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.
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There's that. And the fact that "leftist people" lie a lot.
Whisper? How about SHOUT!!!
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.
And I work in an extremely liberal office building in that bluest of blue states Connecticut :-)
Makes a nice conversation piece
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/
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
“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.
well I don’t know, I would yell it real loud, but thats just me.
Right on Target. This is not incompetence; it is a blatant, deliberate attempt/move to destabilize the U.S.
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.
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.
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.
Marines can’t arrest the President.
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I’m really not particular...
Make a citizen’s arrest yourself, if you like...
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?
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.
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.
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