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The Republican Petraeus Obsession is All About Impeaching Obama
Republicans have quickly shifted from licking their election defeat wounds to trying to tie the David Petraeus’ affair to Benghazi in order to impeach President Obama.
The conspiracy theories surrounding the Petraeus resignation are running wild on the right. A FoxNews.com story is typical of the right’s obsession with the time of the CIA director’s resignation, “Washington is still reeling from the resignation of General David Petraeus as head of the CIA just days before he was supposed to testify on Capitol Hill about what the CIA knew about the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi on September 11, and when it knew it. The many questions surrounding that scandal-including why the FBI was reading the CIA director’s emails and Petraeus’s mistress’s bizarre claims about a secret prison in the Benghazi CIA annex — just add to the picture of an Obama administration out of control on national security—and the conclusion that someone knowingly put an American ambassador at risk to his life; left him there to die; and then lied about it afterwards.”
On the television side Fox News contributor John Bolton claimed that Eric Holder knew about the affair months ago, and took the conspiracy to the next level by asking, “Did the attorney general sit on this information for two months?”
Fox News contributor Dana Perino sat down with Fox and Friends and floated the conspiracy that Obama forced Petraeus because he was about to testify on Benghazi, “I don’t think anybody throws away their 37-year marriage on national television to cover up for a White House on an issue like Benghazi. That doesn’t make sense to me. However, is it plausible that they said, ‘do this or we will expose you’? And he said, ‘I’ll expose myself.”
It is obvious where they are going with this.
The Petraeus resignation is part of an Obama cover up that if exposed will bring down his presidency.
Having learned nothing from when they tried to do this to Bill Clinton during his second term, Republicans are actively looking for a way to impeach President Obama.
You’ll notice that two of the three people quoted above served in the Bush administration. (WMD and Valarie Plame, anyone?) The other thing that each of these conspiracies have in common is that they are being floated by Fox News. After Romney’s crushing defeat last week, Fox News is standing by on the ready with exactly what their audience needs. An insane conspiracy that will allow them to retreat back into their bubble and ignore reality. Just like in 2008 when Glenn Beck and his political alternate universe rose to fame after Obama won, Petraeus and Benghazi are 2012′s right wing retreat from reality.
After losing elections, paranoid conspiracy theories are Republican comfort food used to soothe the fractured psyche of those who got a taste of what ‘Real America’ actually thinks of them.
If anyone thought the GOP rank and file would learn any lessons from their latest defeat, think again.
The GOP rank and file fueled by their media and with several radical House Republicans at the ready are set to launch another jihad against reality.
How are Republicans responding to Obama winning reelection?
By trying to make the case for impeaching the President of the United States.
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55 Responses to The Republican Petraeus Obsession is All About Impeaching Obama
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AndrewSB49
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 1:19 pm
As long as it keeps the GOPers busy, while the President gets on with the job he was elected to, I don’t have a problem.
Donna
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 1:31 pm
The only trouble is, they will eventually call Obama before Congress like they did Clinton and tie up his time that he needs to devote to solving problems. Just like they did with Clinton! The only way to solve this is to take away Fox’s broadcasting license. There are grounds to do so since Rupert Murdoch has been labeled a man of low character. Barring that, I would like to see the requirement that the so-called news in the U.S. be factual, fair and balanced and not just a motto that looks good to the minions.
PeopleB4Profit
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 12:17 pm
Donna the way to have stopped this, would have been the arrest and prosecution of Bush/Chaney.
Middle Molly
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 12:30 pm
The arrest and prosecution of Bush/Cheney would have set a precedent for American presidents and vice presidents to be arrested and prosecuted after they leave office. It doesn’t mean that they would be convicted, but it would be a bad precedent nonetheless.
Faux Romney
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 11:34 pm
That’s right. The Bushies can thank their lucky stars that Obama didn’t bring them to “trial.” They did indeed get away with murderl.
JC
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 10:58 pm
A lot of people seem to get mixed up on this, but Fox News isn’t a broadcast network. It’s a cable channel and isn’t regulated by the FCC and has no broadcast license to revoke.
