Posted on 06/04/2013 4:14:27 PM PDT by SJackson
For a long time, as much as I wanted to see Obama gone, I opposed the notion of Congress attempting to impeach him. I figured that with the Senate in the hands of Harry Reid, nothing would come of it. What’s more, when it was attempted with Clinton, he came out at the other end more popular than ever, a martyr in the eyes of the Left.
But I no longer care about the end result. I want Obama to go through the process because he has it coming. In totalitarian states, after all, the people have no other recourse except to take to the streets and spill blood. But we have available the process of impeachment, and Obama should be forced to defend his contemptible lies and actions.
If for no other reason than his unbearable arrogance, the schmuck should have to pay a penalty. For instance, when a White House reporter asked him to justify spying on the Associated Press, Obama said, “I’ve still got 60,000-plus troops in Afghanistan and I still have a bunch of intelligence officers around the world.” No, sir, the United States has 60,000-plus troops in Afghanistan and a bunch of intelligence officers around the world.
It was all too reminiscent of his speech after the execution of bin Laden, when his use of the personal pronoun would have led you to believe he had personally rappelled into the Pakistani courtyard and stormed the villa, guns blazing, and that he’d had the Navy Seals along just for company.
His defense of spying on reporters was that he was checking out leaks into national security matters. Eric Holder, his right hand stooge, even boasted that this administration had set a record for prosecuting leakers. The point neither of them mentioned was that the only leaks they pursued were those that made them look bad. Apparently the leaks to the NY Times in 2012 intended to enhance Obama’s pre-election image as a master of foreign diplomacy went no further than Dianne Feinstein’s fatuous vow to ferret out the guilty parties.
Some of the things this administration does are so dumb that you might imagine they’re auditioning for a sit com on ABC. For instance, in the midst of the IRS scandal, a scandal so pernicious that even some Democrats are calling it scandalous, we discover that the woman, Sarah Hall Ingram, who was heading up the division that targeted conservative groups and individuals for the sort of hell that only the IRS can dole out is — a drumroll, please — the very person Obama has selected to make sure that ObamaCare is enforced, with drawing-and-quartering optional.
To be fair, we have been assured that Ms. Ingram is a “superb civil servant.” Unfortunately, the person who gave her that ringing endorsement is the former acting head of Internal Revenue, Steven Miller, who, when last seen, was lying through his teeth to a congressional committee.
Miller is the fellow whom Obama fired with much fanfare, about two weeks before he was already scheduled to resign. The question I would like answered is whether Miller will continue to receive his federal pension even when he winds up in a federal prison for perjury and obstruction of justice.
I know I am coming across as something of a scold, and I should probably temper my remarks because I have been provided with so many laughs by these assorted goofballs, I am clearly in their debt. For instance, I actually heard a spokesperson for the IRS say that the targeting of conservative groups prior to the 2012 election had nothing to do with politics. I haven’t heard anything that funny since “The Princess Bride.” Mainly, it reminds me of the scene when the comic villain Vizzini (Wallace Shawn) kept responding to one unpleasant fact after another by sputtering “Inconceivable!” Eventually, his reluctant henchman , Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin), has had enough and says, “I don’t think that word means what you think it means.”
In a sane world, wouldn’t someone who denied the targeting by the IRS had anything to do with politics be compelled, by force if necessary, to suggest an alternative explanation? Coincidence, perhaps? Sun spots? Or maybe just one of those crazy things.
Only in the world of fiction would I expect to encounter a president, an attorney general and a former secretary of state, so eager to claim that on all of these major issues, one involving the massacre of four Americans, including an ambassador, they were simply out of the loop.
I would suggest that Obama, Holder and Mrs. Clinton, could easily fill in for the three monkeys who hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil, except that I would no doubt be tarred as a racist and a misogynist.
Oh, what the heck! I think I’ll go ahead and do it anyway.
Impeach, then lets send him to prison along with all the other criminals in the White Hut.
I don’t approve of impeachment for Democrats, only for Republicans guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors (seriously). A guilty Republican should be impeached and convicted because he is guilty. A guilty Democrat should be embarrassed and raked over the coals, to the point where he is unable to implement the destructive leftist agenda, but that is as far as we can go. It’s sad, but the Democrats don’t have the integrity to impeach one of their own, and we can’t do it without their help. Why follow a path that will weaken us and strengthen evil?
Literally!
Let it all hang out!
Heard a caller to Mark Steyn today say that Lois Lerner should be impeached, and she has to pay her own defense.
He was a history professor, said impeachment applied to all government employees,/elected officials.
requires simple majority in the House, then goes to Senate. At least a trial would bring out a lot of stuff. The good part is they can’t use taxpayer’s dollars to defend themselves.
Clinton was impeached. I argue that his behavior improved after he was impeached. He had to walk pretty straight after his impeachment because he had that impeachment hanging over his head. I don’t have any problem at all if the House impeaches Obama and the Senate refuses to convict him. It would make this administration walk a straighter line. I don’t think Obama would want to be the first President to be impeached TWICE. And who knows what fun and interesting things we would find out about the Democrats and Democrat party during impeachment proceedings.
Saw the headline, “Impeach the S.O.B.” Wondered which S.O.B. he meant. So many to choose from.
If our republic was alive, before any President acted, he would reflexively look over his shoulder at the impeachment clause and consider the chances an outraged people demand he be fired. As it is, Obama can rule like a tyrant without fear.
Woah...now we’re talkin!
nobama is such an arrogant and narcissistic sob, I doubt impeachment would have any affect on his plans.
“Right on Bro”.
I want to terrify and demoralize all POSHITUS’ underlings first. Literally melt the machine out from under him. Take zero out first, and all his minions can run under Biden’s skirt until they feel safe enough to come out and continue their orders.
Waterboard him?
And the Obama clown car just keeps rolling on towards a very bad ending.
I want to know what Lerner is obstructing by taking the 5th. I think it’s obvious she is protecting her higher ups. Indict her and put her on trial.
I agree! Enough of this Nazi crap! Americans needs to start acting like Americans again. Impeach the S.O.B.!
There was a federal judge, Alcee Hastings, appointed by Carter, that was impeached by the House for accepting bribes, then convicted and removed from office by the Senate. He’s now an elected House rep from Florida.
This Country is at such a low! I’m 60 years young and have never seen the divide this ass has caused! From the day he took office hatred has developed and will continue to do so.
For a man to be so proud of his black heritage, it was not in the USA he has nothing in common with the citizens that have color> His family did not suffer slavery. I doubt and do not know if there was a veteran of a forign war his ancestors fought for the freedom of our Country!
An interloper disguised as a black man from America that will give the multitude of the black people still enslaved by the Whites of America! The man is a fool and needs to be ejected not only from the from the highest office in our land but by the American people as well! HE ia a traitor without a people. When they wake up they will see that the Great Obama was nothing but an opportunist sucking the life out of a nation! The serpent that crawls the floor of bad will! The one that issues death in other parts of the world including our Military! The man has no soul! Nothing short of Treason with the penalty for will suffice!
Burt makes a damned compelling case. A+, is that you? I’ve always wondered.
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