Impeachment push
revs up for fight
'Obama and his collaborators must be made an
example of for future generations'
Published: 7 hours ago
Drew Zahn is a WND news
editor who cut his journalist teeth as a member of the award-winning staff of
Leadership, Christianity Today's professional journal for church leaders. A
former pastor, he is the editor of seven books, including Movie-Based Illustrations for
Preaching & Teaching, which sparked his ongoing love affair
with film and his weekly WND column, "Popcorn and a (world)view."
The
mainstream media may have pushed issues like impeachment and Barack Obama’s
eligibility for the presidency off the newsstand, but they can’t push it off
America’s highways and byways.
An organization called Overpasses for America
(formerly known as Overpasses for Obama’s Impeachment) is gearing up to take
the message afresh to America’s motorists.
As WND reported,
Overpasses for America raised a ruckus in October when they teamed up with truckers to roar into Washington, D.C.,
protesting what they describe as extra-constitutional actions of Congress and
the president.
The group, founded in June 2013, is known for standing on highway
overpasses across the country with signs openly calling for the removal of
Obama from the White House for many reasons, among them his ineligibility for
office, crimes committed during his tenure in the White House and multiple
violations of the Constitution.
On March 28-29, Overpasses for America once again took to the
overpasses and street corners of America for their 11th national protest,
dubbed “Spring Break Out.”
Encouraged by successful rallies in Oklahoma, Florida and more,
Overpasses for America is planning another wave of motorway protests on April
19, 2014, and pledge many more nationwide events throughout the year.
Protesters at the rallies typically carry signs and banners
reminding America of Obama’s allegedly faked birth certificate, compounded by
alleged impeachable offenses like the Benghazi scandal, the deaths of Navy
SEALs in the Extortion 17 downing, the unconstitutional provisions of
Obamacare, voter fraud and much more.
“The need for Obama’s removal from office extends well beyond his
criminal actions,” the group asserted in a statement. “Obama and his
collaborators must be made an example of for future generations of Americans
and as a warning to future politicians that the American people are awake and
are none too pleased with politics as usual across the nation.”
In addition to the 12th annual demonstration planned for
April 19, Overpasses for America has announced it is teaming up with Operation American
Spring, a Washington, D.C., event that begins on May 16. Organizers for the
event plan to demand Obama and many members of Congress step down from their
positions as the first step of returning to a Constitution-based government in
our nation’s capital.
Overpasses for America isn’t the only major voice calling for
impeachment of President Obama.
As WND reported, radio
and TV host Glenn Beck has made similar demands, and WND has compiled a list of
several members of Congress who have talked about impeachment as well.
Among those on the list are Rep. Bill Flores, R-Texas; Rep. Duncan
Hunter, R-Calif.; Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.; Rep. Kerry Bentivolio, R-Mich.;
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas; Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas; Sen. James Inhofe,
R-Okla.; Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah; Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.; Rep. Michele
Bachmann, R-Minn.; Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas; Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas;
Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla.; Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa; and Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla.
WND also has reported Watergate investigator Bob Woodward of the
Washington Post compares Obama to Richard Nixon. And there’s a national petition that calls on Congress to immediately
investigate the “unconstitutional and impeachable offenses” of Obama.
The petition
encouraging Obama’s removal from office states:
“Therefore, we the undersigned urge Congress to immediately undertake a full
and impartial investigation into the many blatantly unconstitutional actions of
Barack Obama. For members of Congress, each of whom has also sworn a solemn
oath to uphold the Constitution, to allow a president to routinely flout the
Supreme Law of the land without being held accountable is equally repugnant to
a free country and a free press.”
Tens of thousands already are on board with the effort, which is
just the latest in a long string of calls for impeachment or an investigation.
Impeachment also has been brought up by several WND
columnists.
Nat
Hentoff wrote that Obama, “since taking office, has continually limited the
First Amendment, the most singular and powerful right that distinctly
identifies Americans from residents in all other countries on Earth.”
“I want Obama to go through the process because he has it coming.
In totalitarian states, after all, the people have no other recourse except to
take to the streets and spill blood. But we have available the process of
impeachment, and Obama should be forced to defend his contemptible lies and
actions,” he wrote. “If for no other reason than his unbearable arrogance, the
schmuck should have to pay a penalty. For instance, when a White House reporter
asked him to justify spying on the Associated Press, Obama said, ‘I’ve still
got 60,000-plus troops in Afghanistan and I still have a bunch of intelligence
officers around the world.’ No, sir, the United
States has 60,000-plus troops in Afghanistan and a bunch of
intelligence officers around the world.”
A panel of top constitutional experts convened by WND blasted Obama’s actions in office. Bruce Fein, the legal scholar who is best known for having drafted articles of impeachment against former President Clinton for perjury after he lied under oath, said Obama’s orders to drone-kill a terror suspect were “tantamount to murder.”
A panel of top constitutional experts convened by WND blasted Obama’s actions in office. Bruce Fein, the legal scholar who is best known for having drafted articles of impeachment against former President Clinton for perjury after he lied under oath, said Obama’s orders to drone-kill a terror suspect were “tantamount to murder.”
“You can’t have democracy and the rule of law if you never get to
know what the facts are and you just have to accept what the government says
they are. If you don’t have a trial, that’s the definition of tyranny.”
Louis Fisher, a scholar in residence at the Constitution Project,
said of Obama’s appointment of “czars”: “That is a big deal. A lot of people
say, ‘Well, that’s been going on a long time.’ In our form of government,
citizens vote for representatives and representatives pass laws. You have
people heading departments, and they’re confirmed. There’s an understanding
that we will call you up whenever we need to. … Congress passed legislation
saying there’d be no funds for three czars, and they were named in the bill.
