Posted on 08/05/2014 6:05:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
Tell me: Has any other United States president ever goaded the opposition party to bring impeachment proceedings against himself? Has any other so sneeringly mocked and taunted the other party?
President Obama is not only not the uniter he promised to be; he is the agitator in chief. Just consider the contrast with President George W. Bush, who didn't even defend himself often, much less deride, needle and dare Democrats to oppose him.
It's just like Obama, the dutiful disciple of 1960s leftist radical Saul Alinsky, to divert our attention from his official misconduct by demonizing Republicans and conservatives rightfully challenging his lawlessness.
Obama knows he has habitually exceeded his executive authority, but it's not so much the frequency of his overreaches that is unique. He boastfully claims he hasn't issued so many executive orders as his predecessors did. But that's just more of his misdirection.
It's not unlike his absurd statement that there has been more oil drilling under his administration than under others. What tripe. He conveniently omits that most of the drilling has occurred on private, not government-owned, land.
It's the substance of his executive orders -- their dangerous scope and magnitude -- that makes them so dangerous and troubling. Even liberal law professor Jonathan Turley notes that it is not the number of his executive orders that matters but their content and reach.
We must recognize that he is doing this premeditatedly. Shortly before issuing his executive order to implement parts of the Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, he openly acknowledged -- in lobbying for passage of the DREAM Act -- that he had no constitutional authority to do it on his own. But when he couldn't get Congress to go along with his ill-advised bill, he issued the order anyway, in total defiance of Congress' legislative prerogative and of his own admission that he couldn't do so.
The law is no obstacle to him. He will not be denied. His latest ploy is to ridicule Republicans for blocking his various amnesty schemes, which he euphemistically describes as "comprehensive immigration reform." He says he wouldn't have to act on his own if Congress would do its job. His adviser Dan Pfeiffer said, "The president has no choice but to act" on immigration.
Excuse me? Congress' job is not to rubber-stamp his statist policies. It is not to get along with him. Its duty is not to President Obama, his agenda or his legacy. It is to do what it believes is best for America and to check his power when he is acting beyond his authority.
There is nothing in the Constitution or case law that empowers a president to act unilaterally when Congress won't go along with him. If this were the case, the Constitution and its entire system of separation of powers would be meaningless.
How cynical this man is to tell the American people that he has a right to act outside the scope of his authority if his intention is "to help people" -- as if to turn lawlessness into a virtue. How can members of his own party not be sickened by his contemptuousness toward the Constitution? This isn't just a matter of Obama's jabbing the Republican Party. It's a calculated assault on the Constitution that transcends partisan politics and will come back to haunt all Americans.
Obama realizes that his egregious record in office has finally come home to roost and that in November, assuming things continue on their current course, his party is going to receive a shellacking at the polls because of him.
This is why he is willing to go to any lengths to distract attention from his failures. He figures the best way he can do that is by further vilifying Republicans as irresponsible extremists, racists, bigots, homophobes and the rest, hoping that he can dupe Americans into ignoring his disastrous record by convincing them that Republicans would be even worse.
He desperately needs to gin up his base and energize his own extremists, and his tried-and-true method for the past six years to accomplish that has been to use fear-mongering against Republicans.
So he is not only ratcheting up his rhetoric to accuse Republicans of a plot to impeach him, though House Speaker John Boehner has clearly indicated that is not in the cards, but also trying to force their hand into actually impeaching him. To this end, he is planning on upping the ante by issuing a far-reaching unilateral order granting amnesty to millions.
That's right. The leader of the Free World is trying to provoke Republicans into impeaching him or otherwise stirring a constitutional crisis.
This is stunningly unprecedented. But more and more people are wising up to his serial abuses of power and his partisan agitation.
I don't have a great track record as a prognosticator of elections, but I am strongly sensing his party, as a direct result of his policies and lawlessness and its shameless refusal to rein him in, is going to get a titanic comeuppance in November.
Tell me: Has any other United States president ever goaded the opposition party to bring impeachment proceedings against himself? Has any other so sneeringly mocked and taunted the other party?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
First of all, Obama is not the president. If you do not know that yet, then you are a fwew cards short of a deck. He is not qualified to be president, all he has going for him is dark skin and a big mouth.
No other president has goaded his opposition, and sneered at them beause no other president has wanted to purposefully create civil disorder. Obama wants disorder so he can declare martial law , and postpone the 2016 election. Obama wants an impeachment move to cause race riots and civil disorder across the nation.Its a set up.
Watch as the several destabilization initiatives of US society continues to crystallize, including the permeable southern border.
Obama wants riots, and he will get them as likely as not.
Ping to Obama uncloaking his fascism.
obama’s behavior is childish and immature. Once elected a President is supposed reunify the people and serve as President of all understanding that not all wanted him. This dude has acted like a spoiled baby the entire time.
I said this 2 months ago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3164038/posts?page=50#50
“Truthfully, it’s as if Obama were hoping to initiate an impeachment proceedings against him so that he could unify the base and bring them to the polls in November. He is truly the most divisive president ever.”
Oh, the other thing is, he has the same tired old boring Asian resentment of the US I have heard from Indonesian immigrants and my own dad who grew up European in China. Waah waah, the US doesn’t live up to its own ideals, the US is still prejudiced against you name it, no credit for the fact that they all want to come here to feed at the trough.
“Community Organizer” on his resume is probably inaccurate. He was a Community Agitator, and now he is a National Agitator.
