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Senator Coburn: Champ 'Getting Perilously Close' To Standard For the ' I word '.
2013-08-23
[Huffpo] Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) warned The Champ is "getting perilously close" to the standard for impeachment.
That's nice. Nothing will happen so long as the Democrats control the Senate. And nothing will happen afterward, so long as some of the Senatorial Republicans are Rhinos. So really, this kind of talk is nothing more than playing to the Base, making implicit promises that can't be kept. Something like our beloved president talking about red lines, in fact.
According to Tulsa World, Coburn referred to the president as "a personal friend of mine" before criticizing Champ's "lawless" administration while speaking during a Wednesday town hall meeting at Oklahoma's Muskogee Convention Center.

BuzzFeed reports Coburn said impeachment is "not something you take lightly, and you have to use a historical precedent of what that means," noting that he feels there is a great deal of "incompetence" in the Champ regime.

"I think there's some intended violation of the law in this administration, but I also think there's a ton of incompetence, of people who are making decisions," Coburn said.

"Those are serious things, but we're in a serious time," Coburn continued. "I don't have the legal background to know if that rises to high crimes and misdemeanor, but I think they're getting perilously close."
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  With a backdrop of recent urban violence, imagine the firestorm impeachment proceedings might ignite. The appeasement and extortion have gone on far, far too long. The feckless old guard of French Republicans in congress have no appetite for civil uprising. Impeachment is highly unlikely.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-08-23 18:09  

#7  Impeachment? Hope and change I could believe in. However, it won't happen. The Democrats are not going to do it and the Pubs aren't either. I just don't see Boehner initiating this.
Posted by: JohnQC   2013-08-23 17:59  

#6  Impeach Holder. Open and shut, and Champ can't do anything without him.
Posted by: Iblis   2013-08-23 17:21  

#5  Once he's out of office

Assume makes an ass of you and me.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-08-23 16:45  

#4  No need to impeach him. Once he's out of office, have a quiet trial for treason, once he's found guilty, have a nice and quiet execution.

Same for his entire administration.
Posted by: Silentbrick - Oil Rig Insanity Division   2013-08-23 16:01  

#3  Impeachment of the Champ is about as likely as a national monument to Lee being built on the Mall

At the west end of The Mall is a bridge, the Memorial Bridge, at the end of the journey over that bridge sits a building called the Robert E. Lee Memorial. That memorial is Robert E. Lee's home and surrounding that home is Arlington National Cemetery.
Close but not quite The Mall











So it is possible but highly unlikely both events will take place. Never say Never.
Posted by: Injun Unineth3081   2013-08-23 15:36  

#2  The election of The Champ was a capstone event in the social imperative of affirmative action. Impeachment of the Champ is about as likely as a national monument to Lee being built on the Mall.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-08-23 14:43  

#1  Impeachment, however warranted would turn into an election nightmare for the GOP.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2013-08-23 14:36  

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