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July 6, 2014 11:20 pm - NewsBehavingBadly.com

Conservatives are more forcefully than ever talking about bringing impeachment proceedings against President Obama. Forget about how this will affect the perception of a party and a Congress bereft of ideas. Forget about how this will be perceived, given that President Obama, committing no high crimes or misdemeanors, is our first black president. They hate his guts. They have Obama Derangement Syndrome.

It’s fueled by conservative anger over the president’s increasing use of executive actions on issues such as immigration and air pollution regulations, the exchange of Taliban detainees for the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdhal, and the familiar issue of the Affordable Care Act.

“I submit that Barack Hussein Obama’s unilateral negotiations with terrorists and the ensuing release of their key leadership without consult – mandated by law – with the U.S. Congress represents high crimes and misdemeanors, an impeachable offense,” former Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., wrote on his website in June.

Yeah, make sure you get his middle name in there to remind everyone that he’s got the same name as Saddam Hussein. Must be just as bad, too.

South Dakota’s Republican Party passed a resolution at its June convention calling for Obama’s impeachment for violating “his oath of office in numerous ways.”

“We wanted to have a shot across the bow to the president and Congress that nobody is above the law,” said Dr. Allen Unruh, the delegate who sponsored the resolution. “Our goal is to embolden Congress.”

Unruh said he has a “thick book on impeachable offenses of the president.” So does Andrew McCarthy, who’s been making the conservative media rounds with his recently released book “Faithless Execution: Building the Case for Obama’s Impeachment,” which offers a sort of template for removing Obama from office.

I urge the Republicans to keep doing this. Don’t come up with a better health plan. Keep pretending that it’s President Obama who screwed up Iraq. Continue pouding the impeachment drum. Then look at who the president is after 2016.

D.B. Hirsch
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

No responses to Push Is On To Impeach Obama

  1. jasperjava July 6th, 2014 at 11:38 pm

    Bring it on. These idiots are digging their own political grave.

    • Eric Trommater July 6th, 2014 at 11:44 pm

      I may be cynical but I don’t think this whole “bring-it-on” mentality is a good strategy. If you give the House the kind of broad investigative powers that an impeachment invokes and send them on a fishing trip through the Executive Branch, it will only hamstring and distract the President and America will suffer. I said the same thing about impeaching Bush. Dig deep enough and you will always find something that will appear scandalous to just enough of Americans to throw mud on the office and erode even more support for our government institutions.

      • tiredoftea July 6th, 2014 at 11:50 pm

        They will give it to themselves. All they need do is bring a resolution to the floor of Congress and get most of the fringe rightie votes. As if by magic, Impeachment proceedings!

        • Eric Trommater July 7th, 2014 at 12:04 am

          It may be inevitable but that doesn’t mean we should welcome it.

          • tiredoftea July 7th, 2014 at 12:10 am

            It is the conclusion to the fringe right talking amongst themselves for such a long time and not indulging themselves in reality. I don’t welcome it, per se, but if they go down this road, they will come out the other end with the same low(er) public perceptions as the Gingrich, Delay and others who, ultimately, helped Clinton get a few things done.

          • Eric Trommater July 7th, 2014 at 12:12 am

            Or use it to throw just enough mud to sneak in and take over all three branches of Government like they did in 2000.

          • tiredoftea July 7th, 2014 at 12:21 am

            They have two out of three. They don’t really need to take a chance on impeachment proceedings.

          • Eric Trommater July 7th, 2014 at 12:24 am

            Law of unintended consequences. They would have had no chance in 2000 if they hadn’t thrown just enough mud on Clinton to steal enough votes from Gore to sneak in their guy.

          • tiredoftea July 7th, 2014 at 12:35 am

            The FL fix was in with Jeb and Katherine Harris stirring up enough doubt about election procedures for the fringe right SCOTUS to step in and give the victory to W. Gore had more popular votes, overall and FL would have put him over in the electoral votes.

          • Eric Trommater July 7th, 2014 at 12:51 am

            Florida would have been meaningless if Gore had been so muddied by the Clinton Impeachment that he couldn’t even carry his home state of Tennessee.

          • tiredoftea July 7th, 2014 at 1:01 am

            Daddy Gore’s favors were called in long before Al was the Dem candidate. The Gore name was not much use to him.

          • mea_mark July 7th, 2014 at 10:28 am

            We aren’t really welcoming it. We are saying we are prepared for it and we are going to make you pay accordingly for it. If it damages the reputation of our government institutions then maybe we need to change our institutions so that stupid stuff like this doesn’t happen.

      • AnthonyLook July 7th, 2014 at 12:05 am

        It’s coming, whether we like the idea or not; there is no reasoning with the tea party birther racist House, even President Obama has finally learned this.

    • tiredoftea July 6th, 2014 at 11:48 pm

      They crawled in it immediately after the failed Clinton attempt.

      • Eric Trommater July 7th, 2014 at 12:02 am

        You see that’s not how I remember it. As I remember it the GOP held on to majorities in both houses for the next 7 years and even were able to sneak a completely unqualified aristocrat whose father the country had turned out of the Presidency 7 years earlier. The part of the election he stole was minuscule compared to the huge amount of the electorate who voted for him to “bring integrity back to the White House.”
        I also seem to remember that within two years of controlling all three branches of Government the GOP was able to undo all the progress made by Democrats in the 90’s and turn a budget surplus into huge deficits. My memory may be wrong but who knows?

        • tiredoftea July 7th, 2014 at 12:11 am

          Dude, turn on your sarcast-o-meter.

          • Eric Trommater July 7th, 2014 at 12:16 am

            Oh I reread your comment with my sarcastic voice and now it makes sense. Sorry. The first time I read it I had Morgan Freeman’s voice in my head dictating it and it was all serious.

          • tiredoftea July 7th, 2014 at 12:25 am

            I don’t often put Morgan Freeman’s voice in a person’s head, but when I do I say Thank you.

  2. crc3 July 6th, 2014 at 11:41 pm

    FORMER Rep Allan West needs to shut his pie hole. There is a reason he was voted out of office and the main one was his extremist right wing views. It still amazes me that he won the first time. The rest of those Tea Baggin’ morons all need to be voted out in November. Get out and vote people!!

    • fancypants July 7th, 2014 at 12:28 am

      tea baggers= people who vote with their wallets

  3. uzza July 6th, 2014 at 11:50 pm

    “a long list of impeachable offenses”
    They could make a good case by listing the drone program, killing American citizens without trial, Guantanamo, torture, renditions, warrantless spying …

    But no, they’re fine with all that, they list giving us health care and clean air, bringing our troops home, avoiding wars. And they expect us to take them seriously!!?

  4. AnthonyLook July 6th, 2014 at 11:52 pm

    Of course this is coming; It’s an African American president, after all; has there ever been any doubt that they would throw everything they could to see what would stick. Their lies and fake scandals all have been received with a loud thud of failure. Even this Benghazi committee witch hunt is obvious to them is a losing proposition; on issue after issue the pulse of America eludes the Republicans. Now that the inevitable results from their signature epic lie of war debacle are manifesting in Iraq and the American people (and the world) are resoundingly pointing the finger of deserved blame at their Republican feet, as they churn at the visuals of their failures; they have no recourse but to go nuclear- IMPEACH. The final self inflicted Republican deathblow that will have the result of a ferocious solidarity against all things tea party, against all things Republican. BRING IT ON !

  5. fancypants July 6th, 2014 at 11:56 pm

    I urge the Republicans to keep doing this. Don’t come up with a better health plan. Keep pretending that it’s President Obama who screwed up Iraq. Continue pouding the impeachment drum. Then look at who the president is after 2016
    ——————————————————
    Exactly ! its going to be ok with biden in charge ( if this happens at all ) these are the same gun toting morons who think there is a pot of gold at the end of the impeachment rainbow. Problem is…we are still at “undeclared” war with the middle east with no winner at the finish line and the the republicans have no idea who’s going to get us back to a 7 trillion dollar national debt NO IDEAS AT ALL.

    • Eric Trommater July 7th, 2014 at 12:10 am

      It doesn’t work that way unfortunately. Give the GOP that kind of investigative power and it’s just open season on the POTUS and the Executive Branch. If he had an afair on his wife 10 years ago it will be the lead on every news cast. Every nut ball conspiracy theory will suddenly be given credence. It will be a chance for his detractors from both parties to throw mud on him, disgrace the office and reinforce the meme that “all politicians are crooks.”

      • fancypants July 7th, 2014 at 12:15 am

        I cant say they are too far off the mark when they say politicians are crooks. If they did what we elected them to do ? We wouldn’t be having this conversation….

        • Eric Trommater July 7th, 2014 at 12:17 am

          I don’t think so. Some are but most people I know in Government would make a hell of a lot more in the private sector and just want to serve their country.

          • fancypants July 7th, 2014 at 12:19 am

            So where would we be if gwb got impeached….. See where im going with this ?????

