Posted on 04/08/2014 3:44:02 PM PDT by progunner
Impeach Obama Tea Party.org Exclusive
America’s mainstream media may be able to push issues like impeachment and Barack Obama’s eligibility for the presidency off the table and off the newsstand, but they can’t push it off our country’s highways and byways, reports WND.
Overpasses for America (formerly known as Overpasses for Obama’s Impeachment) is gearing up again to take the message front and center to America’s motorists.
WND has reported that Overpasses for America raised a ruckus back in October. At that time the organization teamed up with truckers to blow into Washington, D.C., as a way of protesting what they call extra-constitutional actions of Congress and the president.
Founded in June 2013, the group is known for standing on highway overpasses across the country where they hold signs openly calling for the removal of Obama from the White House. Their reasons are many, including Obama’s ineligibility for office, the crimes Obama has committed during his time in the White House as well as repeated egregious violations of the Constitution.
Just a few weeks ago, Overpasses for America headed back out to overpasses and street corners for their 11th national protest, called “Spring Break Out.”
Fully encouraged by successful rallies in various states, including Oklahoma and Florida, Overpasses for America is planning yet another round of motorway protests this coming April 19, 2014. The group has pledged that many more events will take place nationwide throughout the year.
Typically, protesters at the rallies wave signs and banners reminding America of Obama’s allegedly faked birth certificate along with his alleged impeachable offenses, which include the Benghazi scandal, the deaths of Navy SEALs in the Extortion 17 helicopter downing, Obamacare’s unconstitutional provisions, voter fraud and much more.
In a statement the group made it said, “The need for Obama’s removal from office extends well beyond his criminal actions.” “Obama and his collaborators must be made an example of for future generations of Americans and as a warning to future politicians that the American people are awake and are none too pleased with politics as usual across the nation.”
In addition to the 12th annual demonstration coming up on April 19, Overpasses for America also announced it is partnering with Operation American Spring—an event to be held in Washington, D.C., beginning on May 16. Organizers for the event will demand Obama and many members of Congress step down from their positions as the first step of returning to a Constitution-based government in our nation’s capital.
But Overpasses for America isn’t the only major voice calling for Obama’s impeachment.
Glenn Beck, popular conservative radio talk show and TV host has made similar demands, reported WND. In fact, WND compiled a list of those members of Congress who have also talked about impeachment. Those Congressional members include:
Rep. Bill Flores, R-Texas; Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.; Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.; Rep. Kerry Bentivolio, R-Mich.; Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas; Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas; Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla.; Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah; Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.; Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.; Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas; Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas; Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla.; Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa; and Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla.
In addition, WND also reported that Bob Woodward of the Washington Post and Watergate investigator, is comparing Obama to Richard Nixon. There just so happens to be a a national petition that calls on Congress to immediately investigate the “unconstitutional and impeachable offenses” of Obama.
The petition that is pushing for Obama’s removal from office states: “Therefore, we the undersigned urge Congress to immediately undertake a full and impartial investigation into the many blatantly unconstitutional actions of Barack Obama. For members of Congress, each of whom has also sworn a solemn oath to uphold the Constitution, to allow a president to routinely flout the Supreme Law of the land without being held accountable is equally repugnant to a free country and a free press.”
Tens of thousands already are on board and this is just the latest in a long string of calls for impeachment or an investigation.
Several WND columnists have also brought up impeachment:
Nat Hentoff wrote, “since taking office, has continually limited the First Amendment, the most singular and powerful right that distinctly identifies Americans from residents in all other countries on Earth.”
Columnist Burt Prelutsky took it even further:
“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,” he wrote. “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.”
Then there’s the panel of top constitutional experts that were convened by WND and that have blasted Obama’s actions since being in office. Bruce Fein who is the legal scholar best known for having drafted articles of impeachment against former President Clinton for perjury after Clinton lied under oath, said of Obama’s orders to drone-kill a terror suspect: it was “tantamount to murder.”
“You can’t have democracy and the rule of law if you never get to know what the facts are and you just have to accept what the government says they are. If you don’t have a trial, that’s the definition of tyranny.”
