HELLO PRESIDENT BIDEN
Posted on 05/29/2010 6:34:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
All of a sudden, everyone is talking about the possibility of impeaching Barack Obama.
Drudge is writing about it. Sean Hannity is talking about it. Dick Morris is saying that the potential scandal is "enormous.". Karl Rove called it an "extraordinary charge." WorldNetDaily.com wrote that "it could be grounds for impeachment."
What happened? The story surrounding the alleged bribe of Congressman Joe Sestak initially broke way back in February. We wrote about it then, but it never broke out into the mainstream media. But because of activist pressure and the courageous work of California Congressman Darrell Issa the story refused to die.
ImpeachObamaCampaign.com alone has delivered more than 750,000 petitions to Congress in support of impeachment. Make no mistake, patriotic Americans are driving this sudden turn of events. It is a testament to what can happen when patriotic Americans refuse to look the other way, and they make their voices heard in a real and meaningful way. It didn't hurt that Obama has failed to answer the questions surrounding the attempted bribe of Congressman Joe Sestak.
So did Barack Hussein Obama commit a felony by offering Congressman Joe Sestak a "high ranking" Cabinet position to drop out of the Pennsylvania Senate race against Sen. Arlen Specter?
Let's be clear. The commission of an actual felony is not actually required in order to impeach a sitting president, but if Sestak's allegation is true, and if Barack Hussein Obama's fingerprints are all over this offer, that's a felony, and drawing up Articles of Impeachment against Barack Obama becomes a necessity.
According to Judge Andrew Napolitano with Fox News: "Federal law makes it a felony to offer 'anything of value' to an official of the government in return for a decision in your favor by that official of the government; it is called bribery."
And Congressman Darrell Issa has been relentlessly pushing the matter. He's called on Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the allegation, but Holder is essentially ignoring the request.
Recently, Issa directly challenged Holder: "You don't answer or apparently investigate. ... You're not investigating whether it's a false statement by a member of Congress or a crime by the White House. What are we to do?"
Back in February, Sestak confirmed to Larry Kane, a Philadelphia talk-show host, that the White House dangled a "high ranking" job in front of him to convince him to drop his primary challenge against incumbent Arlen Specter.
Initially, the Obama White House denied the accusation. According to a Fox News report: "White House official told Fox News that Sestak is expected to 'clarify' the allegation."
But Sestak didn't take the hint... he didn't "clarify" the accusation.
He stood by his statement and told Fox News: "I was asked a direct question yesterday and I answered it honestly."
Just prior to the Pennsylvania primary, Issa confronted Holder directly, but Holder refused to comment on the case. When Issa questioned Holder on why he had not responded to his request for a special prosecutor, Holder simply said that he thought he had responded to the request and offered his apologies.
Is it possible that Sestak lied, or that he was simply mistaken?
It seems unlikely as White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs issued the following carefully guarded statement to the press: "I'm told whatever conversations have been had are not problematic" and Gibbs added that the matter was "in the past."
Stonewalling... obstruction... but it's clear by Gibbs' statement that someone made Sestak an offer.
Keeping in mind that only Barack Obama has the authority to appoint an individual to his own Cabinet, the only question that remains is: What did Obama know and when did he know it?
The American people deserve an answer.
I killed him, your honor. But that was in the past. Can we move on already?
Obama needs to be impeached and tried for treason, along with Eric Holder.
So true. nothing makes the "rats" abandon ship faster than their our thin hides being skinned and hung out to dry.
Obama wouldn't stand a chance if the democrat party was going the way of the whig party. He would be able to find all his old friends under the proverbial bus he has tossed everyone else under :)
Seems that several “gates” have just evaporated. Pelosi supposedly lied to Congress, but POOF, the story was gone after a week or two. No matter how egregious, this bunch provides a few juicy headlines for a while and then proceed however they wish.
In retrospect, it's all pretty amazingly simple, isn't it? Grab the reigns of power vested in the Constitution through legitimate electoral means simply by corrupting the electoral process itself.
Once the electorate was sufficiently debased, all they had to do was manufacture & cleanse a candidate based on perceived positive qualities (ie affirmative action to achieve "inclusiveness", etc) promoted to the 'new' debauched electorate.
