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DC chuckles after GOP congressman rules out impeaching Obama because – 'Have you met Joe Biden?'
Daily Mail ^ | November 14, 2014 | DAVID MARTOSKO

Posted on 11/14/2014 12:15:25 PM PST by maggief

Trey Gowdy said his party can't impeach the president over his threatened immigration overhaul – but only because Biden would become president

The folksy Biden wants the top job for himself but Republicans see him as a potentially embarrassing one-man gaffe factory

One senior House GOP aide said Biden is 'two floppy shoes short of a complete clown outfit' and Obama's 'insurance policy'

Gowdy hinted that impeachment is being dangled by the White House as bait in the hope that the GOP will destroy its own credibility by trying it

A Texas Republican congressman and a judge-turned-news-analyst floated the idea this week

A Republican congressman known as a pit bull in Washington said Thursday that he doesn't support the idea of impeachment proceedings against President Obama because winning that fight would elevate the vice president to the Oval Office.

'Have you met Joe Biden?' South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy asked during a Fox News Channel interview.

Impeachment talk has swirled around Washington since the president announced that an executive order overhauling America's immigration system is imminent.

But some in the GOP see Biden as Obama's hedge against removal from office, since much of his public exposure has come in conjunction with a series of embarrassing gaffes.

A senior aide to a House Republican told MailOnline on Friday that 'Avoiding the "I" word' is a case of 'better the devil you know than the devil you don't.'

'Only in this case, we're pretty sure we know both devils. And Biden – he's two floppy shoes short of a complete clown outfit. Let's be honest: He's Obama's insurance policy.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Ohio; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: biden; clown; gowdy; impeachment; impeachobama; joebiden; johnboehner; ohio; southcarolina; treygowdy
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To: TexasFreeper2009
Joe is so dumb... he makes even Obama look smart by comparison! And Joe... is a died in the wool true believer liberal!

No comparison with "Obama", IMO.

21 posted on 11/14/2014 12:31:11 PM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: bagman

Sure. But I’d take Biden in a heartbeat if serious about it. He’s simply a buffoon. you can deal with stupidity. you can’t deal with The Joker watching the world burn for no other reason than boredom. Obama and Romney are evil. And I mention Romney as he was the alternative and no more acceptable than Obama.


22 posted on 11/14/2014 12:31:14 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: Zhang Fei
So Gowdy is an enemy now....for what he wont agree to impeachment?

You people need to get a grip....impeachment is a fight Obama wants..

23 posted on 11/14/2014 12:31:19 PM PST by Dog (Founding member of the Osama Bin Laden was alive the whole time club..)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

It’s like doing slapstick in the kingdom of the blind, granted, but it’s gotta be done/said. If only so that it was said.


24 posted on 11/14/2014 12:32:30 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: Dog

“....impeachment is a fight Obama wants.. “

Agreed.


25 posted on 11/14/2014 12:32:31 PM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

I saw this and thought it was amusing the O’Reilly required an explanation. He didn’t know why Gowdy asked, “Have you met Joe Biden?”

Better Biden than Obama. He could be influenced because he’s actually an American.


26 posted on 11/14/2014 12:32:34 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: stephenjohnbanker

God bless you!


27 posted on 11/14/2014 12:35:01 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Jim Noble

Joe is like the fat chick girls take with them to bars to make themselves look better by comparison.

Except Joe was intended to make Obama look smart, because anytime anyone is standing near Biden, they look like a genius!


28 posted on 11/14/2014 12:35:04 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Dog
So Gowdy is an enemy now....for what he wont agree to impeachment? You people need to get a grip....impeachment is a fight Obama wants..

It's one he thinks he wants. Until he is impeached and removed with Democratic votes from purple states. Rule by decree is not a power we can allow any president, GOP or Democrat, to have.

29 posted on 11/14/2014 12:35:22 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: maggief

Just out of curiosity what ever happened to that Benghazi panel that Gowdy was chairing? Maybe he should drop the one-liners and get to the bottom of who was responsible for that fiasco?


30 posted on 11/14/2014 12:37:31 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: maggief

I saw this live on O’Reilly... Hysterical. Cong. Gowdy is quick.


31 posted on 11/14/2014 12:38:08 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Reno89519

I suspect too many on our forum have put too much confidence in Mr. Gowdy. He seemed confused when speaking on the O’Reilly program on Thursday.


32 posted on 11/14/2014 12:38:10 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: maggief

Holy Effing Shiite, what a supreme disaster this country is now :((


33 posted on 11/14/2014 12:39:48 PM PST by ResisTyr ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God " ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: maggief

Republicans are imploding, and the new Congress hasn’t even been sworn in yet.

This is the end of the GOP as a viable national party. Time to look elsewhere.


34 posted on 11/14/2014 12:41:21 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: maggief

->>impeachment is a fight Obama wants.. “

Could you prove that ..versus repeating what Rove and others are saying on FOX.


35 posted on 11/14/2014 12:42:04 PM PST by Christie at the beach
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To: Dog

Nixon burgled Democratic offices to spy on them. Clinton perjured himself about his tawdry White House affairs. These abuses were trivial relative to Obama’s attempt to rule by decree.


36 posted on 11/14/2014 12:42:06 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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37 posted on 11/14/2014 12:42:37 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: maggief

Biden is an American Citizen and Obama is an Illegal Alien


38 posted on 11/14/2014 12:43:43 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: bagman

I have


39 posted on 11/14/2014 12:44:07 PM PST by onona (Gladly, I say, gladly.)
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To: maggief

Come on guy’s...it was Gowdy’s way of not answering a question in a comedic way. I thought it was funny. I don’t think Gowdy is a RINO.


40 posted on 11/14/2014 12:44:39 PM PST by BreezyDog
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