Obama signed it into the law, but in the signing statement, he said that’s
unconstitutional because he has the ‘prerogative’ to get the advice he needs to
implement statutes. Well, c’mon Obama. You don’t have a prerogative to bring
into the White House anybody you want at any salary. It’s all done by law. It
goes back to 1978 where Congress passed legislation saying you have this number
of people and these are their salaries and Congress can increase or decrease
that at any time.”
And Herbert Titus, counsel to the law firm William J. Olson who
previously taught constitutional law, common law and other subjects for 30
years at five different American Bar Association-approved law schools, said
Obama’s military actions in Libya are a strong argument for impeachment.
“That’s the one that stands out. It’s unprecedented. It doesn’t
even fit within any of the precedents that have been set since Korea.”
Obama
should have seen such a move coming. A poll earlier last year
found half of Americans saying he should be impeached.
“It may be early in the process for members of Congress to start
planning for impeachment of Barack Obama, but the American public is building a
serious appetite for it,” said Fritz Wenzel of Wenzel
Strategies, which did the telephone poll.
On the issue of the Benghazi scandal, in which four Americans were
killed after terror threats were ignored, 50.1 percent of Americans said Obama
should be impeached. That included 27.6 percent of the responding Democrats.
On the IRS harassment of conservative and Christian organizations?
Forty-nine percent said they agree that impeachment is appropriate, including
24.4 percent of the Democrats.
And on the fishing trip the Obama administration took into AP
reporters’ telephone records in search of a security breach that may have been
done by his own administration, 48.6 percent said impeachment is appropriate.
That included 26.1 percent of the Democrats.
Former Reagan speechwriter Peggy
Noonan wrote that the country is in the midst of the worst Washington scandal
since Watergate.
“The reputation of the Obama White House has, among conservatives,
gone from sketchy to sinister, and, among liberals, from unsatisfying to
dangerous” she said. “No one likes what they’re seeing. The Justice Department
assault on the Associated Press and the ugly politicization of the Internal
Revenue Service have left the administration’s credibility deeply, probably
irretrievably damaged. They don’t look jerky now, they look dirty. The patina
of high-mindedness the president enjoyed is gone.
Noonan said Obama, “as usual, acts as if all of this is totally
unconnected to him.”
“He’s shocked, it’s unacceptable, he’ll get to the bottom of it.
He read about it in the papers, just like you. But he is not unconnected, he is
not a bystander. This is his administration. Those are his executive agencies.
He runs the IRS and the Justice Department,” she continued. “A president sets a
mood, a tone. He establishes an atmosphere. If he is arrogant, arrogance
spreads. If he is too partisan, too disrespecting of political adversaries,
that spreads too. Presidents always undo themselves and then blame it on the
third guy in the last row in the sleepy agency across town.”
It’s even being
compared to Watergate, the break-in that ultimately led
to the resignation of President Nixon. That was the assessment of no less than
Woodward, whose reporting on Watergate eventually snared the sitting president.
Woodward said recently: “If you read through all these emails, you
see that everyone in the government is saying, ‘Oh, let’s not tell the public
that terrorists were involved, people connected to al Qaeda. Let’s not tell the
public that there were warnings.’ And I have to go back 40 years to Watergate
when Nixon put out his edited transcripts to the conversations, and he
personally went through them and said, ‘Oh, let’s not tell this, let’s not show
this.’ I would not dismiss Benghazi. It’s a very serious issue.”
Additionally, radio host Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas
governor and one-time presidential candidate, predicted Obama won’t serve out
his second term because of his complicity in a cover-up over Benghazi.
Others who have raised the subject include rock legend and gun-rights
defender Ted Nugent, who said there’s “no question” Obama should be impeached.
He blasted “the criminality of this government, the unprecedented
abuse of power, corruption, fraud and deceit by the Chicago
gangster-scammer-ACORN-in-chief.”
Even Code Pink
co-founder Medea Benjamin called for the impeachment of Obama over his
policy of permitting drone strikes on American citizens overseas who are
members of terrorist organizations.
On WABC Radio’s
“Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” Benjamin affirmed she believes the drone
warfare is an impeachable offense.
WND also
compiled a special report on the various offenses Obama is blamed for
committing and reported what experts on the Constitution believe should be
happening.
See detailed results of the recent survey
questions:
2 comments:
I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW .....S T U P I D .........PEOPLE ARE REGARDING IMPEACHMENT OF A CEO.... HE IS NOT OUR PRESIDENT!!!! YOU CANNOT IMPEACH A CEO AS THEY ARE NOT A PRESIDENT....... WE HAVE A FAKE PHONY ACTOR GOVERNMENT PLAYING GOVERNMENT SO THEY HAVE FREE REIGN TO PILLAGE AND DESTROY OUR NATION.....OBOBO IS NOTHING BUT AN CEO ACTOR PRESIDENT.............................GO AND ARREST THE SOM-OF-A-BEECH ......NOW!!! TEDDDY BOY ......IF YOU ARE A SENATOR AND STILL PLAYING IN THEIR PLAY PEN WITH THEM YOU MUST BE ONE OF THEM TOO!!!! YOU SOUND GOOD ON THE OUTSIDE BUT DON'T SEEM TO KNOW SHIT FROM SHINE-OLA REGARDING THE FACT THAT THE BASTARDS THAT YOU ARE PLAYING WITH ARE A CORPORATION..... YOU ARE STARTING TO SMELL LIKE A SKUNK!!!! TEDDY.
Impeaching obummer would be the wrong thing to do. That is a constitutional act. obummer is not a constitutional officer. He is a criminal usurper, The proper thing to do is arrest him for all the crimes he has committed put him on public trial and convict him and follow through with capital punishment.
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