Posted on 7/24/2010, 4:04:22 AM by USALiberty
Eleven years ago, like every citizen elected to serve in Congress or any person appointed to any federal position, I swore an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic."
I've always thought it significant that the Founders included domestic enemies in that oath of office. They thought liberty was as much at risk from threats within our borders as from outside, and French political thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville agreed with that warning.
In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the greatest threat to our nation was clear - and foreign. While Islamic terrorism still represents the greatest external threat to America and American lives, the avowed program of the Obama regime has changed the picture in a fundamental way.
For the first time in American history, we have a man in the White House who consciously and brazenly disregards his oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution. That's why I say the greatest threat to our Constitution, our safety and our liberties, is internal. Our president is an enemy of our Constitution, and, as such, he is a danger to our safety, our security and our personal freedoms.
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If Tancredo is saying what I THINK he is saying, does he actually have the guts to back it up?
I don’t think they have grounds to impeach him. Not yet. But I would not be surprised if they ultimately do.
What does surprise me is that none of his appointees have been indicted yet. Surely the Chicago machine politician is not cleaner than Clinton.
Today, that means bringing impeachment charges against Mr. Obama.Wow, good stuff! Thanks!
Smart would be a universal cry for impeachment NOW, so that Plan B would be the November election. Other way around doesn’t look so good. It will be called sour grapes for a variety of reasons. We have dawdled away most of the summer banking on November, which will change what exactly?
Still not enough conservatives to undo the smallest irritant, let alone turn around the catastrophic institutionalization of socialism injected into government, especially with the czar appointments who have the power of congress but get to bypass congress. It just appears that all three branches must be retaken to take on this monstrosity.
FANTASTIC article... one can only hope.
But I agree with the posters at the site... this would just be another Clinton impeachment redux. You might get impeachment, but you would never get removal from office. And Zero’s supporters would riot in the streets.
“I don’t think they have grounds to impeach him.”
You are right. However the voters can do it in 2012.
bump
ummm influencing elections in Kenya, social security fraud, etc etc etc
In a broad sense, being an enemy of the constitution is to commit acts which it directly (in its text) or indirectly (through the mechanisms it has set up) deems to be wrongs or crimes. In this sense, Mr. Obama’s crimes are no more special with respect to being inimical to the constitution than anybody else’s crimes. The mechanism for dealing with these crimes is special, however.
“And Zero’s supporters would riot in the streets.”
That’s why God made fire hoses and police dogs.
We can impeach someone that is illegitimately holding an office? Why not just get the SC to do their job and dump him out? Oh, we can’t expect the SC to honor their oaths. Darn..I thought I had it solved.
We can wait until he has his thugs come for us. He has all the guns and cards at the moment. The military is bowing and scrapping before this dud despite their oaths. We have a nation full of oath breakers.
Who is "they?"
As to the grounds for impeachment, by any historical yardstick, he provided grounds in his first six months in office. Unfortunately the checks and balances of the Republic have been brushed aside in the previous twenty years. The Supreme Court can only act as spectators, and the Congress tolerates Hussein to maintain their grasp on the ultimate power. And Congress is the only body that can impeach him.
Further, The Supreme Court can't initiate preventive action about abuse of power and treasonous behavior. They are merely observers until the damage is actually done and formal judicial charges are made and processed.
What I do expect the Undocumented President to try next is the Jacksonian move of deciding, "The SCOTUS has made their decision; let them enforce it!"
I am going to make the risky assumption that the majority of American citizens are aware that the Executive Branch of our Nation is Constitutionally designated to apply and execute the decisions of the Supreme Court.
How is that likely to work out?
The scary part, as well as the fond hpe for the citizens is that if the executive goes down hard, the Legislative will follow immediately, and we can have our country back.
There are already plenty of grounds for impeachment, but even after November 2, there will almost certainly be enough progressives in the House, to prevent impeachment, or in the Senate, to prevent a guilty verdict. Plan “K” would be more likely to succeed, but the collateral damage might be almost as bad as letting 0b0z0 serve out one term.
Means nothing. Felonies are part of being a Democrat. They are better than us. They do not pay for their crimes.
Perfect! That would save having to hunt them down individually and then having to cook up some excuse for ventilating them. If the assh*les riot and start destroying property, we can just sit in the window and plink at will, and justifiably claim self-defense.
< ironic rationalizing/off >
:-)
God Bless Johnny Cash, John Wayne, and Tom Tancredo!
Bravo!
but i think Tancredo is right in his description of what obama and the left are doing.
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