          • Eric Trommater July 7th, 2014 at 12:27 am

            I do but the answer is no one knows. Remember Clinton’s Impeachment started as an investigation into White Water. Eventually they expanded and expanded the investigation until they backed him into a corner, on a completely unrelated matter, and forced him into a place where he had to either tell the world and his wife he had cheated on her or commit perjury.

          • fancypants July 7th, 2014 at 12:33 am

            lol you hit the nail on the head ! Dennis cosinich

          • Eric Trommater July 7th, 2014 at 1:01 am

            We may have gained a political advantage but at the cost of debasing the highest office in the land and embedding even further the cynicism toward American government and making the country ungovernable. These people in the GOP who want to push this process are pure evil and are doing so with the main goal of eroding the office. Kucinich would have just been playing into their hands.

          • fancypants July 7th, 2014 at 1:05 am

            I disagree Cheney would have been singing like a canary about his decisions prior to 911 while gwb was talking to the school kids.
            you would be surprised how many gop would be making retirement plans by that time

          • tiredoftea July 7th, 2014 at 1:07 am

            It was not politics. Kucinich was the last Dem with any moral scruples. There was a strong case to be made, he made it and the rest of Congress ignored him. W and his administration should have been, should still be, tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

            Congress and our country would be better off to stand again for respect for the law, especially of powerful people, including the President of the United States.

          • fancypants July 7th, 2014 at 1:09 am

            Agreed !

          • raincheck1956 July 7th, 2014 at 8:26 am

            I could not agree more… I was so disappointed when it was decided there would be no investigation into the run up to the war in Iraq. I’m a registered Democrat… but I can’t help but feel there are too many cowardly Democratic leaders… I believe in a counter punch for every punch. GWB is living a rich privileged life after taking us into an illegal war which drained our treasure and blood.

          • fahvel July 7th, 2014 at 5:17 am

            nope!!! It’s small people seeking to appear powerful. Choose politics as a way and you diminish yourself.

        • Bryan Peralta-Purdy July 7th, 2014 at 4:22 pm

          Its pretty hard for them to do what we elected them to do if the other side ONLY says “NO”

  6. arc99 July 6th, 2014 at 11:57 pm

    A conviction in the US Senate requires a two thirds majority of the members present. Even if the GOP takes the Senate in 2014, 66 votes in favor of impeachment is not going to happen. Impeachment proceedings would be a pointless kangaroo court which will accomplish not a single tangible benefit for the nation.

    The party of NO ideas cannot win at the ballot box. So they launch voter id initiatives, cut early voting days, close polling places and rant about a replay of impeaching a twice-elected Democratic President.

    They are not stupid. They know there is zero chance of conviction. More importantly, I think they also know that the President has not committed impeachable offenses. This is pure partisan politics driven by a rabid, psychotic far right wing base. I am inclined to agree with jasperjava, let these contemptible cretins bring it on. Then as we head into November 2016, their failed charade will be the final nail in the coffin of GOP Presidential aspirations, and we will have a Democratic President selecting Supreme Court justices for at least another 8 years, even if Hilary does not run.

  7. William July 7th, 2014 at 12:10 am

    It amazes me how willing the GOP is to commit political suicide just to score a couple brownie points with the lunatics.

    • Shades July 7th, 2014 at 12:37 pm

      If you posted this on an OAS FB page, they would totally believe it.

  8. Kansas_City July 7th, 2014 at 12:12 am

    Mr. Combs is correct that it would be extraordinarily dumb politically for the republicans to impeach President Obama. I don’t think there is any chance of impeachment absent significant new information.

    But I don’t understand how someone like Mr. Combs declares that conservatives “hate his guts.” There are about 25% of American who declare themselves to be conservative. Why does Mr. Combs accuse so many millions of Americans of hating the president on such a personal basis? I’m a conservative/libertarian and certainly do not hate President Obama. I almost always find him likeable on a personal basis.

    • waltr July 7th, 2014 at 1:03 am

      Colmes.

    • arc99 July 7th, 2014 at 2:05 am

      Alan was offering his opinion on the motivations of the people advocating impeachment. I wholeheartedly agree with his opinion. The accusation is not directed at anyone conservative or otherwise who agrees that there are no legitimate grounds whatsoever to draft articles of impeachment,

      On the other hand, If trumped up accusations of impeachable offenses from people who are convinced that the birth certificate is a fake, is not indicative of irrational hatred, I don’t know what is.

