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Is it time to whisper the word 'impeachment' ?
WorldNetDaily ^ | October 08, 2009 | Floyd and Mary Beth Brown

Posted on 10/08/2009 8:07:48 PM PDT by RobinMasters

At the tea party in Washington, D.C., a popular sign read simply, "Impeach Obama."

As a moderator of discussion on the blog www.exposeobama.com, Floyd has observed the discussion of impeachment is mushrooming amongst conservative activists.

Radio personality Tammy Bruce may have captured these activists' beliefs about Obama best: "Uultimately, it comes down to ... the fact that he seems to have, it seems to me, some malevolence toward this country, which is unabated."

But has Barack Obama committed an impeachable offense? What exactly constitutes an impeachable offense? Former President Gerald Ford, while serving in the House of Representatives, said an impeachable offense was "whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history."

Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution reads: "The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

The key phrase here is "high crimes and misdemeanors," a concept in English common law well-known to our Founding Fathers, but grossly misunderstood in this day and age. "High crimes and misdemeanors" essentially means bad behavior.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


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To: thecodont
"People have conveniently short memories."

There's that. And the fact that "leftist people" lie a lot.

61 posted on 10/08/2009 9:32:29 PM PDT by XenaLee
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To: RobinMasters

Whisper? How about SHOUT!!!


62 posted on 10/08/2009 9:35:55 PM PDT by swatbuznik
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To: RobinMasters

You can shout the word from the rooftop but I doubt that anyone in Congress will hear you. They’re too busy planning for the next pay raise.


63 posted on 10/08/2009 10:39:02 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: RobinMasters
"wisper" ? heck with that, it's been on my key ring fob (which hangs in the open the way I carry it) since the day he was sworn in.

And I work in an extremely liberal office building in that bluest of blue states Connecticut :-)

Makes a nice conversation piece

64 posted on 10/08/2009 10:40:16 PM PDT by Lloyd227 (Class of 1998 (let's all help the Team McCain spider monkeys decide how to moderate))
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To: RobinMasters

that was a for crap article, saying what?

Nothing conclusive and devoid of any direction, related to the premise of the article.

Thanks, WND, for the history lesson. s/


65 posted on 10/08/2009 10:45:15 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: doc1019; Outlaw Woman
you believe this is simply incompetence? Oh my.

Look forward to your explanation that would lead me to believe that it is more than incompetence. Educate me please. I’m willing to listen and learn

Try reading the constitution. To start with firing a CEO of a private corporation is unconstitutional, an impeachable offense, a crime. Taking over a private enterprise, even without firing a CEO, is a crime because it is unconstitutional, an impeachable offense. He has committed others, the stimulus bill for instance, by signing this unconstitutional bill he has committed another impeachable offense, this time however the legislature is as guilty as he is.

Appointing Czars, even though other presidents have done so, is also unconstitutional as it by passes the legislature and by passes elected officials of any kind. All Presidents who have appointed Czars or Czar like positions have committed an impeachable offense.

To add to that, all he has to really do to be impeached, if we had a legislature that would do it, is to behave badly, which he has done from the git go, that is the definition of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors", bad behavior. Incompetence is actually, whether you believe it or not, another impeachable offense.

Feel free to feel educated and, as I pointed out at first, read the constitution and try to find where any of the crap he is pulling is constitutional.

BTW, passing a nationalized health care bill is unconstitutional, as is pushing it(as Bozo has done repeatedly) onto the American people and ignoring the will of the majority of the voting public. Impeachable offenses.

66 posted on 10/08/2009 10:57:39 PM PDT by calex59 (FUBO, we want our constitution back and we intend to get it!)
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To: RobinMasters

I think dissolution, organized civil war, concentration camps or a combination are more likely than impeachment.

This is not an attempt at hyperbole - the present crises will attain critical mass long before politicians act with integrity.


67 posted on 10/08/2009 10:58:45 PM PDT by Psalm 144
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To: RobinMasters

lSo who is going to impeach this president? This Congress? The Democrats wouldn’t impeach this president if he shot the Israeli ambassador in the Oval Office, or anyone else, even one of their own. They think they are making The Revolution and think breaking a few eggs is part of the process.


68 posted on 10/08/2009 11:55:01 PM PDT by ThanhPhero (di tray hoi den La Vang)
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To: RobinMasters
If the Senate holds impeachment proceedings, will it be able to force Hawaii to release Obama's long form birth certificate?

Will it be able to force Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard to release Obama's college records?

1. If so, I especially feel sorry for Occidental College in California---Obama's first college---because it surely will be embarrassed and condemned nationally if it is revealed during the impeachment proceedings that its officials knew all along that Obama had registered as a foreign student, but they were too cowardly to tell anyone.

2. That is, it will finally be revealed that cowardly Occidental College in California hid behind some legal confidential rule instead of coming out during the 2008 presidential campaign and saying this: In the best interest of the future of America, it would release Obama's Occidental college records.

3. Come on, Occidental College in California. You know that there are a lot of clever lawyers out there who could help you find a way to legally release Obama's college records, but you were too arrogant and cowardly to even try.

