The Case for Obama's Impeachment

There is clear and convincing evidence that President Barack Obama has on numerous occasions willfully committed treason and high crimes and misdemeanors and should be removed from office.

The “crimes” that led to the impeachment of both Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton and the resignation of Richard Nixon pale in comparison to Obama’s. Johnson’s “crimes” were purely political. He favored a policy of benevolent reconciliation with the Southern States following the Civil War. He issued a series of proclamations that directed the Southern States to hold conventions and elections to reform their governments; he attempted to veto a number of bills establishing military districts to oversee the new State governments; he vetoed an incumbent protection act called the Tenure of Office Act; and he fired Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who was working against him at every turn. Those moves were all contrary to the wishes of the Republicans who controlled both houses of Congress in the aftermath of the war. The impeachment vote in the Senate failed by one vote on all three counts to receive the two-thirds majority necessary to remove Johnson from office.

Clinton was impeached for perjury to a grand jury and obstruction of justice in the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit and the related independent counsel’s investigation in the Monica Lewinsky affair and various other Clinton misdeeds. Forty-five Senators—all of them Republican—voted to remove Clinton from office over the perjury charge. Fifty voted to remove him for obstruction of justice. Though Clinton was clearly guilty, not one Democrat in the Senate voted to impeach. And, in fact, the Senate voted 100-0 to not hear any live witnesses in the trial.

Nixon, of course, resigned a couple of weeks after the House opened its impeachment hearings over his role in the cover-up of the Watergate break-in and other allegations of his misuse of office, the facts of which were just coming to light at the time.

The “I-word” hit the mainstream media after war-loving, chicken hawk and John McCain-lapdog Senator Lindsey Graham warned Obama that Republicans would call for his impeachment if he released more prisoners from Guantanamo Bay without Congressional approval. Before that, anyone mentioning impeachment was shouted down and cast by the media and the establishment as nutty, kooky or… wait for it… a conspiracy theorist. Obama responded to Graham’s threat by having his underlings release news that another Gitmo prisoner may soon be sprung.

I am under no illusion that the impeachment proceedings are in the offing, regardless of what Obama does. Neither is Obama. Graham’s threat was as idle as an inattentive parent’s threat to a misbehaving child. When you hear a parent tell his child “No” over and over, and then hear him say, “You do that once more and you’re in trouble,” you know that child is never disciplined — and the child knows it, too. This is Congress and Obama.

Neither Republicans nor Democrats in Washington, D.C., are interested in anything other paying lip service to the Constitution while solidifying their respective grips on power and transferring America’s wealth to their favored crony partners. That is all that matters in D.C. Neither party will intentionally do anything to upset their cushy apple cart.

And the MSM, which long ago abandoned any pretense at objective journalism, are beholden to the elites and in the tank for the regime, drunk as they are on being next to the power structure. You can’t expect real journalism with a lineup like this:

• ABC Senior Correspondent Claire Shipman is married to outgoing White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.

• CNN President Virginia Moseley is married to Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Secretary Tom Nides.

• CBS President David Rhodes is the brother of top Obama official Ben Rhodes, who is responsible for rewriting the Benghazi talking points.

• ABC President Ben Sherwood is the brother of Obama special adviser Elizabeth Sherwood.

However, six years of this lawless regime is more than any sane person should be expected to endure. Even leftist legal scholar Jonathan Turley called Obama “the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be.”

So here are my articles of impeachment — in no particular order — for the undocumented usurper currently despoiling the People’s House: Barack Hussein Obama.

• He provided aid and comfort to the enemy by releasing five suspected terrorists and former members of the Taliban who participated in or orchestrated attacks against Americans.

• He violated a law he signed six months prior requiring him to notify Congress 30 days before releasing GITMO detainees.

• He has willfully and repeated violated Article I, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution by continuously amending the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.

• He knowingly and willfully violated Article I, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution by signing the ACA, knowing full well it was a bill for raising revenue that had originated in the Senate.

• He engaged in fraud by repeatedly lying to the American people about the effects of the ACA by claiming that Americans could keep their current coverage and physicians if they chose.

• He exercised an abuse of power by instructing, through his proxies, agents of the Internal Revenue Service to target conservative organizations and his critics for extra scrutiny and audits.

• He participated in an obstruction of justice and a criminal conspiracy by hindering a Congressional investigation into the Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal and using Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice in that obstruction.

• He provided aid and comfort to the enemy by ordering or allowing the sale of arms and ammunition to al-Qaida-linked terrorists in Syria and by dispatching agents of the government to advise and train in the use of the those weapons and in military tactics.

• He failed, despite repeated requests by the U.S. Consulate, to provide the security necessary to ensure the safety of U.S. personnel and the Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

• He knowingly and willfully denied military assistance to Americans under attack at the Benghazi Consulate, resulting in the trashing of the U.S. Consulate building, the theft of sensitive documents and the deaths of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

• He knowingly and willfully lied and ordered his proxies to lie about the circumstances surrounding the attack on the U.S Consulate in Benghazi, thereby perpetrating a fraud on the American people in order to ensure his re-election and to cover up his illegal gun running operation.

