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GOP leaders warn 'impeachment' is a dirty word (Cornyn, Grahamnesty alert...)
Politico ^ | 11/19/14 | MANU RAJU and BURGESS EVERETT

Posted on 11/19/2014 12:12:45 PM PST by jimbo123

Senior Republicans worry that party could misplay hand on Obama’s immigration action

Republican leaders, anticipating outrage from their base over President Barack Obama’s upcoming immigration move, have a message for their party: Don’t use the ‘I’ word.

Senior House and Senate Republicans don’t want their rank-and-file to even raise the specter of impeaching Obama, fearing it would give Democrats a message to rally around as the president’s party is split over the hugely controversial move. Ahead of the upcoming announcement, top congressional Republicans are trying to find the right balance between expressing outrage and overreaching, hoping that the battle doesn’t lead to either a government shutdown in December or calls among conservatives to impeach the president.

Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the incoming Senate majority whip, said Wednesday that the GOP response needs to be “appropriate” and measured.

“Nobody’s talking about the ‘I’ word like the White House and others,” Cornyn said. “They would love for us to take the bait. We’re not going to take the bait.”

“Impeachment and shutting the entire government down takes the focus away from him to us,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. “There are some people in the conferences that will have their 15 minutes of fame over this. But the rest of us want a Republican Party that can compete across the board in 2016.”

Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, had a similar response when asked about impeachment: “The speaker has said we have no current or future plans to go down that path.”

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KEYWORDS: cornyn; executiveamnesty; palinwasright; rinos; uniparty
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To: jimbo123

Cowards or collaborators?


41 posted on 11/19/2014 12:58:41 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: rfreedom4u

“If congress won’t do what they were elected to do why do we even bother talking/writing to them?”

I don’t remember anyone being elected on the basis of impeaching Obama. Did I miss something?


42 posted on 11/19/2014 12:58:53 PM PST by DugwayDuke (Principles without power aren't worth spit.)
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To: WayneS
new “I” words

You are the Best Mystery, I've Ever Seen!

43 posted on 11/19/2014 1:00:13 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: jimbo123

Lucy pulls away the football again.


44 posted on 11/19/2014 1:01:02 PM PST by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: jimbo123

DICTATOR is a dirty word. In the case of these two, SPINELESS COWARD is an apt description. If you lack the balls to govern, you get a dictator. The people may well have to remove both kinds of scum to drain the swamp.


45 posted on 11/19/2014 1:04:30 PM PST by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects)
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To: WayneS

Is a heavy road. It’s dirty. Starts out dirty and winds up dirty.


46 posted on 11/19/2014 1:06:38 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: jimbo123
Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the incoming Senate majority whip, said Wednesday that the GOP response needs to be “appropriate” and measured.

Translation: Write an angry letter or two, have a press conference, then roll over and play dead.
47 posted on 11/19/2014 1:07:59 PM PST by Deo volente (God willing, America shall survive this Obamanation.)
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Hate flying, FRiends!


48 posted on 11/19/2014 1:09:08 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: amnestynone
But, until you get the people on your side it is a very rash and dangerous proposition.

people on our side? what do you call the most stacked R Congress in the past 70 years?

The electorate wants this to happen in '15but these surrender monkeys are afraid of pissing off people that have overwhelmingly supported them this last election

what they are afraid of is not being invited to the parties

49 posted on 11/19/2014 1:12:37 PM PST by Revelation 911
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To: RoseofTexas
We are so royally screwed!

NO, We the People are NOT! We have Aces!

50 posted on 11/19/2014 1:14:30 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: jimbo123

51 posted on 11/19/2014 1:16:39 PM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
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To: jimbo123

The election is over. I wish to God that these gutless bastards grow some balls and have that Kenyan c**ks***ker arrested the day the new Senate is sworn in!


52 posted on 11/19/2014 1:45:53 PM PST by farming pharmer
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To: jimbo123
Speaker John Boehner should be Impeached
if he does not start impeachment of BHO.

53 posted on 11/19/2014 2:07:18 PM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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To: Revelation 911

“people on our side? what do you call the most stacked R Congress in the past 70 years?”

That is congress we are talking about getting a majority to support impeachment that is something completely different. Right now we have very few.


54 posted on 11/19/2014 2:30:59 PM PST by amnestynone (A big government conservative is just a corporatist who is not paying enough taxes.)
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To: jimbo123
Oaths of Office for the Senate and House (emphasis added):
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
55 posted on 11/19/2014 2:48:41 PM PST by tbpiper
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To: akalinin

I was really hoping the GOP would at least wait until the New Year before they rolled over.


56 posted on 11/19/2014 3:33:30 PM PST by Obstinate
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To: jimbo123
“Impeachment and shutting the entire government down takes the focus away from him to us,”

So we'll just let him do what he wants.

I don't know which side of the aisle I despise more...

57 posted on 11/19/2014 3:51:07 PM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: jimbo123

what bothers me, is that IF impeachment is not sought, it just might set off some poor misguided soul, or souls, to do the dirty, and then here we go all fergusoned.


58 posted on 11/19/2014 4:37:00 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: jimbo123
What's the plan?

Enough about what repubs shouldn't do...if your mouths are open, share your plan.

What's the RINO plan?

59 posted on 11/19/2014 4:44:14 PM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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To: Crazieman

No, you’re whipped before you start. Stay under the porch.


60 posted on 11/19/2014 6:11:53 PM PST by Ray76 (We must destroy the Uniparty or be destroyed by them.)
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