Posted on 07/27/2014 12:56:11 AM PDT by MulberryDraw
A new CNN poll reveals that one in three Americans agree with my call for President Obama’s impeachment. That’s a huge number – especially considering how misconstrued the issue is when relying on media to explain impeachment. Let’s go around the media filters and acknowledge this ourselves: many Americans haven’t heard what impeachable offenses really are; but when they do, more citizens will rise up to hold their government accountable.
On the heels of this new poll, The Hill reports that the Obama White House is now taking talk of impeachment very seriously. They can’t poo-poo this as liberal followers want them to because they know they’ve done wrong.
The article states, “Dan Pfeiffer, a senior advisor to Obama, said Friday that the White House is taking the prospect of impeachment in the GOP-controlled House more seriously than many others in Washington, who see it as unlikely.” Pfeiffer then noted that a large block of the conservative base favors impeachment.
They also note that Team Obama is aware that the illegal immigration crisis is the tipping point. With the president continuing to halt deportations and with his intention to skirt law once again to grant some sort of amnesty by executive fiat, more Americans will join me in calling for impeachment. I’m talking about average, everyday law-abiding citizens who know we must hold our government accountable; I’m not talking about the political elite on both sides of the aisle who only give lip service to the problem of a lawlessp. They mock the idea of actually remedying this extremely dangerous situation because they’re fine with Washington D.C.’s status quo.
Thank you, good Americans who care about defending our constitution and preserving American exceptionalism! It’s so good to know we finally got Washington’s attention. It took the illegal immigration crisis to tip this because Americans know it’s a direct attack on our sovereignty, on American workers of all races and backgrounds (both native-born and legal immigrants who came here orderly, safely; the right, legal way), on our solvency and security. It IS a direct attack, orchestrated by a president who promised to fundamentally transform our nation.
The American worker is the forgotten man in this crisis of Obama’s making. None other than Cesar Chavez affirmed that illegal immigration hurts hardworking Americans as it drives down the wages of our workers seeking good jobs to support their families.
That’s why we see so many Americans of all racial and ethnic backgrounds uniting to protest this border insanity. We are protesting a lawless administration that doesn't respect the will and wisdom of the people. We can affirm the productivity of legal immigration, but we know why we have laws on the books that keep government in check with this issue and all other issues; we know that part of what makes America exceptional is the rule of law. Without rule of law at our borders, in no time we will become as corrupt and dysfunctional as the nation’s immigrants flee to come here. We also know that “no borders equals no nation.”
The president has a constitutional duty to secure our homeland. That means securing our borders. He’s willfully derelict in his duty. This is illegal.
The Washington Post published a bombshell report this week about top officials at the White House and the State Department having been repeatedly warned of the crisis brewing with illegal immigrant children coming through our unsecured borders in massive numbers from Central America. Essentially the illegals are enticed here by Obama sending a message that he promises they may do so. Illegal children and adults from all over the globe are coming in droves to collect what he's illegally promised. His incentives are invitations to not support legal immigration but instead, invasion.
Despite dire warnings, the White House didn’t want to deal with the issue. They were focused instead on Obama’s 2012 reelection and the push for amnesty along with that promised “transformation,” and this burgeoning crisis didn’t look good for the president politically. So Obama willfully ignored it, and our laws, and in fact Team Obama actively stoked this when Obama issued his own version of the DREAM Act. I call him the Dream Weaver because Obama waved his glittery magic wand and took actions that obviously led the illegal immigrants to believe they would be granted amnesty. And that is why they're coming. He caused a trickle of illegals to “necessarily skyrocket.”
In light of this Washington Post report, there are two questions Congress needs to demand answers to: What did the president know and when did he know it?
Recall that those questions were asked of another president who was also the subject of a Washington Post exposé.
So, speaking of the “I word” – IMPEACHMENT – a supporter on Facebook recently asked me: “Do you have any clue why he isn't impeached already?”
Yes, I do actually. Let’s go back to that poll I cited showing 33% of Americans agree with me on impeachment. It’s clear from the way these polls are conducted that most Americans aren't aware of what constitutes impeachable offenses.
The Constitution says “high crimes and misdemeanors” are the basis for this serious remedy. The Framers used that term to mean a dereliction of duty, and the first duty of the president is to enforce our laws and preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution. Alexander Hamilton described impeachable offenses as “the abuse or violation of some public trust.” He called them “political” offenses because they “relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.”
No serious person who is paying attention can deny that Obama and his administration have abused and violated the public trust and the Constitution.
The White House is counting on the fact that Americans think impeachment is for committing a crime under the penal code. But I’ll keep repeating the truth in order to educate as many Americans as possible.
So, again, let’s be crystal clear on this. Impeachment isn’t necessarily for ordinary criminal acts, nor is it for bad political decisions or differences in opinion. We’re not saying, “Impeach him because his stimulus failed; he coddles Wall Street while dissing Main Street; he recklessly spends our tax dollars on skewed priorities, etc., etc.”
We’re saying he must be impeached for overstepping his Constitutional authority. Here are some examples: he broke the law in changing the Obamacare law by fiat, and he issued amnesty for illegal immigrants by fiat, and he committed fraud on the American people by lying that we could keep our health care if we like our health care, and he refused to secure our borders or halt this border crisis he caused. The list of abuse is long. Allowing any president to continue this lawlessness sets a precedent for future presidents that can allow destruction of our nation.
