Grounds For Impeachment: Why Famous Liberals Say We Need To Seek Constitutional Relief From This Presidency

We have spent the last seven posts examining the major issue of whether or not President Obama has committed sufficient infractions of the law and violations of the Constitution and Bill of Rights to warrant impeachment. The first three posts in the series identified 61 failures of this presidency that were not sufficient grounds for impeachment and removal from office.

Those 61 reasons included wasteful government spending, lying and deceiving about a whole range of issues, ineffective government management, insults of ordinary Americans by the President’s political allies while he remained silent, and a whole host of other aggravating, stupid, and embarrassing actions and failures. But aggravating, stupid, deceptive. and embarrassing, no matter how irritating, are not grounds for impeachment.

However, over the next three posts we identified almost the same amount of actions and reasons that did warrant impeachment and removal from office for crimes, violations of the law, and attacks on the rights promised by the Constitution. These justifications for impeachment included violating the rights of ordinary Americans and Americans businesses and other entities, assassinating American citizens without due process, blatantly breaking existing laws when it suited this President politically, and a whole host of dozens of other reasons for impeachment.

To support our views that this is one of the most lawless and destruction Presidencies of all time, in the seventh post we published the observations, disgust, and consternations that three left leaning, liberal people in positions of power and notoriety have with regards to Obama’s outlandish and repulsive behavior. These three people included Noam Chomsky, Net Hentoff and Jill Abramson. Their views regarding the lawless behavior of the President can be viewed at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2014/02/grounds-for-impeachment-part-4-dont.html

Since we wrote these seven posts, I came across another source of left leaning, liberal Americans who also fall in line with our reasoning that this President has both inflicted serious failures and hardships on America and has also committed impeachable and criminal offenses in light of present law. The fabulous Independent Journal Review is that source and they recently did a great job combing through public records to find out how ten famous liberals feel about this President and the serious infractions against the country that they also have observed:

1. MIT professor and left-wing gadfly Noam Chomsky.

Obama “is worse” [than George W. Bush and Tony Blair]… “In the case of Afghanistan, he sharply escalated the war… Obama’s carrying out a major war in Afghanistan, he’s directly involved in aggressive and criminal actions, carried out by Israel, for example. He’s been in office for two years, and he hasn’t invaded anyone yet [until Libya], but his record is quite consistent with what’s happened before.”

2. Pat Caddell, long-time Democratic strategist.

“I am appalled right now. This White House, this President, this Vice President, this Secretary of State, all of them, are willing, apparently, to dishonor themselves and this country for the cheap prospect of getting reelected — willing to cover-up and lie… And the outrage I feel for my country and the shame that these people have no honor. And when will people finally say it? Cover-up is too nice a word.”

3. Long-time Village Voice writer and Constitutional expert Nat Hentoff.

“Obama has little, if any, principles except to aggrandize and make himself more and more important. You see that in his foreign policy. Obama lacks a backbone — both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone. This is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally. This is the first administration that has scared me.”

4. Liberal Constitutional professor Jonathan Turley.

“The problem with what the president is doing is that he’s not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system. He’s becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid. That is the concentration of power in every single branch.” 

5. Multi-millionaire director and left-wing activist Michael Moore.

“I believe Obamacare’s rocky start — clueless planning, a lousy website, insurance companies raising rates, and the president’s telling people they could keep their coverage when, in fact, not all could — is a result of one fatal flaw: The Affordable Care Act is a pro-insurance-industry plan implemented by a president who knew in his heart that a single-payer, Medicare-for-all model was the true way to go. When right-wing critics ‘expose’ the fact that President Obama endorsed a single-payer system before 2004, they’re actually telling the truth.”

6. Chris Matthews, host of Hardball on MSNBC.

“What part of the presidency does Obama like? He doesn’t like dealing with other politicians — that means his own cabinet, that means members of the congress, either party. He doesn’t particularly like the press…. He likes to write the speeches… He likes going on the road, campaigning, visiting businesses like he does every couple days somewhere in Ohio or somewhere… He doesn’t like giving orders or giving somebody the power to give orders. He doesn’t seem to like being an executive.”

7. Medea Benjamin of the anti-war group Code Pink.

“I love my country. I love the rule of law! Abide by the rule of law. You’re a constitutional lawyer!”

8. Glenn Greenwald, Guardian reporter who broke the NSA-Snowden leaks story.

“At this point, I didn’t believe it was possible, but the Obama administration has just reached an all-new low in its abysmal civil liberties record… Obama’s now asserting a power so radical — the right to kill American citizens and do so in total secrecy, beyond even the reach of the courts — that it’s ‘too harsh even for’ one of the most far-right War on Terror cheerleading-lawyers in the nation. But that power is certainly not ‘too harsh’ for the kind-hearted Constitutional Scholar we elected as President, nor for his hordes of all-justifying supporters…”

9. Jeff Cohen, former MSNBC producer and media critic.

“I was a young person when I first heard the quip: ‘How do you know when the President is lying? His lips are moving.’ At the time, President Nixon was expanding the war in Vietnam to other countries and deploying the White House ‘plumbers’ to commit crimes against antiwar leakers. Forty years have passed. Sadly, these days, often when I see President Obama moving his lips, I assume he’s lying.”

