GOP congressman threatens impeachment if Obama uses executive action for gun control

The Daily Caller ^ | 01/14/2013 | Caroline May

[Cheerio]

Texas Republican Rep. Steve Stockman threatened Monday afternoon that he would file articles of impeachment against President Barack Obama if he institutes gun control measures with an executive order.

Stockman warned that such executive orders would be “unconstitutional” and “infringe on our constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms.”

“I will seek to thwart this action by any means necessary, including but not limited to eliminating funding for implementation, defunding the White House, and even filing articles of impeachment,” Stockman said in a statement.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Cheerio.

[freekitty]

I’m with you.

[GeronL]

thanks

[GeronL]

if he can’t be removed peacefully, then he must be removed another way if he becomes a dictator

[Lucky2]

Gun banning is one of many items that should be on a list to impeach this jerk. Hopefully the Republicans have the balls to move forward and kick this sorry ass out, once and for all!

[Old Sarge]

There ARE no 5-star generals or admirals. The last one was Omar Bradley.

All the current generals and admirals who have reached two-star or higher owe their rank and privileges to The Won. They are political appointees and they will not forget that.

[trebb]

When does boner come to Zero’s rescue by trying to marginalize this guy?

[KeyLargo]

Newsmax
Meese: Obama Risks Impeachment If He Uses Executive Order for Gun Control
Monday, January 14, 2013 09:14 PM

By: Todd Beamon and Kathleen Walter

Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III declared in an exclusive Newsmax TV interview that President Barack Obama could easily be impeached if he bypassed Congress and enacted gun-control legislation by executive order.

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/meese-obama-guns-impeachable/2013/01/14/id/471412

Newsmax
NY Times: Obama Plans 19 Executive Orders on Gun Control
Monday, January 14, 2013 04:22 PM

By: Hiram Reisner

President Barack Obama plans this week to present 19 separate executive orders on gun control and will press for comprehensive legislation to expand gun-purchase background checks, lawmakers made privy to the president’s agenda said Monday, according to the New York Times.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/guns-obama-executive-orders/2013/01/14/id/471370

[Impy]

Um I hate to say this is a waste of time but..

The Senate will not remove him so what’s the point? With the media on his side it would just make him more popular like with Clinton.

And say he is removed what do we win? President Biden? Yay. He’s Obama with less melanin, and sanity.

Incumbent President Gore would have won in 2000.

Impeach Biden first.

[BillyBoy]

>> Incumbent President Gore would have won in 2000. <<

True, and probably would have been re-elected in 2004 because of 9/11 (even though I think he would have handled it much worse than Bush, people are reluctant to change Presidents in wartime).

We could have a GOP president now because the economic meltdown would have been blamed on the RATs instead of Bush, and fatigued in 2008 from "16 years of Democrat rule" ;-p

(Seriously though, you're right that an impeachment of Obama would go nowhere. It might be fun to introduce such a resolution in committee just to needle him though. And they'd need some really wacked out Kucinich type Dem to sign on as "cosponsor" so the GOP would be able to spin it as a "bipartisan")