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The Impeachment Option
National Review ^ | 5/20/2013 | Robert Costa

Posted on 05/20/2013 7:16:18 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross

Jason Chaffetz raises the prospect.

Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, says President Barack Obama may face impeachment over his administration’s response to the Benghazi attack.

“They purposefully and willfully misled the American people, and that’s unacceptable,” Chaffetz tells me. “It’s part of a pattern of deception.”

Behind the scenes, he says, House Republicans are frustrated by the White House’s evasiveness, and the calls for impeachment will likely increase.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: impeach; obama; wemuch
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1 posted on 05/20/2013 7:16:18 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
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2 posted on 05/20/2013 7:16:59 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Servant of the Cross
Republicans are frustrated by the White House’s evasiveness

Get Boehner and McConnell out of the corner bar, off the golf course or away from the daily cocktail party, kick them in their respective asses and tell them to get moving.

Impeachment is great, but it must be accompanied with REMOVAL, otherwise the 0bama regime will come back like a drug resistant germ - STRONGER. If you don't believe it, look at Bubba Klinton!

3 posted on 05/20/2013 7:20:48 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Pray THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA will be delivered from the evil unGODly forces)
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To: Travis McGee

..ANOTHER NAME the citizenship needs to see on a subpoena..NOW!!


4 posted on 05/20/2013 7:20:54 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Servant of the Cross
QUIT JUST TALKING ABOUT IT ALREADY AND JUST DO IT.
5 posted on 05/20/2013 7:22:07 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Someone needs to tell Rep. Chaffetz that Teflon comes in chocolate brown...


6 posted on 05/20/2013 7:22:40 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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7 posted on 05/20/2013 7:22:46 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

I don’t see impeachment happening between the marxist party and the go along to get along RINOs.

OTOH, people all the way from the street level to the white house need to go to prison to put some fear in them or it will continue and get worse.


8 posted on 05/20/2013 7:23:46 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Not holding my breath on that one.


9 posted on 05/20/2013 7:24:59 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

I sincerely hope the republican party doesn’t wander down this alley...

Obama is irrelevant.... I would like energies focused on the mid-term elections and 2016. If they need someone to go after, they have Hillary.


10 posted on 05/20/2013 7:26:02 AM PDT by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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To: Servant of the Cross
Unfortunately the likelihood of that happening is about the same as the president's credibility:

Zero.

11 posted on 05/20/2013 7:27:40 AM PDT by Lakeshark (!)
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The GOP would have to have supermajorities in both houses of congress to make that stick. Never happen.


12 posted on 05/20/2013 7:32:56 AM PDT by Oberon (Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

1. Hillary Clinton and Obama knew immediately that the Nakoula video had nothing to do with the attack on Americans in Benghazi.
2. They sent Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice out on five Sunday news shows to lie and say that the attacks in Benghazi were caused by the Nakoula video.
3. Hillary Clinton and Obama starred in a commercial thet aired in the Middle East apologizing for the Nakoula video. This commercial was produced and aired using US taxpayer money.

Hillary and Obama can’t blame this commercial on subordinates. They are the stars of the commercial. They knew, before the commercial started filming, that the premise of the commercial was a lie. Why would Hillary and Obama so obviously tie themselves to a lie like this? They could have hired an Arab actor to try to better appeal to an Arab audience. You don’t see our President and Secretary of State making commercials for every foreign affairs problem. Why this one?


13 posted on 05/20/2013 7:34:25 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: The Sons of Liberty
Impeachment is great, but it must be accompanied with REMOVAL, otherwise the 0bama regime will come back like a drug resistant germ - STRONGER. If you don't believe it, look at Bubba Klinton!

Exactly! The House Republicans would be wise to follow your advice on this.

The GOP should avoid any use of the "i" word for now. Just move the investigation along, and see where it goes.

Nixon was finished when the Senate Republicans started to desert him. Obama will be finished only if Senate Democrats start to desert him.

If the Senate Democrats stick with Obama regardless of the evidence, then, as you said, impeachment would be counterproductive.

14 posted on 05/20/2013 7:35:51 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: The Sons of Liberty
You are right on the money. It will take the so-called Stake in the Heart to get this bunch out of office. How about citing Obama, Biden and Hillary as conspirators and charge them with Treason? But we need an American to be Sec.of State to step into the void? How about John Bolton?
15 posted on 05/20/2013 7:37:31 AM PDT by ANGGAPO (Layte Gulf Beach Club)
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To: fwdude

This is the problem with the GOP in a nutshell - they wouldn’t mind doing something to embarrass Obama or to make his poll numbers go down, but they lack the intelligence AND the balls to try to remove him - which is, of course, the only thing that matters.

Look at the Nixon affair. He had just been reelected with 61% of the popular vote and 520 electoral votes. If there was ever a President to be afraid of attacking, it was Nixon in 1973.

But the Democrats were methodical, they were highly organized and disciplined, they chose excellent faces (Ervin and Rodino), they never wavered, and they built their case brick by brick to fit a narrative so that, not only would Nixon’s landslide voters vanish but the country would turn around and elect the most radical leftist Congress since 1936.

Who among the Republicans can you imagine capable of pulling something like that off?

And it’s worse than that. If you shoot at the king, you’d better kill him, because there are no second chances in regicide. The diffuse, disorganized, leaderless GOP “investigations” will not only not succeed, they will lend credibility to the RAT narrative that it’s all partisan.


16 posted on 05/20/2013 7:37:39 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

The ‘calls for’ might increase, but the ‘i’ will never happen. They would be painted by both the Dems and the Media as racists.

Additionally, the Chicago thugs already have the FBI records, etc. The Chicago thugs play hard ball, while the GOP plays Tiddlywinks.


17 posted on 05/20/2013 7:37:47 AM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

He needs to go to prison for voter fraud and oppression.


18 posted on 05/20/2013 7:38:59 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Travis McGee

You stand a better chance of winning the Powerball.


19 posted on 05/20/2013 7:40:53 AM PDT by anoldafvet
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To: Servant of the Cross

I don’t want him impeached. That process just imparts a legitimacy to him that he does not have.

I want to see him removed from the White House in handcuffs and legirons, then turned over to the mob of citizens in the street who will then feed him to feral pigs.

Other than that, I’m happy.


20 posted on 05/20/2013 7:43:40 AM PDT by Wordkraft (Remember who the Collaborators are.)
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