Posted on 07/14/2014 10:37:38 AM PDT by jazusamo
Whenever Democrats are in real trouble politically, the Republicans seem to come up with something new that distracts the public's attention from the Democrats' problems. Who says Republicans are not compassionate?
With public opinion polls showing President Obama's sinking approval rate, in the wake of his administration's multiple fiascoes and scandals — the disgraceful treatment of veterans who need medical care, the Internal Revenue Service coverups, the tens of thousands of children flooding across our open border — Republicans have created two new distractions that may yet draw attention away from the Democrats' troubles.
From the Republican establishment, Speaker of the House John Boehner has announced plans to sue Barack Obama for exceeding his authority. And from the Tea Party wing of the Republicans, former Governor Sarah Palin has called for impeachment of the president.
Does President Obama deserve to be sued or impeached? Yes! Is there a snowball's chance in hell that either the lawsuit or an impeachment will succeed? No!
Barack Obama's repeated disregard of the laws that he is supposed to follow, and his blatantly changing these laws passed by Congress, are a threat to the whole Constitutional form of government, on which all our freedoms depend.
Once a president — any president — can create his own laws unilaterally, we are on our way to becoming a banana republic, where arbitrary rule from the top replaces representative government by "we the people."
Why not sue Barack Obama then, or impeach him?
For the simplest of all reasons: Neither of these actions is going to do anything to stop Obama, or even discredit him — and both can create a distraction that draws attention away from the Democrats' disasters during an election year.
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Does President Obama deserve to be sued or impeached? Yes!
My favorite part of the article.
My emotions do not agree with Dr. Sowell on this, so he must be right.
And once again the right wing talking heads line up to take the one position ensuring Obama remains protected. Just like magic.
It’s amazing to me how so many modern people are so much wiser than the people that wrote the Constitution. Maybe there was a part about covering the ass of a political party/escape clause and I missed it. They should just come out and say that they are good with him in power and save all the drama.
Sowell rightly speaks to the importance of the Senate in confirming federal judges. The GOP taking the Senate in 2014 would allow it to block some of the radical appointments Obama is making to the federal bench and should turn another far left Supreme Court nomination into a fight.
However, the GOP leadership has already signaled that a GOP majority would return to the old Senate rules effectively giving Harry Reid power to be an obstructionist and use his bullying tactics to further Obama’s agenda.
What good is a Senate win in 2014 if the Republicans give the Democrats effective veto power through the old filibuster rules?
Thomas Sowell is right again.
Hussein is more than happy for the republicans to take the stage and make buffoons of themselves as the so often do.
republicans need to step back and let Obama take the stage front and center so that his incompetence and corruption are fully exposed.
My favorite part also. I’ve posted calls for his impeachment on more than one occasion but I do believe Sowell is right about this, at this time.
Since the old media are complicit in the cover-up, articles of impeachment rather than a nonexistent news chronicle will serve as the permanent historical record 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.
And Tommie what is your plan ?
“The political fate of the Republican Party is not something that those of us who are not Republicans need to worry about. If they want to shoot themselves in the foot again, so be it.
“But all Americans have to worry — and worry big time — about the fate of this country if Republicans blow their chances of taking control of the Senate.”
So Thomas Sowell is not a Republican but wants Republicans to take control of the senate?
I generally like Thomas Sowell, but this column doesn’t compute. If the Republicans don’t sue & don’t impeach, they’re left with standing & whining about what Obama is doing. None of the options are good, but I don’t see a better course of action.
Agree
He’s playing his appointed role as pressure relief valve. Nothing more.
If pressure builds high enough, and it may, his opinion will go 180 and this article will be memory holed by his fans. Which isn’t a new thing for any of the right wing ‘elite’.
It computes for me.
There are two parties that have the chance to control the House and it’s for certain he doesn’t want the Rats controlling it.
I don’t know what party he considers himself to belong to but we now know the two he doesn’t.
Only 47.7% of adults in the U.S. are working full time.
In 2007 = 121 Million employed. Now 118 Million.
Since 2007 the U.S. population has grown by 17.2 million.
http://tbrickert.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/mort-zuckerman-the-full-time-scandal-of-part-time-america/
the GOP leadership has already signaled that a GOP majority would return to the old Senate rules
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The GOP’s weakness is only surpassed by its own stupidity.
I personally don’t think suing him or impeaching him (he’d never be impeached anyway) would do anything except provide distracton the media can focus on to save their clay hero. We shouldn’t get in the way of a party that has been pissing off it’s purported constituents in big numbers.
Sad fact of the matter is he belongs in prison or exiled but reality is what it is.
>>> It’s amazing to me how so many modern people are so much wiser than the people that wrote the Constitution. ....
Because.
These modern day people EVOLVE / EVOLVED.
Don’t you know.
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