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Posted: November 03, 2010
12:44 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
Talk of impeachment has been revived as the GOP moves into the majority in the U.S. House, with a left-leaning commentator warning that the House even could investigate Barack Obama's birthplace.
It's not the first time impeachment has been raised as a possibility, but this time the warning comes from Ed Schultz of MSNBC, who appeared outraged at the possibility to GOP would be in leadership in the House.
His comments:
"This is, as I've said all along on this program, about power and not governing," Schultz said. "House Republicans are promising what, subpoenas? They may even be launching an investigation into the president's birthplace. It'll be a rebirth of the birthers.
"They might go so far as to try to impeach President Obama," he said.
WND reported when other commentators suggested that impeachment may not be all that bad. Jonathan Chait at The New Republic predicted that the House would impeach Obama with a majority in the House, but he wouldn't be removed from office because that would demand 67 votes in the Senate.
"Hear me now and believe me later: If Republicans win and maintain control of the House of Representatives, they are going to impeach President Obama. They won't do it right away. And they won't succeed in removing Obama. (You need 67 Senate votes.) But if Obama wins a second term, the House will vote to impeach him before he leaves office," Chait wrote.
His prediction stirred an immediate furor among nay-sayers, even though Chait is far from the first to broach the subject.
In the public forum section of Chait's column, "Ironyroad" wrote, "They'll buy themselves a race war. People aren't going to take it lying down, because they'll know it's because Obama's skin tone isn't to their taste, not because of high crimes and misdemeanors."
In his explanation of why he believes an impeachment could be forthcoming, Chait says the reason itself actually won't matter.
"Wait, you say. What will they impeach him over? You can always find something. Mini-scandals break out regularly in Washington. Last spring, the political press erupted in a frenzy over the news that the White House had floated a potential job to prospective Senate candidate Joe Sestak. On a scale of one to 100, with one representing presidential jaywalking and 100 representing Watergate, the Sestak job offer probably rated about a 1.5. Yet it was enough that GOP Representative Darrell Issa called the incident an impeachable offense," Chait wrote.
"As it happens, should Republicans win control of the House, Issa would bring his hair-trigger finger to the chairmanship of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The Sestak pseudo-scandal disappeared because there was no process to drive the story forward. Had Issa been running the Oversight Committee, it would have been the subject of hearings and subpoenas," he explained.
WND reported earlier when Maj. Gen. Jerry Curry, who served in Vietnam and commanded the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground during his long military career, suggested Congress should simply hand Obama an ultimatum.
"Action should be taken by the Senate and should be taken by the House," he said. "They should serve notice on him and say, 'Mr. President, we love you but we want to tell you something. You're under a cloud of suspicion. We can't continue running this country with you in charge under this cloud. Now either you clear it up or you resign from office.'"
He was answering questions on Stan Solomon's "Talk to Solomon" show:
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