A scholar in residence at the Constitution Project named Louis Fisher, when commenting on Obama’s appointment of “czars,” said the following:
“That is a big deal. A lot of people say, ‘Well, that’s been going on a long time.’ In our form of government, citizens vote for representatives and representatives pass laws. You have people heading departments, and they’re confirmed. There’s an understanding that we will call you up whenever we need to. … Congress passed legislation saying there’d be no funds for three czars, and they were named in the bill. Obama signed it into the law, but in the signing statement, he said that’s unconstitutional because he has the ‘prerogative’ to get the advice he needs to implement statutes. Well, c’mon Obama. You don’t have a prerogative to bring into the White House anybody you want at any salary. It’s all done by law. It goes back to 1978 where Congress passed legislation saying you have this number of people and these are their salaries and Congress can increase or decrease that at any time.”
And Herbert Titus, who has previously taught constitutional law, common law and other courses and subjects for 30 years, and is now counsel to the law firm William J. Olson, said Obama’s military actions in Libya are a strong argument for impeachment.
“That’s the one that stands out. It’s unprecedented. It doesn’t even fit within any of the precedents that have been set since Korea.”
Obama should have seen such a move coming. Last year a poll taken earlier in the year found half of Americans saying Obama should be impeached.
Fritz Wenzel of Wenzel Strategies handled the telephone poll. Wenzel said, “It may be early in the process for members of Congress to start planning for impeachment of Barack Obama, but the American public is building a serious appetite for it.”
When it came to the issue of the Benghazi scandal where terror threats and cries for help were ignored as four Americans were killed, 50.1 percent of Americans said Obama should be impeached. That percentage also included 27.6 percent of the responding Democrats.
When it came to the IRS harassing and targeting conservative and Christian organizations 49 percent said they agree: impeachment is appropriate. That included 24.4 percent of the Democrats.
Regarding the fishing expedition the Obama administration took into AP reporters’ telephone records in order to locate a security breach that may have been carried out by Obama’s own administration, 48.6 percent said impeachment is appropriate. Of that 48.6 percent, 26.1 percent were Democrats.
Peggy Noonan, former speechwriter for Reagan wrote that the country is in the midst of the worst scandal in Washington since Watergate. She said:
“The reputation of the Obama White House has, among conservatives, gone from sketchy to sinister, and, among liberals, from unsatisfying to dangerous.” “No one likes what they’re seeing. The Justice Department assault on the Associated Press and the ugly politicization of the Internal Revenue Service have left the administration’s credibility deeply, probably irretrievably damaged. They don’t look jerky now, they look dirty. The patina of high-mindedness the president enjoyed is gone.
Said Noonan of Obama, “as usual, acts as if all of this is totally unconnected to him.”
“He’s shocked, it’s unacceptable, he’ll get to the bottom of it. He read about it in the papers, just like you. But he is not unconnected, he is not a bystander. This is his administration. Those are his executive agencies. He runs the IRS and the Justice Department,” Noonan continued. “A president sets a mood, a tone. He establishes an atmosphere. If he is arrogant, arrogance spreads. If he is too partisan, too disrespecting of political adversaries, that spreads too. Presidents always undo themselves and then blame it on the third guy in the last row in the sleepy agency across town.”
Woodward is even comparing it to Watergate, the break-in that ultimately led to the resignation of President Nixon. Woodward’s reporting on Watergate eventually snared the sitting president.
Recently Woodward said: “If you read through all these emails, you see that everyone in the government is saying, ‘Oh, let’s not tell the public that terrorists were involved, people connected to al Qaeda. Let’s not tell the public that there were warnings.’ And I have to go back 40 years to Watergate when Nixon put out his edited transcripts to the conversations, and he personally went through them and said, ‘Oh, let’s not tell this, let’s not show this.’ I would not dismiss Benghazi. It’s a very serious issue.”
Then there is radio host Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and one-time presidential candidate, who predicted Obama won’t serve out his second term. Huckabee contends he won’t serve out that term because of his complicity in a cover-up over Benghazi.
