How President Obama will be impeached

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How President Obama will be Impeached

Writing about Rep. Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) stunning primary defeat last week, I warned Democrats that the House majority leader’s loss was as much a wake-up call for them as it was for the GOP. Well, now I want to warn them about a very real possibility: President Obama will be impeached if the Democrats lose control of the U.S. Senate.

Yeah, yeah, I read Aaron Blake’s astute piece in The Post on the impeachment process. He says “probably not” to the question of whether the House could impeach Obama. But “probably” is not “definitely.” And with the way the impeachment talk has gone, “probably not” could become “absolutely” if the Senate flips to the Republicans.

Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.) became the latest to openly discuss impeaching the president. In response to a question from a radio host on Monday, the two-term congressman who was swept in during the tea party wave of 2010, said, Obama is “just absolutely ignoring the Constitution and ignoring the laws and ignoring the checks and balances.” Articles of impeachment, he added, “probably could” pass in the House.

In a later interview, Barletta said one of the reasons he wouldn’t vote for impeachment was because a Democrat-controlled Senate would never convict the Democrat president. Blake also mentions this parenthetically in his piece. Others who have talked about impeachment point to this as the reason not to pursue the extraordinary political rebuke.

Last August at a town hall meeting, Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Tex.) cited the Senate as a reason for not pursuing impeachment. “If we were to impeach the president tomorrow, you could probably get the votes in the House of Representatives to do it,” he said in response to a constituent upset about “the fraudulent birth certificate of Barack Obama” and who wanted him punished. “But it would go to the Senate and he wouldn’t be convicted.” A week later, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) was asked, “Why don’t we impeach him [Obama]?” His answer was similar to Farenthold’s. “It’s a good question,” the freshman senator said, “and I’ll tell you the simplest answer: To successfully impeach a president you need the votes in the U.S. Senate.”

Actually, impeachment is a two-step process that starts in the House. All it takes is a simple majority of that chamber to approve a single article of impeachment against the president for “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” Once that happens, a president is forever branded as having been impeached. President Andrew Johnson (1868) and President Bill Clinton (1998) share that distinction. President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 before the full House could vote to impeach him.

To officially remove a president from office, two-thirds of the Senate must vote to convict him on those articles of impeachment. Johnson and Clinton were not convicted. Obama could share the same or worse fate. A Republican-controlled Senate could lead to Obama
becoming the third president impeached and the first ever to be removed from office.

I don’t make this prediction lightly. The tea party-infused GOP has done things many once believed impossible. I’m thinking specifically about the two instances it brought the nation and the world to the brink of economic ruin because of its resistance to raising the debt ceiling. If Republicans are willing to ignore their leadership and jeopardize the full faith and credit of the United States, there really is nothing they aren’t willing to do. And a Republican takeover of the Senate would only embolden them.

I’ve said this before and I’ll keep repeating it until the message sinks in for Democrats inclined to sit out the midterms: Obama is not on the ballot in November, but Obama is on the ballot in November. Democrats have it in their power to keep the Senate and save the Obama presidency from the all-but-certain asterisk of impeachment. Whether they use it is a very real concern.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/06/18/how-president-obama-will-be-impeached

Edited November 14, 2014 by ExExpat

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Wait, your stance on impeachment of Obama has changed. Last week you said:

"A pipe dream that originated in a drop-out prog think-tank to get a conservative to say their agenda is to impeach 0bola."

So, which one is it?

[spookyturtle 9,466]

If he pulls this BS immigration reform, he should be impeached. America is a democracy, not a dictatorship.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

If he pulls this BS immigration reform, he should be impeached. America is a democracy, not a dictatorship.

Let's see how this plays out.

[SMOKE 1,426]

Let's see how this plays out.

do you think its a bluff?

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Let's see how this plays out.

I hope it somehow gets stopped. It is a huge slap in the face to every legal immigrant and a total abuse of executive power.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

do you think its a bluff?

Could be. Or he could be serious. Either way, you can't impeach for what you THINK might happen. Either he does or he doesn't.

I hope it somehow gets stopped. It is a huge slap in the face to every legal immigrant and a total abuse of executive power.

Me too.

[SMOKE 1,426]

Could be. Or he could be serious. Either way, you can't impeach for what you THINK might happen. Either he does or he doesn't.

I didn't say he'd get impeached. I know the democratic party is done until 2020, if he does...i'm hoping his narcissism pushes him to do it.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

I'm calling to talk to my Congressman today. If he grants amnesty I want to get my husband over the gate so he can be apart of it. Then we can work at correcting his status from inside of the U.S. like it really should be done.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

I didn't say he'd get impeached. I know the democratic party is done until 2020, if he does...i'm hoping his narcissism pushes him to do it.

Guess we'll just wait and see. There's talk of action by the end of today.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

If he pulls this BS immigration reform, he should be impeached. America is a democracy, not a dictatorship.

I have always maintained the impeachment non-sense is just that

However I agree with you on this issue. He will way overstep. All Hades will break lose.

Guess we'll just wait and see. There's talk of action by the end of today.

Whats even sadder is I give you 10-1 the pubs will fold and compromise on amnesty

[eieio 1,594]

If he pulls this BS immigration reform, he should be impeached. America is a democracy, not a dictatorship.

Amen!

[Pooky 3,847]

Three words describe perfectly why it will never happen:

President Joe Biden

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Three words describe perfectly why it will never happen:

President Joe Biden

Oh dear god. What you just did. It's like dreaming a very real dream that you won the lottery. Then waking up and it was just a dream

I swear I think Biden has mental issues.

[UncleBeer 244]

Three words describe perfectly why it will never happen:

President Joe Biden

Biden's a doofus, but at least he's not trying to deliberately destroy the country like the preznit is. Joe can also at least be given credit for trying to establish a dialogue, which O'bama quickly squelched.

President Obama and Vice President Biden might not see eye-to-eye on immigration strategy. A hint of an apparent disagreement was on display during Obama's lunch with congressional leaders on Friday at the White House.

"The meeting was tense at times, according to a senior House Republican aide. The aide was not authorized to describe the back-and-forth publicly by name and spoke only on condition of anonymity," the Associated Press reports.

"Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, about to lose his grip on the upper chamber, barely said a word. The aide said at one point as House Speaker John Boehner was making an argument on immigration, Obama responded that his patience was running out and Vice President Joe Biden interrupted to ask how long Republicans needed. Obama angrily cut Biden off, the aide said."