This is what happens when there is selective oversight. Or an MSM that is complicit in the destruction of American values to support a statist agenda.
"I hereby impeach you."
ROTFLOL---Desperate Dummycrats are resurrecting the impeachment bugaboo to raise shady money.....actually raising monies for impeachment from diehard Obama suckups.
The impeachment gambit----and Obama's obsessive non-stop fund raising----is beginning to look sinister. The world smolders but the Dumbcrat ding-a-lings are wishing on a star for impeachment.
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REALITY CHECK Could this be a WH/Democrat Ponzi scheme in progress?
While they bash Wall Street publicly, leaders of the Democrats' mega-funder "The Democracy Alliance" have quietly recruited venture capitalists, bankers and hedge fund moguls -- along with union bosses and red-diaper trust fund babies -- to fund their takeover goals. ....$230,000 public school union dues go to the Democrats' "Democracy Alliance."
"The Democracy Alliance" does not itself raise and spend a great deal of money. Rather, being a partner in the Alliance requires one to contribute large amounts to other left-wing groups. The Alliance evaluates left-wing organizations on various criteria, and makes recommendations to its members as to where they should put their money. Currently, the Alliance lists 21 groups in its “Aligned Network”:
<><> America Votes, American Constitution Society, Black Civic Engagement Fund, Brennan Center, Catalyst, Center for American Progress, Center for Community Change, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Common Purpose Project, Fund for the Republic, Latino Engagement Fund, Media Matters for America, New Media Ventures, New Organizing Institute, Organizing For Action, Progressive Majority, Progress Now, State Engagement Initiative, State Voices, Women’s Equality Center and Youth Engagement Fund.<><>
The most interesting of the D/A documents that have come to light is the one that contains D/A’s “investment recommendations” for 2014. Not only does it list the recommended organizations, but it rates each organization in several categories, sets out the group’s budget for 2014, and shows how much of that budget should be contributed by the 100 members of the "Democracy Alliance." One category in which DA rates the organizations is “Collaboration,” as DA believes that all left-wing groups should coordinate their activities for maximum political impact.
Opportunistic pols like Harry Reid have denounced Charles and David Koch, and others, who contribute to conservative causes as “shadowy,” “secretive” people who dare infest politics with “dark money.”
In that context, it is worth noting that most of the groups to which the Alliance and its elite liberal members contribute are 501(c)(4)s that do not disclose their donors.
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ANALYSIS Buncha sap-happy Dummy/dopes are feeding the Democrats' Democracy Alliance lotsa money---thinking its safe.....going to a "good thing."
That's exactly how Madoff operated. Money-laundering, tax evasion was part of the Madoff mix---helping investors, foundations, and tax-exempts break the law in a seemingly legal way.
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Madoff helped himself to the untraceable money in the process.....and got himself in trouble. When he went to jail for 125 years, investigators found Ponzi King Madoff had stashed billions offshore---into a labyrinth of financial entities.
COLLUSION AND CONSPIRACIES GALORE Some $8.9 billion was funneled to Madoff through a dozen so-called feeder funds based in Europe, the Caribbean and Central America......a labyrinth of hedge funds, management companies and service providers that, to unsuspecting outsiders, seemed to compose a formidable system of checks and balances.
But the purpose of this complex financial architecture was just the opposite: the feeder funds provided different modes for directing money to Madoff in order to avoid scrutiny.
Dummycrats apparently took notes.
“Excuse me? Congress’ job is not to rubber-stamp his statist policies. It is not to get along with him. Its duty is not to President Obama, his agenda or his legacy. It is to do what it believes is best for America and to check his power when he is acting beyond his authority.
There is nothing in the Constitution or case law that empowers a president to act unilaterally when Congress won’t go along with him. If this were the case, the Constitution and its entire system of separation of powers would be meaningless.
How cynical this man is to tell the American people that he has a right to act outside the scope of his authority if his intention is “to help people” — as if to turn lawlessness into a virtue. How can members of his own party not be sickened by his contemptuousness toward the Constitution? This isn’t just a matter of Obama’s jabbing the Republican Party. It’s a calculated assault on the Constitution that transcends partisan politics and will come back to haunt all Americans.”
“the entire system of separation of powers ‘would be’,(strike that), are meaningless.”
They are meaningless, at this point. Does anyone really think that the lawless one is worried about his legacy? A president would only worry about his legacy if he plans to leave office at the end of his term. He doesn’t. Otherwise, this article speaks nothing but the truth.
And this is why his opposition doesn't know how to handle him. They give him all the benefits of the office of President, and expect him to give a little in return. Instead of a genteel, collegial, and mutual relationship, Obama acts like a petulant child. He has no shame, so he'd never apologize, never accept responsibility, nor ever, ever consider resignation.
He’s nothing but a arrogant, lazy, lying pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave who deserves zero respect
He IS an enemy of the US.
Voted into office by (some of) us and now completely insulated from any challenge to his status or lot in life by a Praetorian guard fully funded by our money.
This is an example of a dictatorship.
How can members of his own party not be sickened by his contemptuousness toward the Constitution?
They share it.
Really, this article is more an indictment of Congress, especially the House, than of Obama.
Congress is a co-equal part of the Federal government but, rather than representing its constituents, it is hiding under the bed, afraid of being called racists by the MSM.
This behavior has given Democrats a roadmap for all future presidential elections—In 2016 we’ll likely see a female candidate on the Democrat side; after that, an Hispanic candidate; after that, a minority woman with a limp; and the Republicans will be terrified of all of them.
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