To be clear, I am NOT advocating the pursuit of Impeachment of the President.
I am merely trying to illustrate the engrained mindset, that Democrats in general, are up against. Any small incident will be trumped up into an end-all, be-all stand-in, for all-that-is-wrong with our current installment of our democratic form of governing.
The latest molehill that has been trumped up into an impeachment mountain (usually by instigators like the Drudge Report), is soldier-turned-pinata, POW Bowe Bergdahl.
Only in the rightwing world of bell-ringing hysteria, could a Prisoner of War be so easily turned in the latest installment of Political Football.
Media Matters reports on the latest GOP feeding-frenzy this way:
Numerous right-wing activists, media figures, and politicians have been trying to drum up a reason to impeach Obama ever since he took office more than five years ago. National Review writer and former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy released a new book today on subject, endeavoring to explain the "political case" for impeaching the president. In making his case, McCarthy rehashes a wide number of well-worn supposed scandals from the Obama administration. Fittingly, McCarthy has also been at the forefront of the latest calls for impeachment, arriving right as his book hits the shelves.
In comments on June 2 to the Daily Mail's website, the Mail Online, McCarthy reportedly called the exchange of Taliban figures for Bergdahl a "high crime and misdemeanor," because, he claimed, the administration did not sufficiently notify Congress of the planned transfer. The Mail article was quickly highlighted on the Drudge Report.
Appearing on Fox & Friends the next morning, Fox News judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said Obama "may very well have committed a federal crime by giving material assistance to a terrorist organization." Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy responded by plugging McCarthy's book and pointing to his comments to the Mail Online about impeachment. Napolitano added that it was a "very, very valid argument that people are going to start talking about."
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If only they had a longer list, then they might find some traction with the American People -- who actually voted for President Obama ... and who still support him.
About that longer list of reasons ... which only seems to be getting longer with each passing day.
Here's is a brief selection of items from one such list:
How can Obama be Impeached?
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• In general, he has usurped the power of Congress and violated his oath to uphold the Constitution
• Has a radical, anti-American political and religious background, which has never been fully explained to the American people
• Does not conform to the constitutional requirement of being a “natural born citizen”
• Set up a system of government “Czars” in order to usurp/bypass congressional authority
• Wasted billions of stimulus funds on political cronies
• Supported openly the “Occupy Movement,” which had anti-American, anarchist and communistic revolutionary objectives
Oh the Horrors!
Once again to be clear, I am NOT advocating the pursuit of Impeachment of the President.
I am merely trying to illustrate the engrained mindset, that Democrats in general, are up against.
A bunch of stone-hearted, stone-walling, block-headed fools -- who would probably Shut Down Government, just for the hell of it, if only they had the chance.
Let's not give them that opportunity (again) -- Vote!