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The possibility of impeaching Barack Obama based a wide range of
alleged constitutional violations already has been discussed by a long
list of members of Congress, from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to Rep. Duncan
Hunter, R-Calif.
Now Rep. Paul Broun, a Georgia Republican who is seeking to replace the retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss, is joining the list.
He’s accompanied by a couple of his opponents in the open race.
A video from a forum over the weekend featuring candidates for
Chambliss’ seat shows Broun and two others, Derrick Grayson, an
engineer, and Eugene Yu, a businessman, raising their hands when asked
whether they would support impeachment.
A forum moderator asked the candidates: “Obama has perjured himself
on multiple occasions. Would you support impeachment if presented for a
vote?”
Broun, Grayson and Yu raised their hands.
Several other candidates did not, and there were others vying for the office who were not in attendance.
WND has been reporting on members of Congress who have discussed impeachment. The list now includes:
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa; Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas; Rep. Steve
Stockman, R-Texas; Rep. Bill Flores, R-Texas; Rep. Duncan Hunter,
R-Calif.; Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.; Rep. Kerry Bentivolio, R-Mich.; Sen.
Ted Cruz, R-Texas; Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla.; Rep. Jason Chaffetz,
R-Utah; Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.; Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.; Rep.
Louie Gohmert, R-Texas; Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla.; and Rep. Ted Yoho,
R-Fla.
Read the definitive case for removing Barack Obama from office in “Impeachable Offenses” by Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott.
Several, including King and Farenthold, made comments in interviews with Sean Hannity.
King pointed to the president’s actions on immigration, such as his
orders for authorities not to enforce current immigration law, as
grounds for impeachment.
He said there are multiple violations related to Obamacare and
asserted the president’s “recess” appointments of judges when the Senate
was not actually in recess also is worthy.
The “uber-presidency,” King said, has little or no respect for the Constitution.
Farenthold said Obama “is grabbing as much power as he can,” but Congress also is doing little to draw in the reins.
The two said that politically, Obama is exercising great power and believes Congress cannot or will not stop him.
“The president knows it; he’s exploiting it,” King said.
Stockman even handed out in Congress
copies of a book that has been described by its authors as the
“articles of impeachment” for Barack Obama. Stockman suggested that
special investigations and possibly prosecutions are needed in response
to Fast and Furious, Benghazi and other Obama scandals.
Rep. Bill Flores, R-Texas, was speaking at a town hall meeting when
he considered the idea. A video of his comments was posted at the
Western Center for Journalism.
“I’ve looked at the president. I think he’s violated the Constitution. I think he’s violated the Bill of Rights,” he said.
He said at some point a decision must be made.
“I think if the House had an impeachment vote, it would probably impeach the president.”
But he noted there are only 46 members of the GOP in the U.S. Senate, where an impeached president would be put on trial.
To obtain a conviction, the prosecuting team must have 67 votes, and
he wasn’t sure even all of the GOP members would vote to convict.
“I think he’s breaking the law if he strikes without congressional
approval,” Hunter told the Washington Times regarding Obama’s plan to
bomb Syria. “And if he proceeds without Congress providing that
authority, it should be considered an impeachable offense.”
WND previously reported Coburn’s statement that Obama is “perilously close” to qualifying for impeachment.
Speaking at the Muskogee Civic Center in Oklahoma, the senator said,
“What you have to do is you have to establish the criteria that would
qualify for proceedings against the president, and that’s called
impeachment.”
Coburn said it’s “not something you take lightly, and you have to use a historical precedent of what that means.”
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Earlier, Bentivolio said it would be a “dream come true” to impeach Obama.
Bentivolio told the Birmingham Bloomfield Republican Club Meeting,
“You know, if I could write that bill and submit it, it would be a dream
come true.”
He told constituents: “I feel your pain and I know. I stood 12 feet
away from that guy and listened to him, and I couldn’t stand being
there. But because he is president I have to respect the office. That’s
my job as a congressman. I respect the office.”
Bentivolio said his experience with the president caused him to
consult with attorneys about what it would take to remove Obama from
office.
Cruz responded to a question about impeachment after a speech.
“It’s a good question,” Cruz said. “And I’ll tell you the simplest
answer: To successfully impeach a president you need the votes in the
U.S. Senate.”
In May, Inhofe suggested Obama could be impeached over a White House
cover-up after the attack in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012.
He told listeners of “The Rusty Humphries Show”: “Of all the great
cover-ups in history – the Pentagon papers, Iran-Contra, Watergate, all
the rest of them – this … is going to go down as the most egregious
cover-up in American history.”
But even with that searing indictment, Inhofe, too, stopped short of calling for impeachment.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, has offered tentative support for impeachment.
“I’m not willing to take it off the table, but that’s certainly not what we’re striving for,” he told CNN.
One Republican actually has come out and called for the impeachment
of Obama, and he did it more than two years ago, before he became a
congressman.
Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., posted on his website in June 2011 a list of reasons for impeachment.
Other figures who have discussed impeachment include Glenn Beck,
Watergate investigative reporter Bob Woodward, WND columnist Nat Hentoff
and a panel of top constitutional experts.
Stockman recently distributed copies of the book,
“Impeachable Offenses: The Case for Removing Barack Obama From Office,” to the other 434 members of the House of Representatives to bolster his case for a special investigation of the president.
The bestselling “Impeachable Offenses” presents an indictment that goes well beyond today’s headlines.
The Daily Mail of London has called “Impeachable Offenses”
“explosive,” reporting that the book contains a “systematic
connect-the-dots exercise that the president’s defenders will find
troublesome.”
Constituents also are reaching some surprising conclusions.
Voters in Republican
Rep. Jim Bridenstine’s
Oklahoma district may look meek and mild, maybe even sweet, but their
opinions of President Obama reveal nothing but a battleground
“take-no-prisoners” attitude.
One lady, for example, said there needs to be changes in the Senate so “we can impeach the S-O-B.”
Said another: “He’s not president as far as I’m concerned. … Should be executed. He’s an enemy combatant.”
She complained that Congress is doing nothing, and that “allows this moron to make decisions.”
“He has no authority. None.”
The video was uploaded just this week, but it’s unclear when the
meeting was held, and the congressman’s office was unable to provide
details immediately.
At one point the congressman references “back in April 2013,” and it
appears to be winter, so likely it was recorded in the past few months.
The congressman had been documenting Obama’s “lawlessness.”
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