10. Matt Damon, actor, producer, and director.

“I’ve talked to a lot of people who worked for Obama at the grassroots level. One of them said to me, ‘Never again. I will never be fooled again by a politician. You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.”

There you have it, ten, dyed in the wool liberal thinkers, supporters, and voters. These are people who obviously have taken a long look at this President and reached the same conclusions we have reached over the past week: there are dozens and dozens of examples of failures of this Presidency that do not warrant impeachment and removal from office, no matter how embarrassing or repugnant.

But far more importantly, there are dozens and dozens of reasons why this President needs to be removed from office, the balance of power in government restored, as laid out by the Constitution, and our liberty and freedom refreshed in light of the stink and horror of the past five years.

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“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”

Before we get into today’s topic, let me set up some background on myself. I have never voted for a Republican for President in my life. I had never voted for a Republican for national office in my life until the midterm elections in 2010. I have no problem with gay marriage and while not a fan of abortion, I do not find it in my power to dictate whether or not a woman should or should not get an abortion. I am against foreign military entanglements. Thus, no one could consider me a conservative, neo con, Republican, etc.

However, that does not mean I condone vile and vicious political speech, no matter who is spouting it. Today’s topic focuses on that type of political dialog that constantly comes from the Democrats/liberal/left side of the political spectrum. 

It seems to me that the level and intensity of political hate and hateful speech has accelerated over the past few years. And in my observations, the majority, if not vast majority of that increased hatred and hate speech, has come from the liberal side of politics.

We first approached this subject with a couple of posts from our past, posts that documented how the left side of the spectrum had called those that disagreed with their views a whole slew of disgusting and hurtful names: whores, sluts, a__h____s, terrorists, racists, KKK members, Neanderthals, hate rape opportunities, etc. It becomes very difficult as a human being to have constructive political dialog when the other side is slinging these types of vile names at you. Those discussions can be viewed at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2012/03/ignorance-of-rush-limbaugh-hypocrisy-of.html

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-slime-sleaze-immorality-and_17.html

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2012/04/wasserman-schultzs-and-obamas-silence.html

And the political class and the current set of politicians within it have done nothing to inhibit such speech and hatred since then. In fact, it is obvious that they encourage such name calling to “energize their base,” get their supporters hyped up to get themselves reelected over and over again. This type of divisive talk and silence is not leadership, it is not statesmenship, it is cheap, thug politics. 

As a result of their encouragement of this type of hate speech and their silence in the face of it, in reality condoning it, the country’s major issues never get a rational and adult conversation and thus, never get resolved. William F. Buckley once observed: “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”

See if that is not the case as we do an update on what the left side of the political spectrum are calling those that disagree with their views and positions on issues.

1) Dana Loesch is a well-known conservative writer and thinker. Pascal Robert is a left leaning blogger and contributor to the left leaning Huffington Post. In a Twitter debate over gun rights and gun control, rather than stick to the points of the argument, Loesch went vile with the following Tweet: 






When all else fails, threaten anal rape. Classy (not).
2) The Hill reported on September 13, 2013 that Vice President Joe Biden called some House of Representatives members “this sort of Neanderthal crowd” when the House did not pass a piece of legislation as quickly as he wanted it passed. The legislation did eventually get passed but rather than discuss the one sticking point that delayed passage, the Vice President, the second in line of succession to leading the country, would rather just call people names. Pathetic lack of leadership. 

3) Allan Brauer is the communications chair for the Democratic Party of California. Amanda Carpenter is an aide to Republican Senator Ted Cruz. Carpenter sent out a tweet expressing her and her boss’s political opinions back in September:  “GOP beat gun control, changed Obama’s mind on Syria, is holding the line on amnesty. We can defund Obamacare, too!”

Rather than engage in constructive discussion with Carpenter and put forth the Democrats’ view and reasoning on gun control, Syria, amnesty, and Obama Care, Brauer went to Twitter and directed a message back towards Carpenter: “May your children all die from debilitating, painful and incurable diseases.”











Wishing that a fellow American’s kids would die a horrible, painful death. Is there any doubt why nothing ever gets resolved in this country today, in light of people wanting other people’s kids to die?

4) Bill O’Reilly is a very successful talk show host on the right leaning Fox news channel and author of many best selling books including “Killing Lincoln” and “Killing Kennedy,” books that examine the assassinations of these two Presidents. Chris Matthews is a talk show host on MSNBC, one of the most hard left leaning news entities in the world.

While being interviewed on the Colbert Show and O’Reilly’s name came up, Matthews replied: “When are we going to have the book we’ve really been waiting for? –’Killing O’Reilly.’” There it is again: let’s just kill off those that agree with us rather than embrace diversity and dialog.

