Posted on 07/30/2014 4:58:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
"Sorry to email you late on a Friday, but I need your urgent support," Nancy Pelosi wrote me.
The House minority leader went on to explain that "for the first time in history, Congress voted to sue a sitting president." And, "Today: the White House alerted us that they believe 'Speaker Boehner ... has opened the door to impeachment.'
"What Republicans are doing to President Obama is historic -- and offensive," she wrote. And then, in a bright bold red text that can't be done justice in black and white, she chided me, "With everything happening right now, I'm a little disappointed to see that you haven't had a chance to chip in to defend President Obama.
"Jonah -- we could use your support today."
Nancy (apparently we're on a first-name basis) went on to promise that ALL GIFTS ARE TRIPLE MATCHED!
This was only one of a bushel of such emails from the Democratic Party. I particularly like the ones from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee referring to the "red alert impeachment deadline," complete with a scoreboard slowly ticking upward toward $2 million. "We now have a shot at hitting our $2,000,000 goal to defend the President -- and defeat Boehner's Republican House."
No doubt as karmic payback for grave sins I committed in a past life, I am on all of the Democratic fundraising lists. In terms of whipped-up urgency aimed at low-information voters, there's nothing special about these importuning missives. I can't count how many times I've been told that if I don't chip in $5 -- right now! -- the Koch brothers will throw another puppy into the furnace of their land-raping dynamo.
But what is interesting about these emails is the transparent glee. Far more than Republicans, Democrats love talking about impeachment. Not just Pelosi and the DCCC, but White House spokesman Josh Earnest, Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer and first lady Michelle Obama all chummed the waters with the I-word, igniting a frenzy among reporters who pretend that this is a real thing.
Ostensibly the hook for all of this is John Boehner's decision to sue Obama for abusing presidential authority. Pfeiffer said Friday that the suit "opened the door to impeachment." But pretty much everyone in Washington knows that the political motivation for the lawsuit is to close, not open, those doors.
The president constantly talks about the evils of cynicism as if denouncing the alleged dishonesty of others demonstrates his own honesty. In 2008, he said cynicism was his real opponent. Last week at an L.A. fundraiser, he returned to the theme, calling Republicans liars and bamboozlers.
The cynicism of Obama's war on cynicism is breathtaking. He's wasted so much of his presidency demonizing political opponents as deranged radicals who need to shut up and get in line. Even now he is thumping the podium about "economic patriotism," as if loyalty to his views on taxation is the only proof of 100 percent Americanism.
Last fall, Obama did nearly everything he could to be thrown into the briar patch of a government shutdown in order to denounce the Republicans for shutting down the government. When it went into effect, the administration endeavored to make the shutdown as painful as possible -- a replay of a similar scheme with the sequester -- so he could arouse the public against his political foes.
Given Obama's famously low regard for the Clinton presidency, it's ironic that he keeps stealing from its playbook. Bill Clinton benefited from a government shutdown and impeachment and from the general perception that his enemies were worse than his sins. The difference is that while Clinton was hardly immune to the charge of cynicism, he wasn't trying to shut down the government or get impeached for narrow political advantage.
Now Obama is reportedly considering a unilateral amnesty of millions of immigrants here illegally, knowing full well it will spark a fierce political backlash and heighten impeachment talk. No doubt he thinks it's the right thing to do on the merits, with his famous pen and phone. What's less clear is if the merits are his top priority.
funny thing.... fundraising won’t keep him from getting impeached. know what will?
stop helping our enemies and doing things to destroy the country ... and start following the law
I know... mind blowingly complicated, isn’t it
Obama will not be defunded because the GOP is complicit with the Dem/Socialist/progressive/Communists or whatever this one world agenda is called today.
If they're worried about anything, it's November.
As of now, I don't think impeachment is a good idea. Oh, he deserves it, but it's a two-part process. Impeachment without conviction in the Senate does no good. He'd feel even more invincible than he does now.
But, what I think is good is that people are talking about it openly, and more and more people are thinking he deserves it.
Even when BJC (that's Blowjob Clinton, or more formally, Billy Jeff) was under investigation by Starr, the impeachment talk was all on the GOP side, and as I recall, the media was talking about whether or not Ken Starr had found anything significant, or whether it was all about sex.
Here, you have the media talking about impeachment for real reasons of executive over-reach, even if most of the MSM is pooh-poohing the idea... for now.
So what?
and Bonehead would not have to worry about being the speaker of the next Congress.
Again, so what? I view that as an improvement.
Sarah is correct.
It’s way past time to impeach.
My point is wait till after the election assuming the right wins it. We can then tie the bastard up for 2 years in hearings. Why roll their dice on their table now??
As far as bonehead goes, I hope he does go but I want it done by the tea party not the voters, except those in his district if they ever see the light.
In the upcoming election, I saw some polls in the paper this AM wherein Landrew is leading in La and the dem in NC. I thought these were safely going to be GOP seats. We don’t get them, regardless of the others we were “expecting”, turn out the lights on the Republic.
IMHO that is why the left is so vocal about impeachment for the last week. They fear the Alaska hockey mom more than anything or anybody. One facebook post by this gal fills Depends all over DC.
Funny how one seemingly washed up bible-thumping, gun-token, patriotic ex-governor of Alaska started started it all.
Democrats use Obama’s incompetence to raise money. Why let a Constitutional crisis go to waste when it can be used to collect money from liberal elite fools, right?
It sounds to me as though the commie lib DemocRATS are trying to trick the Republicans into impeaching their Kenyan. They’re tired of him too.
Agreed. Strategically, that makes sense.
If Landrieu wins and the NC dem as well, then the game really is up.
The LIVs really are ruining this country.
is it cause deep down dems secretly would just as soon be rid of this bore? This pathetic nothing?
I don't think they're scared of anything. Unlike republicans who play checkers, they are planning three moves ahead on the chess board of politics.
I think this a test to see how rock solid Obama's immunity to impeachment is so that even if dems lose the majority in congress, it won't make any difference and Obama will continue to veto anything that comes to him and alter or select law from the golf course with a cell phone and a pen.
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