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Palin makes the case for impeaching Obama
Hot Air ^ | July 11, 2014 | Allahpundit

Posted on 07/12/2014 8:28:45 AM PDT by Bratch

Her op-ed earlier this week focused on immigration. Today’s op-ed is a more comprehensive indictment, starting with the case that “high crimes and misdemeanors” includes dereliction of duty, not just statutory crimes.

I want to quote this part:

Impeachment is the ultimate check on an out-of-control executive branch. It is serious, not to be used for petty partisan purposes; and it is imperative that it becomes a matter of legitimate discussion before the American people lose all trust in our federal government.

Impeachment requires moral courage to advance what is right, and it requires political will. A complacent or disheartened electorate may silently endure these abuses from the administration, the permanent political class is only too happy to maintain the status quo, and the mainstream media is not a fair watchdog. So, the nation’s last line of defense is for We the People to rise up and say, “enough is enough.”

Some argue that at best the House might vote for articles of impeachment, but the Senate is unlikely to convict. But that is no argument against holding a president accountable and sending the people’s message to all successors

The only thing necessary to transform America into something unrecognizable is for good men to do nothing! If not these violations and the president’s promise to continue to “go it alone” in ignoring the separation of powers and rule of law, what will it take for you to take a stand? How bad does it have to get?

Ultimately, she’s saying, this all comes down to public outrage, which is exactly right — but that’s why there’s going to be no impeachment. Right? If the wider public shared her many objections to Obama — power grabs, amnesty, ObamaCare, NSA spying, Benghazi, the Bergdahl prisoner swap — his job approval would be in single digits. As it is, he’s at 41 percent, which is poor but not nearly so atrociously bad that any congressional Democrats would feel compelled to remove him from office. Even among the 54-55 percent who disapprove of his job performance, there are bound to be loads of people who think that he’s guilty of nothing more than incompetence, not dereliction of duty worthy of the first successful forcible ouster of the president in American history. I haven’t seen any polls on impeachment lately, but I’d guess that impeachment supporters would start with something like 55-60 percent of the public opposed (all Democrats and a majority of indies) and 40 percent or so in favor (most Republicans). Once the media went to work on “GOP extremism,” Democrats started rolling out talking points about how the “party of no” isn’t interested in real solutions for the middle class, and a few centrist Republicans in Congress publicly expressed opposition, it’d probably move another 10 points against. What then?

Rick Wilson wrote a post for Ricochet yesterday about the impossible politics of steering impeachment through Congress:

Give me your elevator pitch, not for impeachment qua impeachment, but for how the story plays out from the announcement to Obama mounting the steps of Marine One and flashing a Nixonian farewell salute. What’s your Day One communication strategy when we begin impeachment proceedings? What’s the Day Two strategy? What’s the strategy after the first week? Who are the legislative handlers? Who are the key faces for the media? What’s the timetable, the media plan, the surrogate plan…all the boring block-and-tackle stuff? What happens when your rock-solid arguments melt under legal challenges from every quarter?

Did you remember there are other players in this game? Did you forget that the American people are notoriously fickle? Did you forget that the media still yields a mighty power to misrepresent, to distort, and to flat-out lie about what you’re trying to accomplish? What happens when this raises $50 million in online donation for the bad guys? What happens when they start dropping oppo like nukes on every member of the impeachment committee? What happens when Americans who are bored and restless decide you’re not talking about their lives, but just playing inside Washington games? What happens to the message strategy of every GOP House, Senate, and Governor candidate in the country? What happens when this doesn’t turn bring the White House to heel but instead becomes the only rallying cry that could wake Democrats from their post-Obama, post-Obamacare funk? What happens when Harry Reid slits your throat by not allowing the Senate to pass judgment.

All of which, again, is to say that Palin’s right — it’s the public that will determine whether impeachment is viable or not. What evidence do you have, though, that they think it’s viable? Outside of conservative media, who out there in the electorate is terribly exercised about Obama planning to unilaterally amnestize five million illegals once he’s busy shrugging off the current border crisis? Jonathan Turley seems pretty upset, and … that’s about it. The hard truth, I think, is that Americans don’t much care how the federal government operates as long as it gets them to an outcome they prefer. Raising the minimum wage is popular within the general electorate; if Obama issued an order tomorrow decreeing that that wage shall be raised, whether or not Congress approves, that’d be an egregious affront to separation of powers but even that probably wouldn’t inspire much outrage outside the right. Most voters would conclude that they like the outcome, so oh well. Whether that’s always been the case or is something new that’s developed, possibly (and ironically) as a reaction to growing cynicism about government, is beyond my reach. But it may be (also ironically) that our complacent political class, which Palin correctly identifies as being happy with the status quo, is nonetheless a better bet at this point to police itself on civic issues like separation of powers than the broader public is to police it. That’s the only reason I can think of for why Obama hasn’t (yet) issued the sort of minimum-wage order I just described. Maybe, for now, that’s a constitutional bridge too far even for him, although probably not for most of his voters. Gonna take a very high crime for Americans to ever support impeachment, I suspect, even as the weak norms against broad executive control of government continue to erode.

