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House Republicans Are Aching To Impeach President Obama For His ‘Crimes’

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Rep. Blake Farenthold admitted to constituents that House Republicans would impeach President Obama tomorrow if they could get him convicted in the Senate.

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Transcript via Think Progress:

Rep. Farenthold: Here’s the issue. You tie into a question I get a lot. If everybody’s so unhappy with what the president’s done, why don’t you impeach him? I’ll give you a real frank answer about that. If we were to impeach the president tomorrow, you could probably get the votes in the House of Representatives to do it. But it would go to the Senate and he wouldn’t be convicted. […] We saw what happened when President Clinton was impeached. I say this half in jest and half seriously because it’s easy to laugh at President Clinton, but as a result of impeaching President Clinton, we’ve redefined what sex is to a lot of our young people and we’ve said it’s okay to lie to Congress. I think that’s been woven into the thread of our society. That failed impeachment attempt actually damaged the country. What message do we send to America if we impeach Obama and he gets away with what he’s impeached for, is found innocent? What do we say then is okay?

The fact that President Obama hasn’t committed anything remotely resembling an impeachable offense is of no concern to Republicans. Actually, Farenthold’s comments explain a lot. House Republicans aren’t just fishing for an Obama scandal that they can use to their political advantage. They are looking for the magic scandal that they can use to remove President Obama from office.

Outside of the fake scandals that Republicans have tried to cook up, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, and the IRS to name three, the Obama administration has been remarkably scandal free. This fact has caused congressional Republicans to turn every little imagined slight into a high crime that the president should be impeached for. After decades of presidents that have been plagued by second term scandals, Obama is maintaining his scandal free record. The fact must drive Republicans crazy.

Nothing gets done in Washington because half of the legislative branch spends most of their time looking for scandals that they can use to impeach the president. How is Obama supposed to compromise and work with Republicans when they are obsessed with removing him from office?

Republicans have tried to delegitimize Barack Obama’s presidency from the moment that he took office. Their efforts resulted resulted in the president winning a second term. Since they couldn’t beat him at the ballot box, Republicans are focused on finding a reason to remove him from office.

House Republicans have transcended being political opposition. They are hellbent on destroying this president, and they won’t stop until he is removed from office. House Republicans aren’t patriots.

They are plotters of a coup to remove the twice elected President of the United States.



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