      You say tat Alan is right and it would be “politically dumb”. I say the important consideration is that no impeachable offenses have been committed and frankly anyone who opposes impeachment only because it is “politically dumb”, is not really different from the zealots demanding impeachment.

      Nullifying the votes of over 62 million citizens by impeaching a President for no valid reason is what we should all be concerned about, regardless of whether or not it is “politically dumb”.

    • chair jackson July 7th, 2014 at 5:00 am

      Kansas city: considering that the house is run by the tea-party i don’t think they’ll let a lack of evidence prevent them from voting to impeach. the problem is that impeachment is not removal from office–only the senate can do that, and that’s not going to happen. so all this impeachment talk is just more political theater.

      • M D Reese July 7th, 2014 at 12:14 pm

        It’s just a shiny thing to dangle in front of the rubes for the midterms.

    • M D Reese July 7th, 2014 at 12:13 pm

      I couldn’t stand Reagan, Bush or Bush–but I’m with you. I didn’t HATE them, I hated their policies. I still do, as we are still suffering the results–including (at least in part) the crisis of refugees from Central America that are now flooding our border.

  9. Obewon July 7th, 2014 at 1:28 am

    All of the failed ODS birther nuts sob ‘why don’t that GOP Boehner impeach them fellers fer being uppity?’ These loons are so ginned up by repub politicians repeating every entertainers delusion of GOP Leader Rusty the misogynist Racist, and his Limbaughtomized marionettes Hannity, Beck, jihadi Jones and Birther-U’s Wing Nut Daily. Had delusional’s been capable of paying attention, a tether to reality would have been Issa’s “0 indictments” following 50 weeks of hearings per year.

  10. chair jackson July 7th, 2014 at 4:57 am

    if they understood the constitution they’d know they are wasting their time–and doing nothing to help the citizens of this country.

  11. fahvel July 7th, 2014 at 5:15 am

    these cretins are what the world sees as the usa. america has become a joke considering that it’s voting public has placed these assholes in any kind of office of responsibility. Shame on you!

  12. Ruby Tuesday July 7th, 2014 at 5:29 am

    Actually, as long as YOU keep on doing what YOU’RE doing, your ineffective, inept, nexperienced president will continue to be shot down by the Supreme Court and watch his polls continue to plunge.

    Btw, liberals are valiant emulators. This all began with BUSH DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.

    • Anomaly 100 July 7th, 2014 at 8:09 am

      OMFG, you’re just adorable!

      • Hirightnow July 7th, 2014 at 8:43 am

        His hamburgers are mediocre, though…

        • Anomaly 100 July 7th, 2014 at 8:53 am

          I’m never going there then!

    • William July 7th, 2014 at 10:21 am

      “Actually, as long as YOU keep on doing what YOU’RE doing, your ineffective, inept, nexperienced president will continue to be shot down by the Supreme Court and watch his polls continue to plunge”

      that’s right, bark dittohead, bark. Now roll over. Good boy.

      Now here is some more stuff you can blame on the President.

      Job losses were cut by more than 50% within his first 4 months in office.
      He saved the American auto industry.
      Has cut our deficits by more than half.
      Killed Osama bin Ladin.
      Got Syria to give up their chemical weapons without firing a single shot.
      Presided over record breaking stock levels (with the Dow just recently closing over 17,000 for the first time in its 118-year history).
      Reduced unemployment from 10% to 6.1%.
      We just saw the fastest first quarter of job growth in the United States since 1999.
      The quickest drop in unemployment in 30 years.
      52 straight months of private sector job growth.
      9.7 million private sector jobs created.
      Over 8 million people signed up for health care thanks to the Affordable Care Act.
      Millions of Americans have gained, or kept, health care coverage thanks to Medicaid expansions and being able to stay on their parents’ insurance longer.
      He hasn’t started a single war.
      Hasn’t tried to confiscate a single gun.

      • M D Reese July 7th, 2014 at 12:05 pm

        doesn’t matter–his middle name is Hussein, doggone it! (snark)

      • Ruby Tuesday July 7th, 2014 at 11:38 pm

        Fascinating. You’ve bought every fudging of the numbers, hook line and sinker, that I know you did absolutely no verification. There no reasoning with folks like you because you’re not reasonable or thinking critically.

        Lol he got Syria to give up chemical weapons without a shot fired, lol, thanks f or the laugh… enjoy your spoonfeeding.

        • William July 8th, 2014 at 12:26 am

          ” There no reasoning with folks like you “

          • Shades July 8th, 2014 at 7:28 am

            I believe RT speaks the Deliverance dialect.

