Posted on 02/25/2011 5:17:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who plans within two weeks to announce if he will run for president, said today that if President Obama doesn't change his mind and order his Justice Department to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, Republicans in Congress should strike back and even consider impeachment proceedings.
"I believe the House Republicans next week should pass a resolution instructing the president to enforce the law and to obey his own constitutional oath, and they should say if he fails to do so that they will zero out [defund] the office of attorney general and take other steps as necessary until the president agrees to do his job," said Gingrich. "His job is to enforce the rule of law and for us to start replacing the rule of law with the rule of Obama is a very dangerous precedent."
He didn't call for immediate impeachment hearings, but didn't rule them out if Obama balks at any congressional demands to enforce the law.
[Update: A Gingrich spokesman writes to say that Gingrich did not raise the impeachment issue himself. "Gingrich never raised impeachment nor did he say we were in a constitutional crisis," the Gingrich spokesman says. "His remarks, as can be seen in the video, were to illustrate the hypocrisy of the media and the left. He explicitly says that Obama did not intend to spark a constitutional crisis but that the president is acting outside of his constitutional role, but that does not mean that there is a constitutional crisis."]
Gingrich made his comments to Newsmax TV which has become the go-to place for potential GOP presidential candidates to make news. Just this week Mike Huckabee visited and Newsmax says that Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty plan to stop by next week.
The president's decision not to enforce the law that protects traditional marriage was a major policy switch and was seen as a bow to the gay community that has pushed hard to win the right to marriage in many states. Gays have been politically active for Obama, though some have been critical of his defense of traditional marriage.
Just today, the president also gave another olive branch to the community, naming the first gay social secretary for the White House. According to the Advocate, a gay journal, Jeremy Bernard has served in several gay organizations and most recently was the assistant to the U.S. ambassador to France.
Gingrich's call for quick GOP reaction to the Justice Department's decision to stop enforcing the marriage act was seen as a bid for the conservative and Tea Party vote, a base he would rely on if he decides to get into the presidential race.
In talking about the president's action, in fact, he raised Sarah Palin's name and suggested that she would be under fire if she ever decided not to enforce a major social law. "Imagine that Governor Palin had become president. Imagine that she had announced that Roe v. Wade in her view was unconstitutional and therefore the United States government would no longer protect anyone's right to have an abortion because she personally had decided it should be changed. The news media would have gone crazy. The New York Times would have demanded her impeachment," said Gingrich.
Gingrich noted that Obama supported the law during the campaign. "He is breaking his word to the American people," Gingrich said. Also, he added, "He swore an oath on the Bible to become president that he would uphold the Constitution and enforce the laws of the United States. He is not a one-person Supreme Court. The idea that we now have the rule of Obama instead of the rule of law should frighten everybody. The fact that the left likes the policy is allowing them to ignore the fact that this is a very unconstitutional act," Gingrich said.
Also, he added, “He swore an oath on the Bible to become president that he would uphold the Constitution and enforce the laws of the United States. He is not a one-person Supreme Court. The idea that we now have the rule of Obama instead of the rule of law should frighten everybody. The fact that the left likes the policy is allowing them to ignore the fact that this is a very unconstitutional act,” Gingrich said.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Obama is impeachable, he is also de-electable. And if those do not work, our nation will be at civil war.Heck, I think we should Qadaffi Obama.Thats the quickest remedy.
Sorry, but I just don’t like Newt. He has a condescending attitude and I don’t trust him.
Impeachment isn’t going to happen, much as we wish it would....not with all the Dems running around Washington. Our best hope is to get rid of this president and his cohorts in 2012. I myself would prefer a taxpayer revolt — protests in the streets — but I doubt that will happen either.
Obama’s hand in trying to incite unrest in our own country (Wisconsin) is another way I see he is deserving of impeachment...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IhaXiAOAEs
I think he already did that with a fellow named larry....
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. 0bama could shotgun murder a gaggle of praying nuns on the White House lawn at high noon in front of every TV camera in America, high on tequila and cocaine, and you’d never hear a word about it from the MSM.
How about Contempt of Court.
“His job is to enforce the rule of law”
All Obama has to do is to issue himself an exemption from “rule of law”.
He would be doing his job, for once.
He would be performing the task of the executive branch of the federal government, enforcing the laws.
Hate speech against homosexuality is a crime soon to be a capital offense.
Too bad the constitutional punishment for treason was abandoned long ago.
The tree of liberty gets more thirsty every day.
We are now living in Bizarro World. The executive branch doesn’t get to decide what laws are constitutional. That’s why we have the judicial branch. Anyone who went to school before the libs took them over learned that in fifth grade (I was in fifth grade in 1959.)
In Bizarro World, a judge rules that Obamacare is unconstitutional, yet Obama ignores the ruling and continues implementing the law as if the judge had ruled the other way. Yet the Defense of Marriage Act, which was legally passed by the legislature and signed into law by an American President (Bill Clinton) has, to this point, not had a member of the judicial branch rule on its constitutionality. So Obama—not a member of the judicial branch (at least not until he declares martial law) decides that it is unconstitutional and has instructed his attorney general not to uphold it.
To summarize, for any libs who might be lurking (I wrote this slowly so you’d understand:)
1. Obamacare ruled unconstitutional by the Courts.
2. Obama ignores ruling, proceeds with implementation.
3. Defense of Marriage Act not ruled unconstitutional by the courts.
4. Obama declares it unconstitutional (despite his complete lack of authority to do so) and therefore refuses to uphold it.
I was in the first and second trimester in 1959.
The longer we wait, the more it’ll take to assuage it’s thirst.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
October 27th, 2009
Newt Gingrich can officially be put on the RINO list. Actually, he should be given the crown! In the first true test of the conservative movement, the former Speaker was one of the first to show his true colors by going AGAINST the grassroots movement.
Recently, Gingrich formally endorsed Dede Scozzafava, a very liberal Republican candidate in the New York special election. Politico reports that Gingrich told tea party organizer Lisa Miller that “conservatives are inadvertently hindering the cause by backing Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman over Dede Scozzafava.”
Scozzafava was not nominated by the public in a primary, she was selected by County Republican Chairmen. She is pro-abortion and pro gay marriage. She supported the stimulus and supports card check. She is endorsed by the far left liberal blog Daily Kos, and ACORN.
Despite Mrs. Scozzafava’s liberal views and supporters, Mr. Gingrich continues to defend his support of her. Apparently, Mr. Gingrich’s loyalty lies with party and not principle, and is more concerned about strategy than representation.
http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-dallas/newt-gingrich-king-of-the-rinos
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