I think you’re confusing it with Fox Networks and its many local affiliates. They are though, both subsidiaries of Murdoch owned News Corp.
Jonathan
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 1:35 pm
This impeachment stunt will only further anger the electorate who are by majority tired of the political games and ready for a track forward and some leadership. Their accusations will not stick and if they think that impeachment is easy, they should remember Valerie Plame and the bogus WMD’s that were never found. This will only make most Americans more angry at the juvenile and purely partisan antics played daily by much of the GOP. With Fox news and other right wing liars making money for spreading their lunatic ideas accross a gullible and hungry for blood group of devestated losers this will only further hinder any meaningful work done by Congress. Soon enough we will see the GOP downgraded to a minority party will little to no power and media outlets like Fox, and Druge will continue their decent to tabloid status.
lm945
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 5:59 pm
The GOP is slowly going the way of the Dodo bird.
Apropos, wouldn’t you say?
Deborah
Nov. 14th, 2012 at 12:28 am
And the Know-Nothings. Apropos as well!
Middle Molly
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 12:32 pm
They may or may not be going the way of the dodo bird, but they are squawking very, very loudly and they are dropping a lot of cr@p on their way out.
All of that squawking and dropping is very, very bad for the country.
Middle Molly
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 12:34 pm
I still don’t understand.. On what grounds would they think they could impeach Obama? And I’ve been hearing “impeach Obama” from the righties for years now.
Faux Romney
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 11:36 pm
By crimes and misdealers, so they say. All 50 states have filed papers so I read tonight.
Faux Romney
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 11:37 pm
Oops sorry for the typos This new Mackbook is not easy getting used to.
Churchlady
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 1:37 pm
So far the information makes clear ONE public official knew about this months ago – Eric Cantor. How does HE get a pass on what the FBI has said about him while it’s pretty clear no one in the Administration knew until election day?
None of this would stop Petraeus from testifying. So that theory holds NO water.
What’s covered up? Petraeus’ reputation maybe – but now he and Allen and the two women all of whom seem to be Rove’s friends are caught in a huge mess.
This is the most bizarre story, but everyone IN it including Cantor is GOP. If HE knew and did nothing about telling King and Feinstein, then are there not consequences to him? Wow.
Beaglemom
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 1:38 pm
So they want to waste another gazillion dollars of taxpayer money on another witch hunt. The GOP is just amazing. You lost, you idiots. Grow up. The four-year temper tantrum led by Mitch McConnell and John Boehner will persist, I guess. When will these idiots realize that the American people expect adult behavior by our elected representatives?
Trying to connect President Obama to the General Petraeus mess is absolutely only Fox-worthy absurd. Hopefully the majority of Americans who support President Obama will not let this happen.
LeeMmbjack McCarty
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 1:47 pm
During the campaign, and seeing how the Republicans had zero policy other than blasting Obama I suggested in blogging that A)Tune to any news source. B) If it is talking about Benghasiit is a Rupublican news source. If it is talking about anything else it may actually be a non-Republican source or just having a weak moment in this atrocity of a one note campaign. Of course, I remember well the Clinton impeachment story, and sure this is more of the same nonsense they trump up to further their one cause: Keep the taxes on the very rich the same or lower. Oh, claim it is the deficit (they created) they worry about. They did not worry about the deficit when they borrowed the money to pay off their Corporate backers and pay for absolutely nothing in the Bush years. Two wars and no taxes on their clients? Added it to national debt and ran on the idea it was Obama “tax and spend” same-oh same-oh.
mathazar
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 10:41 pm
If only we had Jon and Steven back during the Clinton hummer impeachment fiasco. Then again, I’m not sure Americans would have appreciated them as they do now.
Sugapea
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
We need a chart to follow this erotic fiasco. Watch for the movie!
Poor Republican’s…They grasp for anything to distract themselves from their 2012-Election Disaster!
