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Why are some Lefties so worried about an Obama impeachment?
Written By : TrogloPundit

Why is Steve Benen so worried about an Obama impeachment? What does he think Obama has done?

He writes:

It’s tempting to think of impeachment as a far-fetched, silly idea, barring actual impeachable offenses. But the more I think about it, the more I remember this is the House Republican caucus we’re dealing with. They’re a creative bunch, with no real appreciation for norms or limits.

He links Jonathan Bernstein, who has the same concern:

I continue to believe that if Obama sits in the White House for six years with a GOP majority in the House of Representatives that the odds are very good — better than 50 percent — that he’ll be impeached.

What a couple of racists. Years ago, Arsenio Hall made a joke about America’s first black astronaut. Hall said the astronaut had better make sure no tools went missing, because “you know they’re gonna blame the brother.”

So what the hell, Benen and Bernstein? Are you so very sure America’s first black president is going to break the law?

That is an important criterion for impeachment. Obama would actually have to do something illegal like, just to pull a random example right out of thin air, lie to a grand jury.

Bernstein, at least, offers one potential example:

…if offering a job to a potential Senate candidate is an impeachable offense…then they’ll have no trouble at all coming up with something.

I wonder: even if we had Obama on tape ordering Rahm Emanuel to offer Joe Sestak a job in exchange for dropping out of the PA Senate race, would that be enough? It is against the law (or so I’ve read). If Republicans attempt impeachment, they’d better have a lot to go on. It better be crystal clear, and something the public will be angry about.

The Sestak thing? Meh.

Besides, we don’t have Obama on tape. We don’t know that he knew any offer was made, much less authorized it himself. Oh, sure, I wouldn’t be surprised. But we don’t know, and we’re not going to.

It’s more likely that they’re foreshadowing with intent to forestall. As Benen points out, Republicans “predicted” in 2006 that Democrats would impeach President Bush, or try to. Those predictions became common talk fodder, and may have helped stave an actual impeachment attempt off. My guess: that’s all Benen and Bernstein are doing.

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  • dick

    impeach the s.o.b.

  • Dave

    Lefty paranoia would be funny if it weren't clear so many of them acutal believe in stuff like this.

    After the Clinton impeachment debacle, I can't see any way a bill of impeachment gets voted out of the House — even a strongly Republican one — unless they think the case for conviction is sufficiently solid that he would actually be removed from office. There was just too much backlash the last time.

    It's unlikely there is, or ever will be, solid proof that Obama did something that sixteen or seventeen Senate Democrats would vote to convict him on (absolute best-case scenario for the 2011-2012 congress is probably a 50/50 Senate). And I just can't see us picking up a solid Senate majority in 2012 and Obama being reelected at the same time; if there's a Senate that would convict Obama in 2013-2014, Obama would not be president. Beyond that, there's no point in the 2015-2016 congress impeaching Obama unless he did something so criminal even a Democratic congress would impeach him; he'd be term limited out by the time the trial was done anyway.

  • Mr. EMT

    He has already made the criteria for impeachment.
    However, that aside I came across a “what if” scenario for barrack obama a while back.
    Considering the FACT that only ONE SINGLE appointed government official claims to have seen obamao's original birth certificate…
    What if that one single government official did something totally unthinkable for a government official to do and lied about the contents of the certificate?
    His reason for not releasing the certificate is for privacy reasons for obamao…
    What is on the certificate that is actually private?
    The name of his mother…? supposedly not
    The name of his father? Supposedly not.
    The name of his birth place? Supposedly not
    The name of his doctor? Supposedly not
    His date of birth? Supposedly not…
    Whats left?
    Oh wait… I bet he doesn't want us to know his sex at birth right?
    Because we are assuming that he is male?
    Just like we assume that the one government appointed official who claims to have seen his birth certificate is not lying?
    Anyway now that I have angered a lot of people and made a bunch of others grin here is my one question.

    Who would care if obama lied about his birth?
    What difference might that make on his presidency if his birth that we assume is true to what is claimed, is a lie?

    Would that invalidate the policies he has made, the people he has appointed etc?

    • Dave

      Actual conspiracy theorist or lefty troll? You decide.

      • fail_baby_fail

        No mrs EMT is one of yours. He is a birther lol.

        • Rose

          You are not very bright, are you. Poor thing. Bless your little heart.

        • Mr. EMT

          I am way too complicated to be called just a birther.
          That would be like calling you a failure…
          Lets face it, you are all that is fail and so much more.
          In this situation you could best be described as gullible? Naive?

          I just don't know which word would apply to someone who eats whatever a politician spoon feeds them and accepts it on faith alone.

      • Rose

        You are not very bright, are you. Poor thing. Bless your little heart.

  • Christopher_Taylor

    There's no legal basis for impeaching President Obama and I'm tired of people calling for it anyway. Look, what happens if Obama is impeached? He becomes a martyr, the Republicans took down the first black president, he was abused by the man, I told you they were all racist, they couldn't kill him so they railroaded him out of office, yadda yadda. Plus: President Biden.

