The pukes are fantasizing madly about impeachment

[cali]

Is the Impeachment of Barack Obama Moving Forward?

All of a sudden, everyone is talking about the possibility of impeaching Barack Obama.

Drudge is writing about it. Sean Hannity is talking about it. Dick Morris is saying that the potential scandal is "enormous.". Karl Rove called it an "extraordinary charge." WorldNetDaily.com wrote that "it could be grounds for impeachment."

What happened? The story surrounding the alleged bribe of Congressman Joe Sestak initially broke way back in February. We wrote about it then, but it never broke out into the mainstream media. But because of activist pressure and the courageous work of California Congressman Darrell Issa the story refused to die.

Rush Limbaugh

ImpeachObamaCampaign.com alone has delivered more than 750,000 petitions to Congress in support of impeachment. Make no mistake, patriotic Americans are driving this sudden turn of events. It is a testament to what can happen when patriotic Americans refuse to look the other way, and they make their voices heard in a real and meaningful way. It didn't hurt that Obama has failed to answer the questions surrounding the attempted bribe of Congressman Joe Sestak.

So did Barack Hussein Obama commit a felony by offering Congressman Joe Sestak a "high ranking" Cabinet position to drop out of the Pennsylvania Senate race against Sen. Arlen Specter?

Let's be clear. The commission of an actual felony is not actually required in order to impeach a sitting president, but if Sestak's allegation is true, and if Barack Hussein Obama's fingerprints are all over this offer, that's a felony, and drawing up Articles of Impeachment against Barack Obama becomes a necessity.

According to Judge Andrew Napolitano with Fox News: "Federal law makes it a felony to offer 'anything of value' to an official of the government in return for a decision in your favor by that official of the government; it is called bribery."

And Congressman Darrell Issa has been relentlessly pushing the matter. He's called on Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the allegation, but Holder is essentially ignoring the request.

Recently, Issa directly challenged Holder: "You don't answer or apparently investigate. ... You're not investigating whether it's a false statement by a member of Congress or a crime by the White House. What are we to do?"

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http://townhall.com/columnists/FloydandMaryBethBrown/2010/05/28/is_the_impeachment_of_barack_obama_moving_forward

Would they do it if they gained the majority? You bet. Unlike democrats, they go for the jugular.

[Captain Hilts]

1. They're really reaching, aren't they? Lame. nt

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. They want blood. Let's give them some.

Rahm Emanuel set this whole clusterfuck up. Let him be "impeached". The Repukes can think they won, but the real winners will be the rest of us, without that piece of DLC shit hanging around the White House.

[Bitwit1234]

19. Even if a vice president is out of office he can still be impeached

Lets post all over the internet and write letters to CNN and MSNBC about Cheney getting Phawlenty to drop out of the senate primary in Minnesota in favor of Norm Coleman. This is what they are trying to brand President Obama with lets give me Cheney also.

[Cetacea]

3. Investigate the secret energy meetings

That will shut them up.

[DJ13]

4. Both sides will use this hollow fantasy to try and get their base out for Nov

The GOP will salivate, the Democrats will hyperventilate (theres already an article posted here today) but its all empty rhetoric to get out the vote on both sides.

[Hissyspit]

5. They can do it after they get around to impeaching George W. Bush.

Idiot fucker hypocrites.

[wtmusic]

6. May it waste lots of their time and energy. nt

[grasswire]

7. shove Joe Biden in their faces

Shrug, and say "Knock yourselves out, freepers." The worst that can happen is President Joe Biden and a country once more furious at the wingnuts for wasting time and tax money.

[underpants]

8. a felony to offer 'anything of value' to an official of the government

retro active immunity for telecoms
retro active immunity for Eli Lily because they weren't sure their preservatives were causing autism
Halliburton
Enron
Abramoff
Defense contractors
the corn lobby
price floors on sugar
etc.

[wtmusic]

14. Picture legions of Teabaggers feverishly googling criminal law on "bribery" nt

[underpants]

20. HA! love the pic

Pretty darn equal

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. I guess they missed the news that it was an advisory position

that wouldn't have even forced him to abandon his House seat. :shrug:

Where were these furious demands for investigation and accountability during the Bush years when ACTUAL (rather than imagined) lawbreaking was occurring and they were, in fact, rubbing our noses in it?

