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Judge Napolitano: Impeachment the only way to stop Obama's executive actions
The Examiner ^ | February 14, 2014 | Joe Newby

Posted on 02/18/2014 9:40:12 AM PST by Texas Fossil

While speaking with Fox News' Neil Cavuto, Judge Andrew Napolitano said impeachment is the only way to stop President Obama from ruling by executive fiat, Newsmax reported Thursday.

"The president is doing the opposite of what he was elected to do," he said. "At some point he is totally frustrating what Congress has written."

He also told Cavuto that when Obama takes unilateral action, picking and choosing what laws -- or portions of laws -- to enforce, he is actually telling people how to avoid the law.

The president has unilaterally delayed portions of Obamacare without going through Congress, and he has taken other executive actions on issues like the minimum wage, gun control and immigration.

Although some Republicans have threatened impeachment, Napolitano said that as a whole, neither Congress nor the American people have the guts to see it through. Another problem is the current makeup of the Senate. Even if Obama were impeached by the House, a Senate controlled by Democrats would never vote to convict or remove him from office.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: executive; impeach; obama; order
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To: logi_cal869

Also, any executive orders that go beyond the bounds of the discretion allowed by Congress can be overturned by the courts.

An executive order is not a law. A valid executive order merely designates how federal agencies are to apply a law, within reasonable discretion as permitted by Congress. Any EO that goes beyond these bounds has no more legal validity than a proclamation by you or I.

Whether a court would properly make this distinction is of course an entirely separate question.


21 posted on 02/18/2014 9:59:37 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Texas Fossil
Not to get off topic, but I see that the Judge is still making appearances on Fox News.

However

I never see any more appearances on Fox News by Michelle Malkin. Anyone know why that is?

22 posted on 02/18/2014 10:00:53 AM PST by ducttape45
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To: Texas Fossil
Take the Senate, then we might have a chance.

I think we had both houses of Congress when Clinton was impeached by the House and was not convicted by the Senate.

Obama by himself reminds me of the frustration we all had during the days of the Soviets. That regime seemed to be, like Obama seems now, to be completely invincible.

The Soviets were like a huge steamroller careening down a hill crushing everything in its way. But then, it came upon a Reagan and it could not go around him.

Today we have a compilation of everything that was the Soviets wrapped into one package called Obama. He seems unstoppable.

The only way to dismantle him is not through the actions of one person or a small group of people like the Congress. It will take the concerted effort of millions of Ronald Reagans.

23 posted on 02/18/2014 10:01:42 AM PST by Slyfox (We want our pre-existing HEALTH INSURANCE back!)
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To: A'elian' nation

The consensus of historians and political observers is that the Clinton impeachment backfired for the Republicans.

IMO, a successful impeachment of Obama would backfire even more, due to his race.

This is not because I believe it SHOULD backfire. I think the American people are foolish enough, however, that it would.


24 posted on 02/18/2014 10:02:10 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Texas Fossil

Impeachment is a House function not Senate. Still won’t happen IMO. Even if the Senate doesn’t remove the House should do its duty and impeach the SOB.


25 posted on 02/18/2014 10:02:41 AM PST by plain talk
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To: Texas Fossil

Romanian term limits.


26 posted on 02/18/2014 10:03:41 AM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: fwdude

That would result in Boehner as President.

Not sure that would be a huge improvement.

And, yes, VP can be impeached just like the Pres.


27 posted on 02/18/2014 10:05:06 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan
That would result in Boehner as President. Not sure that would be a huge improvement.

True. I see that as merely a slowing of the bleeding.

28 posted on 02/18/2014 10:07:48 AM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Texas Fossil

There is no direct political fix.

The solution is a sea-change in the hearts and minds of Americans, at which point they will elect better leaders. Which means the solution is cultural, not directly political, as one would expect in a society where the government is a reflection of the will of the people.

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves...”


29 posted on 02/18/2014 10:07:51 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Noumenon

Are we approaching Obama’s Ceausescu Moment?

Mr. President learn from Ceausescu!

http://www.wnd.com/2010/10/211825/

*Oct. 2010* He obviously did not listen.

Condi Rice coined the phrase “Ceausescu Moment”.

Here is a video of Ceausescu’s Last Speech, December 1989

https://chnm.gmu.edu/1989/items/show/696


30 posted on 02/18/2014 10:08:18 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Sherman Logan

Cut off funding to the Executive Agencies that are to enforce the Executive Orders. Close them down.


31 posted on 02/18/2014 10:11:06 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Sherman Logan

Oh, I forgot, the GOPe just gave them a clean budget.

Total Insanity.


32 posted on 02/18/2014 10:11:50 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Texas Fossil

Who should take the Senate? Republicans? Sorry, but that makes me giggle.

The party is so infested with liberals, it’s no longer distinguishable from the Democrats.

President Reagan is rolling over in his grave.


33 posted on 02/18/2014 10:12:40 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: Texas Fossil

Clinton earned a Get Out of Impeachment Free pass for all future POTUSes.

Congress will NEVER EVER EVER EVER again have the guts to go there. Unless it is a Republican POTUS and a filibuster-proof Democrat Senate.

In the long run there will be a steep historical price to pay for the failure to bring Free Willy down.


34 posted on 02/18/2014 10:13:18 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Sherman Logan

Won’t work.

Either we fix this at the elections, or the consequences are “unthinkable”.

No sane person wants to go there, but there is always a final option.


35 posted on 02/18/2014 10:13:19 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Same problem now. An unwilling Senate.


36 posted on 02/18/2014 10:14:12 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: fatnotlazy
President Reagan is rolling over in his grave.

Yes, and the founders. And Barry Goldwater.

37 posted on 02/18/2014 10:15:48 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Texas Fossil

He’s correct.

So, as a practical matter, if the Senate is dominated by unscrupulous members of the same party as the President, he can do whatever the heck he wants, just as he said to the French President the other day.

IOW, the rules are different, depending on which party it is that dominates the Senate. Republicans were willing to convict Nixon, but the Rats will never vote to convict one of their own, as they proved with Clinton. And some people say there’s no difference between the parties.

On a policy level, there isn’t much difference between the GOPe and the Rats these days, but on a moral level they are as different as night and day.


38 posted on 02/18/2014 10:16:21 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Texas Fossil
WOOP!




39 posted on 02/18/2014 10:17:43 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: Texas Fossil; All

The problem with impeaching Obama is that the lawmakers who have the constitutional authority to impeach Obama need to be impeached themselves.

Remember in November.


40 posted on 02/18/2014 10:18:01 AM PST by Amendment10
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