    Even if the Sestak bribery thing (and the Romanoff before him) ended up really being investigated and really was as bad as it looks, it still probably would end up that President Obama didn't personally get involved.

    In any case, the Clinton impeachment proves one thing about US politics: you will never see a president thrown out of office. Many of the senators who voted “no” on his removal made it clear they thought he was guilty of a felony and worthy of being tossed out but voted against it anyway because they feared political backlash and what it would do the country.

    Just drop it guys, okay?

    • Rose

      Well, if the earth opens up right under him and his administration if the next few weeks…

      Numbers 16…

    • Mr. EMT

      Correct.
      I do not want him impeached.
      I wanted him impeached before he was even president when he had sworn an oath to preserve the constitution, and refused to even salute the flag.
      That was utterly disgraceful for an elected politician to ever do.
      After watching how he does business, the way he “preserves the constitution” by breaking it over and over…
      I want him in jail.
      They can make a martyr out of him all the want as long as politicians who are supporting his agenda are sharing the cells next to him too.

  • Rickvid in Seattle

    Most people who hear the word impeach think it means “throw him out.” Of course, intelligent people know it does not. I often asked my BDS afflicted friends if they REALLY wanted Bush tossed, and with wild eyed enthusiasm and foaming mouths, they all said “YES!” Then I just whispered, “President Cheney.” That shut them up PDQ. Same with the jabbering Anybody But Bush hooey. Again, unthinking moronic blather. “Like, say, Rumsfeldt? Or Armey? Or Cheney?” They'd usually get real quiet. Then I'd really pull thier chain – “How about — Ann Coulter?” THAT send them over the edge. Sort of a pre-Palin spasm of irrational rabid hate.

    • King Homer

      Ann Coulter to a liberal is WORSE than 10 cloves of garlic and a crucifix to a vampire at noon!

      I love watching liberal heads pop and watch the pus ooze out. It's hilarious in a sickening sort of way.

      • fail_baby_fail

        Because ol horse face scares me.

        • mightysamurai

          She certainly does, if the way you idiots foam at the mouth whenever her name is mentioned is any indication.

        • King Homer

          You should be afraid…. VERY afraid…..

          Be sure you check under your cot at night before you go to sleep. Never leave home without your clove of garlic. I won't mention the crucifix because I don't want you whining to the ACLU but you get the message.

          Speaking of that, one of these days you liberal clowns will understand antidisestablishmentarianism and the context it was used in. The Federalist Papers is a good place to start but I know you won't pursue it because if by some strange stroke of fate you DID understand it, it wouldn't make a difference. You'd just find something else to have a perpetual grievance about.

          You're never happy in your soulless existence.

        • Mr. EMT

          Gotta be flaiming homo to call Ann Coulter, horse faced.
          Especially when led by the nose by the hosts of “the view” and nancy pelosi, rosanne bar etc.

  • King Homer

    First of all, these clowns are apparently trying to stir up the liberal loons and lure them away from the bongs/ meth labs.

    The Conservatives are coming! The Conservatives are coming! (Apologies to Paul Revere)

    I can hear bongs hitting the floor across the nation and an unbelievable crashing and clanging in the basement as the unwashed wannabe hippie finally locates his protest sign and stumbles to the door to catch a mass transit ride to the Mayor's office or state capitol building.

    It doesn't matter that the sign reads “Impeach Bushhitler” because he thinks (if that's possible) that Bush is still in office. At least he's protesting SOMETHING, by Stalin!

    Hussein Ogabe DaDa, the magic Marxist mulatto isn't going to knowingly put himself into a situation where a finger can be pointed at himself. He's had years of experience finger pointing and dodging the downhill roll of crap.

    Presently, he has too many pawns to play before anything detrimental gets close to him or his reputation (other than the fact he can't govern). You though BJ was a teflon prez? He ain't got nothing on the clown-in-chief.

    BJ isn't the sharpest tool in the box either.,.., specifically, why did he get involved in this controversy anyway? Is it to divert attention from Ogabe DaDa the magic Marxist mulatto? Why would he do that? Didn't BJ say during the prez campaign that if Ogabe DaDa wanted his support he could kiss his ass?

    Maybe he just said that cause he was pissed 'The Cankles' lost the primary to Ogabe and he wouldn't be able to roam the halls of the White House molesting staff and interns instead of killing terrorists that were bombing our embassies, blowing up our ships and killing sailors, and bombing the WTC. Ohh really?? he did?? humm…. really, an aspirin factory…. empty at that huh? You don't say. How much did that cruise missle cost? Gee how cost effective was that? Liberals just CAN'T get away from spending money for little or no return can they?

  • Rose

    Alexander Hamilton: [Impeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

    Alexander Hamilton: The prosecution [of impeachments], will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust, and they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.

    He's impeachable, if there is a will to do it, he's committed the breach of public trust – non-stop!

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