Impeach Obama, Wrong Medicine For A Sick Presidency.

There are many who are screaming for impeachment of Obama. We think that would be a tragic mistake regardless of the misdeeds he has done (and there are many.)  We believe that the House could successfully bring charges. They would then would turn them over to the Senate for a trial.  It is at this point the process would break down.

Harry Reid will never bring forward the charges, never have the appropriate hearings and no pressure for him to do his job will make him have a trial over HIS president.  It just will  not happen. Even if we are wrong and there is a preceding against the President, it is a pretty sure bet that 2/3 of the Senate would not vote to convict.

Additionally, the media would have an absolute fit. They would compare the "show trial" to OJ Simpson and the Clinton Impeachment hearings. (Two being black men and the other first "black" President.) We would not hear about the misdeeds and the charges against the  President.

Also, the media would complain loudly about the waste of resources in a time of economic travail (somehow conveniently forgetting that Obama's illegal child immigrant foray is costing Americans 3.7 billion dollars.)  They will compare the trial to the "closing down of the government" and bemoan the millions that were lost on that Republican misadventure somehow forgetting that Obama had planned not to negotiate with the GOP in an effort to weaken them.

There is a possibility that we could see this happen. Members of Congress who are Tea Party members are saying they do not believe this is a good tactic. Of course, this probably will make those mainstream Republicans and RINOs jump on the train to impeachment.

So, if the Republicans decide that impeachment is the way to go, they should prepare to lose the mid-term elections this fall.  (Of course, that is what we have feared since last year.) It will open the possibility that Obama has a fully Democratic congress from which he can get anything that he wants. Is that what Republicans want to give him?  What damage could he do in the next two years with a compliant Congress? One can only shake in fear!

Impeachment is a lose-lose-lose proposition for the Republicans.  They lose the public, are condemned in the press, will lose the elections and potentially allow Obama free rein.  It is stupid and we hope sensible minds come to see it our way.

That is our unbiased opinion!

Conservative Tom

Palin Versus Buchanan: To Impeach Obama… Or Not?

July 9, 2014 by Ben Bullard 

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Sarah Palin torched President Barack Obama this week in an opinion piece in which she argued the time has come for the House of Representatives to draft articles of impeachment against him. Her ideology may be sound, but there are other conservative voices who believe that the GOP — and the Nation — have more to gain by watching Obama go down, slowly, in his own ship.

Writing for Breitbart Tuesday, Palin cited the ongoing border crisis as she made a passionate case for impeachment:

Because of Obama’s purposeful dereliction of duty an untold number of illegal immigrants will kick off their shoes and come on in, competing against Americans for our jobs and limited public services. There is no end in sight as our president prioritizes parties over doing the job he was hired by voters to do. Securing our borders is obviously fundamental here; it goes without saying that it is his job.

…His friendly wealthy bipartisan elite, who want cheap foreign labor and can afford for themselves the best “border security” money can buy in their own exclusive communities, do not care that Obama tapped us out.

Have faith that average American workers – native-born and wonderful legal immigrants of all races, backgrounds, and political parties – do care because we’re the ones getting screwed as we’re forced to follow all our government’s rules while others are not required to do so. Many now feel like strangers in their own land.

…President Obama’s rewarding of lawlessness, including his own, is the foundational problem here. It’s not going to get better, and in fact irreparable harm can be done in this lame-duck term as he continues to make up his own laws as he goes along, and, mark my words, will next meddle in the U.S. Court System with appointments that will forever change the basic interpretation of our Constitution’s role in protecting our rights.

It’s time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment.

You can read Palin’s full piece at Breitbart.

While Palin’s ideological basis for impeachment may be sound, not all conservative voices believe impeachment is the right approach. Pat Buchanan, who fundamentally agrees with Palin that Obama has done, and continues to do, impeachable things, argues that proving his offenses would become a protracted and creepingly unpopular process that would drain Republicans’ steadily accruing political capital. Besides, he argued, the political climate strongly favors letting things just play out as this year’s election cycle — as well as the Presidential election of 2016 — approaches.

In an opinion piece for WND on Monday, Buchanan made the pragmatist’s case against impeachment — an extreme measure he described as “a bridge too far”:

Democrats are talking impeachment to rally a lethargic base to come out and vote this fall to prevent Republicans from taking control of the Senate, and with it the power to convict an impeached president.

Still, Republicans should drop the talk of impeachment.

For the GOP would gain nothing and risk everything if the people began to take seriously their threats to do to Barack Obama what Newt Gingrich’s House did to Bill Clinton.

The charges for which a president can be impeached and removed from office are “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

With Bill Clinton, the impeachers had a solid case of perjury.

With Richard Nixon, they had a preponderance of evidence that, at least for a time, he had sought to obstruct justice in the investigation of the Watergate break-in.

Concerning Obama’s “I was the last to know” pattern of excuse-making to explain his role in the many scandals under his watch, Robertson says there’s not much to be gained by impeachment-minded Republicans, who would be risking a dramatic swing in the momentum they’ve gained in public opinion, which already has come to regard Obama as an ineffective bungler:

Obama claims he did not learn of the IRS abuse until years after it began, and weeks after his White House staff learned of it.

In the absence of those emails, the claim cannot be refuted.

In the Benghazi scandal, the president’s defense is the same.

He had no idea what was going on. And cluelessness appears here to be a credible defense. Two weeks after the Benghazi atrocity, Obama was at the U.N. still parroting the Susan Rice line about an anti-Muslim video having been the cause of it all.

…Any Republican attempt at impeachment would go up against a stacked deck. And the GOP would be throwing away a winning hand for a losing one.

For while the American people have shown no interest in impeaching Obama, they are coming to believe they elected an incompetent executive and compulsive speechmaker who does not know what the presidency requires and who equates talk with action.

Buchanan’s full piece is online at WND.

Who’s right? Are Obama’s offenses against his Constitutional oath so egregious that Republicans should summon the zeal — at any political cost — to follow through with impeachment (especially if they retake the Senate in November)? Or should they sit back, confident and self-assured that the remainder of his Presidency will implode, to their benefit, without irrevocable harm to the Nation?

Or is all this talk of impeachment among conservatives nothing more than news fodder and gamesmanship, what Buchanan himself described as “just beer talk?”