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May 18, 2013 10:05:25   #
CrazyHorse Loc: Kansas
 
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"Subject: First President to.....


Yes, he's historic, alright.


Law and Justice

• First President to Violate the War Powers Act (Unilaterally Executing American Military Operations in Libya Without Informing Congress In the Required Time Period - Source: Huffington Post)

• First President to Triple the Number of Warrantless Wiretaps of U.S. Citizens (Source: ACLU)

• First President to Sign into Law a Bill That Permits the Government to "Hold Anyone Suspected of Being Associated With Terrorism Indefinitely, Without Any Form of Due Process. No Indictment. No Judge or Jury. No Evidence. No Trial. Just an Indefinite Jail Sentence" (NDAA Bill - Source: Business Insider)



• First President to Refuse to Tell the Public What He Did For Eight (8) Hours After Being Informed That a U.S. Ambassador Was Facing Imminent Death During a Terror Attack (Source: Mediate)

• First President to Lie About the Reason For an Ambassador's Death, Blaming it on an Internet Video Rather Than What He Knew to be the Case: the Al Qaeda-linked Terror Group Ansar al-Sharia (Source: House Oversight Committee, et. al.)

• First President to Have an Innocent Filmmaker Thrown in Jail After Lying About the Cause for a Deadly Attack on U.S. Diplomats, Using the Filmmaker as a Scapegoat (Source: CNN)



• First President to Use the IRS to "Unfairly Target Political Enemies" as Well as Jewish Groups (Source: Sen. Ted Cruz)

• First President to Unlawfully Seize Telephone Records of More than 100 Reporters to Intimidate and/or Bully Them (Source: Associated Press)

• First President to Witness a Single Cabinet Secretary Commit Multiple Hatch Act Violations Without Acting, Speaking Out, Disciplining or Firing That Person (Source: New York Times)

• First President to Have His Attorney General Held in Criminal Contempt of Congress For His Efforts to Cover Up Operation Fast and Furious, That Killed Over 300 Individuals (Source: Politico)

• First President to claim Executive Privilege to shield a sitting Attorney General from a Contempt of Congress finding for perjury and withholding evidence from lawful subpoenas (Source: Business Insider)

• First President to Issue Unlawful "Recess-Appointments" Over a Long Weekend -- While the U.S. Senate Remained in Session (against the advice of his own Justice Department - Source: United States Court of Appeals)



• First President to Fire an Inspector General of Americorps for Catching One of His Friends in a Corruption Case (Source: Gawker)

• First President to "Order a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped the Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Across the U.S., Including Those With Criminal Convictions" (Source: DHS documents uncovered by Judicial Watch)

• First President to Sue States for Enforcing Voter ID Requirements, Which Were Previously Ruled Legal by the U.S. Supreme Court (Source: CNN)



• First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places (the New Black Panthers voter intimidation case, Source: Investors Business Daily)

• First President to Refuse to Comply With a House Oversight Committee Subpoena (Source: Heritage Foundation)

• First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law Unconstitutional and Refuse to Enforce It (Defense of Marriage Act - Source: ABC News)



• First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One of His Political Appointees (BP Oil Spill Relief Fund - Source: Fox News)

• First President to Have a Law Signed By an 'Auto-pen' Without Being "Present" (Source: The New York Times)

• First President to Have His Administration Fund an Organization Tied to the Cop-Killing Terrorist Group, the Weather Underground (Source: National Review)



Scandals

• First President to publicly announce an enemies list (consisting of his opponents campaign contributors; and to use the instrumentalities of government to punish those on the list - Source: Heritage Foundation)

• First President to Attempt to Block Legally-Required 60-Day Layoff Notices by Government Contractors Due to His Own Cuts to Defense Spending -- Because The Notices Would Occur Before the Election. (Source: National Journal)


• First President to Intentionally Disable Credit Card Security Measures (in order to allow over-the-limit donations, foreign contributions and other illegal fundraising measures - Source: Power Line)



• First President to send 80 percent of a $16 billion program (green energy) to his campaign bundlers and contributors, leaving only 20% to those who did not contribute. (Source: Washington Examiner)

• First President to Propose an Executive Order Demanding Companies Disclose Their Political Contributions to Bid on Government Contracts (Source: Wall Street Journal)

• First President to issue an Executive Order implementing a "Racial Justice System", a system that tries to achieve "racially equivalent outcomes" for crimes (Source: Daily Caller)



• First President to Leak Confidential IRS Tax Records to Groups Aligned Politically With Him for Partisan Advantage (Source: The Hill Newspaper)

• First President to Use the EPA to Punish Political Enemies and Reward Political Allies (Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute)

• First President to Send Millions in Taxpayer Dollars to His Wife's Former Employer (Source: White House Dossier)



Economy

• First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Government (Source: Reuters)

• First President to Bypass Congress and Implement the DREAM Act Through Executive Fiat (Source: Christian Science Monitor)

• First President to Move America Past the Dependency Tipping Point, In Which 51% of Households Now Pay No Income Taxes (Source: Center for Individual Freedom)



• First President to Increase Food Stamp Spending By More Than 100% in Less Than Four Years (Source: Sen. Jeff Sessions)

• First President to Spend a Trillion Dollars on 'Shovel-Ready' Jobs -- and Later Admit There Was No Such Thing as Shovel-Ready Jobs (Source: President Obama during an early meeting of his 'Jobs Council')

• First President to Threaten Insurance Companies After They Publicly Spoke out on How Obamacare Helped Cause their Rate Increases (Source: The Hill)




