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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Congress Should Not Go For Impeachment. It Would Never Fly In The Senate And Dems Will Politicize It To The Sky.

House Tea Party GOPers Oppose Obama Impeachment

Wednesday, 09 Jul 2014 05:02 PM

By Todd Beamon

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Several conservative Republicans pushed back Wednesday on calls for President Barack Obama's impeachment.

"Harry Reid's going to block anything we do in that regard," Georgia Rep. Paul Broun toldThe Hill on Wednesday.

Broun, a four-term congressman, said in February that he would vote to impeach Obama.

"There are a number of colleagues that would like to see an impeachment proceeding go forward against the president," he said. "I'm not sure our leadership would allow that to happen ... we've got to focus on what we can do."

Louisiana Rep. John Fleming told the Hill: "We'd like to do more, the problem is the avenues are just not available. Even if impeachment was to pass in the House, it wouldn't remove the president from office.

"It's one of those things that if you can't see an end solution, why even get into that debate?" Fleming asked.

The conservatives said that any impeachment effort would die in the Democratic-controlled Senate and would backfire against Republicans in the November congressional elections.

Their comments also appeared to support House Speaker John Boehner and other mainstream Republicans who have resisted calls for impeachment.

"I disagree," Boehner said in response to a reporter's question on whether he supported former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's call on Tuesday for Obama's impeachment, The Washington Post reports.

The House will, however, vote this month on whether to bring a lawsuit against Obama over his use of executive actions.

In a commentary for Breitbart, Palin said: "Enough is enough of the years of abuse from this president. His unsecured border crisis is the last straw that makes the battered wife say, 'no mas.'"

Two U.S. presidents, Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998, were impeached by the House. Both were acquitted in the Senate, where a two-thirds vote is required to convict and remove a president from office. The Senate vote on Johnson was one vote short of conviction.

In the fall 1998 midterm elections, the GOP lost seats — a rare happening for a party that does not control the White House — amid concerns about Clinton's impeachment and charges of overzealousness by Democrats.

For their part, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee cited Palin's comments in a fundraising email on Tuesday, the Hill reports, calling her comments and the lawsuit "ugly attacks on President Obama's legitimacy."

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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Audit The IRS Rally

If you have not heard about the Audit The IRS Rally in Washington today, don't feel left out. We only heard about it recently and it was not through the "lame stream media." We doubt that even if a million people show up today, it will be reported. There might be a mention of a small "Tea Party" event but there will be few pix and no interviews. Who would want to talk to this rabble anyway?

The promoters say this will be the largest event in three years. We hope it dwarfs their ambitious estimates!

Should you be in the Washington D. C area today around 2 P. M., get us pictures and we will post them here or give us a first person report. We would love to get the real story.

Conservative Tom

Audit The IRS Rally Expected To Be Biggest Tea Party Protest Since 2010

June 18, 2013 by Sam Rolley

Mainstream media is, thus far, characteristically mum on coverage of the event— but what is expected to be the largest gathering of Tea Party activists since 2010 will converge on Washington D.C. Tuesday in protest of the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservatives.

The event, dubbed the Audit the IRS Rally, will occur from noon until 2 p.m. on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol.

Tea Party Patriots, the event organizers, have lined up an inclusive group of conservative speakers to address attendees, among those who will be present: Glenn Beck, Senator Mike Lee, Representative Michele Bachmann, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Rand Paul, Jenny Beth Martin, Representative Steve King, Representative Dave Camp, Representative Louie Gohmert, Representative Jim Jordan, Representative Tim Huelskamp, Representative Jim Bridenstine, Representative John Fleming, Representative Tom Graves, Representative Tom Price, Representative Mike Kelly, Representative Matt Salmon, Tea Party Leaders, Dana Loesch, Steve Bannon, Sonnie Johnson, Jim Hoft, Niger Innis and Andrew Marcus.

The organization cites a speech given by Becky Gerritson of Wetumpka Tea Party in testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee as an example of the spirit behind the rally.

She told lawmakers earlier this month:

We are patriotic Americans. We peacefully assemble. We petition our government. We exercise our right to free speech and we don’t understand why our government tried to stop us. We aren’t here as serfs or vassals. We’re not begging our lords for mercy. We are born free American citizens and we’re telling our government that you’ve forgotten your place. It’s not your responsibility to look out for our well being and monitor our speech. It’s not your right to assert an agenda. The post that you occupy exists to preserve American liberty. You’ve sworn to perform that duty and you have faltered.