5) The Roll Call website reported on October 13, 2014 that California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer compared Republicans to wife beaters in the midst of the Federal government shutdown (which really wasn’t a shutdown at all since we have previously cited two experts that estimated about 85% of the Federal government did NOT shut down): 

“It’s a self-inflicted wound. I never questioned, never questioned the fact that Republicans, Democrats, and independents love this country. Love this country. I never questioned it. But I have to say, when you start acting like you’re committing domestic abuse, you’ve got a problem. ‘I love you dear, but you know, I’m shutting down your entire government. I love you dear, but I’m going to default and you’re going to be weak.’ Something is dreadfully wrong.”

Well, at least she did not  hope that someone died.

6) The same thing cannot be said of Dan Savage, a liberal writer, speaker, and author who recently went the “hope they die route” when discussing Sarah Palin via the following tweet: 

Woke up to Sarah Palin’s voice. She’s taken up chewing tobacco now cuz LIBRULS or Bloomberg or something. Now seeing upside of oral cancers.
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) May 4, 2013

Don’t debate, don’t constructively discuss, just wish death, this time via cancer. 

7) Sarah Pain is an especially favorite target of hate spewing leftists. Martin Bashier, recently speaking from prepared remarks on his former MSNBC show, suggested that someone defecate into Sarah Palin’s mouth, simply because she holds different opinions from Bashier and the left, left leaning MSNBC news channel. 

Bashier was eventually forced to resign but should have immediately been fired along with his producers and writers for the most vile thing I have ever heard in the political arena. This is the same “journalist” and news channel that put together a video montage of buses exploding, killing all inside in a fiery death, during the last Presidential election. This hideous video was positioned as something they would like see happen to the Romney campaign. Disgusting.

8) Former Montana Lieutenant Governor  John Bohlinger announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate from Montana in early November. No big news there, another American trying to get elected to office.

But rather than focus on his abilities and skills to get things accomplished, he degenerated his announcement into yet another opportunity to slander Americans with a different view than his. During his announcement, Bohlinger disgustingly compared Tea Party Republicans to the Taliban, those religious extremists that once ran the Afghanistan government and who murder people without trials for violating the Koran and whose disdain for women’s rights, gay rights, and non-Islam rights is well known: “We need to challenge the Tea Party representatives who like the Taliban shut our country down,” Bohlinger said on Wednesday, according to the Billings Gazette, which covered the announcement. 

The paper also noted that the Montana Democrat also compared the shutdown to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Pathetic attempt at politics. 

Again, we know that the country did not shut down. More than 85% of the Federal government stayed in operation at all times. No one missed a Social Security check, no one failed to get Medicare coverage, our national defense was never threatened, etc. But rather than deal with facts, this Democrat would rather falsely persecute Americans with different ideas of what government should and should not be doing.

9) I could go on and on, left leaning political operatives and sitting politicians hurling insults and slurs at Americans who simply have a different view on issues than themselves.

Rather than engage in constructive dialog, which is much more likely to lead to constructive solutions, they would rather call others Nazis, racists, simpletons, and heartless individuals, as illustrated in this compilation of political hate speech from the left that was cataloged by the Independent Journal Review earlier this year:

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/08/72646-20-most-divisive-democrat-quotes-of-the-obama-era/24/

And it is not just Republicans and Tea Party supporters that get slandered and verbally abused. The following post, also from the Independent Journal review, points out that Democrats also bully African Americans, journalists, women, and others that dare to disagree with this administration or other Democratic Party positions:

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/03/39675-bullied-10-people-intimidated-by-the-democrat-party/7/

Through all of the insults and slander, one person has remained silent. President Obama, who is supposed to represent ALL Americans, who originally campaigned on a promise to unite the country, has stood silently by as the hate words and hatred from the liberal side of the political spectrum, his side, flew by. He has actually contributed to the vitriol, calling large segments of Americans bitter as “they cling to their guns and religion.” He has insulted large segments of Americans who happen to be global warming doubters, degrading them as flat earth believers.

And then he whines when he does not get his way from Congress. Could it be that as fellow human beings, people in Congress cannot help but get a little defensive and mad when the President of the United States allows his political operatives and Party cohorts to call Americans such a wide range of nasty, hateful names? 

I am sure that the President has endured a wide range of equally hurtful names and insults. I am sure that these names were likely racist and uncalled for. But great leaders rise above the petty and mundane and the “small” people that walk among us. They unite people despite the name calling. 

This President, and many in the Democratic/left/liberal wing of the political spectrum have refused to do so, proving again that fifty years ago that William F. Buckley was right: “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”

Unfortunately, until this President and those around him are NOT shocked and offended, until the hatred and insults stop, the ability to come together and resolve the major issues of our times will continue to be elusive.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

www.loathemygovernment.com

It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:

Term Limits Now: http://www.howmuchworsecoulditget.com
http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.robertringer.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w