• He violated the War Powers Act by failing to gain Congressional approval for the military attack on Libya that resulted in the overthrow of the Libyan regime.

• He provided aid and comfort to the enemy by using the American military and intelligence organizations and allowing the sale of arms and ammunition to al-Qaida-linked terrorists in order to assist them in overthrowing a legal regime in Libya that Congress had not declared war upon.

• He has repeatedly made war on various Middle Eastern countries with the use of drone attacks without the approval of Congress in violation of the War Powers Act and in violation of Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.

• He has ordered the murders of at least three American citizens without due process in violation of Amendments 5, 6, 8 and 14.

• He has repeatedly used the Environmental Protection Agency to contravene Congress and pass laws harmful to American businesses and consumers, in violation of Article I, Section 1.

• He has repeatedly violated the 4th Amendment by allowing agencies under his direction to continue to spy upon, wiretap and collect personal information of American citizens who are not criminal suspects.

• He has repeatedly violated Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution by disregarding laws passed by Congress, including, but not limited to, U.S. immigration laws, civil rights laws and the Defense of Marriage Act.

• He knowingly allowed the illegal sale of weapons to Mexican narco-terrorists that were later used to kill Americans, including border agent Brian Terry.

• He obstructed justice by participating with Attorney General Holder in a cover-up of the Fast and Furious gun running scheme.

• He knowingly and willfully violated Article IV, Section 4 by failing to protect the border States against invasion, and in fact encouraged that invasion through his rhetoric and with the use of executive orders that contravened U.S. immigration law.

• He knowingly and willfully violated Article IV, Section 4 (guaranteeing a republican form of government to each State) by strong-arming, intimidating and threatening to withhold funds from the States of Oklahoma, Texas, Montana, Rhode Island and Arizona in order to coerce the people and legislatures of those States and prevent the passage of laws according to the citizen’s wishes.

• He instructed his Interior Secretary to ignore the orders of Federal courts to lift a moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, which denied oil workers an opportunity to earn a living and damaged the U.S. economy.

• He broke established precedent and contravened established bankruptcy law, to the detriment of the bond holders and the advantage of his campaign contributors (auto unions) in the General Motors bailout.

• In the auto bailout, he knowingly and willfully deprived numerous auto dealers of their dealerships for political reasons in violation of Amendments 4 and 14.

• He repeatedly transferred funds from the U.S. Treasury to his cronies and campaign contributors for use in failing green energy schemes.

• He violated Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution by appointing officers without first obtaining the “Advice and Consent of the Senate.”

In his book Faithless Execution, Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment, Andrew C. McCarthy notes: “Impeachment is a grave remedy on the order of a nuclear strike.” Obama’s lawless Presidency has been nothing less than a nuclear strike on the U.S. Constitution, which now lies in tatters.

“Impeachment is a political remedy: even if palpably guilty of profound transgressions, a president will not be ousted without a groundswell of public ire,” McCarthy writes.

In his case for impeachment, McCarthy breaks Obama’s high crimes and misdemeanors into seven articles. They are:

• Article I: The President’s willful refusal to execute the laws faithfully and usurpation of the legislative authority of Congress.

• Article II: Usurping the Constitutional authority and prerogatives of Congress.

• Article III: Dereliction of Duty as President and Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces.

• Article VII: Willfully undermining the Constitutional rights of the American people that he is sworn to preserve, protect and defend.

Those articles contain many of the charges laid out above. But they also include [bulletized for better clarity]:

• Obama’s defiance of Congressional law and court orders in obstructing the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project;

• his undermining of and contempt for Congress’ duty to conduct oversight of Federal agencies;

• his dereliction of duty by imposing unconscionable rules of engagement that endanger American troops;

• lying about Iran negotiations and assisting that country with its nuclear program;

• DoJ investigations and other intimidation of journalists in violation of Amendment 1;

• abridgement of Amendment 1 in appeasing Islamic supremacists by adopting repressive sharia blasphemy standards;

• suppression of information about Islamic terrorism, including its occurrence at Ft. Hood;

• abridgement of Amendment 1 by vindictively targeting and prosecuting high-profile critics;

• and abridgement of Amendment 2 by joining an international treaty despite Congressional opposition.

McCarthy notes that since impeachment is a political rather than a legal remedy, the burden of proof is different. But he also states that as long as there is no groundswell of opposition to the President’s actions from the public, there will be no impeachment.

I’ll go one step further: As long as there is not a two-thirds majority of Republicans in the Senate, there will be no impeachment. But even in the off chance that Republicans were to somehow come up with 66 Senators willing to remove the President, the Republicans would not have the stomach to attempt it because the sycophantic media would gin impeachment up as a racial issue and stir up street riots that would make Watts riots look like a park stroll.

The ensuing carnage would likely result in the removal of the entire power structure in Washington. And the establishment — whether it sides with the Democrats or Republicans — will agree it can’t have that.