Whatever happens, investigation of Obama for this proposed *deal* should be WAY further down the list than, say, everything that happened during the Bush II years IMHO. Not that I would expect Republicans to ever acknowledge that the Bush (mis-)administration was one huge criminal enterprise (it was even comprised of lots of past criminals and convicts from previous Republican administrations). :puke:

[NC_Nurse]

10. Meanwhile Dubya and Darth have never had to answer for their corruption.

Not to mention the illegal WAR they started. Unbelievable.

[AsahinaKimi]

11. Why is it that ONLY

Democrats can be impeached but Republicans dare not be impeached. WTF were they during the 8 years of George W. Bush??

[underpants]

12. Clinton wasn't cited until THREE MONTHS AFTER the impeachment

they impeached a guy who had not even been convicted

[Ozymanithrax]

13. For Republicans Impeachment is not about high crimes and misdemeanors, it is a political act.

If the retake the house, Congress will go into full investigation mode until...they discover or find a reason to impeach.

They did that under Clinton. Republicans, at the time, had their first discussion of impeachment of Clinton in December of 1992. It worked for them then, and they will do it again.

[Warren Stupidity]

15. Lying us into a war? no biggie.

Outing a covert agent for political retribution? never mind.

Fire a bunch of DAs for not cooperating with partisan judicial operations? I can't hear you.

But offer a potential challenger to Specter a government post, oh baby, that has to be the crime of the century.

If these assholes gain the majority they will impeach. They have been running the playbook from 92, reworked and all spiffed up, and doing so quite successfully so far. Why stop now?

If Holder caves, or if congress goes along with this crap, it will be 6 years of stalemate. Our side just doesn't learn.

Keep reaching across the aisle while pissing on your base. Marvelous strategy.

[backscatter712]

16. I love it when we give the freepers a tiny shred of hope, only to dash it away!

:evilgrin:

[jmowreader]

17. The pukes have been fantasizing wildly about impeachment since 11/5/2008

And I'll make them a deal: You posthumously impeach Ronald Reagan for offering to "find S.I. Hayakawa a job" if he dropped out of the Senate Republican primary Ronnie's own daughter was running in, and I'll think about impeaching Obama because of something Rahm Emanuel probably thought up all on his own.

Note: I said I'd think about it. If I think about it for three seconds before deciding actually doing it would be a bad idea, I kept my word.

Two more issues: Joe Sestak is the sharpest guy in the House of Representatives on naval matters, and probably any military issue. It makes sense to try to keep him there. (Okay, in about eight months he's going to be the sharpest guy in the Senate on naval matters, but that will leave a void in the lower house.) And second, if Obama would have supported Sestak's primary candidacy over Specter's, the right-wing press would have been all over him for abandoning incumbents.

Basically, if Obama wads up his Charmin instead of folding it the RW Press is going to be on him for it..."impeach him for wasting government resources, and if the 600-grit sandpaper we issue to the rest of the government is good enough for Our Troops Fighting For Freedom, it should be good enough for that uppity n...uh, B. Hussein Obama."

[sabrina 1]

18. 'They go for the jugular' ~ which is what those of us who

supported the impeachment of Bush/Cheney thought was the necessary thing to do, considering the crimes being committed.

However, the rightwing of the Democratic Party had its operatives all over the blogosphere attempting to suppress any movement to do so.

'We have more important issues to deal with' they said. The fact that Bush escaped justice, makes it easy for them now to dismiss any claims we may try to make regarding what is or is not an impeachable offense.

Let's see if Republicans will take impeachment 'off the table'. I doubt it.

[Warren Stupidity]

23. Rightwing and Rightwingier.

Those are the political choices given to us.

[HughMoran]

21. shiv them

[Raine]

22. Well then that would put in President Biden

with Pelosi next in line. Democrats will still be in charge, bwahahahaha.

[Onceuponalife]

24. "President Pelosi"

The two most frightening words to conservatives.

[The Magistrate]

25. Every Republican Running for Congress, Ma'am, Should Be Made To Declare A Position On This

Let people know: a vote for a Republican for Congress is a vote for an impeachment circus....