Will House GOP do what's right? (...initiation of impeachment hearings to flush out evidence)

WND ^ | June 6, 2013 | Alan Keyes

[TornadoAlley3]

Nah, oh we will have calls for hearings and more hearings. We will have hearings, but nothing will change.

[rawcatslyentist]

Hopefully they will break with recent history of doing what is best for their bank account!

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

How 0bama remains completely disassociated from accountability for these scandals is astonishing. I guess if he pleads ignorance, he skates. Worse, the news media allows him to. What a travesty. We have a Dictator, accountable to no one.

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

0bama is using his agencies to get dirt on Congressmen and blackmailing them into doing NOTHING about enforcing accountability on this administration.

[FreeReign]

We will have hearings, but nothing will change.

If we come to expect that nothing will change then nothing will change.

[jeffc]

Impeachment proceedings should wait until we own the Senate along with the House. Dems stick together no matter what.

[privatedrive]

No they will not. They will send a letter that will be ignored. Like they always do.

They’re worried that if someone accuses them of ‘politicizing the issue’, that it will hurt their re-election chances.

Term Limits. Please. Only problem is, the people who vote on term limits are the same people who will be ousted by term limits. So - we’re screwed.

We really need to start primarying these people.

[M Kehoe]

WND? Ok, still deserves a Valerie Jarrett.

5.56mm

[Jim Scott]

Judging by the result of the 1999 Clinton impeachment, I'm certainly not optimistic. Obama's status as The First Black President effectively insulates him from being impeached. Even if he were impeached by the House, the Democrat senate would never vote to remove a Democrat president, especially The First Black President.

As other posters have noted, should Republicans win back control of the senate in 2014 (and retain their majority in the House), that could change. Even then, wimpy Republicans cannot necessarily be counted on to do the right thing as they know they'll be incessantly accused of 'racism' by the left and targeted for defeat in their next election race.

So, when I read about impeaching Obama I tend to sigh and roll my eyes, thinking that 'in a perfect world...' but then I open them and see we're living in a decidedly imperfect world where the most radically leftist man in the U.S. senate was twice elected to the most powerful position in the world. God help us.

[GeorgeTex]

The author is the man who lost the Illinois Senate seat to Obama. I would not take his word on this matter.

[jobim]

It is now a commonplace that information is glossed over in the urge to state one's opinion, even on FR.

Keyes makes an important point, a really important point. The purpose of an impeachment is as an inquest to ascertain wrongdoing, not to punish, or remove from office. That portion comes, understandably, after the inquest. But the impeachment inquest is protected from any gamesmanship by the administration, in ways that special counsels are not, and hence more effective.

The time is upon us for this impeachment inquest, to give full weight and time to the examination of evidence that this administration has used its power to subvert the Constitution. I believe anything short of this will prove ineffective.

[jobim]

Why expend effort in digesting one’s ideas, when the ad hominem trigger can be pulled without expending any effort?

[TBP]

That’ll be the day.

[JimRed]

Not enough guts among the GOP representatives to press the charges, not enough among RAT senators to convict.

[little jeremiah]

That is why good moral character and strong constitutional pinriplces are vital for all elected and hired gov people. Or a majority, for starters.

[little jeremiah]

Oops - would also add courage and fighting spirit.

[little jeremiah]

There were resons why Keyes did not have a fighting chance. You think that the fact obastard “won” the seat makes him an authority, since the man who lost it is not?

I don’t get your drift.

[little jeremiah]

I'm really tired of pre-emptive defeatism. TornadoAlley's exacmpe:

We will have hearings, but nothing will change.

I have a question for all defeatists (and there sure are a lot of them on FR lately).

Do Dems/leftists/commies have a defeatist, hopeless mindset? Or a "never say die/fight like hell until we win" spirit?

That's my first question.

Seocnd question:

Whic attitude do you think wins battles and wars? The defetatism, hopeless spirit, or the fight until we win spirit?

[Colonel_Flagg]

The issue for me is that we are rapidly reaching the point where impeachment is demanded not merely by expediency but also by justice.

I would be embarrassed if the party that nominally represents my interests in Congress refused to act on that basis.