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To: Ira_Louvin

Impeachment of Obama is what we need. But it’s not politically expedient, apparently.

Do we the people have the patience for 2+ years more of destruction?

I am donating and volunteering to turn things around November 2nd but I must admit to being frustrated as hell with this misadministration and failure to call it out and hold it accountable. Let it ride?


18 posted on 10/22/2010 9:29:38 PM PDT by KJC1
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To: KJC1

There is no point in trying to impeach. If you try and fail you are worse off. 0bama will behave even worse and his approval will plummet even more. His base may hate him for blowing it. His party will beg him to resign like the GOP did with Nixon.


22 posted on 10/22/2010 9:36:43 PM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (If I weren't afraid of the feds, I would refer to Obama as our "undocumented POTUS")
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To: KJC1; Ira_Louvin
Impeachment of Obama is what we need. But it’s not politically expedient, apparently.
That is correct. A terrible president, perhaps even the very worst. Which is what I've thought about LBJ, Carter, Clinton, and now Obama.
But impeachment requires a true consensus - and there are at present no Democrats who will say that Obama must go. There weren't any in support of the conviction of Clinton, either - and look what happened, notwithstanding that as a matter of historical fact Clinton was guilty of perjury.

That made me wonder if the Constitution needed amending to make the 50 governors, rather than the 100 senators, the jury in impeachments of presidents. It would be the best approximation of a jury of his peers. At least then, anyone who voted against conviction of Clinton would have been testifying against himself, that he considered that he had the right, in the same circumstances, to do what Clinton had done.

As matters now stand, impeachment would be a political suicide mission, accomplishing nothing.
The real problem is not Democratic politicians, it is wire service journalism. Democratic politicians simply align themselves with the propaganda wind which blow from journalism. That propaganda wind is the natural result of the homogenization of journalism via the Associated Press and other wire services. Leftism being nothing other than the expression of the inherent biases of journalism.

55 posted on 10/23/2010 1:20:27 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (DRAFT PALIN)
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To: KJC1
"Do we the people have the patience for 2+ years more of destruction?"
The president can only sign or veto what is put on his desk. If impeachement is needed, it is the judicial branch that needs to be cleaned out. Impeach and remove the blantantly rogue judges. This would be the first step to taking back the republic.
61 posted on 10/23/2010 4:35:58 AM PDT by joe fonebone (They will get my Fishing Rod when they pry it from my cold dead fingers)
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