happen. Dems will simply say it is racist and the Pubbies will back off”

- - JACK HYDRAZINE

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- true - it will be Slick Willie II plus the race card on steroids
- Hello Queen Hillary for 8 years

.


206 posted on 11/14/2014 5:57:36 PM PST by devolve (- barter &/or trade items &/or services - let the IRS and DOJ get their money from illegal aliens -)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

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“Not gonna happen. Dems will simply say it is racist and the Pubbies will back off”

- - JACK HYDRAZINE

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- true - it will be Slick Willie II plus the race card on steroids
- Hello Queen Hillary for 8 years

.


207 posted on 11/14/2014 5:58:36 PM PST by devolve (- barter &/or trade items &/or services - let the IRS and DOJ get their money from illegal aliens -)
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To: gwgn02

Yay


208 posted on 11/14/2014 7:55:34 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: gwgn02
I tend to agree with Charles Krauthammer on this matter: If President Obama moves ahead with his desire to not enforce the law as regarding illegal aliens, it is surely an impeachable offense; but impeachment may not be the wisest option, given that it could easily boomerang against the GOP, in terms of public opinion. (And it would probably amount to an empty gesture anyway, as the Senate would be unlikely to convict.)
209 posted on 11/14/2014 11:16:04 PM PST by AmericanExceptionalist (Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
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To: AmericanExceptionalist

The possibility of impeachment is a constitutional provision, so no one can take it off the table. My only request for anyone choosing to use it is that they try the case for a high crime or misdemeanor that is so obvious, so egregious, and so universally known and rejected that there is no chance of badly losing the trial in the Senate. It should be a win, or so close to a win, that no one will ever be able to question the wisdom of the action.

So, we are talking of certain conviction.


210 posted on 11/15/2014 5:16:31 AM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: INVAR
We are a Fascist Oligarchy, and the rule of law no longer exists or applies to those who are in power.

Wondering how many of us understand the term Fascist Oligarchy here on FR these days ......

211 posted on 11/15/2014 9:02:59 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: gwgn02; C. Edmund Wright; gaijin; Seeing More Clearly Now; eyeamok; caligatrux; BitWielder1; ...

So here we are.

We gave the GOP a STUNNING victory, and they just ‘roll over’. One lonely voice out there saying ‘maybe’ to impeachment.

The House caucus elects Bone-head again, a man that conservatives DESPISE. The Senate caucus UNANYOUSLY elects McConnell — a publicly sworn enemy of the Tea Party.

Face it. We held our noses and supported them. What do they do? They spit on us, slap us in the face, and tell us to shine their shoes.

I’m not surprised, and many of you aren’t either.

But guess what? We didn’t win that campaign for THEM. This last election was more than just a GOP victory. It was the opening salvo of a Counterrevolution.

The only question is, how do we wage such a conflict without congress?

I anticipated this back-stabbing. I was so certain that I started planning years ago.

[Solution coming up.]


212 posted on 11/15/2014 1:30:23 PM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (The DNC's 2012 Convention actually 'booed' God three times.)
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Power to the States!

. . . . .

Neuter DC. with Excoriation and More!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3225815/posts


213 posted on 11/15/2014 1:39:21 PM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (The DNC's 2012 Convention actually 'booed' God three times.)
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To: AmericanExceptionalist

Charles Krauthammer is not to be trusted. I wish people

could see that. He is playing the establishment’s card.

You guys are being trapped with emotions versus saying fight Obama and nothing else. Constitution or the republican party. Pick your side.


214 posted on 11/15/2014 1:39:38 PM PST by Christie at the beach
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Just remember the people that supported this GOP and when amnesty hits, send the illegals...excuse me, newly minted Americans to their homes and businesses so they can get the assistance these people chose to offer them. Fair is fair.


215 posted on 11/15/2014 1:54:59 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: Christie at the beach

All you need to know is that any talking head that spent years trashing Romney as the Antichrist and in the final weeks, demanded we vote for him to Save America are not to be trusted.

Non talking heads as well. they are situational ethicists.


216 posted on 11/15/2014 1:57:04 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Lost the message I wrote-—??

Wanted u to know that I agreed.

kg/nancy


217 posted on 11/15/2014 2:56:42 PM PST by krunkygirl (force multiplier in effect...)
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To: gwgn02

A Suspended Lawyer,
an Illegal Alien,

a Pathological Liar,
a Muslim,
a Communist,
a Terrible golfer
and a Black Guy walk into a BAR.

The bartender says, ‘What’l it be, Mr. President?

.


218 posted on 11/15/2014 3:59:20 PM PST by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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To: gwgn02

All the states with republican leadership should refuse any amnesty. Impeach Obama now, and be done with it.


219 posted on 11/15/2014 7:07:45 PM PST by Carry me back
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

“But guess what? We didn’t win that campaign for THEM. This last election was more than just a GOP victory. It was the opening salvo of a Counterrevolution.”

Exactly and it is important that we hold their feet to the fire and get rid of RINOs and dims next time around.


220 posted on 11/15/2014 8:47:54 PM PST by Nifster
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