++You will hear more about impeachment as we head to the mid-term. In 2006,Nancy Pelosi ruled out impeachment to enable Democrats to take the house. This year Republicans are using it to try to take the Senate.
++Think about this, if President Obama, our first African-American President, were impeached,what message would that send to the world and to those non-white Americans who will be a majority of our population by August?
++Second,remember Karl Rove said that there would be a permanent Republican Majority and that the GOP would have the presidency for the foreseeable future. The impeachment of Bill Clinton was part of that project but failed. The attempt to make President Obama a one-term President failed. An impeachment of a two-term democratically elected Democratic President,the first who received over 50% since FDR,would basically send clear signal that the GOP only likes democracy if they win. It would be an incredible indictment of the Republican Party.
++As Alan Lichtman of American University said last night on Last Word with Ari Melber, polarization in this country is "going off the charts". He pointed out that this Congress has done even less than the famous "Do Nothing" Congress but it just continues oversight on imagined scandals.
++But that is the point. The whole strategy after the 2012 presidential election is to obstruct if not reverse anything President Obama has done and to try and tarnish his "legacy" so that he can not be held up as any kind of success. That is why you get this strange "lawless" theme while "weak" theme in the GOP critique. With the DOW hitting historic highs,Obama is the worse socialist. He is lawless because he uses "executive orders", which he has used less than his predecessor. He may be near 200 while FDR was over 3,300 executive orders.
++Senator Lindsey Graham wants to impeach President Obama if he moves another GITMO detainee without congressional permission. Andrew McCarthy of the National Review has published a new Bible for the Right making a case for impeachment. Rep. Barletta said that impeachment could pass the House today. Former Attorney-General Judge Mukasy has urged President Obama's impeachment and admits the House can impeach him for anything. We are no longer making it a high bar to impeach a President. No high crimes and misdemeanors here.
++So why do South Dakota Republicans want to impeach President Obama?
++They have three basic issues:
1. The release of Beau Bergdahl for 5 Taliban prisoners.
2. Obamacare because he promised you could keep your insurance if you wanted to.
3. The new rules by the EPA--which won't happen until 2015.
++So you impeach a sitting President for fulfilling a function as Commander in Chief by getting a POW released--the subtext of this is that it is not for President Obama to declare the war in Afghanistan is over.
++For getting health insurance to millions of Americans.
++For rules that are not in place--in other words for the future effects of your actions , not past deeds.
++Jonathan Capehart wrote an op-ed in the Imperial Post about how President Obama will be impeached.
++The GOP has said they will not impeach unless they win the Senate because they would have no chance of getting a conviction.
++George W. Bush ,you could easily impeach for violating the treaty against torture, which is the highest of the land, invading a country preemptively,engaging in surveillance of American citizens,practicing rendition,obstruction of justice by not releasing 2 million e-mails requested from Congress.
++You could also impeach President Obama for not prosecuting any of the Americans involved in torture as required by the Treaty,also the expansion of the NSA surveillance program,and continuing the rendition program.
++But the GOP will focus on the IRS scandal, even though they haven't come up with anything, Benghazi,the Bergdahl swap,and perhaps the use of executive orders. It doesn't have to be anything illegal. Impeachment is a political exercise. Nor does impeachment make any of those things illegal.
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