Posted on 11/14/2014 11:50:20 AM PST by Starman417
What to do with a President who toils against the will of the American people?
Approval ratings of Barack Obama's handling of immigration reached a low not long ago, reaching a 65% disapproval. Americans overwhelmingly oppose Obama's current threats of unilateral action on immigration and overwhelmingly prefer that Obama work with Congress.
The GOP is now poised to control both the House and the Senate come January, so why not wait a few months to try to work with the new Congress?
I think it's because he has no interest in cooperation. I think he wants to be impeached and there are two primary reasons. One, he doesn't give a rip what anyone other than Valerie Jarrett thinks and two, any impeachment effort will be immediately characterized as a lynching- a lynching of the first black President.
For his entire career Obama has been described as a "loner" and "aloof." despite his numerous policy failures he really does think he is the smartest man in the world. The only person to whom he listens is Valerie Jarrett, the Iranian slumlord.
The problem is, the truth is always the opposite of what he says. About the only honest thing Obama has ever said was his desire to fundamentally transform this country. As far as I am concerned he cemented it later by trying to walk it back. It is no different with immigration. He once said that he couldn't bypass Congress:
“And so what we need to do going forward is to address some of the broader problems in our immigration system. And that means changing minds and changing votes, one at a time. I know there are some folks who wish I could just bypass Congress. I can’t. But what I can do is sign a law. What you can do is champion a law. What we can do together is make comprehensive immigration reform the law of the land.”
Let's put that through Official Barack Obama Bull***t Decoder Ring and see what we get:
Defiant Obama: I will use my power
President Barack Obama on Friday defended his plans to use executive power to bypass Congress...
Americans don't want Obama to act alone. They don't want a rogue President.
Following the mid term election pounding, Obama said "I hear you." The useful idiots at WaPo put it this way:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
...I may be missing something....so what’s the upside of being impeached...how could this be a good thing for him???
It makes him a martyr.
We don't win an impeachment fight.
That’s just a means to the real end...
He, like all liberals, wants to use the power of the government to punish and murder their political opponents.
THAT’s the wet dream of liberalism.
I'll take a stab. For the RATS, the ends justify the means. They need to energize their base. This would do that.
And they also run their playbook over and over and this worked out to be a good thing for BJ ... a resume enhancer for a democRAT
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy! I did not have sex with THAT woman!
First, the Republican controlled Senate should immediately reinstate the filibuster for all judicial appointments. Any 40 Senators should be able to block any of Obama’s far left wing judicial nominees. Without the filibuster, it will only take a half dozen RINOs to join with the Democrats for confirmation.
Reid unilaterally took away the filibuster for Presidential appointments. McConnell should unilaterally reinstate it. I can think of no conceivable reason for McConnell not to do this.
Second, the Republican controlled Senate should either abolish the legislative filibuster or at a minimum make the Democrats do a good old fashioned “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” talk-until-you-drop style filibuster if they want to block any legislation passed by the House.
Will the Democrats and the Democrat controlled Fly By Media scream bloody murder? Of course they will. Who gives a crap?
The only reason that will be given for not doing this is that it will come back to bite the Republicans whenever the Democrats regain control. That was the same reason given for not using the “nuclear option” to stop Democrats from filibustering all of Bush’s judicial appointments. Clearly, the Democrats will do whatever they want whenever they are in control of the Senate. It is long past time for the Republicans to do the same thing.
The last 6 years have been a dangled, tinder dry, reichstag.
Stay away from the reichstag......find another way!
KYPD
Do it!
It would allow him to play the Victim Card ("because I stood up for the little people, the poor and the oppressed, I was impeached").
Don't underestimate the power of that. The Victim Card plus the Race Card...that's a powerful combination. And remember, it takes 2/3 to convict in the Senate. So even though Obama could be impeached by the House, he wouldn't be removed from office.
Agreed - cut off his funding and ignore. We can’t remove him from office because the Senate democrats are too corrupt to vote for removal. The best we can do is write very narrow spending bills that limit his ability to order illegal actions.
One could start with that list of offenses from Dan from Squirrel Hill. Documenting every transgression and putting it in the record would be a minimum of thesteps to be taken on the way to (non)Impeachment.
If Republicans hung tough, ignored the phony made up polls that will say that its political suicide to impeach etc, and instead stood up for what is right, they would/might win.
A good line would be, it`s NOT important whether I am defeated for doing what is right, my country comes first...I do NOT have to be in congress etc
If I am defeated for doing what is right, then so be it. Explain to the dumb American people that we have no King.
It really isn’t all that amazing. He wants the House to impeach him so he can rally his base.
As he should be, any other prez would have been by now.
Used to think so.
Now I think it might backfire on him as increasingly the Democrat Party wants him out of the way to stop screwing-up their future.
He’s a narcissist. The worse thing you can do to him is simply ignore him.
“I’ve actually said out loud, since the election, that Obama is actually acting like he WANTS to get impeached”
He does. He wants to be relevant again and would rather appear the victim than the evil dictator. We are not dealing with a mentally stable person here.
Don’t give it to him. Just cut off all the funding. Not enough votes to have him removed anyway.
Yeah, it would really p-off the libs to have the list of Obama’s Constitutional violations repeatedly read into the Congressional record.
Time well spent, especially compared to what usually goes on there.
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