I had to pick myself up off the floor after you called me Butt. rofl. I haven’t been called Butt since I was a girl.
It was a term of endearment then and I’ll accept it that way now too. =)
What Obama and the country need to become aware of is that it is a federal crime to try to deceive Congress - the same Congress in charge of certifying the electoral vote. Obama doesn’t have to say a word to be guilty of deception, by what he DOESN’T say - like when he DOESN’T say that somebody put up a forged COLB on his own campaign website.
See page 12 at
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/98-808.pdf, which describes the federal general
false statement statute, 18 U.S.C. 1001 .
The only out I see for Obama is the same out that Murtha relied on when he slandered the Haditha Marines: that Congress critters can say whatever they want in a press conference because holding them to the same standard as us peons might dampen their “dialog”. But I don’t think that gives even Congress critters the right to NOT say something that must be said to correct a lie.
Maybe the legal eagles here can say more about that.
Only extends to remarks made on the floor of the House. Extended, I think, to remarks made in committee hearings and other public business meetings in the Capitol. If Congresscritter says the same slanderous thing in a presser out of town or over in Virginia, he's liable.