Posted on 06/01/2014 8:28:56 AM PDT by kristinn
President Obamas record of lawlessness is prodigious. There is the assumption of a power to rule by presidential decree unilaterally amending ObamaCare provisions, immigration statutes, and other enactments in flagrant disregard of Congresss constitutional power to write the laws.
There is rampant fraud on the American people think: If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan, period, just for a start.
In the Benghazi massacre, we see the arc of administration malfeasance: In the absence of congressional authorization, the president instigated an unprovoked and ultimately disastrous war in Libya, empowering virulently anti-American Islamic supremacists. He then recklessly failed to provide adequate security for US officials who, for reasons that remain mysterious, were dispatched to Benghazi, one of the most dangerous places on the planet for Americans.
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Thus, while it takes a simple House majority to file articles of impeachment, it requires an overwhelming two-thirds Senate majority to unseat a president. Real impeachment the removal of a president from power requires a broad consensus. Without that, the Senate will not feel the political pressure to convict, regardless of the validity of the Houses impeachment articles.
The liberal media would call the whole thing racist, without considering the actual legal argument.
Is it any wonder that Obama refused to fire Shinseki for the Veterans Affairs scandal (Shinseki finally resigned on Friday)? Curious as to why hes letting illegal immigrants be dropped unceremoniously off at Arizona bus stations? Why hes changing laws without Congress and having his attorney general ignore rules he doesnt like?
Because he knows there will be no repercussions. Legally, Obama should be impeached. Politically, hes a president with impunity.
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You need only a simple majority of the House of Rep to Impeach.You need 2/3 of the Senate to convict.
Doesn’t the Constitution say something about a “natural born citizen?”
Yes, we must deal with the tyranny as well as the tyrant.
We can elect conservatives into infinity and that alone will not cure what ails our once republic. Obama has established executive precedents that will be available for the rest of America's Presidents.
Until the states are returned to the senate, the best we can hope for is a benevolent despot.
There are not ten GOP senators who would vote to remove Obama. There may not be 5.
The notion that someone cannot perceive the advantage of having 51 or more Republican votes vice 51 or more Democrat votes is something that I cannot comprehend. I have not signed a suicide pact.
The House Impeaches by a simple majority vote.
Indeed. But with the evil, traitorous Boehner, it will NEVER happen.
We need protestors following Boehner everywhere -- with posters stating that he (Boehner) is complicit in ALL of Obama's Marxist actions!!
Boehner needs to be shamed and humiliated.
Allen West for Speaker.
There are not ten conservative republican senators. We need conservative senators regardless of party label. 51 Senators like McConnell and McCain is no different than what we have now.
It’s not just skin tone that provides immunity from criticism, much less impeachment.
The country made a Faustian pact with the Devil when they elected a black man because it would be ‘cool’ and didn’t do any serious study of his qualifications other than his ethnicity.
The reality of that decision is becoming clear. The power elite in Congress and among the movers and shakers in the economy or state politics know that impeachment would result in a torching of our cities much worse than the Watts riots.
I almost believe that Obama could murder someone on the White House lawn and get away with it. Or maybe I should put it this way: that’s about the only thing he COULDN’T get away with. Everything else is on the table.
As others have noted, the Constitution says. But Obama has been ignoring the Constitution ever since he's been in office. Any law he doesn't like he simply ignores or modifies.
So I wouldn't mind seeing your suggestion discussed in a light-hearted way, if only to make a point.
Let us borrow from the liberal communist scum.
I guess that the principle of three branches of government, each one holding the other two in check, is an untenable arrangement.
nonsense!
We need Republican control of the Senate. It is insanity or treason to claim otherwise!
They wouldn’t have the stones to pull the trigger.
Always remember that all these congresscritters ask themselves, before voting or taking any action, “What if it happened to our party in the future?”
All of them are trying to keep their jobs for life. It requires for them to ‘reach across the aisle’ in order to survive.
Judges can violate the constitution with impunity, as well. Although judges can be impeached and removed if they are obviously unfit or criminals. The disgraced judges can then obtain a Congressional seat, see Alcee Hastings for example. Anyway, my point was that judges can violate the constitution too, there is no way any ruling or set of rulings, no matter how wacky, poses any risk to the lifetime appointment.
The very last thing Congress wants to have is accountability, hence the ease with which they allow other branches to walk all over the constitution. Some members of congress will complain about it, and complain that there is no way to act on the issue (i.e., every action becomes nothing more than political fodder for reelection)., and then point to their feigned outrage as the reason they deserve to hold the office. Talk is everything - action is risky.
That imbalance has been there for decades, at least. The politicians and judges are running the country into the ground while they laugh all the way to the bank.
It usually ends in one of three ways:
a)assassination of the leader involved;
b) a coup d'etat
c)the successful establishment of a dictatorship by the leader or his party
We're in deep dodo, mainly because the media have turned themselves into propaganda organs for the Democratic Party, which has led to the installtion of a Chicago-style gangster government.
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