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Saturday, December 07, 2013

THE IMPEACHMENT OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA JR: ARTICLE 1

THE IMPEACHMENT OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA JR: ARTICLE 1:
Using the powers of the office of President of the United States, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA JR, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in disregard of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has repeatedly engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens, impairing the due and proper administration of justice and the conduct of lawful inquiries, or contravening the laws governing agencies of the executive branch and the purposed of these agencies. 
This conduct has included one or more of the following: 
1. He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens AND GROUPS OF CITIZENS, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposes not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.
THIS ARTICLE WAS GOOD ENOUGH TO BE ONE OF THE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST NIXON.

OBAMA'S IRS VIOLATIONS ARE ACTUALLY WORSE.



UPDATE: ANDREW MCCARTHY - A FORMER US ATTORNEY, WHO SUCCESSFULLY PROSECUTED THE BLIND SHEIKH, AGREES THAT OBAMA HAS COMMITTED IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES:

EXCERPTS: (RTWT!):

— it is not crazy to talk about impeaching President Obama. And if you’re going to have a congressional hearing about systematic presidential lawlessness, it is only natural that the word “impeachment” gets bandied about. Not only is impeachment the intended constitutional remedy for systematic presidential lawlessness; it is, practically speaking, the only remedy.

It is beyond cavil that the president is willfully undermining the constitutional system that he swore to preserve, protect, and defend. He presumes to rewrite, and dramatically alter, the laws he vowed to execute faithfully — not once in a blue moon but as a deliberate scheme of governance. ...

... Most of Obama’s unconstitutional usurpations are happening in broad daylight. He brags that his “waivers” — i.e., his unilateral amending, repealing, or non-enforcement — of statutory provisions show him to be far-seeing and pragmatic, not lawless. That, of course, is the standard dictatorial self-image. Obama is the answer to Tom Friedman’s China-envying prayers. ...

...  the Framers armed Congress with two responsive weapons: the power of the purse and the power of impeachment. ...

... Today’s Democrats, however, are less members of a party than of the movement Left. Their objective, like Obama’s, is fundamental transformation of a society rooted in individual liberty and private property to one modeled on top-down, redistributionist statism.  ...

...  Democrats want the president to use the enormous raw power vested in his office by Article II to achieve statist transformation. If he does so, they will support him. They’ll get back to obsessing over the “rule of law” if, by some misfortune, the Republicans someday win another presidential election.

While Democrats quite intentionally defy the Framers’ design, Republicans frustrate it by aggressive passivity. ...

... With Democrats energized by Obama’s lawbreaking, and Republicans paralyzed by the prospect of government shutdowns, there is no realistic prospect that Congress will starve Obama of funding. That leaves impeachment as the sole remaining constitutional safeguard against executive imperialism.

There is nothing else....

... President Obama is intentionally and sweepingly violating his oath of office. 
  • He is not faithfully executing federal law — he picks, chooses, “waives,” and generally makes up law as he goes along. 
  • He has willfully and materially misled the American people — his Obamacare and Benghazi lies being only the most notorious examples. 
  • He has been woefully derelict in his duty to protect and defend Americans overseas. 
  • His administration trumped up a shameful prosecution (under the guise of a “supervised release violation”) against a filmmaker in order to bolster the “Benghazi massacre was caused by an anti-Muslim video” charade. 
  • His administration has used the federal bureaucracy to usurp Congress’s legislative powers and to punish political enemies. 
  • Obama has presumed to make recess appointments when Congress was not in recess. 
  • His administration intentionally allowed firearms to be transferred to Mexican drug cartels, predictably resulting in numerous violent crimes, including the murder of a Border Patrol agent. 
  • His administration — and, in particular, the Justice Department — has routinely stonewalled lawmakers and frustrated their capacity to perform agency oversight, to the point that the attorney general has been held in contempt of Congress. 
The Obama Justice Department, moreover, has filed vexatious lawsuits against sovereign states over their attempts to vindicate their constitutional authorities (and, indeed, to enforce federal immigration laws), while the Justice Department itself adheres to racially discriminatory enforcement policies in violation of the Constitution and federal civil-rights laws. ...

...  If the only issue were commission of high crimes and misdemeanors, the Constitution requires only one for impeachment — not the Obama pace, which is more like one per week. ...

...High crimes and misdemeanors are a subordinate consideration. In an impeachment case, they are necessary but they are not close to being sufficient. Because impeachment is a political remedy,  its most essential component is the popular political will to remove a president from power. ...

...  The question is not whether the president has done wrong — that will rarely be in dispute. The question is how convinced the public is that a president’s continued hold on power profoundly threatens their safety, prosperity, and sense of what kind of country we should be.

As things now stand, the public is not convinced. There is no political will to remove the president....

... Two things, however, are certain. Absent the political will to remove the president, he will remain president no matter how many high crimes and misdemeanors he stacks up. And absent the removal of the president, the United States will be fundamentally transformed.

THEREFORE. THE PRIMARY MISSION OF THIS BLOG WILL BE TO HELP CONVINCE AS MANY IN THE PUBLIC THAT OBAMA DESERVES TO BE IMPEACHED AND THAT HE MUST BE TO PRESERVE OUR DEMOCRACY.

TO ACCOMPLISH THIS CENTRISTS AND MODERATES WILL HAVE TO BECOME AS CONVINCED AS WE HAVE BEEN SINCE 2007, THAT OBAMA IS A RADICAL, WHOSE RADICAL POLICES ARE BEING INFLICTED UPON US UN-DEMOCRATICALLY.

WE WON'T ACCOMPLISH THIS BY PREACHING TO THE CHOIR.

THIS MEANS WE WILL HAVE TO GET IN THE FACES OF PEOPLE EVERYWHERE.

AND THE SOONER THE BETTER.

IT'S 2014, OR NEVER.


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