Obama at the Sochi Winter Olympics

The I-word

Republicans in congress seem averse to considering impeaching the president. I think they believe there would be a political backlash based on the public’s reaction to the impeachment of Clinton. If that is true, they should be more concerned about performing their role in the checks and balances our founding fathers intended when they created the co-equal branches of government, than backlash.

Impeaching a president because he lied about having sex with an intern is in no way comparable to impeaching a president who refuses to do what he is constitutionally obligated to do.

Article II, Section 4 of the constitution stipulates in that a president “shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors”. Treason and bribery are easily understood. But what are “high crimes and misdemeanors” as it relates to impeachment.

The constitutional convention adopted the phrase from English Common Law with which they were all familiar. The English parliament had used “high crimes and misdemeanors” as one of the reasons to impeach officials of the crown. “High”, in this case, does not mean “serious” but offenses perpetrated by those in high office. These “crimes and misdemeanors” do not have to be illegal, just a demonstration of a serious abuse of power or an abuse of the public trust.

The president takes an oath to” faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”. Article II, Section 3, of the constitution contains what is known as the Take Care Clause. This clause states the President must "take care that the laws be faithfully executed” even if he disagrees with the purpose of the law. Obama has clearly demonstrated that he will enforce only the laws, or portions of the laws he likes. He openly admits he thinks he does not need Congress to do what he wants to do and will act unilaterally. Examples of this include:

• Obama ordered all U.S. attorneys to stop charging nonviolent, non-gang-related drug defendants involved with crimes that carry mandatory sentences instead of persuading Congress to change mandatory drug sentences.
• Obama directed the immigration service to cease proceedings against young illegal immigrants brought here as children when Congress refused to pass the Dream Act.
• Obama illegally waived the work requirements from the established law called the Welfare Reform Act.

The breach of his oath alone should qualify as an abuse of power and abuse of the public trust and should qualify him for impeachment.

But wait, there’s more!

Obama sicced the departments of the executive branch on his political opponents to further his political agenda or to punish his perceived enemies. Examples include:

• The IRS suppressed conservative groups from raising money to oppose Obama’s candidacy
• Obama accused a U.S. citizen of causing the uprising in Libya which cost the lives of four Americans so he wouldn’t look bad prior to the last presidential election. This citizen was thrown in jail on unrelated charges even though recent facts in the case clearly indicate that the actions of that U.S. citizen had nothing to attack in Benghazi and the administration knew it at the time of the attack.
• The NSA was caught monitoring AP reporters and a Fox News reporter
• The Obama Justice department indicted a filmmaker, who made a film critical of Obama, for improper campaign contributions
• The Obama Justice department is suing Standard & Poor’s for its involvement in the financial crises in 2008. Although Moody’s and Fitch were also involved, only S&P is included in the lawsuit. It also happens that only S&P downgraded the credit rating of the U.S. in 2011 at which time Obama’s Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, told S&P chairman Harold McGraw that S&P’s decision would be “looked at very carefully” and would prompt “a response from the government”.

Senator Obama was very critical of the power President George W. Bush wielded as demonstrated in the video below.

But the taste of power changes everything.

Obama is out of control. If this president does not deserved to be impeached, what would it take: driving women off a bridge and leaving her to die?

Future presidents will know Congress is unwilling to stop presidential abuses of power if Obama is not held accountable for his behavior. This should make even liberals worry. He won’t be president forever. We may even have an evil Republican president. It will be too late by then to claim the president is shredding the constitution or restricting our liberties.

It is the job of Congress to check the power of the president. If Congress doesn't do their jobs, they should be removed from office at the very next election.

Whistling Dixie

Doesn’t anyone else notice how Obama whistles when he talks! It drives me crazy yet no one else mentions it!

The Fourth Estate takes the Fifth

The media has a critical role in the protection of our liberties from an obtrusive central government. In trying to protect Obama from any criticism, the press has abdicated its responsibility as watch dog for the people. It will be harder and harder to rein in future presidents the more the media allow Obama to abuse the power of his office.
 

I argue that Snowden would have leaked the information he obtained to the US press in anonymity if he thought they would use the information to hold this administration accountable. Instead he felt he needed to go to Russia and China. Why do you think he took the course of action he did?

The media was all too willing to release classified information they obtained from informants, protect their sources, and collect their Pulitzers when George Bush was in office. But this president isn’t a Republican. I fear it will be worse if Hillary is elected. The media is already paving the way for her election with articles that white-wash the Benghazi scandal.

