Posted on 07/26/2014 6:31:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When Dan Pfeiffer sat down for a Monitor breakfast Friday with reporters, the senior Obama adviser didn’t need to be asked about impeachment. He brought it up himself.
GOP House Speaker John Boehner’s move to sue President Obama has “opened the door to Republicans possibly considering impeachment at some point in the future,” Mr. Pfeiffer said.
A few hours later, White House spokesman Josh Earnest also didn’t seem to mind talking impeachment, after a reporter brought up Pfeiffer’s comment.
“There are some prominent members of the Republican Party who have articulated their support for articles of impeachment,” Mr. Earnest said at his daily briefing. “What we’re focused on is the business of the American people.”
Translation: Republicans = frivolous. Democrats = serious.
It might not even be too strong to say that Democrats love all the talk of impeachment,
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Look at all the surrender monkeys on this thread saying exactly what I just sarcastically listed. Listen to Governor Palin. If they won't do the job fire them in November.
It may well hurt the rats in the near term. What it gives in return is hundreds of thousands of rat voters in less than one generation and his much anticipated “civilian army.”
Given the percentage of Range Rovers and BMW's I see with "Hillary 2016" bumper stickers on them, that's going to be a tall order.
RE: How dare these little people demand Congress do it’s job? Don’t the little people know the media will say bad things about republicans if Congress does it’s job?
So, you’re saying impeach Obama and damn the consequences, right?
”He deserves to be impeached but at the present it would be a tactical mistake. So for the time beingheneeds to be investigated tot he fullest extent possibile and then maybe we will have something.”
There is only one way to do this. Take the senate with 55-56 seats so that we have some wiggle room from the squish. Once we have the senate, go nuclear. Reid opened that door, and we should remind the country of that.
Then turn Cruz, Lee and Sessions loose. Law after law after law that Obama broke goes public with the focus on our Constitution and how a “media proclaimed” constituinal scholar hasn’t a clue. Take on the intelligentsia.
Then once the votes are rounded up, forget impeachment. Go for the throat. We will have 2 full years to do this without anything the rats can do. Every time they whine about something, we ridicule them. Start lawsuits on every left wing organization. Make them spend their own money. Then defund every left wing organization that Americans fund through taxes.
We have 2 years to win this war. And we cannot do it being in the minority.
Fear not. There is no way the spineless Republicans will do anything to stop the Invasion. Or reign in the IRS. Or get the evidence from Fast and Furious.
What more could he do to USA and still be permitted to continue on our payroll? ( I guess we will find out - the hard way- since congress continues to protect him. )
Disagree. Three (good) polls came out a couple of days ago running about 65-70% AGAINST impeachment. (It all kinda depended on how the questions were worded and what questions went before). One was even Fox News.
All this is is a tactic to get OUR base to vote in Nov. The problem is, it motivates the Dim base as well, is one Hell of a fundraiser, and makes us look like kooks.
We need to pick and choose. If you throw everything at the wall all you get is a wall of poop and last time I checked no one is a fan of walls of poop.
When I tried big cases we really narrowed our focus. A bad approach whether it is in the courtroom or politics or even war is thinking that throwing everything at it wins. It almost never does. And last time I checked, the GOP EVEN if they get the Senate back in 2014, is in some real trouble in America. And while we are Conservatives (and not really the GOP) as they go down, so do we.
This is yet another mistake and obfuscates real issues we could and should be discussing. Politics isn’t about making your little group feel good, it’s about winning elections. Last I checked, the GOP fails at that rather spectacularly.
Yes I think Pfeiffer is trying to use this impeachment talk to circle the Dem wagons.
Obama also, like all community organizers, gets cheap thrills from bear-bating when he knows the bear is securely chained. He will continue to push towards dictatorship knowing that he can get away with virtually anything. The GOP cannot lay a glove on him and the press is flying cover for him.
The best way to resist him is to push at the state level to ignore the feral government altogether. Long before Lexington and Concord the colonists in New England had gone much down such a path. Crown courts were boycotted and, Crown taxcollectors ignored or worse. They basically set up a parallel social structure that sidelined Crown authority. Geo III's writ did not extend very far from the water's edge in Boston. Perry's NG gambit is a tiny step in this direction. The states should be looking for more opportunities to push DC out of the picture altogether.
If he is not stopped this year, the civilian army may make an appearance in about 2016 and for the greater public good, of course.
Importantly, the Republicans are keeping their strategy close to their chest, which is a good ploy, because it creates an air in the WH that their next big power grab scheme may be “the straw that breaks the camel’s back.”
Add to that a factor that nobody has yet considered: the SCOTUS. They have long been unfriendly to Obama, because he sneered at and derided them during a SOTU address. But they hold the key to tearing his agenda apart.
Right now, everyone is focused on the federal court Obamacare decision about giving subsidies. But soon, Boehner can sue Obama, about his abuse of power, and this will quickly go right to the SCOTUS as well.
In the year 1810, the Supreme Court decided the Marbury v. Madison case, which did several important things. Lesser known is that the court issued a “Writ of Mandamus” to the president, ordering him to comply. The president refused.
This established that the Supreme Court *cannot* force the president to act. However, they most certainly *can* make him stop acting, by invalidating what he orders the executive branch to do.
And if anyone in the executive branch decides to obey Obama instead of the Supreme Court, they are in contempt of the Supreme Court, which may order them arrested.
The only time the SCOTUS has ever sat as a trial court for contempt was in 1906, with United States v. Shipp. But if bureaucrats despised them, I don’t hesitate to think that the SCOTUS would kick seven bells out of them.
Importantly, the president cannot pardon such contempt citations, nor can he prevent the arrest or jailing of such persons.
He’s also trying to divide the conservatives into two camps. The meme the left is trying to push can be used against them.
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.
Thank you for the eloquent reply. Well done!
Bingo.
The best way to resist him is to push at the state level to ignore the feral government altogether.
Exactly. It will require a bit of moral fortitude but if they are willing to "bait the bear" in return, they could turn this country around. This is the way to do it and at this juncture probably the only way.
You nailed it.
take a page out of their play book and change the wording
don’t say ‘impeach’ ... instead, just say he’s going to get ‘FIRED’
people can understand getting fired for not doing your job
And just for the record I’m opposed to impeachment. If we wait another 6 mos we can skip it and just move on to forcibly remove from office and incarcerate.
They conduct the trial AFTER he is impeached...
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