Posted on 06/02/2014 4:19:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
On December 20, 1998 the House of Representatives approved a two-article bill of impeachment against President William Jefferson Clinton. In it, Clinton was accused of lying to a grand jury, suborning witnesses’ perjury in a civil case, and other such criminal conduct. What was missing from the Senate trial on that indictment — and from the nation at that time — was the political momentum to remove Clinton from office. So, like the only other president so far to be impeached, Clinton was not convicted in the Senate trial that followed.
Andy McCarthy, a former senior federal prosecutor, has written the new book Faithless Execution, which is both a powerful case for the impeachment of Barack Obama and also a politically savvy explanation of why it will never happen. It’s brilliant and frustrating. Brilliant because of the constitutional analysis of the impeachment mechanism and frustrating because it recognizes that no matter how deserving of it he may be, Barack Obama will never be impeached.
Article II Section 4 of the Constitution says that the President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States “…shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Treason and bribery are, of course, crimes prosecutable in federal court. When impeachment is discussed — and it’s not in polite company these days because timorous Republicans are frightened by mere mention of the “i-word” — it’s largely understood to encompass only criminal conduct.
But that’s not what the Framers understood it to mean...
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Bump!!!
BUMP!
STATES: NULLIFY UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL ACTS
AMERICANS: USE VOTING POWER TO PRESSURE CONGRESS TO IMPEACH OBAMA.
/johnny
Me thinks that our great leader would like to use an executive order to declare war on Russia and the next day surrender. He could just use a hash tag to Twitter to handle all of that needless paperwork.
Why haven’t impeachment proceedings began already?
Is there not one member of the House of Representatives who gives a damn and is willing to call for Obama’s impeachment?
I have said it before. Obama could roast and eat a baby on live television and the Senate would not convict him. That is, if the House would actually bring charges against this “historic”(first black) president. Speculate all you want, Obama isn’t going anywhere.
Impeachment is probably the wrong approach. The 2008 and 2012 elections need to be declared null and void due to fraud.
It would be...RACISM!/s
If not now maybe after 2014 elections.
Babbin makes a good case for the impeachment but the reasons it wont happen haven’t changed since the first time Obama went off the rails way back when. Depressing as Hell.
declaring those elections null and void would certainly be more likely than impeachment
The thing that would change the national mood is if Iran nukes a US city. (A foreign city won’t count as most Americans can only name London and Paris and wouldn’t be upset if either vanished.) When, not if, a city or cities are nuked Obama’s name will echo down the ages along side Stalin, Hitler and the other mass murderers. One thing we can count on is “racism” will change its meaning to disliking a bad politician. Here are other words that have changed their meaning.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/words-literally-changed-meaning-through-2173079
There are not enough America-loving congress critters to get it accomplished.
Wishin’ and hopin’ and thinkin’ and prayin’......
How long can race go on shielding this President?
Treat him like anyone else.
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Forget it.
President Teflon is Black, a member of The New American Royalty, and thus untouchable.
They should impeach Obastard every time he pulls one of these stunts of flouting the law. Not just once, but weekly/monthly. Let the Senate answer each and every one of them.
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