Carol Schmidt
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Just more republican BS to once more stonewall
President Obama at every turn. Quit your lame attempts at discrediting the President and do the jobs you were elected to do. Pass jobs bill, a reasonable budget, etc. We, the people, employ you to take care of these things.
K
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 2:02 pm
I must be ahead of the righties games.
I KNEW this was coming. Next: Impeachment.
Next: Obama will betray his base, cut entitlements and keep the tax cuts in place for the wealthy.
Take a look at the “Grand Bargain”
Politics as usual. No one changes.
1voice1vote
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 3:08 pm
“Next: Obama will betray his base, cut entitlements and keep the tax cuts in place for the wealthy.”
I’ll bet $20.00 OR a pint of blood payable to the American Red Cross on your “betrayal” hypothesis, K. The Iraq war debt has come due, and it is long past time for the Cayman Island account holders to pony up their fair share (Apparently they’re not willing to self-import. I know! We need to fix that – yes, we do. And we’re about to.) Also, too, in reality, a 3% tax increase to a billionaire – hell, they spill more than that at luncheons in Boca Raton.
Paws
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 2:36 pm
If the GOP keeps talking like this, they will talk themselves out of existence.
Paws
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 2:36 pm
And for the record, I’m okay with that.
clarence swinney
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 2:47 pm
THE PEOPLES CHOICES
Will You Do Them, Mr. President?
87%=first priority is creating jobs
89%=Pass the necessary reforms to keep Wall Street and too-big-to fail banks from killing our economy again
87%=A constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United ruling
73%=Enable underwater homeowners to reduce the principal on their loans.
From Take Back The American Dream Conference
What do you think the President will do on these Priorities??
Magdalena
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 3:01 pm
I agree with all the comments posted. We progressives/independents are fully aware of this being another Republican ploy because they will never admit to defeat and need “something” to do while they lick their wounds. It’s not in their DNA. WE must stay informed about this situation and write letters, make phone calls etc. to prevent this from becoming a total nightmare. We must stand behind the President and speak loudly and often.
Anne
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 3:14 pm
The GOP has proven amply that they have not reconciled themselves to the president’s re-election. They have been grasping for all kinds of straws in order to discredit him, and this is just their latest attempt. I hate the fact that they have to be in office for at least 4 years before they can be voted out. There should be some way to hold them accountable the very moment that they engage in their partisan stupidity, because they waste too much time, energy,and taxpayers’ money going on their wild goose chases.
Middle Molly
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 5:54 pm
The House is up for reelection in two years. The Dems CAN take the majority in 2014, but it will take a lot of work. Turnout in the midterms is usually not that great, and that favors the Repubs.
stumptownhero
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 3:16 pm
Fascist Views is rapidly becoming a national version of the Jerry Springer show.
Wild accusations without any facts to back up the claims might give your old white racist audience a woody but you sacrifice your credibility in the process…..not that they have much credibility to sacrifice in the first place!
Goddess1871
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 3:17 pm
So help me God, if they draw up articles of impeachment I will be right there rioting in the street with everyone else. This. Is. Insane.
luciboo
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 3:34 pm
Impeachment will not fly with the American people. Make that normal Americans. I think normal still is the majority.
However I have a friend who couldn ‘ t wait for Obama to be impeached for Benghazi so I guess the GOP has been chumming the waters on Fox for some time. They are looking for any excuse for impeachment.
Middle Molly
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 5:55 pm
What do they think they can impeach Obama for regarding Benghazi? They are lost in the rightie red fog and have no idea what reality is.
Janice I Falk
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 4:47 pm
that will get them just about as far as Bengazi got them in the election – this is a nonstory, but if it was a story it would have negative implications of the republicans since it was Eric Cantor who kept it quiet. Heres an interesting idea, how about the republican party start doing the peoples work?
More TeaParty Please
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 5:09 pm
And just this morning, Gov. Bobby Jindal was saying his party needs to stop being “the stupid party,” and they need to be less tolerant of “offensive and bizarre comments” coming from the simplistic nut jobs of his party…
Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 5:34 pm
Jindal IS one of the nut jobs of his party. He is trying to get creationism into schools and evolution out, he is against women’s rights. He is the first of the governors to try and convince people he wasnt one of the RWNJ’s. He most certainly is.
