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Will House GOP do what's right? (...initiation of impeachment hearings to flush out evidence)
WND ^ | June 6, 2013 | Alan Keyes

Posted on 06/07/2013 11:05:32 AM PDT by Perseverando

[As interest in impeachment grows, I offer the following thoughts, reflecting my own ongoing efforts to help people think things through.]

Between right and wrong, the intended purpose of just government is to take the side of right. Given the finite nature of human power, the members of civil society may not always have the power to assure that it does so. Moreover, whatever the right intentions of people in the society at large, a government established in view of justice may nonetheless fall into the hands of people who do not take that view. When it pleases them, such people reject the choices prompted by conscience, in light of the Creator’s endowment of right. Because their choice to do so involves the defiance of good conscience, their abuses of power reflect the defection of their will from the Creator’s righteous endowment of their nature. How then can these abuses be attributed to His divine will rather than their own all too human willfulness?

What I have always admired about the American founders is the skill with which they devised and implemented a scheme for just government that offered people of goodwill the opportunity to do right or oppose wrong (i.e., exercise and/or stand upon their rights) whenever they summoned the courage and determination to do so. On account of their foresight, a few people, sometimes even only one person, can raise a standard to which people of goodwill repair. As long as the word right is fundamentally connected with righteousness, the doctrine of unalienable rights gives great support and encouragement to people willing to take a stand (as people quite literally did during the era of the founding; or the contention over slavery; or the various movements for equal civil/political rights.)

Tragically we have come to a time

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: impeachemnt; tyranny
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1 posted on 06/07/2013 11:05:32 AM PDT by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando
Nah, oh we will have calls for hearings and more hearings. We will have hearings, but nothing will change.
2 posted on 06/07/2013 11:17:07 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: Perseverando

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


3 posted on 06/07/2013 11:17:07 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up; And I will set)
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To: Perseverando

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.


4 posted on 06/07/2013 11:19:39 AM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: TornadoAlley3

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


5 posted on 06/07/2013 11:22:04 AM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: TornadoAlley3
We will have hearings, but nothing will change.

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

6 posted on 06/07/2013 11:24:13 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Perseverando

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


7 posted on 06/07/2013 11:34:30 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Perseverando

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.


8 posted on 06/07/2013 11:37:41 AM PDT by privatedrive
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To: Perseverando
WND? Ok, still deserves a Valerie Jarrett.

5.56mm

9 posted on 06/07/2013 11:39:30 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Perseverando
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.

10 posted on 06/07/2013 11:45:36 AM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: Perseverando

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


11 posted on 06/07/2013 12:11:20 PM PDT by GeorgeTex (Obama-Four M President (Mendacious Manchurian Muslim Marxist))
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To: Perseverando
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.
12 posted on 06/07/2013 12:12:22 PM PDT by jobim (.)
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To: GeorgeTex

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


13 posted on 06/07/2013 12:14:48 PM PDT by jobim (.)
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To: Perseverando

That’ll be the day.


14 posted on 06/07/2013 12:17:16 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Perseverando

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


15 posted on 06/07/2013 1:16:28 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
That is why good moral character and strong constitutional pinriplces are vital for all elected and hired gov people. Or a majority, for starters.
16 posted on 06/07/2013 1:18:38 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

Oops - would also add courage and fighting spirit.


17 posted on 06/07/2013 1:19:14 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: GeorgeTex; Perseverando

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.


18 posted on 06/07/2013 1:20:55 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: FreeReign; TornadoAlley3; don-o
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?

19 posted on 06/07/2013 1:24:59 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Jim Scott

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.


20 posted on 06/07/2013 1:26:33 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Blather. Reince. Repeat.)
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