Impeachable Offense: Govt Will Investigate Obama’s IRS Records Snooping
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-IA, called for action two weeks ago.
Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George said, “As the inspector general charged with ensuring, among other things, the fair implementation of our nation’s system of tax administration…I have ordered the commencement of a review into the matters alleged.” This adds more material to the snowballing avalanche of investigations into the Obama administration’s skirting of the law that could result in the president’s impeachment.
The situation is less ideal than it sounds. The Obama administration is essentially investigating itself, and Democrats may be able to hide the details of the president’s wrongdoing George discovers. The Washington Times has added, “Still, Mr. George said that, since Republicans are in the minority, there are some constraints on what he’ll be able to share with the GOP after the review is completed.”
Although the development is potentially explosive, the final report could end up providing cover for the administration against genuine examination. This has already happened with the administration’s report trying to excuse the Obama administration’s advocacy for Kenya’s new pro-abortion, pro-Sharia constitution. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) report indicated the Obama administration spent a total of $61.2 million pushing for adoption of the new constitution. Rep. Chris Smith, R-NJ, has classified this as an impeachable offense revealing “obvious violations of U.S. law.” Yet the official USAID inquest parroted the Obama administration’s claims that it merely encouraged Kenyans to vote, not to vote yes. The evidence seems to suggest otherwise.
Smith called the report a “whitewash.”
“This is the most superficial report I’ve seen in my 30 years in Congress,” he said. When asked if the administration broke the law, Smith replied, “With this poorly researched, incomplete audit, we still don’t know.”
If Republican take the majority in one or both houses of Congress in 2011, that could change.
House Republicans, led by Rep. Darrell Issa of California, promise a host of investigations to match an even larger host of shady dealings by this administration – which assumed, with a large Democratic majority in Congress, it would face no accountability. The tax snooping will join likely investigations of the Justice Department’s racial discrimination during the Black Panther Party case. The FBI and the Labor Department have already questioned Andrew Stern, former head of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), for financial improprieties. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-SC, is warning fellow Democrats that a new Republican Congress will investigate Barack Obama’s birth certificate and eligibility. Lt. Col. Robert “Buzz” Patterson told NewsMax that Obama bundler Jodie Evans could (and should) be tried for treason. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-WI, is considering keeping a House select committee open to investigate climategate. And Congressman Issa has pledged to investigate this and many other crimes in the new year.
There is a reason the Soros-funded Media Matters has attacked Floyd Brown’s call for impeachment. In at least one realm, liberals believe in preemptive war.
PLUS!
An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.“Click here to see Gerald Ford’s complete remarks on impeachment.
To impeach a president, there is no need for the public to cite any specific legal crime. What is needed is public demand for it. Imagine the case that a president started drinking so much that he could not perform his duties, or otherwise refused to carry out his duties. This would be no crime, but Congress may have to impeach to remove him. Congress will formulate the exact charges. The Constitution states that a president can be impeached and removed for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” “Misdemeanors” also means “misdeeds,” not just “petty crimes.” This is a historic term from English law and it means a president can be removed for significant abuse of his office. The voters just have to lose fundamental confidence in him and to become angry enough to demand that the Congress do it. That does not mean that it will be easy, but if people want to remove Obama from office, they need to put pressure on Congress to do it. Congress will not do it without motivation from an angy public.
The presidency is neither a right nor an equal opportunity job. The presidency is a position of high trust. If the president loses the basic trust of the American people — for whatever reason — that is justification to remove him from office. People have to unite around the idea and start asserting in a determined and forceful way that this president must be removed, because he cannot be trusted with the economic or physical security of America.” If members of Congress have enough fear that their political careers are at stake, they will remove Obama from office, even a Congress controlled by Democrats. We need to stop arguing about why Obama should be impeached and work together to make it happen.
We must put public pressure on reluctant conservative commentators, politicians and Tea Party organizers to accept and support the idea of impeachment and removal from office. We should not allow the people who did not vet Obama properly in the first place, such as the media and opposition politicians, to convince us now that he cannot be removed. We should stop arguing about why, or if, it is possible and must insist that he be removed, because a president with his extremist background of membership in a bizarre seditious religion, connections to terrorists and frankly racism is a danger to the security of the country and the well-being of us all. Our task is to rally public opinion. That means form groups, recruit thousands of members and get out on the street and protest for it, the same way the Tea Party started originally.
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