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White House taking impeachment seriously
The Hill ^ | July 25, 2014 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 07/25/2014 7:10:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Representatives are there to uphold the law. The President is breaking the law. They, the Representatives, have a procedure to prevent future breaking of the law by this President. That is called impeachment. They either uphold their oath and enforce the Constitution by impeaching this criminal or they are complicit with him in his communistic endeavors. Politics of securing a conviction in the Senate be damned. The House needs to do the right thing! End of subject, end of discussion.

Would they finally act if he said that the next election won't be necessary?

21 posted on 07/25/2014 8:05:06 PM PDT by eeriegeno (<p>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Na , it’s never let a Crises go to waste time


22 posted on 07/25/2014 8:05:59 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Right.

Yesterday, Bob Beckel brought impeachment up and dangling it on The 5 several times. None of the other panelists took the bait.


23 posted on 07/25/2014 8:07:41 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: OftheOhio

The party line is to shelter in place, be calm and stay patient until 2016!

Also, you kinda sound like a Birther.


24 posted on 07/25/2014 8:11:01 PM PDT by TauntedTiger (Keep away from the fence!)
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To: TauntedTiger

Why don’t you go ahead and ask me if I think his wife is a tranny too, lol.


25 posted on 07/25/2014 8:21:31 PM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

I suspect that, to many people, “impeachment” implies removal from office which is which is what the late President Nixon was faced with.

But impeachment from office is a two stage process, the decision to remove somebody impeached by House from office solely up to the Senate.

In fact, all that Bill Clinton did when he was impeached by the House was to silently laugh at the House because he knew that the Senate would not remove him from office.

And just as with Clinton, Harry Reid is likewise not going to permit the Senate to remove Obama from office if impeached by the House. So the only reason that I think Obama is “concerned” about impeachment is use the situation as a stunt to make the RINO-controlled House look bad in the eyes of low-information voters who probably don’t know what is going on.


26 posted on 07/25/2014 8:27:33 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
It's not necessary to impeach this assh)le though it SHOULD be done.

Just cut off the money. Everywhere that matters to him and his fellow communists.

Gonna put 100,000 new illegals on Medicaid? Freeze program funding.

Same with EVERY transfer payment to the poor.

Eliminate EPA and IRS funding. Eliminate Ed funding.

Shut the whole damn thing down.

Everything.

Make that b!tch cry Uncle.

27 posted on 07/25/2014 8:28:41 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Besides it makes such a great fund-raising argument.....


28 posted on 07/25/2014 8:47:50 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: eeriegeno

The Representatives are there to legislate and have the sole power to impeach, but it is not required that they do so even in the egregious conduct of this president. He wants to be impeached - he is egging them on every way he can. The President is failing to perform his duties in enforcing the law, and we can all argue forever about whether he personally has broken the law - but to say this “procedure to prevent future breaking of the law” would be effective is only hoping for the ideal. Clinton was impeached for clear breaking of the law - he committed perjury. The Senate refused to convict and remove from office, and in the long run the Republicans were portrayed as the villains.

We can’t fall into the trap they so long for - they want so much for Obama to be impeached so that will become the main event people watch instead of the failure of his policies. The track record for impeachment of a President is not good. Need to find a clear case of breaking the law - not ignoring their duties or stretching the limits of the authority they have. Probably best to start with lower level officers (Lois Lerner would have been good, but she already removed herself from office) - “Fast and Furious” could be the model of laws broken - and impeach someone in the DOJ up to Eric Holder. Let the Senate fail to convict and remove and see if there is fallout.

In an ideal world people of honor would be serving in the Senate and would stand up for the right - but we are not in an ideal world. We can’t let ourselves be manipulated by Zero and his puppeteers. The current Senate wouldn’t convict any Democrat of anything, no matter what the evidence. After the November election, if there is a huge shift in the Senate - we will still be short of 2/3 necessary to convict, but a large enough loss could be enough to persuade some D’s that they would rather hang onto their job than further the work of a lame duck.


29 posted on 07/25/2014 8:51:55 PM PDT by LibertyOh
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To: Mariner

You’re all wrong, we need to impeach him now. When he doubles down as is his style, then we need to go after him and the senate big time. The senate needs to start feeling the pressure, not the house of representatives.


30 posted on 07/25/2014 8:55:59 PM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama would love to be impeached.


31 posted on 07/25/2014 9:12:31 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Amendment10

Obama wants to be impeached but before the 2014 elections. He is trying his damndest to make this happen. He would never be convicted in Harry Reid’s Senate and at the same time take the spotlight off his many dismal failures and acts of lawlessness. If we impeach him it must be after the elections in November.


32 posted on 07/25/2014 9:22:38 PM PDT by cpdiii (deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist. The constitution is worth dying for!)
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To: pallis

And he deserves it, then why not. Give it to him, can’t think of a president in my lifetime that deserves it more than him, and I can’t stand any presidents since Reagan.


33 posted on 07/25/2014 9:23:24 PM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pfeiffer - Brer Rabbit - Briar patch


34 posted on 07/25/2014 9:31:28 PM PDT by Chaguito
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"... If we impeach him it must be after the elections in November."

Under the Constitution it takes 2/3 of the Senate to agree to remove somebody from office who has been impeached by the House. So unless patriots and former Obama supporters can organize to make sure that there will be enough senators who are willing to kick Obama out of office if the House impeaches him after the 2014 elections, then impeachment is a waste of the Houses's time even after 2014 imo.

Patriots should have been working on such a project since the 2010 elections.

35 posted on 07/25/2014 9:39:53 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Exactly. “This is a lynching!”

They are trying to motivate their base (very base) voters who only operate out of fear, anger, and payola.


36 posted on 07/25/2014 9:57:38 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Team Obama is begging not to be thrown into the briar patch.

Impeachment would be morally right, totally justified, and a strategic blunder of the highest order. No way those worthless scum in the Senate would see him removed.

Impeachment is for Presidents. We don’t have one right now. The fundraising, golfing clown in chief has no shame and impeachment would just be something to keep him afloat until his term ends.

He deserves mockery, scorn and laughter. The only thing he fears is being seen for the lightweight grifter that he is, and the public at large is at long last starting to see the emperor’s clothes they marvelled at don’t exist. Let him dangle without the life preserver that impeachment would throw him.


37 posted on 07/25/2014 10:22:17 PM PDT by M1911A1
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To: Toespi

Don’t be so sure.

GALLUP: HALF OF DEMOCRATS, QUARTER OF REPUBLICANS APPROVE OF SOCIALISM

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/30/Half-Of-Democrats-Approve-Of-Socialism-One-Quarter-of-Republicans-Also-Do


38 posted on 07/26/2014 4:50:54 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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