Not that I’ve been watching closely, but so far I count at least
four possible grounds for the impeachment of the president of these
United States.
I am not suggesting impeachment proceedings would be a good
idea. I’m just keeping score, the same
thing the president does.
The latest impeachment ground, if President Obama follows
through on it, is
his kingly proposal to raise the federal government’s debt
ceiling without congressional approval.
Liberals are often impervious to reason, preferring to see the
Constitution as authorizing everything they see as good and
prohibiting everything they see as bad. “When a crisis occurs,
instead of solving it, Democrats use it as an excuse to expand
their power,”
notes Republican historian Michael Zak.
So it wasn’t terribly surprising the other day when Treasury
Secretary Tim Geithner waved the Fourteenth
Amendment around like a magic wand. The fourth clause of the
amendment states
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized
by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and
bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion,
shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any
State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of
insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim
for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts,
obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Obama zombies like
liberal Bruce Bartlett seem to think that because “[t]he
validity of the public debt of the United States … shall not be
questioned” somehow this means a) that the debt ceiling is
unconstitutional and b) the president gets to authorize borrowing
without congressional approval. Maybe in their eyes there is also
an option c) which fantasizes that because debts are falling due
borrowing is automatically authorized or mandated by operation of
law.
In other words, even though Article I, section 8 of the
Constitution provides that Congress has the power “[t]o borrow
money on the credit of the United States,” it doesn’t matter.
Congressional control over borrowing is irrelevant because the Dear
Leader says so.
Why bother having a Congress with the power of the purse
then?
In reverse chronological order, the other three prospective
grounds for impeachment are:
* President Obama’s recent funding of ACORN,
contrary to federal law. News of the HUD grant to ACORN Housing
(now called Affordable Housing Centers of America) came mere days
after
the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the federal
funding ban.
* The president’s inexplicable refusal to seek the approval of
Congress before going to war in Libya. Despite insisting such
approval was absolutely necessary when he was a U.S. senator, now
that he’s in the White House he sees things differently.
* President Obama’s pigheaded refusal to enforce the federal
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). (Not defending the statute in court
is tantamount to not enforcing it.)
Feel free to keep score yourself. I’m sure I missed a lot.
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help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN
and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical
leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul
Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any
means to do it.
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