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TOP OBAMA ADVISER: GOP PREPPING FOR IMPEACHMENT
Predicts backlash over coming 'amnesty' orders, 1 in 3 Americans support removal
Bob Unruh
There’s more talk about impeachment – only this time it’s coming from the White House.
According to a report Friday in Reuters, Dan Pfeiffer, a leading adviser for Barack Obama, is saying that what the president is planning to do on immigration will make Republicans in Congress unhappy. Very unhappy.
The comments came at a breakfast organized by the Christian Science Monitor.
“The president acting on immigration reform will certainly up the likelihood that they would contemplate impeachment,” the report quoted Pfeiffer saying. He noted it would be “foolish” to overlook the possibility.
Pfeiffer said he can see Republicans moving toward impeachment, according to the report, “in retaliation for the immigration orders he is expected to unveil by the end of the summer.”
Pfeiffer’s remarks came a day after a House panel took the first step in filing a lawsuit against Obama over his use of executive power, clearing the way for the full House of Representatives, which will likely vote on the measure before heading out of town next week for summer recess.
The House Rules Committee voted 7-4 Thursday along party lines to authorize the lawsuit.
Republican Rep. Paul Ryan applauded the panel’s move on Friday.
“We’re very concerned about the lawlessness of the administration,” Ryan said on MSNBC.
Ryan dismissed suggestions the lawsuit is not a productive way for Congress to spend its time.
“We can walk and chew gum at the same time. We can juggle a lot of bills. We’re working on border security, foreign policy, appropriations and many things at one time. So it’s not as if this displaces action on other items … I will vote for it,” he said.
Obama already arbitrarily has changed U.S. immigration policy several times, making changes to the deportation practices and the way illegal aliens are handled. There have been recent reports that he’s thinking about making illegal aliens “refugees.”
He also has set up meetings with the presidents of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador on the flood in recent months where tens of thousands of illegal alien children have been sent to the U.S. border from those countries, apparently because of Obama’s Deferred Action for Alien Children executive order.
Central Americans apparently have gotten the message that if children reach the U.S., they will be given housing, food, clothing, medical and even legal assistance.
The comments came just as a new poll revealed that nearly half of Americans believe that Barack Obama has “gone too far” in expanding his power and many of those – or one-third of all voters – believe he “should be impeached and removed from office.”
Those results are from a new CNN/ORC Poll, which interviewed 1,012 adult Americans July 18-20 for the survey. The margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points.
The results revealed that 45 percent of all respondents said Obama has gone too far, and 33 percent said he should be impeached. Very few people were unaware of Obama’s controversies and scandals, with only one percent responding with no opinion.
Sixty-five percent said they do not feel Obama should be impeached.
At the same time, 41 percent said Republicans in the U.S. House should go to court against Obama – while 57 percent said to deal with it another way. The poll showed that nearly one in five voters believes Congress should begin impeachment proceedings “in order to express dissatisfaction with his policies ro the way the president is handling his job.”
The rest believe impeachment is there for “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Even 13 percent of Democrats, and 17 percent of those self-identifying as liberal believe Obama has gone too far, while half of independents and 80 percent of Republicans are of that opinion.
On impeachment, it was 13 percent of Democrats, about one in seven, who believe Obama should be brought up on charges by Congress. It was the same percentage for liberals, while 35 percent of independents and 57 percent of Republicans agreed.
Reporting on its own poll, CNN cast the issue as a negative.
“There’s not a lot of public appetite for a Republican push to sue President Barack Obama, or for calls by some conservatives to impeach him,” wrote Political Editor Paul Steinhauser.
He also wrote “a small majority of Americans do not believe that Obama has gone too far in expanding the powers of the presidency.”
CNN also promoted another poll that said, “Obama’s numbers not great but holding steady.”
At Politico, Jonathan Topaz jumped straight to the bottom line, writing, “One third of Americans think President Barack Obama should be impeached, a new poll says.”
He continued, “A plurality of Americans – 45 percent – believe Obama has gone too far in expanding his presidential powers. Thirty percent said the president has been about right in terms of presidential powers, while 22 percent he has not gone far enough.”
