Posted on 06/17/2014 7:43:19 PM PDT by Star Traveler
President Barack Obama has acted so unlawfully that he 'probably' wouldn't survive an impeachment vote in the House of Representatives, Republican Rep. Lou Barletta told a radio host on Monday.
'He’s just absolutely ignoring the Constitution, and ignoring the laws and ignoring the checks and balances,' the Pennsylvania lawmaker told News Radio 910 WSBA personality Gary Sutton yesterday.
'The problem is, what do you do?' Barletta continued. 'For those that say impeach him for breaking the laws or bypassing the laws — could that pass in the House? It probably could.'
'Is the majority of the American people in favor of impeaching the president? I’m not sure about that.'
'I don't think so,' the Pennsylvania radio host can be heard telling Barletta in audio of their conversation captured by Buzzfeed's Andrew Kaczyinski.
Barletta made the comments during a discussion on illegal immigration after Sutton argued that the president wasn't 'faithfully executing the laws of this country.'
'Well we have a president that has taken this to a new level,' Barletta said of Obama's actions before explaining how he thinks impeachment proceeding would hypothetically play out in the House.
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Biden for President? Yikes!
I really think that there should be more impeachments of Presidents. They tend to get too big for their britches half the time anyway.
Up is down, and we have always been at war with Oceana...
Impeach The 0ne and every dem will turn out to vote as often as they can to avenge their hero.
It will be played as a desperate partisan trick by the rasiss republicans.
Damn right they are.
Impeachment is only “ONE-HALF OF THE WAY THERE”.
The other one-half is “dead on arrival”!
People don’t start something knowing for certain that it will “go nowhere” ...
You, like so many others on FR have it backwards, cart before the horse, tail wagging the dog, etc., Etc., ETC.
By the Book: Arrest, trial, sentence.
By the US Constitution: Impeach. remove from office, punish. Got it?
There’s no comparison.
Clinton was spun as “a personal issue”.
Obama’s acts are public, are lawlessness, are treasonous.
If we do nothing then we are giving our approval. Approval which I think none of us gives. Yet by not beginning the task, by being discouraged and turned from beginning, it will never get done. Which, in the end, is the same as approval.
Nope, just for Court Jester, Master of Ceremonies, or tour guide of the Pentagon.
Do you know that there has NEVER been even ONE SINGLE SUCCESSFUL IMPEACHMENT process in the entire history of this country.
In other words, even though this “process” is written into the Constitutuon - in all the times it has been tried over the course of our entire history of our country - it HAS FAILED EVERY SINGLE TIME to EVER remove one single President!
Count the Democrat votes and then count the Republican votes - then tell me how it passes the Senate ... :-) ...
Thank you for the reality check.
Make the case. Build public support. Make the Senate vote. Then make any “no” votes be millstones around their neck.
Don’t behave like a whipped dog.
The votes aren’t there in the Senate ... 53 to 45 ... keeping Obama in office (two are unknown) ...
/johnny
It’s already clear how the Democrats vote in the Senate. We’ve already ACTUALLY seen their votes with simple legislation. It’s not a guess or speculation ... we’ve seen them doing it.
The Impeachment process is not completed until it goes through the Senate - it FAILED!
Two American presidents were impeached. There have been about sixty impeachments in this country with quite a few actually resulting in removal of the defendants, mostly judges.
At the Philadelphia convention, Benjamin Franklin pointed out that assassination was the usual method of removing obnoxious politicians and he suggested, and enough of his colleagues agreed with him, that a legislative process was preferable.
Enough of Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton’s colleagues were so disgusted with their conduct that they voted to impeach.
It couldn’t help but put a damper, one would think, on their respective excesses. As I recall, it made Slick stop assaulting women in and off the Oval office (as far as we know) for the few months remaining of his second term.
Impeach him. It’s the right thing to do.
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