Bob Livingston is an ultra-conservative American and author of The Bob Livingston Letter™, founded in 1969. Bob has devoted much of his life to research and the quest for truth on a variety of subjects. Bob specializes in health issues such as nutritional supplements and alternatives to drugs, as well as issues of privacy (both personal and financial), asset protection and the preservation of freedom.

Not if Biden goes with him. Once the house cleaning starts it needs to sweep out every Corruptocrat in DC and on downstream. If We get the gummint we deserve I would prefer a clean one top to bottom. Once the head of the snake is gone there is no reason to live with the rest of him!

RE :”We MUST talk about impeachment, and we must make every effort to Impeach, Convict and Imprison Ophonybama and every one of the LIEberal thugs he surrounds himself with.”

You mean by 'try' to keep posting the word ‘impeach’ here?

If you were running for a house seat and then Speaker specifically on the issue of impeachment then that would be ‘trying’.

I seen wishful repeated postings for other things that never were going to happen either:
1) Palin will run in 2012(2011)
2) A shutdown will convince Obama that Obama-care needs to be repealed.

Neither one of those had a chance of happening either and this one will go no-where too, no matter how much wishing.

I've come to believe that some of the more recent over-the-top scandals by the administration are purposed, flailing attempts to goad the congressional GOP into initiating impeachment proceedings against him. Why? In so doing, Obama has an issue he could hit the campaign trail with to unify the democRAT base and rally them to the polls for the upcoming November elections. That's the only thing that makes any sense of why he pulled the trigger on this terrible trade of Taliban leaders for Bergdahl. Obama possibly knows he's a failed president. He's thinking he might as well be a martyr and salvage whatever glory he can for himself. That's the narcissist in him.

Remember, he's all politics, all the time.

I certainly agree that's what he deserves, but I'm not keen on giving him what he wants nor President Biden.

I think your confusion may be over the meaning of the term “impeachment”. Impeachment is the equivalent of indictment in the criminal justice system. It simply means that the HOR found that there is sufficient evidence that the President (or other Federal office holder) comitted “treason or other high crimes or misdemeanors” and may possibly merit removal from office. Too often, people mistakenly think impeachment is the same thing as removal from office, which would be equivalent to a conviction in a criminal case. The Senate has the sole power to conduct a trial and remove an impeached Federal officer from his/her office. In short, Clinton was indeed impeached, but there were insufficient votes in the Senate to remove him from office.

Impeachment would have to be a bi-partisan effort. We’d have to get Democrats on board with impeaching Ophonybama, otherwise, it is a no-go.

The purpose in raising the issue is to, hopefully, cause Democrats to come to understand that Ophonybama’s disrespect for the Rule of Law and the Constitution does serious harm to the country and to them - for that matter, it does serious harm to the entire planet.

I certainly hope as the chorus for impeachment grows louder and stronger that prominent Democrats will join in. I’m not holding my breath on that, but at some point, Democrats might, just might, come to understand that removing Ophonybama is the right thing to do.

I am not a skilled political tea leaf reader, nor am I a skilled political operative, but I have a highly (some would say “too highly!”) developed sense of right and wrong.

Legally and Constitutionally removing Ophonybama FRom the Presidency is the right thing to do, irrespective of the politics of the matter.

My challenge to you and to the other nattering nabobs of negativism is to challenge your FRiends, business associates, family and Representative and Senator to urge that Ophonybama be impeached.

It is for damn sure that impeachment will not happen if you take the attitude that it will not happen and do nothing to make it happen!

My challenge to you and to the other nattering nabobs of negativism is to challenge your FRiends, business associates, family and Representative and Senator to urge that Ophonybama be impeached.

It is for damn sure that impeachment will not happen if you take the attitude that it will not happen and do nothing to make it happen!

RE :”My challenge to you and to the other nattering nabobs of negativism is to challenge your FRiends, business associates, family and Representative and Senator to urge that Ophonybama be impeached.”

Then my challenge to you is to flap your arms like a bird while you jump off your roof.

You will never know for sure if you can or cant fly like a bird unless you try.

You sure wont fly unless you try.

“Do you really believe that your life and the lives of your children and grandchildren will get better if you don’t help us impeach Ophonybama?”

I believe those lives will turn out the same either way, since Obama isn’t going to be impeached, no matter how much you harp about it.

The House might be able to find votes for Impeaching Obama; they only need a majority.
But the Senate needs a two thirds vote to convict and most Senators would not convict Obama if he killed someone from the podium during the State of the Union address. Aside from the fact that the Democrats would not vote to convict under any circumstance, a lot of RINOs would find reasons not vote to convict.
Finally there is the danger of Civil Unrest on the part of the Free Stuff Army if the House even attempts to impeach Obama. Personally, I’d consider that an opportunity (the FSA NEEDS killing - and, what the heck, let all the JBTs get it out of their systems for while), but not a lot folks agree with me on that.

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