4. Occidental college in California: If President Obama ends up destroying parts of America that many of us hold dear, history will show that you, Occidental College, was greatly responsible, because you were too scared and too cowardly to find legal ways that you could use to release Obama's college records during the 2008 presidential campaign.

5. Occidental College in California, may history condemn you if America eventually finds out that President Obama was registered as a foreign student, but you were too scared and cowardly to tell anyone until it was too late.

69 posted on 10/08/2009 11:59:30 PM PDT by john mirse
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To: Psalm 144
This is not an attempt at hyperbole - the present crises will attain critical mass long before politicians act with integrity.

Which situation is not endemic solely to this nation. It is a situation which obtains globally, almost as if it were planned that way by an unseen hand...

the infowarrior

70 posted on 10/09/2009 12:02:04 AM PDT by infowarrior
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To: doc1019

“Unfortunately, incompetence is not an impeachable offense.”

That’s not his greatest offence. Breaking the economy, betraying our allies, colluding with our terrorist enemies, seeking to destroy the best medical caresystem in the world - - - he’s maliciously evil, not just incompetent.


71 posted on 10/09/2009 5:52:05 AM PDT by RoadTest (Religion never saved anyone, and never will.)
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To: RobinMasters

well I don’t know, I would yell it real loud, but thats just me.


72 posted on 10/09/2009 5:53:11 AM PDT by dforest (Who is the real Jim Thompson? I am.)
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To: calex59

Right on Target. This is not incompetence; it is a blatant, deliberate attempt/move to destabilize the U.S.


73 posted on 10/09/2009 6:03:45 AM PDT by Outlaw Woman (In Defense of Liberty.........Radicalism may be necessary.)
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To: RobinMasters

Obama is not President. He is a usurper holding the office invalidly.

I renounce Obama and all his words. I do not even recognise him as President de facto.

There is no need for impeachment. Remove him from office today and hold him for trial on fraud and conspiracy and other major crimes.


74 posted on 10/09/2009 6:07:24 AM PDT by bvw
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To: calex59

I certainly find your list interesting, but the most serious mistake obuma made was in the stimulus money for the states. In that legislation, state legislatures were given the power by the federal government to ignore any objections by state governors. This, in fact, illegally nullified the elected office of governor in every state.

Now that is outright sedition committed by obuma and every congresscritter who voted for that. So impeachment is not the answer.

What’s needed is an American-style Nuremburg trial to indict and punish the seditious left in this country.


75 posted on 10/09/2009 6:33:07 AM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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To: Tennessee Nana
Its past time to yell “MARINES” and get that guy in OUR White House arrested for treason...

Marines can't arrest the President.

First, Marines arresting anybody on US soil is a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.

Second, any Marine arresting the President would be violating his oath of enlistment and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Third, the Constitution prescribes the only way for removing a sitting President -- which happens to be impeachment, not military coup.

76 posted on 10/09/2009 7:26:42 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Alter Kaker

Marines can’t arrest the President.
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I’m really not particular...

Make a citizen’s arrest yourself, if you like...


77 posted on 10/09/2009 7:30:45 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: M. Dodge Thomas

Exactly. It’s a stupid idea for so many reasons.

As with guns, he’s the most effective salesman around for conservative principles of government. People HATE the statist redistribution schemes he comes up with. Why would you want him out of the public eye?

Impeachment, unless you are absolutely sure you could pull it off, just buys him sympathy and diverts attention from his policies.

If you WERE sure you could pull it off, you get the idiot Biden in office. While that might partially counter my other argument against removing Obama, it wouldn’t improve the status quo any either, so what’s the point of going to all that work and taking all that risk that it might work the other way?


78 posted on 10/09/2009 8:43:42 AM PDT by Still Thinking (If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
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To: virgin
I expect the fraud’s handlers will find a way to allow this disgraced failure to resign for, let’s just say, health reasons before any other means of dumping the usurper is successful.

That's an interesting thought. I hadn't considered they might just ask him nicely. I did consider they might stage an assassination, for several reasons.

First, the same reason I argued it was a bad idea for Republicans to push for impeachment: he's the best salesman for conservatism on the public stage. He's been an absolute disaster for the democrats. All he's doing is trying to advance the policies liberal Democrats have wanted for decades, but either he isn't very persuasive, or the electorate isn't as ready for Communism as the D's calculated. So as long as he's in place, he's a big problem for them.

Plus, if he's removed violently, his statist policy proposals would probably get a free ride for several months to a year while the spineless RINO's are too afraid to oppose anything on principle if it's something "Obama would have wanted".

Third, the race card is very close to expiring. A half black guy got elected to the highest office in the land. How many more times can they whip out that old canard and seriously expect people to buy it? If he were removed violently, the expiration on the race card gets changed to 09/9999. They'd NEVER have to stop using it. At least, that's probably the way THEY think it would play.

For all these reasons, I think the Republicans should provide Obama with the best security money can buy.

79 posted on 10/09/2009 9:00:43 AM PDT by Still Thinking (If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
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To: Tennessee Nana
I’m really not particular... Make a citizen’s arrest yourself, if you like...

On what charge or authority? You can remove a sitting President one of two ways: impeachment and invoking Section 4 of the 25th Amendment. Arrest is not an option.

80 posted on 10/09/2009 9:03:29 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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