 By comparison this President has to his credit fast and furious gun running;
enacting the immigration "Dream Act" by Presidential fiat; the entire
Benghazi issue that resulted in an American Ambassador and three other
Americans being murdered while the President and his Administration spun
lies about a video being the cause when they knew better; The Department of
Defense targeting journalists for investigations; the National Security
Administration collecting meta data on all Americans and leaders in allied
countries; the Internal Revenue Service targeting perceived enemies of the
Administration for extended reviews regarding tax-exempt status;
stonewalling Congressional investigations with cover-ups and refusals to
hand over information regarding the investigations; the Administration's
Attorney General being cited for Contempt of Congress for failure to
cooperate in investigations and then given protection through Executive
privilege by the President; the scandalous deaths of forty veterans being
put on secret waiting lists in the Veterans Administration Hospitals; the
President releasing known terrorist from GITMO back into a situation where
they can rejoin fighting terrorist groups putting Americans in danger;
withdrawing American troops from war theaters where terrorists continue to
be active in their attempts to kill Americans; and finally, the current
issue in the Middle East where Iraq is being overrun by terrorists again and
the President projecting to the world he intends to establish the exact same
conditions in the Afghanistan war theater by giving the enemy advance notice
of his intentions to withdraw fighting forces by the end of the year. One
would think that with all of this someone in the Congress would be at least
thinking about impeachment the way they did for Nixon and Clinton.
Prominent republicans like Sarah Palin did call for the President’s
impeachment. But the Speaker of the House, John Boehner said he “disagrees”
with Ms. Palin and refuses to entertain the motion for impeachment. Of
course the Speaker knows it is a futile endeavor since the republicans were
dealt a negative hand in the impeachment of Bill Clinton for his having lied
to Congress. In that instance, as most Americans may remember, the House of
Representatives proceeded with the impeachment, but the Senate failed to
support that move. The House republicans paid for that move dearly by losing
face and elections. Speaker Boehner knows that same thing would happen again
this time around, even with the President having lost support by more than
60 percent of the people.
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 Oddly enough, the people who are calling for the impeachment of
the President are members of his own party. At least they are
holding up the profile for the argument in a higher stance. The
reason: The democrats have used this ploy as a fundraiser to fight
against the “straw man” of impeachment and hold the republicans up
as disrupters to strengthen the charge that republicans are the
major cause of the foils plaguing the President’s Administration
with so many “phony scandals.” The truth is, each of the leaders of
both parties realize the American people really have no stomach for
impeaching the President unless there is a clear-cut “smoking gun”
of treason or “high crimes.” When the democrats won the Congress
majority in 2006 they entertained the notion of impeaching President
Bush. At that time, Nancy Pelosi, then Speaker of the House, flatly
said “impeachment is off the table.”
No, the President will not be impeached simply because the House of
Representatives will not commence the process knowing they will be
crucified in the next two elections. Even the democrats who may want
to have it rise up as an issue now to cloud the issues to at least
collect money for the party, they really don’t want it for the
future 2016 Presidential election. So, the President can feel fairly
safe for now, dodging the impeachment bullet. He may not be as
safely ensconced in the position of dodging the Supreme Court if he
continues to try to circumvent the work of Congress with his “pen
and phone.”
[By JIM KILLEBREW]
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