How Shall They Impeach Obama? Conservatives Count the Ways
Impeachment is having another moment. On Wednesday, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) became the latest conservative politician to suggest that Republicans may attempt to oust President Obama from office if they take control of the Senate next fall, citing “mounting frustration that a lot of people are getting to.” For conservative activists, it’s no longer of issue of whether the president should be impeached, but what for. Since 2010, the Obama’s haters have floated more than two dozen reasons for filing articles of impeachment. They would like to oust the president for, among other things…
Anything at all: “It needs to happen,” Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas), an early adopter, said in 2011.
Benghazi “jihadi-coddling”: “This president was forced to see signs from people reminding them that they will not forget the seven hours of hell that the murdered Americans went through before they perished in Benghazi!,” said Michelle Malkin. (Steven Seagal agrees.)
The birth certificate: “The Executive has an awful lot of power to keep from showing certain things unless the courts will stand up to him, or unless Congress in majority will stand up, up to and including impeachment,” Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) admonished in 2010, before calling for a select committee of talk-radio hosts, members of Congress, and a single Supreme Court justice to examine the president’s birth certificate.
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