In related news, even some of the more solidly conservative members of the House see impeachment as an exercise in futility. Exit question: If I’m wrong about all this and the public is secretly ready to rally to the GOP’s side against O, then impeaching him would be a political winner even if Harry Reid blocks it in the Senate. Political parties usually rush to seize a political winner when they see it — and yet Republicans across the spectrum, from Boehner and McCain to Ted Cruz and Erick Erickson, seem reluctant to pursue this one. How come?


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: impeachment; impeachobama; obama; palin
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To: Paine in the Neck
The old aphorism "if you strike the king you must kill the king" still holds true.

If we had a king, you might have a point. What we have is the largest armed civilian force in world history. If we want Obama gone regardless of the constitution, he would be gone tomorrow. We have to let the legal constitutionally based system work its intent. It can only fail if we are being run by a corrupt Oligarchy. And once it fails, no king in history would be able to stop us.

21 posted on 07/12/2014 10:07:04 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Bratch

NOT ONE OF US
THIS EXPLOSIVE 6 MINUTE VIDEO BY BILL WHITTLE may help explain some of this insane BS.
Hell, it explains ALL OF IT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysQl4aW7tME


22 posted on 07/12/2014 10:09:34 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: Bratch
The current reality in America is why we should understand the countries who in the past had lots of executions of people who orchestrated and aided in the subversion of a nation.

In America we have an entire party and its media enablers who are working fast and furiously to destroy the Republic. Will there be a point when the people say enough is enough and rid the environment of the treacherous bastards? No, the nation is too far down the bread and circuses sewer hole to even realize the devastation the current criminal regime is accomplishing.

Back in 2008 someone, a freeper of some many years here, wrote to me that whatever the L4B (L4B = little bath-house barry bastard boy) does during his rule it can be undone when he's voted out. Well, that got me riled up then and I pointed to several things that will not be possible to reverse, including the destruction of the voting demographics. Now we see that the puppet regime is arranging a new voting demographic, even as they destroy our military and hand US over to moose slime and banking oligarchs.

23 posted on 07/12/2014 10:11:09 AM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: Bratch
Palin has a way of turning out to be right.

Like "Death Panels,"

Like Russia/Alaska proximity,

Like Russia invading Ukraine,

Like ...,

She will turn out to be right about Impeachment of Obama too.

24 posted on 07/12/2014 10:12:48 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ("It is not the color of his skin, ... it is the blackness that fills his soul")
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To: mgist

It is almost as if aliens from another star system have come to earth, selected the humans they believe will do what the aliens desire in selling out humanity, in exchange for power, albeit temporary power. Once the destruction of human civilization is accomplished the fools who did the bidding of the aliens will be exterminated as too dangerous to allow them to remain alive and a threat in some future coup. And there are whole populations/races/ethnic gaggles who could care less so long as the welfare checks will cash and the Obama phones still work.


26 posted on 07/12/2014 10:19:22 AM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: Dick Bachert

Whittles analogy to King Louis XV is even more to the point of exposing this lying bastard boy. ‘After him the deluge’


27 posted on 07/12/2014 10:21:17 AM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: Bratch

I don’t see much point in a toothless impeachment for someone who should be in jail.


28 posted on 07/12/2014 10:26:59 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (No one can come to me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Consider the source? Are you serious?

Who else has paid the price she has for speaking out? Who else has been sued over a dozen times, all of which were judged frivolous, for things as silly as the logo on the parka she wore to a dogsled race? Who else was ridiculed by some total jackass making jokes about her child giving bj’s at a baseball game? Who has been the target of more vicious, disgusting accusations because of their political beliefs?

And, finally, when are you going to confess that you are a troll, a Carl Rove loving bootlicker?


29 posted on 07/12/2014 10:30:38 AM PDT by jstaff
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To: Bratch

The Constitution does nor exempt Congress from doing its sworn duty when it is inconvenient or enemies within or without may not like it, etc.


30 posted on 07/12/2014 10:30:59 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Bratch
Since that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the president, right
or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

~ Theodore Roosevelt - Editorial in the Kansas City Star May 7, 1918


31 posted on 07/12/2014 10:50:01 AM PDT by QT3.14 (This space for sale)
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