          • Ruby Tuesday July 11th, 2014 at 7:21 am

            Fantasy protection. Arty least you weren’t copy and pasting propaganda this time.

        • whatdidhesay July 9th, 2014 at 1:19 am

          You have to come up with some facts and stop with the insults already, it doesn’t bode well for your side. But then, that’s all conservatives are good for these days – making attacks.

          • Ruby Tuesday July 11th, 2014 at 7:20 am

            I’m not a conservative… but it’s amazing how you copy/paste a bunch of debunked propaganda then blame conservatives like your lord Obama taught you.

    • M D Reese July 7th, 2014 at 12:07 pm

      I can’t type–I’m laughing too hard! Gotta be snark!

      • Ruby Tuesday July 11th, 2014 at 7:18 am

        That’s ok. Laughing is what children do…

    • Shades July 7th, 2014 at 12:35 pm

      Actually, the latest Gallup poll has him up 5 to 45. Granted that’s
      underwater but perfectly normal for a two-term president
      with two years to go. Bush was in the low 30s as I recall. Whether
      the bump lasts remains to be seen. It could have something to do with
      the god-awful SCOTUS decisions from last week.

      • Ruby Tuesday July 7th, 2014 at 11:34 pm

        You mean the ones even your liberal plants voted Obama down?

        • Shades July 8th, 2014 at 7:25 am

          I see the problem here. You’re drunk blogging again. Wait until you sober up. Then you may be able to post a coherent response.

          • Ruby Tuesday July 11th, 2014 at 7:17 am

            Great reply. You’d make a third grader proud.

          • M D Reese July 11th, 2014 at 6:01 pm

            I think you’re probably right. Ruby just got over the hangover and tried to make a witty retort to me but flamed out.

    • Republicans_are_Evil July 7th, 2014 at 6:30 pm

      You do realize that Obama is currently the most experienced person in the world at being President? You are such a bad liar.

      • Ruby Tuesday July 7th, 2014 at 11:33 pm

        I see. So if you stand at the 50yd line and do either nothing or everything wrong, that makes you an experience football player… especially if you had no ball playing experience prior.

        Great logic. No wonder he got elected with great minds like you out there.

  13. Julian Trovada July 7th, 2014 at 7:37 am

    If the conservatives are christians, why don’t they just pray? I guess they know it will NOT work. LOL!

    • R.J. Carter July 7th, 2014 at 9:14 am

      Faith without works is dead.

      • M D Reese July 7th, 2014 at 12:04 pm

        Faith based on the supernatural is a non-starter.

  14. Shades July 7th, 2014 at 8:16 am

    I wish they would, right before the 2014 elections. The RWer’s are going to vote anyway. This will bring out the complacent democratic voters. In the words of President Obama, “Please proceed.”

  15. Denise July 7th, 2014 at 8:56 am

    I have my popcorn and soda. i’ll just sit back and wait for the comedy of errors to begin.

  16. R.J. Carter July 7th, 2014 at 9:15 am

    Isn’t a term-and-a-half a little late to be pushing for impeachment? Seems far better to expend the energy on putting together a candidate who can challenge the situation and fix the problems.

    • mea_mark July 7th, 2014 at 10:36 am

      They have to justify their time in Washington somehow, we all know the republicans don’t actually want to do anything. Their job in Washington is to say NO!

      • M D Reese July 7th, 2014 at 12:03 pm

        Oh–and get elected. Because that is how you WIN! Or something.
        They have no desire to actually govern and make the country work. I’m sick of them.

      • Shades July 7th, 2014 at 12:31 pm

        If anyone gets the chance, borrow Eddie Murphy’s The Distinguished Gentleman from your library. It’s about a grifter who manages to get elected to the house with plans to clean up on the perks only to find out he’s in waaaaay over his head against the more senior elected con men .

    • M D Reese July 7th, 2014 at 12:02 pm

      Seems to me they started making impeachment noises pretty much the first day he sat in the Oval Office.

    • Jeffrey Samuels July 7th, 2014 at 7:49 pm

      problem is they don’t have anyone who can challenge the situation,and they certainly don’t have anyone either willing or capable of actually fixing problems.

  17. MaryJane Mccarthy James July 7th, 2014 at 10:05 am

    The insanity of the unhinged . Try to impeach Obama for being a black man in their white house. The scum will only make him even more popular like they did with Clinton.

