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2014-07-10 Home Front: Politix

US House speaker says he disagrees with calls to impeach Obama

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Posted by Fred 2014-07-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 If he is Impeached Obama becomes a martyr. Better to let him be a dismal failure

Posted by Clemp Graviger6156 2014-07-10 00:57|| 2014-07-10 00:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes, concentrate fires on the IRS Director, Lois Lerner, Holder, the FBI, and ValJar's Moolsim Broederbond connection if possible. Let the idiot Marxist continue to sing, dance and impress the people.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-10 01:12|| 2014-07-10 01:12|| Front Page Top

#3 ..or what did the NSA gather on Boehner?

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-10 07:43|| 2014-07-10 07:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Just hoping our military is able to operate around the a$$hat Dempsey.

It is during times like these that competitors can become feisty - really feisty.

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-07-10 08:22|| 2014-07-10 08:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Focus on holder, Lerner, ValJar. Unlike Republicans with Nixon, the Democrat party senators are far too corrupt to count on for anything other than a party line vote in an impeachment.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-07-10 08:50|| 2014-07-10 08:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Exactly! Focus on the 25m targets, the ones you KNOW you can hit. Take these people out. Convicting and jailing them will isolate the Champ and make him further ineffective.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-10 09:04|| 2014-07-10 09:04|| Front Page Top

#7 For the uber-narcissist who was surrounded by Greek columns in 2008 and promised by his acolytes that he was the ONE. This was the guy who was going to heal the world, part the seas and make everyone love us again, this must be quite a fall--this talk of impeachment. He has been handled by those around him and protected by the media; he has been living and protected by a cocoon. It is only now that information is beginning to trickle in and self-doubt is starting to set in. He is rapidly becoming irrelevant. Hopefully, he won't over react and do something really stupid and more destructive than he has been.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-10 09:05|| 2014-07-10 09:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Or better yet for Boehner - how about growing a big brass pair and not folding like a deck chair on the next budget and make some painful cuts to Obama's pet agencies?

Make it hurt, wicked haaaahd!

Posted by Raj 2014-07-10 09:23|| 2014-07-10 09:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Sarah is leading. The subject of Impeachment is now a topic of discussion. Thank you Sarah.

Posted by Thineng Angailet7166 2014-07-10 09:28|| 2014-07-10 09:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Agree with earlier comments. Champ wants to be impeached. It's the only thing that would rally the troops and save his presidency at this stage.

Go after his people instead. Make them afraid to move. Remind them that Champ will be gone soon, and that jail time awaits his enablers.

Posted by Iblis 2014-07-10 10:13|| 2014-07-10 10:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Impeachment (although Obumble deserves it) would only strengthen his position and rally the troops to him. Boehner's lawsuit is an interesting way to get around that little issue.

I also don't want him impeached as it would make him a martyr.

I want him to leave office humiliated. All of his work and policies in a flaming ruin. The ideas he championed so toxic that another progressive won't be able to talk about them and promote them for 20 years without the base voting them out.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-07-10 11:14|| 2014-07-10 11:14|| Front Page Top

#12 And i'm sure they can't impeach Holder either.

Posted by newc 2014-07-10 12:02|| 2014-07-10 12:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Impeachment doesn't get him out of office than it is worthless and would only appear as a partisan tool in the history books. Let his horrid record stand in teh history books as is.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-07-10 14:35|| 2014-07-10 14:35|| Front Page Top

#14 I like Palin but I think she's off the mark on this one.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-07-10 14:35|| 2014-07-10 14:35|| Front Page Top

#15 I can relate to Palin's frustration, but impeachment is out of the question. This fellow is as dangerous as a Mamba. The pubs must be careful how they handle him. He loves and thrives on the drama and media attention ["so go ahead, sue me"] Do NOT play his game! Iggy the worthless half-kaffir SOB until he's out of office, then go after him in the courts.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-10 14:47|| 2014-07-10 14:47|| Front Page Top

#16 Don't impeach him unless it sucks down Obean's time. Better to pull the purse strings shut.

Posted by gorb 2014-07-10 15:20|| 2014-07-10 15:20|| Front Page Top

#17 African Americans whose unemployment rate is twice the white Americans are starting to get riled. NOW we will see the Dems eat their own to save their ass.

Posted by Thineng Angailet7166 2014-07-10 15:27|| 2014-07-10 15:27|| Front Page Top

#18 Trump just said illegal immigration is killing this country.

Posted by Thineng Angailet7166 2014-07-10 21:08|| 2014-07-10 21:08|| Front Page Top

#19 In the law of the jungle, even the weakest members of a pride of lions will join a vicious attack on a once powerful, and most dominant leader of the pride, if they perceive him as being injured or weak.
The same is true of our own society.

Over the past few months it has become increasingly "in Vogue" to beat up on Obama. Even some of the most affluent left-wing media outlets have began to join the pile _on.

Vindictive as I am, there is little I would enjoy more than watching the impeachment of President Obama. But I must respectfully disagree with Ms. Palin. Now is not the time.

There is an old saying in politics, "Never interrupt your opponent while he's destroying himself."
As Obama's toxicity level, as the leader of the Democratic Party rises, so goes the toxicity level of the Democratic Party members. And the reality is, that is the best thing (and some say the only thing) that the Republican Party currently has in it's favor.

I do agree that now is the time for John Boehner to file a lawsuit against Obama.
The most potent asset Obama has in his favor is the bully pulpit. Without doubt there is nothing Obama would desire more than to glaze over his glaring failures and bring his new election talking points into sharp media focus.
Win or lose, the lawsuit will allow the Republicans to exert at least some measure of control over the bully pulpit narrative. It will allow them the opportunity to force their own narrative to the forefront and keep Obama's glaring ineptitude in the media spotlight.

There will be plenty of time to impeach Obama if that is the objective. But failure of impeachment in the Senate will only appear as Republican weakness. Gaining control of the Senate needs to remain the Republican's ultimate priority until after the 2014 midterm elections.

For now let Obama simmer in his own toxic soup. Even though the repulsive odor it generates is hard to bear.

Posted by junkiron 2014-07-10 21:24|| 2014-07-10 21:24|| Front Page Top

#20 No impeachment. It allows him to achieve Racial Martyr status, when, in fact he's Narcissus without accomplishment running the country into the ground.

Posted by Frank G 2014-07-10 21:41|| 2014-07-10 21:41|| Front Page Top

#21 Yeah Frank, and somehow it will STILL be the White's fault.

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