Posted on 08/24/2013 2:44:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
WASHINGTON — Representative Kerry Bentivolio, a freshman Republican from Michigan, has a legislative dream. It is not to balance the federal budget, or find a way to help his ailing state or even take away money from the federal health care program, a goal that has so animated many other Republicans this summer.
Rather, Mr. Bentivolio told constituents, it is to put in motion the impeachment of President Obama. “If I could write that bill and submit it, it would be a dream come true,” he said this month.
Mr. Bentivolio may be lacking in his understanding of the technical details of the impeachment process — he has retained experts and historians to help him with that, he said — but he is hardly the only one with this desire.
While many members of Congress have used their August break to engage in conversations about immigration policy, the federal budget and the impending implementation of the Affordable Care Act, some Republicans have taken the opportunity to raise the specter of — if not quite the grounds for — presidential impeachment.
At least two other House Republicans told voters this month that the impeachment process could happen. And last week, Senator Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican who has called himself a friend of the president, told constituents that the nation was “perilously close” to an impeachment situation.
Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, lamented to one voter who asked about the prospect of impeachment that the Senate, controlled by Democrats, would probably not yield the needed votes for conviction. (This logic has not impeded Mr. Cruz from seeking to stop a short-term spending bill unless money is drained from the health care program.)
There is also a grass-roots movement in which citizens across the nation have been hanging signs on overpasses...
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Incompetent? He may be indeed incompetent, but his goal is to destroy the USA and empower radical Islam. He’s done a good job with both of those tasks. Oh, and homo-ize the country, neuter the military (ours), etc. Done good there too.
He’s a criminal.
Criminals should face charges. Why should he not?
And if the Senate DID have a GOP majority, he wouldn't be convicted either.
I sent REp. Ander Crenshaw and email today demanding that he initiate Articles of Impeachment!
We must impeach, convict and imprison Ophonybama!
Interesting concept - doing the right thing failed before so let's just ignore what's right and fugetaboutit...
Interesting concept - doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results... the very definition of insanity.
The place to focus our efforts is where they might actually do some good, such as cracking down on Democrat election fraud by requiring voter id and then going after Holder when he goes after Texas for requiring Supreme Court-sanctioned voter id.
Put your money where your mouth is: True the Vote
this is the group that can’t even muster the courage to defund obama care
there’s no way they’ll ever impeach obama
......While the rest of us nurture dreams of a world in which the Slimes having been relegated to the dustbin of history.
Work for a republican Senate in 2014-—we CAN get this done.
I keep saying we need a bill of particulars. Not just wishes and dislikes but “particulars” , specific claims/charges. Maybe there is space on FR to run a page of exact/specific charges, edited and added to as we go? No conversation-—just legitimate charges.
My suggestion for the first item is dereliction of duty for failing to show up in time to help out w/Benghazi. As commander-in-chief he is indeed subject to the charge since another country is involved and action can’t be taken without his order.
I guess it's asking too much for the average NY Times reporter to know that it would take 67 Senate votes to remove Obama but only 41 to block legislation.
Face it, impeachment is just a formality as long as Dems have no principles. And Obama and Holder know it.
Nixon was not impeached.
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