Still others have raised the subject of impeachment, including rock legend and staunch gun-rights defender Ted Nugent. Nugent said there’s “no question” Obama should be impeached.
Nugent also blasted “the criminality of this government, the unprecedented abuse of power, corruption, fraud and deceit by the Chicago gangster-scammer-ACORN-in-chief.”
“It’s so diabolical,” said Nugent.
Even Medea Benjamin, Co-founder of Code Pink, has called for Obama’s impeachment over his policy of permitting drone strikes on American citizens overseas who are members of terrorist organizations.
During WABC Radio’s “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” Benjamin affirmed she believes the drone warfare is an impeachable offense.
It was news media WND that compiled a special report on the multiple offenses Obama is blamed for committing. WND also reported on what experts on the Constitution believe should be happening.
You can rest assured that the MSM will discredit Overpasses for America any way they can. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if they attempt to hinder the groups and falsify any coverage they print or report on.
Normally, as most of you know, I'm full of comments but this piece took all of the wind out of my sails. My only comment is this: I hope the HELL this goes through...
5.56mm
bttt
Patriots and former Obama supporters need to support Congress with the impeachment movement by winning 2/3 conservative control of both Houses of Congress in the 2014 elections. Then conservatives will actually have the constitutional authority to either remove the president, or at least guarantee that he will be a lame duck for his last two years in office.
Note that the Founding States had made the Constitution to limit (cripple) Congress’s powers. So the president of the USA was arguably intended to be a full-time lame duck in times of peace anyway. In other words, the president was expected to play golf every day.
not every day but Ike did play some rounds.
“Patriots and former Obama supporters need to support Congress with the impeachment movement by winning 2/3 conservative control of both Houses of Congress in the 2014 elections.”
I believe this is a mathematical impossibility. The GOP currently holds 45 seats in the Senate. During the 2014 elections, there are 21 races for seats currently held by Democrats. So, even if the GOP wins every single Senate race this year (not gonna happen), we will hold only 66 seats, one short of a 2/3 majority. Impeachment is sort of pointless, since removal is impossible.
The reason that I indicate conservative control of both Houses of Congress, as opposed to saying Republican control, is because conservatives still come in both Republican and Democratic flavors imo.
In fact, Congress has exercised supermajority, 2/3 control of both Houses, as recently as Bushes 41 & 43, and also with Clinton. This is evidenced by the following.
List of United States presidential vetoes
The point is that patriots must not give up in trying to win conservative constitutional supermajority control of both Houses in the 2014 elections.
It may well have been me. I’m not saying we should give up on gaining supermajority control of both houses — the more conservatives in Congress, the better. Just saying that impeachment and removal are highly, highly unlikely, and that a conservative Congress would be much better served focusing its energies on dismantling the Obama regime’s legislation and regulations than on going down the impeachment route.
” conservatives still come in both Republican and Democratic flavors imo.”
Meant to respond to this too. I respectfully disagree that any Democrat in Congress (and certainly in the Senate) can fairly be described as “conservative,” much less conservative enough to support an attempt to impeach & remove Obama.
there are no conservative democrats
at best they have become independents. If they are deomcrats still they are institutionalized.
The Zell Miller types are dead and gone
And talk about it is all they'll ever do.
conservatives still come in both Republican and Democratic flavors imo.
Could you name any conservative Dems?
Arpaio’s and Zullo’s press conference will be a game changer.
No, but look at it this way. Minority Dems would possibly flip-flop on Obamacare to save their seats in Congress.
B. Hussein Obama continues unimpeded as the arrogant Democrat leader of the Left Wing, Anti-Work Counterculture thanks to doormat Republicans such as Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, Ryan, Issa, McConnell, and McCain.
Counterculture Democrats reap what they sow, and doormat Republicans gladly provide the fertilizer.
Teamwork has created this bi-partisan bliss.
What can possibly go wrong?
Sure it will. They're going to be holding that any week now, right?
Is it your task in life to pretend that Arpaio and Zullo are nothing?
You have no idea what’s going on. But it ain’t nothing.
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