Tag: Obama Impeachment
Jindal Soft-Peddles Impeachment
Let’s not talk about impeachment. Let’s actually talk about the policies we disagree with.
— Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), on NBC’s Meet the Press.
Fox Legal Expert Suggests Obama Could Be Impeached over the Sequester – Even Though It Was Voted into Law with 202 Republican Votes
Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napiltano suggested yesterday that Pres. Obama could be impeached over the sequester:
“This is almost an impeachable offense,” Napolitano [said]. “If the president is deciding how to spend money in order to hurt us, rather than in order to provide us with the services for which we have paid and for which we have hired him, he is doing the opposite of what he has taken an oath to do.”
“He has taken an oath to uphold the laws. That means make the government work. Don’t make it painful, find a way to make it work on 2 percent less.”
The former judge concluded: “That’s the way the constitution works!”
What this Fox legal expert deliberately pretends to ignore, of course, is that impeachment over the sequester would put holdovers among the 174 Republicans in the House and 28 Republicans in the Senate who voted for the sequester in the 112th Congress in a very awkward position. In particular, it would make a majority of House Republicans complicit in the president’s “crime.”
Republican Party Boss Puts Impeaching Obama on the Table
NORQUIST: Obama can sit there and let all the tax [cuts] lapse, and then the Republicans will have enough votes in the Senate in 2014 to impeach.
ThinkProgess suggests impeaching Pres. Obama because Congress let tax cuts expire would be tough sledding:
Norquist certainly revels in his power, but suggesting Republicans impeach the president over tax cuts is wildly outlandish. According to the Constitution, the president, vice president, or public officials can only be impeached for “treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Preserving a tax cut that gives more to the top 1 percent than the average income of the 99 percent hardly qualifies.
Incoming Republican House Oversight Chair Signals $40 Bil in Medicare ‘Cuts’
Is it fair to cast eliminating waste and fraud to save billions in taxpayer funds as “cuts” to Medicare?
“Despite the ‘doom and gloom’ predictions you may have heard, the proposed savings in Medicare are designed to come from two sources; (a) a crackdown on Medicare fraud, estimated to currently cost the federal government as much as $60 billion per year and (b) a reduction in what is paid to the Medicare Advantage programs offered by private insurance companies.”
– Forbes.com
– Forbes.com
Obviously, it is not. But that’s exactly how Republicans have been spinning provisions in the Affordable Health Care Act — which they call Obamacare — that enable rooting out inefficiencies and corruption in the Medicare system. They also used this vile disinformation as campaign spin in order to scare millions of seniors into voting for them in the midterms.
But that was four weeks ago. Now the New York Times has spoken with Rep. Darrell Issa, the wealthy former car thief from California who is set to become the House’s chief Obama administration inquisitor — officially known as the chairman of the Oversight Committee — about his plans for next year. And guess what? He says he plans to ferret out “$40 billion a year in fraud or waste in Medicare” over the next two years.
But hold on here. After voting in lockstep against Democrats’ plan to eliminate waste and fraud and then campaigning against the efficiencies as “cuts” to Medicare, now Republicans are simply adopting the Democrats’ idea and moving on?
You betcha.
Impeachment Advocates Call for Investigation into White House Visit by Beyonce, Jay-Z
In “The Case for Impeachment: Why Barack Hussein Obama Should Be Impeached to Save America,” the Republicans’ roadmap for investigating the president next year, author Steven Baldwin lists as one of Obama’s potential high crimes and misdemeanors an incident that occurred during a visit to the White House last spring by two world-famous entertainers:
