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Krauthammer: Obama Committed a “High Crime” and Should Be Impeached [WATCH]
Conservative Tribune ^ | June 18 2014 | Conservative Tribune

Posted on 06/18/2014 1:56:18 PM PDT by PoloSec

A recently released Congressional report makes the case that President Obama was indeed behind the IRS abuse of conservative and Tea Party groups.

Evidence has been found linking the IRS attacks to senior Democrat members of Congress, and shows that the IRS broke the law by providing confidential tax information to Democrats and to the Department of Justice. This information was then used against conservative individuals and groups to silence their dissent.

Meanwhile, only a year after they were requested, the IRS finally agreed to release all of Lois Lerner’s emails, which should provide further evidence linking the IRS attack to Washington and the White House. Conveniently however, the IRS just now says that two years worth of Lerner’s emails have mysteriously vanished in a hard drive crash that occurred in 2011.

Most people aren’t buying the IRS excuse though, especially conservative columnist and Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer, who thinks the IRS is either stalling or deliberately destroyed evidence. He reacted to the story, and the statement from the White House defending the IRS’ lame excuse, saying what happened constitutes a “high crime” worthy of impeachment.

(H/T Western Journalism)

First, the White House statement that was delivered by new spokesperson Josh Earnest:

It’s entirely reasonable because it’s the truth and it’s fact, and speculation otherwise I think is indicative of the kind of conspiracies that are propagated around this story. There is ample evidence to indicate that a good faith effort has been made by the IRS to cooperate with Congressional oversight, and the far-fetched skepticism expressed by some Republican members of Congress I think is not at all surprising and not particularly believable.

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To: NorthMountain

not just Obama, every unelected staffer too.


21 posted on 06/18/2014 2:22:18 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: WildHighlander57; LucyT; maggief; crosslink

Biden ? Boehner ? You stay in office by making sure the replacements are also unacceptable !


22 posted on 06/18/2014 2:23:13 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: PoloSec

23 posted on 06/18/2014 2:35:35 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: PoloSec

OK Charles , but please remove Reid and Holder first . This is probably the main reason Holder has stuck around so long


24 posted on 06/18/2014 2:37:03 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: longtermmemmory

For sure ... the Communist Usurper has surrounded himself with a maladministration of malefactors.


25 posted on 06/18/2014 2:38:09 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: cynwoody

They’ll never allow it

Watch what they would replace him (joe) with.


26 posted on 06/18/2014 2:41:27 PM PDT by stanne
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To: cynwoody

Funny, as comical as Biden is, he is most qualified of the bunch to be President.

That’s sad.


27 posted on 06/18/2014 2:45:00 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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To: Gen.Blather

how about the SS ? Are they corrupt also?


28 posted on 06/18/2014 2:46:36 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: stanne
Impeachment is a political act, but the objective is to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. If Congress is unwilling to do its duty because it seems futile in terms of who might replace Obama, then they all must go.

No doubt, any impeachment attempt will fail ultimately in the Senate, which will not convict Obama if impeachment gets that far. But what other options are open to curb a tyrannical President who is openly flouting the law and circumventing the legislative process?

29 posted on 06/18/2014 2:47:24 PM PDT by kabar
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To: PoloSec

I remember this from the Clinton impeachment. “High crime” was any crime committed by somebody in a high place. In other words ANY crime by a person in a high place. Nothing higher than President. Misdemeanor is simply bad behavior, bad demeanor.
President was to be held to high standards. Of course.


30 posted on 06/18/2014 2:48:20 PM PDT by all the best
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To: bert

FWIW....I’d prefer Biden to Boehner for two years. Why? As President, Boehner would destroy anything constitutional conservatives want. If Biden were president, DC ‘pubs would rally to conservative issues.


31 posted on 06/18/2014 2:49:25 PM PDT by grania
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To: kabar

Clinton did not have Obamacare, IRS treachery, Bengazi negligence, Iraq disaster etc.


32 posted on 06/18/2014 2:52:01 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: LeoWindhorse

“how about the SS “

I meant the men that Obama brought with him into office. The functionaries that come with the White House, the staff, the Marines, the Secret Service, should be like they always were. But they, generally, have no evidentiary value as to high crimes and misdemeanors unless they witness them. I’d consider that unlikely.


33 posted on 06/18/2014 2:53:11 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Gen.Blather

witness and generate the video/recorded evidence


34 posted on 06/18/2014 2:57:41 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: bert

It is all about who has an R or D after their name in Congress. The Democrats will not vote for impeachment nor will a number of Reps.


35 posted on 06/18/2014 3:01:19 PM PDT by kabar
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To: PoloSec
"NOT EVEN A SMIDGEN OF CORRUPTION"
36 posted on 06/18/2014 3:01:34 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: kabar

we need a way to do this by un-election.


37 posted on 06/18/2014 3:03:48 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: stanne

I think the rule of law...and doing what’s right..Trump who’s next in line.


38 posted on 06/18/2014 3:04:31 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

Like Hill, is going to deep-six a fellow traveler.


39 posted on 06/18/2014 3:06:11 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: bert

Good God help us!!!


40 posted on 06/18/2014 3:06:56 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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