Grant Devereaux
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Of course, Petreaus will still have to testify. He resigned, he didn’t die. He may have been at fault, personally, for how Benghazi was handled, but in any event, there is no Obama cover up. It was a tragedy that happened. Period, End of story.
idic5
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 7:50 pm
“As long as it keeps the GOPers busy, ”
but I read that the GOPers want to (possibly) initiate impeachment proceedings. Wd nt that possibly put a damper on Pres Obama’a performance/productivity?
Don’t the republicans know of something called the ‘loyal opposition’? They obviously did not really think that the Benghazi affair was THAT important since they did not even bring it up on the third presidential debate, you know, the one on FOREIGN POLICY! So now Obama’s action on it is an impeachable offense?
They continue to obfuscate and impede the orderly prosecution of our gov’t and therefore, are impeding the will of the people.
Walter Stockhecker
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 9:49 pm
Looking for any excuse do damage the President and the democracy. These men refuse to govern and refuse to let anyone else govern. This is what was repudiated last Tuesday, but they insist on carrying on as if they have a mandate to destroy the country.
Kathy
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 10:26 pm
Well, Eric Cantor knew about it in October. Why is he protecting President Obama? If they really wanted to get rid of Obama, they’d have spilled it long before the election! The truth is, FOX and the wanna-be journalists there, will say ANYTHING, and create conspiracy theories about everything to try and get rid of the President. So glad we have Obama for 4 more years. We managed to get rid of some Republicans. Next election, we have a few more to get rid of….especially Mitch McConnell.
Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 13th, 2012 at 10:43 pm
He isnt protecting Obama, Steve King(R) was putting Betrayus’s name into the presidential ring. Its obvious Petraeus was a republican. Nothing Cantor did would hurt Obama except the loss of a general
Jo Hargis
Nov. 14th, 2012 at 7:40 pm
Yeah, don’t think he’s protecting Obama, he was protecting the republican Petraeus perhaps?
I would like to know why Cantor said nothing when he knew of this in October. And I’d like to know the relevance of Rove and Broadwell being together in June 2012.
This whole thing has the stench of a setup.
Ben
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 11:03 am
Yes, because it’s not possible that Democrat government officials conspired to make themselves look better. Couldn’t possibly happen. We all know that only Republicans lie, Democrats are absolutely honest and above board and would never conspire about anything, so anyone that even mentions such a thing is an absolute fool, and should be driven off television by the fairness doctrine.
Middle Molly
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 5:59 pm
Rightie nonsense. Faux and the rest of the right wing media LIE and we know it. You should too.
….lost in the red fog of the right.
smarterboy09
Nov. 16th, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Well said. I have a feeling you were being sarcastic, but when everything you list feels much truer than the alternative, sarcasm has a hard time landing –
smarterboy09
Nov. 16th, 2012 at 8:56 pm
If fox news can’t push lies, what are they going to do with themselves. None of them are journalists. You think they’re going to go out and accurately cover a story? It’s not even a possibility for them. They can bash democrats and bash Obama, but after that there’s really not much else they know how to do –
Katrina
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 11:26 am
It’s sad that so many Americans are resorting to tactics like this. With recent petitions to secede, apparently people don’t realize that treasonous actions like that is the exact definition of unamerican, as well as the many requests to impeach Obama, America is looking like a laughingstock to the rest of the world. Instead of fighting each other, our government and citizens need to be united in our differences. Embrace the fact that this is a country of different people, with different views and beliefs. That’s what our founding fathers wanted, and what this past election showed.
Francesco
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 11:43 am
After Berlusconi lost the election in 2006, his media empire started trumpeting up imagined voting frauds. Without ever producing evidence worth considering, the old irate satrap pretended votes recounting and special laws.
The analogy is striking. Dear American friends, don’t let these people close to power ever again or they will destroy both your democracy and your economy. My 2 cents from overseas.
