From Fox News: The next time you hear politicians denounce Barack Obama as a lawless, imperial president with a scandal-riddled administration, ask them what they’re going to do about it. Their gnashing of teeth over Obama’s self-granted omnipotence is repetitive.
Let’s agree with our ninth president, William Henry Harrison, who said there is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive than the exercise of unlimited power. We understand the problem. The only way for politicians to fix it is with a little less talk and a lot more action.
The Constitution provides the remedy for a president who commits “high crimes and misdemeanors.” It’s impeachment....
No serious person who is paying attention can deny that Obama and his administration have abused and violated the public trust and disregarded the Constitution. Let me count the ways.
Without notifying Congress as required by law, he set free terrorist prisoners at a time of war when they can return to the battlefield to kill our troops.
In violation of our Constitution, he regularly ignores court orders, changes laws by executive fiat, and refuses to enforce laws he doesn’t like, including our immigration laws.
When Congress declined to pass amnesty for illegal immigrants’ offspring, he unilaterally enacted his own version of it, which created the current crisis on our border as illegal youth pour into our country to receive what he illegally promised them.
He committed fraud on the American people when he promised that if we liked our health care plan we could keep it.
He got us into a war in Libya without Congressional approval. When our ambassador begged for security at the consulate in Benghazi, he was ignored and then murdered when the consulate was attacked as predicted. Americans were left behind to die, as the president did nothing to rescue our people there. Afterwards, he helped spread the lie that a spontaneous protest over a YouTube video was to blame for this highly organized, premeditated terrorist attack.
Obama’s IRS targeted his political opponents for harassment. Then the agency lied to and stonewalled Congress and likely destroyed subpoenaed evidence, while Obama falsely declared there’s no corruption there, not even a smidgen.
From the VA scandal to his unconstitutional recess appointments, to his DOJ wiretapping reporters and giving guns to Mexican drug cartels, to violating religious freedom exercised by businesses and ignoring in-house illegal fundraising, the list of abuse goes on and on.
Barack Obama’s administration is proving itself a festering boil of scandal. The Constitution is rock solid in holding the president responsible for the executive branch. He can’t just vote “present” while shrugging and feigning ignorance about all these abuses of the public trust, any more than a mob boss can claim innocence because he didn’t personally do the hit. The buck stops with the guy at the top.
Impeachment is the ultimate check on an out-of-control executive branch. It is serious, not to be used for petty partisan purposes; and it is imperative that it becomes a matter of legitimate discussion before the American people lose all trust in our federal government. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/07/11/case-for-obamas-impeachment-constitutions-remedy-for-lawless-imperial-president/?intcmp=latestnews
Without notifying Congress as required by law, he set free terrorist prisoners at a time of war when they can return to the battlefield to kill our troops.
In violation of our Constitution, he regularly ignores court orders, changes laws by executive fiat, and refuses to enforce laws he doesn’t like, including our immigration laws.
When Congress declined to pass amnesty for illegal immigrants’ offspring, he unilaterally enacted his own version of it, which created the current crisis on our border as illegal youth pour into our country to receive what he illegally promised them.
He committed fraud on the American people when he promised that if we liked our health care plan we could keep it.
He got us into a war in Libya without Congressional approval. When our ambassador begged for security at the consulate in Benghazi, he was ignored and then murdered when the consulate was attacked as predicted. Americans were left behind to die, as the president did nothing to rescue our people there. Afterwards, he helped spread the lie that a spontaneous protest over a YouTube video was to blame for this highly organized, premeditated terrorist attack.
Obama’s IRS targeted his political opponents for harassment. Then the agency lied to and stonewalled Congress and likely destroyed subpoenaed evidence, while Obama falsely declared there’s no corruption there, not even a smidgen.
From the VA scandal to his unconstitutional recess appointments, to his DOJ wiretapping reporters and giving guns to Mexican drug cartels, to violating religious freedom exercised by businesses and ignoring in-house illegal fundraising, the list of abuse goes on and on.
Barack Obama’s administration is proving itself a festering boil of scandal. The Constitution is rock solid in holding the president responsible for the executive branch. He can’t just vote “present” while shrugging and feigning ignorance about all these abuses of the public trust, any more than a mob boss can claim innocence because he didn’t personally do the hit. The buck stops with the guy at the top.
Impeachment is the ultimate check on an out-of-control executive branch. It is serious, not to be used for petty partisan purposes; and it is imperative that it becomes a matter of legitimate discussion before the American people lose all trust in our federal government. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/07/11/case-for-obamas-impeachment-constitutions-remedy-for-lawless-imperial-president/?intcmp=latestnews
After the elections in November, the GOP would be just as corrupt as Obama if they do not impeach him.
Obama has had so many scandals, it is difficult to count them all, and most of the scandals are far worse the lying and sex Bill Clinton was impeached for. And much, much worse than whatever Nixon did that made him resign.
Now, of course, the senate would never convict him of the charges of impeachment were for but that is no reason for the U.S. House not to impeach him. (if an impeachment trial was held before the elections, there would be a small chance that he would be convicted and tossed out of the White House because several Democrats would vote for impeachment to save their butts in their upcoming election)
Besides, if the House did impeach Obama, do you think Obama be resentful of it? Hell no, he would love it.
But he may love it but he would still be an impeached president and it will show people who read up on him that he was the most corrupt president of the United States.
And we already know that Obama would never resign. How else would he be able to meet with his girlfriends without Michelle hanging around? How else would he fly all over the country to play golf?
How else would he be able to hold all those wild White House parties?
Now, everyone sucks up to Obama because it's all about him but once he leaves office, he will lose a lot of friends and supporters and it won't be all about him and he loses the lime light he craves.
So, no he won't have the dignity of a Richard Nixon and resign.
Pfft. I know you can't stand the guy, but I don't think any of his "scandals" rises to the level of say, Iran Contra or invading the wrong country. However, ANY scandal, just about, is worse than the Lewinsky one. The impeachment of Bill Clinton over lying about a blow job was one of the stupidest chapters in American political history. Stupid both that Clinton was having such a blatant affair, and stupid that Congress every took it that far.
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