I seriously doubt Hussein gives a flying f&ck whether he is impeached or not. This whole thing has been a pretty funny little trip, no? Look at it from his perspective; he's doin' a little toot, smoking da chronic, etc, and generally jiving by.
Some people approach him, tell him he's got the 'right stuff' if he agrees to be groomed and basically not do anything - they will take care of everything. Which, of course, they have.
So I put it to you: don't you think he considers this all just a big put on, a lark? Can't we tell from his mannerisms, attitude & demeanor?
The problem isn't Hussein - he's merely a symptom. The real danger to the Republic is the debauched & debased electorate (his hard 25-40% support group) that is still allowed to vote.
Bill Clinton was the first black POTUS only to blacks.
Evil white people just thought he was a dirty old man and liar among other things
not sure what would upset obammy’s supporters more, if he were impeached for high crimes or if some nut job offed the marxist bastard.
Can anyone tell me what part of Section 18 refers to the attempted bribery of public officials with non monetary value as either a felon or misdemeanor regardless of whether it was direct or indirect.
I believe Bill Clinton had better get his lawyers together.
I agree with you-—I think we would all just love for him to go away—but that’s what elections are for. I also think that this thing with Sestack (or however it’s spelled) is repeated in the halls of congress more often than we’ll ever know.
The one trait he clearly shares with the Clintons is the belief that loyalty is a one way street.
It will fizzle.
Team Obama are already deflecting. At most, Team Obama will find a scapegoat or two to send to slaughter.
GOP doesn’t have the vote or the backbone — this session. Even if they win big in November for the House, they will lack the vote in the Senate.
They may impeach then, but they won’t get favorable vote in the Senate. And if they do attempt to impeach, that could sour many voters and give Obama a 2nd term.
The Nazi war crminals would have been better served with that line of defense rather than the "I was only following orders" line.
At which point, the meme from the MSM for the following 22 months will be that the political witchhunt by the Republicans is distracting Obama from his laser-like efforts to create jobs, improve health care, protect our homeland, blah, blah, ....
The post-mortem from his sycophants will be, ala Clinton, that he could've accomplished SO much more if his energies weren't diverted to having to defend himself in a bogus impeachment trial.
It is posted on FR but don’t ask me to use Fr search.
This country is FILLED with people who don’t know that the first BLACK Speaker of the house was elected BEFORE 1800. It is the liberal LEFT which has done its damnedest to erase history as well as make their own country look as bad as they possibly can.
We have an usurper in the White House, the cretin is NOT a Natural Born Citizen, he was born as British as he is American and that right there makes the whole federal government not only unconstitutional but ILLEGAL.
Of course Obama thinks that because he has THUS FAR gotten away with the single biggest KNOWN crime in the history of this Nation, that he can do ANYTHING he wants to. Including giving up our territory to Mexico.
A bribe of a position in the Administration to a career Navy Veteran had to be one that if Sestak has ANY honor at all, must have made the man sick to his stomach. A bribe, thats small fry compared to what Obama is doing with Health Care, the Financial Sector - and between the two of THOSE issues, the federal Government will control 60% of the economy of the United States.
Obama must think this bribe is a gnat fart in a hurricane compared to his larger crimes.
The cretin not only needs to be taken down a peg or two he needs to live a very long humiliating life as an impeached and or felonious ex-president.
We all know what’s in the White House. It REEKS of corruption from top to bottom. No one has figured out a way to get him OUT ASAP with out starting a civil war.
This may well be it. Hence the sharks (press) circling on a holiday weekend.
No.
This goes on all the time. Chicago politics as usual. Remember the scandal selling Obama’s old seat? The press has no taste for covering that at all. Sestak was clueless enough to say it. I wouldn’t want to be him today, the pressure must be enormous.
I can’t imagine anything happening. Rahm is a sharp operator. This won’t get to Obama. Some other poor schmuck will take the fall, perhaps even Rahm.
Remember how Bill Clinton’s national security advisor destroyed and stole a whole bunch of records? The MSM worked hard to hide that.
I meant to add: “No. More. O.”
Leave this alone until AFTER the November elections. This impeachment talk with bring dems out to the polls in record numbers. What is the matter with everyone?
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