[don-o]

How does doing ones duty figure into this? Are we reduced to analyzing the faults and foibles of our elected representatives and the propagit machine, and then wringing our hands and raising the white flag?

Knowing the enemy and anticipating him is one thing. Conceding victory to him, in the midst of the battle, is quite another.

Allowing the most lawless President ever to escape unscathed is yet another. Being paralyzed by the fear of failure is no excuse for the dereliction of OUR duty.

[nathanbedford]

My typically long reply was entirely centered on the idea that the ground for impeachment must be prepared and it has not been done so. The failure for which is the fault of the media and of the Republican Party. I said:

Most of America was unaware of Obama's Communist affiliations in 2008 and remain unaware of them today. It was the job of the media to reveal those affiliations but they would not because they were committed to a "higher cause." The Republican opposition would not do so because they were thoroughly intimidated. Both institutions failed the nation. The Republican failure has visited baleful consequences on the nation ever since. We conservatives on FreeRepublic were fully aware of Obama's radical biography and many of us declared in 2008 that the only way juggernaut could be stopped was to "morally destroy" Barack Obama by revealing him to be the communist he was and still is. Republican timidity resulted in two elections of Barack Obama and there is no reason to conclude that Republican timidity will not extend to occasions to impeach Barack Obama. Indeed, the Republicans have failed effectively to oppose even those policies most repugnant to Republican principles…

It is only foolhardy to try to accomplish with a Hail Mary pass that which could not be accomplished because blocking and tackling were ignored.