On the Coming Impeachment of Barack Obama

Very interesting article on the politics of impeachment that becomes even more interesting now that the election is over.  You'll want to click on the link below and finish the entire article.  Sadly, no mention of impeaching Obama for failing to seal the borders and suing Arizona for trying to defend themselves.  As usual impeachment movements are diverted into secondary issues (eg. Monica Lewinsky) and primary issues that serve the world government agenda are sidelined.  Will the Tea Party Congress stick to the real issues?  Keep the pressure on them with your phone calls and letters, and organize your friends and their friends to do the same.  You will make a difference.---rng

Posted by Allyn
Friday, October 15, 2010 at 9:04 pm



The Republican Party, odds-on favorites to win the House of Representatives in six weeks, are looking to the future by looking back at their playbook of the 1990s past — a campaign platform long on rhetorical flourishes and short on a coherent governing strategy, talk of a government shutdown to force the President to the will of Congress, and now, as Jonathan Chait of The New Republic argues, impeachment of a President viewed as illegitimate.
     To most observers, the three planks of Republican zealotry in the 1990s are viewed as failures. The Contract With America in 1994 produced no tangible policy results; its only success was as a tool to elect Republicans to Congress, a purely political end. The government shutdown of 1995 ultimately empowered Bill Clinton; perceived at the time as weakened from the failure to pass health care reform and the Democrats’ loss of both houses of Congress in 1994, Clinton emerged from the experience as a champion of government and its role in society. The impeachment of Clinton, over his extra-marital liaison with Monica Lewinsky, was widely viewed as a partisan witchhunt over personal failings that had nothing to do with Clinton’s fitness for office.
     Why repeat these failures? To Republican elites, these three events are not considered failures. The Contract with America didn’t actually promise results, only that ten bills were brought to the floor of the House and debated — as they were. The government shutdown failed because Republican leaders — Newt Gingrich in the House and Bob Dole in the Senate — lacked the nerve to drag out the confrontation. And impeachment succeeded, even if it didn’t remove Clinton from office; impeachment forced Al Gore to run away from Clinton’s legacy of economic growth and provided an opening for George W. Bush to be a more formidable opponent in the 2000 election.

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