Just a few weeks ago, another poll, from YouGov and the Huffington Post, said it was more than a third of all Americans “and two-thirds of Republicans” who say “Congress would be justified in bringing impeachment proceedings against President Obama.”
And Joe Miller, a potential GOP candidate in Alaska to unseat Sen. Mark Begich, a Democrat, endorses the idea of impeachment.
According to a Huffington Post report on his campaign, Miller said, “Sarah Palin is right; it’s time to impeach this president for dereliction of duty, selectively enforcing the law, and usurping powers that the Constitution does not authorize. He is willfully undermining the rule of law and creating chaos.”
The idea has been gaining traction across America. For example, the South Dakota Republican Party passed a resolution at its state convention calling for Obama’s impeachment.
The resolution says Obama has violated his oath of office, citing the release of five Taliban combatants in a trade for captive U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl and the president’s statement that people could keep their health insurance companies. It also cites recent Environmental Protection Agency regulations on power plants.
And talk radio industry star Dr. Savage recently said, “I believe we should impeach Obama. It doesn’t matter whether Harry Reid lets a motion to impeach go forward or not. Merely bringing the charge of impeachment will slow down if not stop Obama’s agenda entirely.”
Another top syndicated talk show host, author Mark Levin, has said former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is right – that Obama should be impeached.
In a fiery discourse on Fox News with Sean Hannity, Levin was mentioning the crisis of illegal aliens – especially children – that has developed on Obama’s watch, as well as other problems.
“Sarah Palin is right. If we had a functioning constitutional republic with a president who violates the separation of powers, thumbs his nose at the court system … and says he’s going to do more and more of it, she’s exactly right,” he said.
“This would be an open and shut case,” he said. “Wait for the next election? That doesn’t fix it.”
Levin, a constitutional lawyer who has been adviser to Rush Limbaugh and is contributing editor for National Review Online, was chief of staff to the attorney general under President Ronald Reagan.
His body of work includes “Liberty and Tyranny,” “Ameritopia,” “The Liberty Amendments” and more.
He accused Obama was not establishing an agenda, a strategy, policy or plan, but “chaos” and “anarchy.”
His comments are just the latest to be added to a big list of comments on, and in favor of, impeaching Obama, who would follow Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton among modern presidents to face accusations of high crimes and misdemeanors.
The Big List
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP vice presidential candidate in 2008, says the immigration crisis Obama has created along the southwestern U.S. border is the tipping point, and she believes it now is time to bring impeachment articles against the president.
“It is time,” she told Sean Hannity on Fox News Tuesday. “A great awakening is due in this country … [that] he is not an imperial president and lawlessness will not be accepted by the American people.”
She cited a long list of the scandals under Obama’s tenure, but said the “tipping point” has been the “illegal immigration crisis created by Obama.”
“Impeachment is a message that has to be sent to the president,” she said, citing the president’s “lies.”
She rejected the suggestion that impeachment would be a losing issue for Republicans, and said it actually would be a bipartisan issue.
In an earlier commentary at Breitbart, Palin explained why the immigration issue is so important.
“Without borders, there is no nation. Obama knows this. Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate. This is his fundamental transformation of America. It’s the only promise he has kept. Discrediting the price paid for America’s exceptionalism over our history, he’s given false hope and taxpayer’s change to millions of foreign nationals who want to sneak into our country illegally.”
She continued, “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,” she said.
“The many impeachable offenses of Barack Obama can no longer be ignored. If after all this he’s not impeachable, then no one is.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/listening-congress-1-in-3-americans-want-obama-impeached/#9KlAec8JSuodFrEh.99My comments: Obama is MOCKING the entire US form of Government by his Lawlessness. He is a godless, Secular Humanist who's goal is a godless, Socialist Utopia. And this is all fine with godless, Blue America, the Babylon of America. Divide and CONQUER is Obama's Agenda. The Founders never anticipated that this radical a godless man could ever be elected President. But a godless, IGNORANT and CARELESS American Electorate has done just that. It is questionable whether America will survive this ASSAULT.on the Republic. At some point America's IMMORALITY, her enormous Debt and endless printing of worthless money will SINK the Ship of State.
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