Wooo Hooo! Today I get to be a feline Clint Eastwood and call out the minions of evil challenging them to hasten their own demise through an act of aggression. I knew, without doubt that not a week would pass before the Republican Reich unleashed the “I” word. Now its springing up like weeds in May.
And so it begins, again. “I believe this is an impeachable offense,” Charles Krauthammer told Fox host Megyn Kelly Thursday night [Faux Noise delinked], discussing President Obama’s planned executive action on illegal immigration. “It is very clear that what he’s doing now […] is a flagrant assault on the Constitution, on the separation of powers.”
Impeachment carnival barker Andrew McCarthy jumped on Twitter [wing-nut delinked] with rauthammer’s pronouncement. So did the excitable and feeble-minded folks at Breitbart [Breitfart delinked]. GOP congress members are likely to follow.
Of course you’ll recall that, back in July, it was Krauthammer who claimed talk of the president’s possible impeachment was “a concoction of Democrats,” [Faux Noise delinked] as he denied any serious Republicans were interested in such a move. “They know that in 1998 the party was saved, the sixth year of an administration, it was saved by impeachment, overreaching on impeachment by Republicans, and this is a good issue, it’s a good way to raise money,” he said then.
Now he’s telling Kelly, one of Fox’s most reliable impeachment trolls, that Obama is about to commit “an impeachable offense.”
It was Kelly, back in January, who asked then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell if he would consider impeaching the president (McConnell ducked the question) Late in the summer, though, top Republicans put out the word that impeachment was an overreach likely to rev up the Democratic base and cost the party its coming midterm landslide, so she settled down.
But Kelly brought the charge back election eve, suggesting that any Obama executive action deferring deportation might be designed to “offend” Republicans into impeaching him. Those poor impetuous creatures are slaves to emotion, the Fox host seemed to suggest, and can’t be blamed if they’re baited into political overreach by our amoral, conniving president…
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Rachel Maddow covered the Republican reaction and discussed what she thinks Obama plans to do.
If you can’t see it here, try the direct link to the video. I could not find it on YouTube.
If Republicans do try to impeach Obama, I can make four predictions:
House Republicans will have no trouble passing a Bill of Impeachment. Breathing while black is sufficient offense for that.
We will get tons of ridiculous email from a bunch of places, but especially the DCCC, laying on a guilt trip that, unless we give them money, we’ll lose Obama and it will be our fault. (They copied that tactic from the Republicans, and it really g=has to stop. I bet it turned off thousands of voters.)
The Senate will not convict. That requires 67 votes, and although the Republican Reich will goose step in lock step, they won’t be able to peel off enough Democrats.
All the while, the Republicans will behave like bratty two year olds in full tantrum. They will make such complete asses of themselves, that they will set themselves up for even bigger losses in 2016.
So Republicans, do you feel lucky? Go ahead! Make my day!!
15 Responses to “Go Ahead! Make My Day!!”
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Looks like you've got all your ducks in a row. don't miss now.
"Cur" Charles should retire from his talking head job because he is making less sense as time goes by.
So much less like the constitutional grounds for impeachment than much of what Bush did…sigh.
Love the Eastwood pix.
The country needs governance not an impeachment circus sideshow.
I think I'll just grab a a big box of popcorn/a side of mm's and watch the show. The last two years of President Obama will be a must see and I donot what to miss a thing.
After this election, I agree with Lona (Care2) that there is apparently no limit to the stupidity of the American people. I think an impeachment would not only be bad for the country but also for the Democratic party politically.
I am waiting for the Repugs to try and impeach President Obama for eating breakfast – they have tried just about anything else – they really are pathetic, but the poor inadequates just have to keep inventing stuff to keep themselves in a froth about!
(Naughty kitty in the cartoon- put that water pistol down before it leaks and your fur gets damp).
So the RepubliCONs have a hobby to waste another two years on. America can waste MORE money on side-show freaks – the MainStreamMedia will lose More viewers & readers, and NOTHING GOOD will come of it AGAIN.. Idiots never learn. ALL 50 states need to approve pot, just to keep us from rioting over these Useless "law-makers" who can't even read & Understand the Constitution that they re-interpret every other year…:( America is DEPRESSED – mentally, physically, fiscally, & especially psychically! Sometimes I WISH I was religious..
Here, here, Yvonne White!! I hear ya loud and clear!!
This just begs the question, can they be recalled for not doing their job and destroying the government??? PLEASE SAY YES!!!
The cartoon sooooo fits Fox news. The gun toting kitty is cute but I wouldn't want Oreo to have one.
If it wouldn't do so much damage to the country, I would love for the Republicans to shut down the government again so that all the idiots who voted for them would see what they have caused. I have no doubt that the House will vote to impeach, I hope the Senate doesn't, but we have so many weak kneed Democrats in office, one never knows. Landrieu comes to mind. They should look back to how well that worked for them when the impeached Clinton, most of those guys got voted out of office. It would almost be worth it to see that happen again.
Is it me, or do Republicanus/Teabaggers, and specifically Charles Krauthammer, seem schizophrenic? I mean no disrespect to those who are truly diagnosed with schizophrenia and struggle daily with it effects.
Is Krauthammer just stirring the pot to incite the sheeple?
The greatest claim to fame by the Republicanus/Teabaggers is that they know more ways to waste money than any other other group. . . . and the sheeple keep voting for them. Unbelievable!
One last comment . . . TC, you shoot like a girl! You`ve got your eyes shut!
Unfortunately, Rachel`s video won`t load for me. That so sucks because I like her!
Did you try both here and the direct link?
Most definitely. I could sit for half an hour and that little colourful turkey tail would still be going round and round with `your video is loading` plastered on the screen.
I'm sorry. Check you tube. It wasn't there when I posted this, but may be now.
"They will make such complete asses of themselves . . .."
Which they've done for more than 30 years, yet people still vote for them. Go figure!
Thanks all. Pit Stop. Overslept again.