There is a long list of people responsible for this devastating period in our country’s history: from Socialist Democrats to weak-kneed Republicans. Included in the list has to be the media. But don’t expect to hear this addressed by reporters, they’re taking the fifth.

P.S. Make no mistake: I am not making excuses for Snowden. He is a traitor and should be treated as such.

Man the Pitchforks!

It has been decided. Obama is going to finish out the rest of his term using class warfare to keep his approval numbers up.

Unfortunately, this has been a very successful tactic for him. He will use his community organizing skills because he is incapable of persuading or negotiating with people with whom he disagrees. He will pass out the torches and pitchforks to the needy and sic them on those who have more.

This will all be done under the guise of correcting the “income inequality” in this country. But who is to blame for this inequality. He has been president for almost six years.

His attacks on businesses, over-regulation, ObamaCare, and increases in the minimum wage, all stifle job creation. Increased spending on food stamps, social security disability claims, Obama phones, extended unemployment benefits, all decrease incentives to work. This exacerbates the unemployment problem.

In the meantime, he continues his policy of quantitative easing which is artificially keeping the stock market bubble growing. This policy increases the wealth of those who have millions of dollars to spend in the stock market.

So, Obama worsens the unemployment problem, makes the rich richer with manipulations of the stock market, then tells the people he’s going to reduce the income gap.

Man the pitchforks!

More or Less

You’re probably wondering, “How does Obamacare affect me?”

That’s a good question but you probably can figure out the answer by asking yourself some questions:

You are in charge of an insurance company and the government has generated a list of minimum requirements for insurance plans. Some of the plans you provide do not meet the government’s minimum requirements (such as paying for pre-natal care, breast exams, mental health services, etc.).

Are you more or less likely to continue selling those policies illegally even if those policies suit your customers’ needs?

Do you charge customers more or less money for plans that provide the increased coverage stipulated by the government?

To try to keep premium increases down, are you more or less likely to pay for customers to see specialists?

You are a business owner. You are now obligated to provide a health care plan for all employees who work over 30 hours a week or pay a penalty?

Are you more or less likely to hire new employees?

If you have to hire new employees, will you be more or less likely to hire part-time workers?

The penalty for not providing health care plans for your employees is far less than the cost of providing a health care benefit. If you are currently paying for health care plans for your employees and there are now state healthcare exchanges available for them to access, are you more or less likely to continue providing the health care benefit.

You are a doctor. The requirements to participate in Obamacare plans are onerous, costly, and take significant time away from treating patients.

Are you more or less likely to treat patients with Obamacare plans?

You are an average American worker who has a low cost insurance plan that suits your needs from the individual market or from your employer and you like the doctor you are currently seeing.

Are you more or less likely to be screwed by Obamacare?

My Naivete

I must admit my naiveté.  I did not know the full extent to which this administration was willing to go to get reelected when I wrote 10 Steps to Get Yourself Reelected President if You Are a Democrat.  I have updated the steps based on recent revelations.

12 Steps to Get Yourself Reelected President if You Believe the Ends Justifies the Means to get Reelected

1. Garner a fawning press. 
2. Promise to give away a bunch of “free” stuff.
3. Use the IRS to silence your opposition.
4. Lie about key events and policy initiatives such as Benghazi and Obamacare to keep approval numbers from dropping.
5. Direct the Census Bureau to fudge the unemployment numbers to get them below 8% knowing that no president has gotten reelected with unemployment numbers above 8%.  (The reported unemployment numbers drop from 8.1% to 7.8% one month before the election.)
6. Ensure no voter ID laws are in place prior to the election.
7. Persuade Democratic Governors to establish early voting to maximize chances of voter fraud in your favor.
8. Do everything possible to ensure mail-in ballots from military personnel are not received in time or counted.
9. Use any data base at your disposal to identify likely Democratic voters (such as the NSA Prism data base).
10. Use federally-funded groups such as ACORN and AmeriCorps to get those people registered to vote, and to the polls.  Bribe potential voters with booze, cigarettes, or money if necessary.
11. Target these efforts in the big cities of major swing states (a win in a big city can swing the whole state).  Remove Republican poll watchers from polls if possible as was done in Philadelphia.  (Romney got zero votes in 59 districts in Philadelphia and 9 districts in Cleveland.)
12. Send lawyers to key areas to sue if steps one through nine are unsuccessful.

New polling shows that Romney may have won the election if it were not for the Banana Republic tactics of this administration.