Posted on 10/23/2010 4:26:20 AM PDT by USALiberty
If Republicans take control of the House, there is "not a chance at this point" that they will try to impeach President Obama, a top Republican lawmaker said this week.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who would helm the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee if the GOP wins on Election Day, said that his party will not try to bring impeachment charges simply because it disagrees with the president.
"Not a chance at this point. I don’t see it happening," Issa said when asked if there is a chance of impeachment on Bloomberg's "Political Capital," which airs over the weekend.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
The bottom line is that Obama is not worth impeachment. He is just an empty suit. Instead, a much harder task is to break his machine.
Europeans jokingly say that Americans are either cowboys or gangsters, but we call them Republicans and Democrats. And there is more than a glimmer of truth in this.
If you look at the Democrat party from one point of view, it seems to be little more than organized crime, big city machine factions. Right now, the Chicago machine dominates. The Clintons were from the Arkansas machine. There is also the New York, Boston, and the West Coast machines as well as a few other, smaller ones. What we think of as the major blocks within the Democrat party, like the unions, and ACORN, are much like national criminal gangs that are just the glue holding the big city gangs together.
And things hatve been much this way since the first half of the 19th Century.
And they, not Obama and Pelosi and Reid, are what is eroding and even trying to destroy America. That is why it is essential that we all use this election to achieve a new goal.
Don’t allow them to blame these figureheads, and say that America is rejecting *them*. Instead, we all have to get out the message that America is profoundly rejecting “gangsterism”, “socialism”, and all the failed, wrong, and miserable ideas of the left and the Democrats.
Leftist academics and teachers in our schools have to be dismissed, because what they teach is worthless and useless.
Socialized medicine, federal absolutism, Man Made Global Warming and radical environmentalism, the “whole language” English of Noam Chomsky, the “whole mathematics” failure being used to abuse children, the Kinskey sexual perversion organization, the homosexual agenda in public schools, etc.
This is what needs to be impeached, not the impotent, empty suit in the White House.
I’m as frustrated as you are, USALiberty, but I don’t see the wisdom of impeachment. Let’s defeat the SOB in 2012. That would be much better satisfaction, because it would render his ideas as being out of favor. That’s where our political energies should be.
Saying anything else before election day would increase dem turnout. I would have responded the same. Why say anything ten days out that would motivate their base?
He will be increasingly unpopular as time goes on. Let's look ahead for 12 months:
1. Something bad is going to happen overseas, Afghanistan, Iran, Korea, China, Pakistan or any number of other flash points would stress Hussein and drive his popularity down. Remember what Biden said "it might look like we are doing the wrong thing".
2. There is a good possibility of another successful domestic terror attack. Hussein thinks that "we can absorb it" This "who cares" attitude will not serve him well.
3. If the tax cuts aren't extended, and I don't think they will be, a new recession/depression is virtually guaranteed.
4. Issa will keep up his investigations, and the results will be devastating.
His popularity will go straight down. The dems will be in revolt, having been led off the cliff once, they won't want to go off again in 2012. Hillary will mount a challenge. Hussein will be impeached or quit.
What you said!
“If the GOP does the right thing and defunds most of the government, then 0bama is going to be quite bored the next 2 years.”
As long as there are vacations to take and books about himself to read, our Dear Leader will NEVER be bored.
Some of you ragers need to calm it down! Do you numbskulls have any idea what impeaching Obama would do....it would DESTROY conservatism. Aside from real proof....and I mean proof even Dens would acknowledge because it is undeniable and a very big deal....there is no point in impeachment.
Just because the GOP doesn’t want to string up Obama doesn’t mean they are liking the guy.
RELAX.
Agreed. Impeachment will waste serious political capital. What about Fannie Mae Freddie Mac? Doubt anything will happen with that.
Now, anyone tell ME, do we really want to take IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT OBAMA off the table for 2011??
Source: Huffington Post (22 Oct 2010) With Democrats increasingly outraged over the Supreme Court's Citizen United decision that allowed unlimited corporate spending in elections -- a change conservatives have been more successful at taking advantage of -- a Democratic congressman is raising the prospect of impeaching the Supreme Court's chief justice over the issue. "I mean, the Supreme Court has done a tremendous disservice to the United States of America," Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) told The Huffington Post on Tuesday. "They have done more to undermine our democracy with their Citizens United decision than all of the Republican operatives in the world in this campaign. They've opened the floodgates, and personally, I'm investigating articles of impeachment against Justice Roberts for perjuring during his Senate hearings, where he said he wouldn't be a judicial activist, and he wouldn't overturn precedents."
They bring a brick, we pull out a knife.
They bring a knife, we pull out a revolver.
They bring a revolver, we pull out a B-40 rocket launcher.
They pull out a B-40, we go J-DAMS/BLU on their hides.
This is serious. 2010 the train leaves the station for Good.
GOP MAJORITY HOUSE/SENATE 2010. Impeachment of the President 2011. Conviction and Removal from office, 2012.
Maybe in these last few days, Issa' district, DC and campaign offices should be threatened with GOP support being withheld, and campaign funds going to a third party in the race.
We gotta keep pressure on these guys, and that goes for complete, total REPEAL of Obamacare, to boot.
I agree, in retrospect, i don’t think we should have impeached Clinton, but we did not have the knowledge of who was to come. GOP can’t get in the habit of impeaching every Dem president, to the simple minded people don’t understand the complexities of Clinton case, they think it was just the sex part. it was underoath lies that was the reason for impeachment.
I say for time being make bozo just as uncomfortable as possible. Use Alinsky tactics on him. thanks
melissa
All moves and directions of an impeachment of Obama only confirms he is a legally elected POTUS. Obama failed to qualify and technically cannot be impeached, arrest and removed from office on the grounds of usurpation, yes. Obama is an usurper, and usurpers are not impeached, they are tried for treason.
Unlike what the Congress did after the 1994 election (Newt tried the government shutdown). I think the Republicans should get rid of the Omnibus Appropriation Bills and start passing appropriations for each government agency separately and sparingly. Let Obama veto bill after bill that doesn’t spend enough money. Turn him into Mr. No.
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.
I am not one to shrink from the constitutional responsibility of the Congress to impeach and convict officers including presidents for "bribery, high crimes, misdemeanors." In fact, I wrote a vanity deploring the exoneration of Bill Clinton and outlining why I thought he was guilty of actual felonies.
But equally will I resist mindless invocations of impeachment because we do not like the policies of the chief executive. Show me bribery, a high crime, or even a misdemeanor, and I will lead the rhetorical charge for impeachment. Short of that, let us retain our common sense and our respect for the Constitution.
Ahh...yeah that was Issa on the Rush show this past week.
Guess he really didn’t want to hear what Rush had to say on our behalf.
Shame. It is going to cost the man.
I am in Issa’s district and I would crawl across a mile of broken glass to vote to re-elect him. He is the Jim Demint of the house and anyone who would suggest he be defeated is either an idiot or a liberal.
As much as I would like for it to happen, you will never get the necessary votes and the net result will be Americans seeing the GOP wasting taxpayers money.
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