  18. William July 7th, 2014 at 10:24 am

    “It’s fueled by conservative anger over the president’s increasing use of executive actions on issues such as immigration and air pollution regulations”……
    good luck Bozos

  19. labman57 July 7th, 2014 at 11:11 am

    Congressional Republicans and their paid propagandists employed by News Corp, along with bombastic, bellicose blowhards such as Limbaugh have been shouting into the wind, calling for Obama to be impeached … ever since he was originally elected in 2008.

    The House Republican majority and Senate minority have become obsessed with discussing and voting on meaningless, totally symbolic, wholly partisan proclamations as a means of avoiding any discussion of useful, substantive, productive legislation that meets the needs and concerns of the American people at large.

    Besides, it’s an election year — to hell with problem-solving, there is much political posturing to be done.
    Bring on the faux scandals and absurd conspiracy theories.
    Oh, and Obama dined out with his family last week. Impeach him now!

    • Learjet July 7th, 2014 at 3:29 pm

      They’re all mostly, scared, old, white, men who have nothing better to do than watch Fox “News” all day long. They believe and regurgitate everything they hear from Fox, Limbaugh, Beck, Palin, Hannity, etc. and they refuse to watch ANY other news channel because Fox tells them not to. They’re a pathetic bunch, who by the way, are dropping like flies as I type this.

  20. M D Reese July 7th, 2014 at 12:01 pm

    More accurate headline– The push is on to raise a lot of campaign money for the November elections. Bring it on you fools!

  21. jimvancise July 7th, 2014 at 1:47 pm

    Here’s the thing (and the Talking Heads and Politicians know all about this, obviously they aren’t saying it ,lest their Clueless Minions quit sending those Donations), nothing could be worse for them than an Impeachment (and Conviction). Should The House Impeach, and The Senate Convict (we know they won’t, but let’s say that they did). We would then have a much more Liberal President Biden. Joe needs a Veep, and who better than a former Sec of State? What is better for running for President than being a Former Sec of State AND former Vice President ? Somewhere along the line, either Joe or Hillary pardons Obama (as in Ford and Nixon). THAT is why they will only TALK Impeachment, but never follow through.

  22. Learjet July 7th, 2014 at 3:15 pm

    Agreed. Today’s GOP has reached a whole new, unprecedented, level of CRAY-CRAY. At this point, it’s just laughable. I agree, keep it coming! The only one’s they’re harming is themselves. PATHETIC.

    • BanditBasheert July 7th, 2014 at 8:00 pm

      If they take steps to impeach him, won’t that slow down their project to turn us into a catholic country?

  23. Republicans_are_Evil July 7th, 2014 at 6:32 pm

    Has anyone from the right decided exactly what it is Obama should be impeached for?

    • BanditBasheert July 7th, 2014 at 7:59 pm

      Anything and everything.
      But mostly for being black.

  24. Republicans_are_Evil July 7th, 2014 at 6:35 pm

    What I find most amusing about this is Obama has committed an impeachable offense, he failed to prosecute the Bush Administration for it’s war crimes. The Republicans have grounds, but they have to find something else, anything else. The last thing they want is a long discussing about Republican support for the torture of prisoners in a war crimes trial.

  25. Jeffrey Samuels July 7th, 2014 at 7:47 pm

    yeah impeachment. Can’t have a democratic president without impeaching him. It would set a bad precedent.

  26. Robert Johnston July 7th, 2014 at 9:23 pm

    To qoute the late Clara Peller:
    “Where’s The Beef?”
    Could it be in the crainal cavities of those infected with Impeachment Fever?

    Frankly, if the 2014 Midterms turns the Senate over to the GOP, you can expect the “Impeachment Fever” to get even hotter.
    –RKJ

  27. Debbie Pineau July 8th, 2014 at 9:51 am

    http://www.constitution.org/cmt/high_crimes.htm and The charge of high crimes and misdemeanors covers allegations of misconduct peculiar to officials, such as perjury of oath, abuse of authority, bribery, intimidation, misuse of assets, failure to supervise, dereliction of duty, conduct unbecoming, and refusal to obey a lawful order. Offenses by officials also include ordinary crimes, but perhaps with different standards of proof and punishment than for nonofficials, on the grounds that more is expected of officials by their oaths of office. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_crimes_and_misdemeanours#United_States

  28. dorothyCAlady July 9th, 2014 at 12:32 pm

    Republicans want to impeach democrat Presidents. They can’t stand it that a Democrat was elected twice again as our President. They will look for anything to accomplish this but they have a losing game. It just won’t happen they have no real grounds.