Posted on 07/11/2014 2:49:11 PM PDT by Resettozero
he next time you hear politicians denounce Barack Obama as a lawless, imperial president with a scandal-riddled administration, ask them what they’re going to do about it. Their gnashing of teeth over Obama’s self-granted omnipotence is repetitive.
Let’s agree with our ninth president, William Henry Harrison, who said there is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive than the exercise of unlimited power. We understand the problem. The only way for politicians to fix it is with a little less talk and a lot more action.
The Constitution provides the remedy for a president who commits “high crimes and misdemeanors.” It’s impeachment.
The only thing necessary to transform America into something unrecognizable is for good men to do nothing! To be clear, “high crimes and misdemeanors” are not necessarily ordinary criminal offenses. Our Framers used the term to signify a dereliction of duty, and the first duty of the president is to enforce our laws and preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution.
Alexander Hamilton described impeachable offenses as those “which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.” He explained that they are “political” offenses “as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.”
No serious person who is paying attention can deny that Obama and his administration have abused and violated the public trust and disregarded the Constitution. Let me count the ways.
Without notifying Congress as required by law, he set free terrorist prisoners at a time of war when they can return to the battlefield to kill our troops.
In violation of our Constitution, he regularly ignores court orders, changes laws by executive fiat, and refuses to enforce laws he doesn’t like, including our immigration laws.
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PS, my congress critter is nothing but a tool of the chamber of commerce. He wakes up long enough to run for office again and between times you have to put a mirror to his face to see if he is breathing. There is however the trail of spittle that hangs from the corner of his mouth.
Fixed it.
Irrelevent. Impeachment is a singular act. A trial by the Senate on the charges of impeachment is quite another.
Y’know. I remember you from another useless thread.
Forget it. Nothing to work with.
You and Sarah are right! All of these people around here and elsewhere are always talking about how Obama is trashing the Constitution and abusing powers but when someone says that its time for something to be done about it, they strink away
Well, the House could still impeach him regardless of what the Senate does - in theory anyway, but there aren't the votes for it even in the House. Not only not the votes for it, not even close to the votes for it. So the House wouldn't even be able to refer a successful impeachment to the Senate for trial.
Even if he does, what happens when the spinate is locked because neither side will cross the aisle to find obungo guilty?
It wouldn't be locked. It's far more likely that if it were brought up the majority of Republicans would vote against it. Harry Reid would probably be thrilled to bring such a thing up if he could because he knows it would rally Obama's dependent base who are currently not paying much attention to politics. The cries of racism alone would be a big boost for the Democrats in 2014.
Sarah Palin can say this because she isn't an elected representative of anyone or anything. It's easy to argue for things that don't have public support as a political commentator or from her perch on some realityTV show. Doesn't mean her points are wrong, only that elected office holders have to weigh public opinion and she doesn't.
What is it that people don't understand about this being a pointless exercise of gumflapping when the public is not even remotely close to supporting such a thing? Impeachment is a political endeavor, if the public doesn't support the effort it is counter productive waste of time. There is no way the public is ever going to support impeaching the first black......err half black...President. The man could eat a live baby on TV and the public would probably would find a reason to just let him pass his remaining years in office. Heck, they might not even support censure for even that.
Since the old media are complicit in the cover-up, articles of impeachment rather than a news record will serve as a permanent historical feature of His presidency.
And, if we should not recover our freedoms, if we should continue our head first dive into despotism, history will record that the people of the United States made one last effort to save their republic.
Absolutely agree!
You don't know that. Listing his crimes would expose him and the "go along to get along" crowd wouldn't have any cover.
We the People need to get LOUD.
Their gnashing of teeth over Obama’s self-granted omnipotence is repetitive.
YOU SPEAK FOR ME, SARAH.
You, dear, are talking out your patoot, in polite parlance.
You have zero clue as to what "the public" is close to supporting, especially if you eliminate illegals and fraudulent "public" votes that decide elections. If not for frauds, malevolent forces like Reid, Franken, and Obama wouldn't even be in office.
You know, to the Democrat's Pepsi, Republicans aren't even Coke. They're decaf diet Coke, no guts at all, not even a buzz.
It is unfortunate we have the mid-term elections coming up because of the effect it will have on the zero infobots if impeachment gets on the front burner. For those who remember the Clinton impeachment, we saw the Republicans lose five House seats in the 1998 election and no change in the Senate. This marked first time since 1822 that the party not in control of the White House failed to gain seats in the mid-term election of a lame duck President’s second term. It is as if the Dems are baiting the Republicans with Zer0’s bizarre actions. They would love to start talk of impeachment. That way they can gin up their lazy base and mount a stronger challenge to the Republicans. We may be seeing the Democrats laying a trap for the elections. It is how they work.
As 2ndDivisionVet wrote:
“He could massacre a troop of girl scouts on the White House lawn during the Easter Egg roll, butcher them, barbecue them and serve them to all the participants and he still wouldn’t be impeached.”
All the while, the press would ask Mooselle what kind of spice rub he used and praise her for her potato salad while drinking the White House Kool-Aid.
I would love to see an impeachment. I have cried for impeachment on the Free Republic. However, it is part of the living room conversation reserved for the adults. It is fantastic we have Sarah Palin in the room to start the conversation rolling. As for the zer0 infobots, they can stay in their bedrooms and play with their Facebook and Twitter friends and talk about who has the sexy booty. I want them to be oblivious to the mounting storm awaiting the Dems next November. I want them to forget about voting in November as they forgot about our nation, when they voted the second term for that Yahoo called Zer0.
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