Wednesday, August 10, 2011

For a buncha treasonous clowns ...

Who are always threatening to secede from the Union, they sure like to use the levers of government to gain an advantage here:

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Then [Rep.(R-TX) Michael] Burgess fielded a suggestion that the House move to impeach Obama. "It needs to happen, and I agree with you it would tie things up," he reportedly said. "No question about that."

The U.S. Constitution, in Article II, Section 4, requires a conviction on "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors" before an office-holder can be impeached. President Obama faces no such charges.

Asked to clarify, "Burgess said he wasn't sure whether the proper charges to bring up articles of impeachment against Obama were there, but he didn't rule out pursuing such a course," ...


Instead of trying to fuck up a country that most people, generally, still enjoy living in, why not just get the fuck out?

Great thanks to They Gave Us A Republic for the link.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Why don't we just 'fess up? This country is coming under mob rule. That's really what the "debt limit crisis" showed us. And the mob is called the Tea Party. And an ugly and stupid mob they are at that. Their idea of governance is smashing things up.

Why doesn't the country wake up to that? Or the sane people (if any) in the Republican Party? More importantly, why doesn't Obama wake up to that