WashTimes OpEd: Impeach the President?

The Washington Times ^ | Friday, March 19, 2010 | Jeffrey T. Kuhner

[kristinn]

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Mr. Obama is imposing a leftist revolution. Since coming to office, he has behaved without any constitutional restraints. The power of the federal government has exploded. He has de facto nationalized key sectors of American life - the big banks, financial institutions, the automakers, large tracts of energy-rich land from Montana to New Mexico. His cap-and-trade proposal, along with a newly empowered Environmental Protection Agency, seeks to impose massive new taxes and regulations upon industry. It is a form of green socialism: Much of the economy would fall under a command-and-control bureaucratic corporatist state. Mr. Obama even wants the government to take over student loans.

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The Slaughter Solution is a poisoned chalice. By drinking from it, the Democrats would not only commit political suicide. They would guarantee that any bill signed by Mr. Obama is illegitimate, illegal and blatantly unconstitutional. It would be worse than a strategic blunder; it would be a crime - a moral crime against the American people and a direct abrogation of the Constitution and our very democracy.

It would open Mr. Obama, as well as key congressional leaders such as Mrs. Pelosi, to impeachment. The Slaughter Solution would replace the rule of law with arbitrary one-party rule. It violates the entire basis of our constitutional government - meeting the threshold of "high crimes and misdemeanors." If it's enacted, Republicans should campaign for the November elections not only on repealing Obamacare, but on removing Mr. Obama and his gang of leftist thugs from office.

It is time Americans drew a line in the sand. Mr. Obama crosses it at his peril.

[JohnBovenmyer]

I'm not mixed up on this, but I may not have been clear. I want to impeach Clinton again, but from a different "office" - from all the benefits that have been piled on former presidents, totalling several million $ a year if I recall correctly, and to this time convict him. Then justice will have been served.

As for Senators, we may think all government officials, including Senators, can be "impeached." The historical record shows the Senate doesn't think they can be impeached. They didn't rule the House charged Senator innocent, they essentially ruled the House bill of impeachment out of order, null and void. It probably wasn't the way you were taught the Constitution - it wasn't for me - but it is what happened. Unless one can break this legal precedent Senators cannot be removed via impeachment. It appears that the Supreme Court isn't the only source of bad constitutional precedents in US history.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

No and yes.

Its a mainstream paper, yet somehwat more center than the usual left rags.

[metalurgist]

We could just toss Pelousy off of the Golden Gate Bridge instead

You can't do that! It would be inhumane. You have to tie a safety line around her neck first.

All those fish in the bay would be poisoned if that filthy bitch were to fall into the water.

[DrewsMum]

“at the outbreak of hostilities with Great Britain in 1776, one third of the populace were with the crown, one third were neutral, and one third kicked King George’s a$$.”

But, if memory serves...as the war got into full swing, patriots were telling those who were neutral to basically CHOOSE A SIDE OR ELSE....and if you can’t choose then you’re with THEM....

I CAN NOT STAND FENCE SITTERS....they are cowards!! Get off the fence and choose a side!! Have the guts one way or the other...I can understand why God said either be hot or cold but if you’re lukewarm, I’ll barf you up (or something like that... )

[sheikdetailfeather]

I believe this book by Weather Underground will shed some light on what the plan is:

http://www.zombietime.com/prairie_fire/

THE BANNER OF CHE

The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

Revolutionary war will be complicated and protracted. It includes mass struggle and clandestine struggle, peaceful and violent, political and economic, cultural and military, where all forms are developed in harmony with the armed struggle.
Without mass struggle there can be no revolution.
Without armed struggle there can be no victory.

[Ronbo1948]

Ref. http://www.zombietime.com/prairie_fire/

What’s really shocking to me is that the Feds didn’t arrest, convict and send to prison for life ALL members of the SDS...

If we ever do get a stalwart Republican President and Congress in office again with some balls, a high priority should be given to some serious Red Hunting.

Also, mass arrests of the Islamists and the closure of radical Mosques, schools and training centers.

If we run out of prison space, let me suggest the closed Navy base at Adak in the Aleutian Islands.

[Las Vegas Ron]

You can't do that! It would be inhumane. You have to tie a safety line around her neck first.

ROTFLOL!!

Thanks for the great laugh to start my day!

[Ghengis]

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