Posted on 06/09/2014 9:38:30 AM PDT by Taxman
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 IV: Fraud on the American People.
• Article V: Failure to execute the Immigration Laws faithfully.
• Article VI: Failure to execute the laws faithfully: Department of Justice.
• 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 defiance of Federal law requiring him to address Medicare insolvency;
• 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;
• politicization of the DoJ;
• politically motivated selective prosecution by the DoJ;
• DoJ investigations and other intimidation of journalists in violation of Amendment 1;
• systematic stonewalling of Congress;
• 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.
Dick, you might want to get in on this one!
Agreed. And I think that's what we're seeing, slowly but surely. The Conservative revolt began in 2010 under the Tea Party movement. That movement continues today, and will take time, as there are too many pockets of GOP establishment hold outs (Boner/McConnel, et al), but we see small successes as we move along.
“What would you suggest we do?
Desert the field of battle?”
Hmm, how about focus on battles you can actually win? You seem to be under the impression that you must fight a lost cause instead, for principle’s sake.
We must stay on message and persist!
“Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful”. Sir Winston Churchill.
Bob Casey. Why? Dem or Rep. It don’t matter. They are all cowards and NOT on any side but their own. VOTE, VOTE VOTE and you still get shit on.
Who decides which battles we can actually win?
FRankly, I am fed up with this “we can’t win, so why try” attitude.
Because of that attitude, we have damn near lost the country.
If we are not successful in holding the Ophonybama LIEberal thugocracy accountable, we WILL lose the country.
Are you in?
Or, are you out?
Truth be told, he is octoroon, not black, unless you count his 3/8 Arab as black. But the only way to offset the racism charges is to have the key actors in the impeachment effort be blacker than him.
“Who decides which battles we can actually win?”
Reality.
They were afraid of Zimmerman verdict riots, too.
He is a LIEberal, so of course, he won’t vote to convict Ophonybama!
You have got 4 years to get rid of him. Get busy!
You know, 100 million Americans who were otherwise eligible to vote in 2012 chose not to.
They deserted the field of battle, and the LIEberals won!
When they come for you, who will be left to speak for you?
how about the fourteenth amendment section 3?
perhaps a lawsuit on the grounds they are violating their oath and the constitution...
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you might be missing my point.
most real Americans would probably all agree that anyone guilty of high treason does not deserve to be kept alive in ANY prison and needs to receive the ultimate penalty for their crime(s)
“When they come for you, who will be left to speak for you?”
What does this, in the context of what we’ve been discussing, even mean?!?
Obama’s out of office in two years, and nobody’s going to bother impeaching him in the meantime. I suggest you learn to deal with those facts, just like the rest of us already have.
Eric Erickson, filling in for Rush last week, said it correctly: (1) the House might impeach but the Senate will never convict, and (2) the democrats, uninspired to vote at the moment, will have their base energized by the prospect of ‘the first black president’ being impeached.
Erickson said impeachment proceedings would be a mistake for both those reasons. Not only would it not succeed, but it would bring out democrat voters for the mid-term elections.
“...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.”
It’s going to happen anyway. Let’s get it over with. I would rather my children and grandchildren could get on with living in a safe and sane country, with opportunities to succeed in their chosen endeavors.
In today’s America, they cannot.
I fully agree.
Ophonybama MUST be impeached, convicted and imprisoned!
Your comment deserves repeating: “It’s going to happen anyway. Let’s get it over with. I would rather my children and grandchildren could get on with living in a safe and sane country, with opportunities to succeed in their chosen endeavors.”
I absolutely refuse to be a bystander.
My hope is that the drums of impeachment get louder and louder, and that enough people, including Democrats, come to understand that Ophonybama is tearing this country apart.
And they decide that enough is enough and impeach, convict and imprison him and his LIEberal thugs.
That is the goal.
I choose to fight for FReedom.
You certainly are FRee to stay disengaged, but what will you tell your grandchildren?
I’m not missing your point at all. I just like him suffering in an Alcatraz jail cell for the rest of his life.
“You certainly are FRee to stay disengaged, but what will you tell your grandchildren?”
Not to waste their time trying to impeach guys like Obama if it won’t happen, but to focus on more achievable goals.
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