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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri May 10, 2013, 04:49 PM May 2013

“Impeach Obama! Again!”


A GOP senator floats impeaching Obama on Benghazi -- here are 14 other crazy times they've made the same plea

BY ALEX SEITZ-WALD


Taking things to their logical conclusion this afternoon, Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe suggested on a conservative radio show that President Obama may be be impeached over Benghazi. “Of all the great cover-ups in history — the Pentagon papers, the Iran-Contra, Watergate and all the rest of them — this … is going to go down as the most serious,” Inhofe said, a tad hyperbolically. “People may be starting to use the I-word,” he added.

There’s no doubt that people will start using the “the I-word” around Benghazi considering they’ve already invoked impeachment so so so many other times. Here’s a brief history of threats to impeach President Obama that have gone nowhere, in no particular order:

Fast and Furious: Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner threatened to impeach administration officials and possibly the president over the botched gun running investigation, telling Attorney General Eric Holder. “If we don’t get to the bottom of this — and that requires your assistance on that — there is only one alternative that Congress has and it is called impeachment.”

Boston bombing: A Washington Times columnist called for impeaching Obama after the Boston Marathon Bombing because he fails to realize that “we are in a clash of civilizations between radical Islam and the West.”

Joe Sestak: Dick Morris, America’s best columnist, and Sean Hannity, America’s best TV host, agreed that it was a “de facto bribe” and “an impeachable offense” when the White House allegedly pushed former Pennsylvania Senate candidate Joe Sestak to out of a Democratic primary.


full article:
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/10/impeach_obama_again/
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“Impeach Obama! Again!” (Original Post) DonViejo May 2013 OP
Actually I'm shocked they haven't tried yet davidpdx May 2013 #1
Let the idiots in the House do it. Bake May 2013 #2
Benghazi Robbins May 2013 #3

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
1. Actually I'm shocked they haven't tried yet
Sat May 11, 2013, 07:41 AM
May 2013

Then again they have the rest of the year, when they aren't on vacation that is.

Bake

(21,977 posts)
2. Let the idiots in the House do it.
Mon May 13, 2013, 12:15 PM
May 2013

I freakin' DARE them. Double-dog dare them.

The Senate will never convict, and those bofwads konw that. Let them kill their own party.

Bake

Robbins

(5,066 posts)
3. Benghazi
Mon May 13, 2013, 01:05 PM
May 2013

So the changing of talking points were worse than
1:Lying about Vietnam
2 irty operations against the democrats designed to make sure nIxon had a weak oporrent and breaking Into a shrink's office
3:Selling weapons to Iran breaking the no neogrations with terrorists and using profits for secret war COngress had cut funding for

How can they say this with straight faces.

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