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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Hopefully they will break with recent history of doing what is best for their bank account!
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.
0bama is using his agencies to get dirt on Congressmen and blackmailing them into doing NOTHING about enforcing accountability on this administration.
If we come to expect that nothing will change then nothing will change.
Impeachment proceedings should wait until we own the Senate along with the House. Dems stick together no matter what.
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.
5.56mm
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.
The author is the man who lost the Illinois Senate seat to Obama. I would not take his word on this matter.
Why expend effort in digesting one’s ideas, when the ad hominem trigger can be pulled without expending any effort?
That’ll be the day.
Not enough guts among the GOP representatives to press the charges, not enough among RAT senators to convict.
Oops - would also add courage and fighting spirit.
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.
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?
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.
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