08-19-2014, 10:33 AM
(08-19-2014, 10:09 AM)Maggot Wrote:(08-19-2014, 09:42 AM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: I don't know, Maggot.
Obama IS the president and is currently facing a lawsuit by the House Speaker for over-reaching his power, along with being threatened with impeachment for essentially the same allegation by Tea Partyers and Republicans.
The Democrats are fueling the impeachment proceedings they have been pushing it as a Republican agenda when in fact it has been brought up over 80 times by the Dems and about 6 times by the pubs. That may be a first in politics. Campaigning on their president getting impeached.
From what I've been seeing, you're right about the Democrats being the ones most frequently bringing up the impeachment threat; the one that Sarah Palin went all over the media advocating a couple of months back (with support from some Republicans and Tea Party members, and objections from others).
Once a segment of the right so vigorously pushed the impeachment rhetoric to the public, Obama and the Democrats latched on to it and exploited it for their own strategic gain. They want to keep it in the public's mind until the November congressional elections. Obama ain't getting impeached and it just makes the right look like petty partisan putzes to voters at a time when the GOP is already dealing with major image problems. Democrats aren't campaigning for impeachment -- they're rubbing some noses in the threat of it because, in their opinions, that threat works against the Republicans and in favor of the Democrats. That's my take anyway.
The lawsuit filed by Boehner, on the other hand, is indeed a campaign supported widely by the Republican Party; it was authorized by the House and Boehner's been banging on about it for some time. I don't think it will go anywhere though.