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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Grounds For Impeachment, Part 4: Don't Take My Word For It, Listen To What Prominent Liberals Also Think

The past week has been some pretty heavy stuff as we first spent three posts discussing the 61 reasons, lies, deceptions, incompetence, and failures that cannot be used to impeach President Obama and remove him from office. The first post in that three part series can be found at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-1-first-twenty-failures-of-obama.html

Then we spent another three days finding 59 examples of illegal behavior, lawlessness, and anti-Constitution behavior that are grounds for impeachment and removal from office. The first part in that three part series can be found at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2014/01/grounds-for-impeachment-part-1-obama.html

As I have mentioned numerous times in this blog, I have never voted for a Republican for President in my life and I have been of voting age since the 1970s. Until 2010, I had never voted for a Republican for national office in my life. Thus, I do not think anyone could honestly accuse me of being a conservative or a Republican whose writing this past week is just a hatchet job, a politically motivated attempt to smear this President.

Regardless of what you think of myself, my views, and my writings relative to the disaster that I feel is the Obama Presidency, consider some views of citizens who certainly would not fall into the conservative/Republican political spectrum and how distressed they are about the Obama Presidency:

Nat Hentoff was a journalist and columnist for “The Village Voice,” for over five decades. The Village Voice has been around for a very long time, it is a New York City periodical that tends to lean liberal and left in its writing and tone. The article I read about Mr. Hentoff stated that he is often portrayed as the “conscious” of liberalism. Mr. Hentoff is also portrayed as an authority on the Bill of Rights and Supreme Court cases

Apparently, Mr. Hentoff, despite his long time liberal credentials and leanings, did not like Obama from the start, writing a column shortly after Obama’s first election where he warned us of the impending damage Obama might to do to the nation. He said the President “was going to be the most destructive, dangerous president we’ve ever had.” 

Five years later, this liberal seems to have hit the nail right on the head, believing that Obama is the most dangerous and destructive president America has ever had:

• “He’s [Obama] in a position now where he feels he can do whatever he wants to do.” 
• “He’s the boss and hardly anybody cares enough to stop him.”
• “He doesn’t seem to think to give one damn about the separation of powers.”
• “This is the worst state, I think, that our country has ever been in.” 
• “Never before in our history has a president done these things.”
• “Even worse [the state of the country today] than Woodrow Wilson’s regime, when people could be arrested for speaking German.”
• “What Obama is doing now is about as un-American as you can get.”

Needless to say, Mr. Hentoff appears to support the impeachment of President Obama despite his liberal background and leanings.

Wikipeida says Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, political commentator and political activist. He has been a long time critic of U.S. foreign policy, U.S. military forays, and generally has been considered a left/liberal leaning citizen and political activist. 

In a recent interview published on the Alternet website, he also comes down hard on the danger and lawlessness of Obama:

• “I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors. The one thing that did surprise me is his attack on civil liberties. They go well beyond anything I would have anticipated.”
• “What it is is the same kind of commitment to expanding executive power that Cheney and Rumsfeld had. He kind of puts it in mellifluous terms and there's a little difference in his tone. It's not as crude and brutal as they were, but it's pretty hard to see much of a difference.”
• “It's an enormous expansion of executive power [NSA spying on citizens]. I doubt that they can do much with this information that's being stored.”
• “It's interesting to see the way in which due process is being reinterpreted by Obama's Justice Department in regards to the drone killings. Attorney General Eric Holder was asked why the administration was killing people without due process. Well, there was due process, he said, because they discuss it within the executive branch. King John in the 13th century would have loved that.”
• “Obama's Attack on Civil Liberties Has Gone Way Beyond Imagination.”
• “President Obama promised to have the most “transparent administration” in the history of our nation. Methinks this should go down as another one of Obama’s famed lies — and there are many. As ESPN college football commentator Lee Corso would say, ‘Not so fast my friend.’” 

Mr. Chomsky will never be mistaken for a neo-con Republican or anything close to that politically. However, he also recognizes the danger and illegality of the Obama administration.

According to a recent report in Politico, the left leaning, Obama cheerleading liberal New York Times apparently has at least one executive who is also upset and very concerned about the anti-Constitutional behavior of Obama. New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson is quoted by Politico that President Obama’s White House is the “most secretive White House” that she’s covered during her long tenure as a political journalist:

• “I spent 22 years of my career in Washington and covered presidents from President Reagan on up through now, and I was Washington bureau chief of the Times during George W. Bush’s first term.” 
• “The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It’s on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with.”
• “I would think that it [“it” being did Obama know the massive government spoying was going on] would have to. I don’t know that, but certainly enough attention has been focused on this issue that, if he departed from the policies of his government, I think we’d know that at this point.” 

In support of Ms. Abramson’s observations, the Politico article also dug up an older quote from the Times Editorial Board that was published earlier in 2013:

The Obama administration has moved beyond protecting government secrets to threatening fundamental freedoms of the press to gather news.

So even if you do not believe me and my 59 reasons why there are more than sufficient grounds for the impeachment and removal from office of President Obama, consider that the “conscious of liberalism,” a famous long time left leaning political activist, and some high ranking executives of the New York Times are pretty much in alignment with my conclusions:

“Never before in our history has a president done these things.”

“Obama's Attack on Civil Liberties Has Gone Way Beyond Imagination.”

“It’s on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with.”

“The Obama administration has moved beyond protecting government secrets to threatening fundamental freedoms of the press to gather news.”

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.

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