PeopleB4Profit
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 12:25 pm
Does anyone know how Willard Romney learned of this as it was going on. It would seem that any national emergency unfolding and having a group of people get in the way would be against some law. Ooops forgot Willard and his don’t have to obey laws.
joe
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 12:29 pm
y’all know that this is really all about the fact that the white Republicans can’t STAND the idea that a black man is “Better than me”.
growing up a white male in the South, I heard white racist assholes say with great frequency, “If you ain’t better than a n____r, who are ya better than?”
aside from the hilariously low self esteem that this statement implies, (why do they have to be “better” than someone? why not just live your f-ing life?) I’m confident that these cretinous thugs are screaming this to themselves right about now, as they plan another attempt at de-legitimizing Obama.
This sentiment is THE driving force behind their antics, make no mistake: according to the GOP, “If ya ain’t better than a n____r, who are ya better than?”
I really hope that old, pigheaded generation dies off soon.
Middle Molly
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Unfortunately, they have passed at least some of their piggishness down to the next generation. Let’s hope it’s not as bad, however.
Fillies on the Left
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 5:02 pm
Are you kidding me. Are we going to have to go through what we went through with the Clinton’s? Will the GOP never get over Nixon Resignation? Talk about bringing things from the past. Let stop Citizen United and stop this stupidity. Let the process go forward. But to try to impeach a perfectly good President because you are made your dirty,lying, sneaking voter fraud failed, is ridiculous.
We need to all work for our country, or do you want our country to fail. Don’t you realize what this part of the GOP wants to do? They want to bring down the Middle Class of the US and there are some people will let that happen.
Daniel
Nov. 15th, 2012 at 11:33 pm
So the GOP is blaming obama of a coverup around benghazi, but I’m genuinely trying to understand how calling them “spontaneous attacks” instead “coordinated terrorist attack” supposedly buys the administration something? Don’t we need to establish intent? What would be the intent for lying, what do they gain from this supposed lie?
Warren G. Richards
Nov. 16th, 2012 at 10:00 am
If the Block & Blame RepubliKKKan politicians cannot blame President Obama for David Petraeus’s extra-marrital affair, they will blame him for the going-out-of-business sale of beige phallic cakes from Hostess.
Hang in there, everyone.
Your friend,
Warren
Warren G. Richards
Kayenta, Mesa and Tucson AZ
msndrstood
Nov. 17th, 2012 at 1:29 am
It’s sweeps month. Gotta hit those numbers. Perception is everything. Don’t look behind the curtain because its an ugly mess.
Lalea878
Nov. 22nd, 2012 at 9:53 pm
And as far as wanting to know the truth about what what happened over there in benghazi..I do..my son is over there! If your loved one was one of the 4 americans killed in benghazi, keep on going with your talk of it only being a Rep ploy to want to know. I want to know in case its my son next time! If you know what happened beneath the cover-up..please tell us! Seriously ): Go on TV and tell all of us, cos I do not know..):
Lalea878
Nov. 23rd, 2012 at 11:23 am
In response to “So the GOP is blaming obama of a coverup around benghazi, but I’m genuinely trying to understand how calling them “spontaneous attacks” instead “coordinated terrorist attack” supposedly buys the administration something? Don’t we need to establish intent? What would be the intent for lying, what do they gain from this supposed lie?”
How close to the election did this whole Benghazi scandal occur? I am just guessing, and I am by no means a political scholar, but it doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure this one out! I do not think this administration wanted to fool with all of this so close to the election, so these folks died without any action taken at all to help them and that does not look very good for the administration? So hence the cover up? Just guessing here? Perhaps the administration knew about this “affair” for quite a while, a person would hope so considering his designation as Director of the CIA….and waited to use the “affair” against him when it suited him. I do agree,although sadly, it is a waste of time to pursue this cover up or any truth concerning the 4 americans kiled, because nothing will happen anyway to anyone in this administration as the senate will not take action against anyone. Just like with the border patrolman killed in fast and Furious, we will never know the answers, and neither will these families. ):