Obama’s Impeachment Would Probably Benefit Obama

[Gothmog]

Given the increase possibility that the tea party will impeach President Obama, I found this article on the possible effects of the impeachment interesting.http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-square/2013/10/post047213.php The basic premise is that when you pick on one person, it is easy to dismiss that person's complaints but it is harder to dismiss these complaints when there is a pattern. Given the fact that the GOP wrongfully impeached President Clinton, there is a pattern that can be exploited.

As virtually no one remembers Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton stood alone in the dock in the public’s mind when he was impeached. That would have made it easy for his accusers to make his impeachment about him even if he hadn’t engaged in sketchy behavior.

But if the Tea Partiers impeach President Obama, it will be hard to persuade anyone not suffering from epistemic closure that two Democratic Presidents in a row just happened to deserve impeachment. The public’s attention and attributions would shift to the radicals in the Republican ranks: Why have these people impeached every Democratic President elected in the last 20 years?

Even if they didn’t have that psychological phenomenon in their favor, the Democrats would have two huge advantages in convincing the public that an Obama impeachment case was really about the Tea Party rather than the President: Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. That’s as politically talented a pair as exists in the U.S. today, and it’s hard to think of anyone in the House of Representatives who could take them on and successfully frame an impeachment debate in the Tea Party’s preferred fashion.

Presidential impeachment would thus, like everything else the Tea Party is currently doing, be popular in their echo chamber but help convince the rest of the country that they are a dangerous and irresponsible force in U.S. politics. It’s not therefore something that Obama should fear. Indeed, he might even welcome it.

I believe that the tea party and GOP will eventually impeach President Obama. Such a step hurt the GOP with President Clinton and that hurt will be worse if this stunt is tried on President Obama. We need to be prepared to respond to any impeachment attempts by the GOP or Tea Party with a simple question:

Why is it only Democratic Presidents who are being impeached?

The more we point out the pattern of GOP conduct, the more painful it will be for the tea party and the GOP when they get around to this tactic

[Tx4obama]

1. Bachmann: Impeach Obama

October 9, 2013

Bachmann: Impeach Obama

Here: http://www.alan.com/2013/10/09/bachmann-impeach-obama/

[Gothmog]

4. Here is another thread on Bachmann

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023816753

Bachmann is clearly crazy but she is typical of many members of the tea party branch of the GOP

[M.G.]

2. Top Ten Reasons the GOP will impeach Obama

Top Ten Reasons For the Impeachment of Barack Obama...

(Add your own!)

10) A ghost writer crafted his autobiography, a prosecutable offense. Proof? No Harvard Law Review editor has the brains to narrate his own life story.

9) Older red-state voters still find him scary. Just why is that? Must be something he did, right?

8) Membership in the Communist Party is a felony, and Democrats are the new Communists.

7) Because we say so. Ha!

6) Because he conspired with Bin Laden. Don't believe the liberal media hype. They're actually beer buddies.

5) When Michelle Obama spoke at the Oscars, it violated laws against politicians not named Reagan having Hollywood ties.

4) Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi. Ben-Gha-Zee! If you say it often enough, something illegal must have gone down.

3) Because unlike Texas, Chicago is the most corrupt part of America.

2) Because the IRS did its job.

And at number one...

1) Because we say so! Take that, hippies!

[IrishAyes]

5. When I finish laughing, I'll try to contribute... right now I can hardly type.

[IrishAyes]

3. I've been saying the same thing for quite some time. Glad you agree!

You probably said it better, though.

As ObamaCare catches fire with the public fancy, it will be ever more suicidal for the TPs to impeach the man who gave us national health care. One more GIANT nail in the GOP coffin.

[Gothmog]

6. We are in agreement except I fear that the tea party branch of GOP is too crazy to listen to logic

I agree with your assessment but fear that logic and common sense has no meaning for the tea party branch of the GOP. They hate President Obama and facts/logic will not stop them

[IrishAyes]

8. At the risk of sounding callous toward the President's angst, which I ain't,

We might as well say then, just bring it on. The sooner the TPs wipeout, the better. Regardless of what he might say, Boner would thank us in his heart. Ooops - he hasn't got one. But he'll be secretly glad anyway. He's riding a tiger and doesn't know how to get off unless we rescue him. Well, I don't give a rat's patootie about Boner, but I do want relief for his victims.

[cynatnite]

7. I'm surprised we haven't seen articles of impeachment by now...

They're desperate for it.

[IrishAyes]

9. Well, they've been laying the seeds of their own destruction long enough.

I'll bet Cruz already has an undated document ready to go.

[Gothmog]

10. The number of idiots coming out for impeachment is amazing

Just in Texas, we had Steve Stockman http://www.juanitajean.com/2013/10/16/well-it-would-keep-the-circus-in-town-a-week-longer/ and Lt. Governor Dewhurst http://www.juanitajean.com/2013/10/15/the-dew-jumps-into-the-pits-of-hell/

I have no doubt that the tea party will try to impeach President Obama