Posted on 03/22/2012 5:06:47 AM PDT by geraldmcg
Looking for Constitutional grounds to impeach the president? This could do it.
Every member of the armed forces of the United State of America takes an oath to defend and protect our Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The President of the United States as Commander in Chief of those military forces takes that same oath. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution grants the power to declare war to Congress, not the president, not NATO, and not the United Nations.
But forget all that. Now Obama's Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has decided the power to authorize offensive military operations is no longer the responsibility of Congress. On March 7, 2012 Leon Panetta told a Congressional oversight panel that he prefers building an international consensus, seeking the approval of foreign leaders before conducting military campaigns. Only then does he consider consulting Congress for its input.
Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Payne and all other founding fathers must be spinning in their graves. It's time now to determine whether the Constitution still matters!
Panetta's answers so infuriated Republican Congressman Walter B. Jones, of North Carolina, that he introduced a House resolution declaring the Obama administration's cavalier use of military forces, without Congressional authority, to be an impeachable High Crime and Misdemeanor under Article, Section 4 of the Constitution.
Panetta's derisive attitude toward our Congress and Constitution clearly reflects that of his boss. When questioned over his right to introduce US forces into the Libyan civil war last June, Obama flippantly responded, -I don't even have to get to the Constitutional question.- Instead, Obama tried covering his tracks by sending a letter to the Speaker of the House, claiming the attack on Libya had been authorized by the United Nations Security Council.
But I supposed you'd expected loyalty to global tyranny form a man who's a -citizen of the world.-
Wouldn’t you have to be a legally-elected POTUS in order to be “impeached”??
Whaydya call it when the POTUS was never qualified for the office in the first place?
A lot of “freepers” here would prefer to discuss anything BUT Hussein’s ineligibility.
Dems control the Senate, so even if the House did impeach him, it would be perceived as an election-year ploy.
It would do more damage to the weakly GOP than to Obama.
[Recall who lost their jobs as a result of the last impeachment attempt — Gingrich(R) and and his successor Livingston(R).]
Impeach Him Now.. Don’t wait.
The question is not so much “What” Obama could be impeached for — the impossible question is “Who” do you realistically believe would actually act to impeach him *regardless* of the grounds?
Even if Obama was caught on security cameras and by the FBI in the act of personally breaking into a Watergate office to get some Lewinski-lovin’ while holding hard-copies of launch codes addressed to a known Iranian spy, the gutless, feckless bumbling, doofus-duo of Boehner/McConnell wouldn’t do a thing about it.
Unfortunately for the country, we are stuck with the kenyan until he is voted out.
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