The loss of former House GOP majority leader Eric Cantor in his primary and the reaction by the Republicans to that loss tells me one thing: they're going to try to impeach Obama sometime in 2015.
The South Dakota Republican Party state convention passed a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Barack Obama Saturday.
The resolution says Obama has "violated his oath of office in numerous ways." It specifically cites the release of five Taliban combatants in a trade for captive U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl, Obama's statement that people could keep insurance companies, and recent EPA regulations on power plants.
"Therefore, be it resolved that the South Dakota Republican Party calls on our U.S. Representatives to initiate impeachment proceedings against the president of the United States," the resolution reads.
Allen Unruh of Sioux Falls sponsored the resolution.
"I've got a thick book on impeachable offenses of the president," Unruh said, calling on South Dakota to "send a symbolic message that liberty shall be the law of the land."
Now that impeachment is part of at least one state's GOP party platform, more will certainly follow. This of course will put more pressure on GOP lawmakers to follow through or face the consequences.
Rep. Kristi Noem, South Dakota's lone delegate in the House of Representatives — which has the power to initiate impeachment proceedings — was cool to the resolution.
Noem, who addressed the Republican convention Saturday morning, hours before the resolutions was voted on, doesn't believe impeachment is the "best way" to deal with Obama.
"The congresswoman currently believes the best way for Congress to hold the president accountable is to continue aggressive committee oversight and investigations into the administration's actions like the ongoing VA scandal, the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS, Benghazi, and the recent Taliban prisoner exchange," said Brittany Comins, Noem's spokesperson.
That's not going to be good enough to satiate the monster they've created much longer, and they know it. The Republican Party has one goal right now: to get rid of Obama. Nothing else will matter to the red meat eaters.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Saturday night accused President Barack Obama and other Democrats of waging wars against religious liberty and education and said that a rebellion is brewing in the U.S. with people ready for "a hostile takeover" of the nation's capital.
Seems like an irresponsible thing for a sitting governor to say. But he'll gladly take federal money from the other 49 states and their taxpayers.
"I can sense right now a rebellion brewing amongst these United States," Jindal said, "where people are ready for a hostile takeover of Washington, D.C., to preserve the American Dream for our children and grandchildren."
The governor said there was a "silent war" on religious liberty being fought in the U.S. - a country that he said was built on that liberty.
And there are those who want that silent war to become a bloody, shooting war and are actively trying to bring it about.
It will likely depend upon whether the Republicans gain control of the Senate - and thus how the Senate runs the impeachment proceedings. If the Republicans take the Senate, they'll probably move to impeach. If not, they'll probably start attacking Hillary Clinton in earnest - any attacks on Barack Obama will be a twofer. They'll claim his presidency is effectively over to keep the fringe from bolting.
ReplyDeleteI am concerned that they might go ahead and pull the trigger just because they have the votes in the House, and the Senate be damned. For a generation they will be able to crow that every Democratic president since Carter has been impeached, and the yokels will eat it up with a spork.
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