We’re acknowledging that there’s only one recourse in holding government accountable when led by a president who breaks the law. Remember the Constitution holds the president directly responsible for the executive branch. He can’t just vote “present” and keep feigning ignorance of all the scandals rocking his administration, any more than a mob boss can claim innocence because he didn’t personally do the hit. The buck stops with the guy at the top.
From Benghazi to the IRS and VA scandals, to the NSA spying on innocent Americans, to his Department of Justice wiretapping reporters and giving guns to Mexican drug cartels in Fast & Furious, to ignoring in-house illegal fundraising, I could go on and on.
Impeachment is the Constitution’s answer for a derelict, incompetent presidency, as well as for a lawless imperial presidency. Both describe the unprecedented problem we have with Obama.
In terms of lawlessness, the president is radically changing the way the executive branch does business. He has put us on a dangerous path that will fundamentally change us. With his “pen and phone,” he’s abrogating Congressional authority in violation of the Constitution’s separation of powers. He’s making himself a ruler, not a president. As I said last week, we had a revolution back in 1776 because we don’t do kings.
Making the case for impeachment is not difficult. What’s difficult is having the moral courage and political will to do what is right.
I will keep hammering this issue because it is clearly the only way to stop this president from further abusing his powers. Our founders prepared a future citizenry for such a thing. They crafted the tool for Congress’ authority and obligation to stop this. We’re putting the president on notice.
One out of three Americans are talking about impeachment, Mr. President, because we love this country and respect the sacrifices made to build it. That number will increase as more eyes open to the truth.
- Sarah Palin
Here’s the Washington Post article mentioned above: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-aides-were-warned-of-brewing-border-crisis/2014/07/19/8b5d2282-0d1b-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html
Here’s a 3:00 am wakeup call. LOL. In 20 minutes it had 150 shares.
My new tagline!
At this point, everything Obama is doing is to punish USA. The most disturbing part of it all is that I can’t think or find one single Democrat Senator or House member who’s had enough of it.
Just one Democrat Senator come out and threaten impeachment unless he fall into the Constitutional role he was elected for, then he’s done for. Just one.
There are probably five Democratic senators in the running for November....who really don’t need another stumble created by the White House. As for House Democrats....no real threats...they’ve been purged out of the races of 2012 and 2014 of tough races.
The problem I see...is that if you dragged this into impeachment....then you have Biden in charge. What exactly will he do? Will you have to toss Biden into another round of impeachment? Then what?
It’d be awful easy and simple for the President to just act like he has....make no decisions...and just coast onto January of 2017 to golf 365 days out of the year. If I were him....I’d avoid doing anything on immigration and just let it lay there for the next President to mess with.
From which, one might conclude that every Democrat Senator and Congressman is in favor of what is being done to the USA.
I wonder...
If the Republicans showed more fight, more resolve, would a Democrat or two cross the aisle to join them on this issue.
But nobody is going to take that chance in order to follow the likes of Boehner and McConnell.
More disturbing that than, at least to me, is that We The People haven't already started dumping the proverbial tea into Boston Harbor. The reason he's getting away with it is not that his party isn't opposing him, it's that NO ONE is opposing him...in the Pubbie cloakrooms in DC, or here at home. Every time we point a finger of blame, we point three back at ourselves.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Great article by Sarah! Thanks for posting this!
NO efforts to impeach should be undertaken until after the November elections. If the Pubs take back the Senate, then let the fur fly!
IMHO, we should do just the opposite. Impeach before the elections to motivate the voters to give us a GOP majority Senate to convict Obama after his impeachment in the House............
President Boehner.
Reportedly, the Regime is secretly hoping to be impeached — to get their base to the polls!
Reportedly, the Regime is secretly hoping to be impeached — to get their base to the polls!
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Just a minor correction...get their base to the streets!
That’s exactly what they want us to do.
Nice. /s
“If the Republicans showed more fight, more resolve, would a Democrat or two cross the aisle to join them on this issue.”
Even two democrats would leave you far short of the two thirds necessary to convict and remove from office.
This whole talk of impeachment only serves to rally the democratic base. Not only is it a senseless waste of time, it is counter-productive.
so your saying let the lawless president continue destroying America because you think this will go no where?
I can NOT understand, I will NEVER understand this idea of protecting Obama, preserving Obama, because Biden is next in line. I supposed for that logic, plunging the country into oblivion is the better choice. Again, I cannot understand. Someone please make me understand.
A Presidential Impeachment is the nullification of a Presidential election.
Are more than 70% of us Americans DEMANDINDING that nullification now?
No?
More than 50%?
No?
Democrats want us to seek “glory” in a futile, suicidal act.
INSTEAD, let’s work to get the number of Americans demanding Impeachment up past 70%.
Our Congress will follow.....
I don't care or believe what the Post writes and question any article that refers to it. I stop reading right there.
They are left wing shills and have no credibility on anything. It is nothing but a cheap liberal propaganda instrument.
You can’t impeach a democrat they are above the law Obama&co are proof of it.
A people say the Mafia is dead.
“so your saying let the lawless president continue destroying America because you think this will go no where?”
OK, give me a credible scenario for obtaining sixty six votes in the Senate for removal from office.
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