• First President to Abrogate Bankruptcy Law to Turn Over Control of Companies to His Union Supporters (Source: Wall Street Journal)

• First President to Propose Budgets So Unreasonable That Not a Single Representative From Either Party Would Cast a Vote in Favor (Sources: The Hill, Open Market)

• First President Whose Economic Policies Have the Number of Americans on Disability Exceed the Population of New York (Source: CNS News)



• First President to Sign a Law Requiring All Americans to Purchase a Product From a Third Party (Source: Wall Street Journal)

• First President to Sue States For Enforcing Immigration Laws Passed by Congress (Source: The Arizona Republic newspaper)

• First President to See America Lose Its Status as the World's Largest Economy (Source: Peterson Institute)



• First President to redistribute $26.5 billion of the taxpayers' funds to his union supporters in the UAW (Source: Heritage Foundation)

• First President to Threaten an Auto Company (Ford) After It Publicly Mocked Bailouts of GM and Chrysler (Source: Detroit News)

• First President to Attempt to Bully a Major Manufacturing Company Into Not Opening a Factory in a Right-to-Work State (Boeing's facility in South Carolina - Source: Wall Street Journal)



Energy Policy

• First President to Endanger the Stability of the Electric Grid by Shutting Down Hundreds of Coal-Fired Plants Without Adequate Replacement Technologies (Source: National Electric Reliability Corporation - PDF)

• First President to Have His EPA Repudiated by a Federal Judge for "Overstepping Its Powers" When They Attempted to Shut Down Coal Operations in Appalachia (Source: Huffington Post)

• First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally Obstructing Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (Source: Politico)



National Security and World Affairs

• First President to Lie Repeatedly to the American People About the Murder of a U.S. Ambassador and Three Other Diplomatic Personnel for Purely Political Reasons, Rewriting a "Talking Points" Memo No Fewer Than a Dozen Times to Avoid Referencing a Pre-Planned Terror Attack (Source: ABC News)

• First President to Openly Defy a Congressional Order Not To Share Sensitive Nuclear Defense Secrets With the Russian Government (Sources: ABC News, Rep. Michael Turner)

• First President to Leak Highly Classified Military and Intelligence Secrets to Hollywood In Order to Promote a Movie That Could Help His Reelection Campaign (Source: Judicial Watch)



• First President to Terminate America's Ability to Put a Man into Space (Sources: USA Today, ABC News)

• First President to press for a "treaty giving a U.N. body veto power over the use of our territorial waters and rights to half of all offshore oil revenue" (The Law Of The Sea Treaty, Source: Investors Business Daily)

• First President to send $200 million to a terrorist organization (Hamas) after Congress had explicitly frozen the money for fear it would fund attacks against civilians (Sources: American Thinker, The Independent [UK])



Miscellania

• First President to Insert Himself into White House Biographies of Past Presidents (Source: The New York Times).

• First President to Golf 122 or More Times in His First Four-and-a-half Years in Office (Source: White House Dossier)


But remember: he will not rest until all Americans have jobs, affordable homes, green-energy vehicles, and the environment is repaired, etc., etc., etc."

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May 18, 2013 11:10:37   #
LAwrence
 
So why hasn't he been impeached. Also why are the agencies not refusing to implement his unconstitutional orders.

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May 18, 2013 12:29:02   #
oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)
 
LAwrence wrote:
So why hasn't he been impeached. Also why are the agencies not refusing to implement his unconstitutional orders.


Impeachment is a process that includes both houses of Congress and one of them is controlled by his party and would never vote to remove him from office so why should the accusing part of the group waste time with impeaching him. Impeachment would only make him more of a lame duck than he has made himself and would result in the necessary attacks on individual Congressmen who voted for impeachment.

You do understand what impeachment is, don't you?

Who appointed most of the heads of the agencies you refer to? I think it was mostly Obama and his people.

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May 18, 2013 12:57:54   #
LAwrence
 
I understand the impeachment process, however, if any president has commited crimes against the law should not the congress bring him to justice regardless of party affiliation? however, you may be right. The current congress probably doesn't have the personal integrity to do their duty. Many of the people in the federal agencies have been there there long before Obama.

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May 18, 2013 18:36:26   #
CrazyHorse Loc: Kansas
 
oldroy wrote:
Impeachment is a process that includes both houses of Congress and one of them is controlled by his party and would never vote to remove him from office so why should the accusing part of the group waste time with impeaching him. Impeachment would only make him more of a lame duck than he has made himself and would result in the necessary attacks on individual Congressmen who voted for impeachment.

You do understand what impeachment is, don't you?

Who appointed most of the heads of the agencies you refer to? I think it was mostly Obama and his people.
Impeachment is a process that includes both houses... (show quote)


Quid Pro Quo, oldroy and LAwrence: The House votes Articles of Impeachment and the Senate conducts the trial. The basis for Impeachment is alleged violations of the Constitution or other "high crimes or misdemeanors". I agree with oldroy's thought process, but if you ponder it some, and I have, how is it do you believe Senate dims would vote just prior to their re-election, for or against Impeachment, if they where in a red state that voted against Obama? We only need 5 Senate seats to change in republican favor in order to take back the Senate. I think maybe we should do the impeachment that is well deserved and require the Senate dims up for reelection to go on record with their support of Obama's corruptness and unconstitutional acts, and face their elections in that posture, or vote for impeachment. I think it takes only a majority vote in the Senate to remove him from office. The House votes impeachment. The Senate tries the case and can remore the president from office. Even if Obama is impeached, but not removed from office, it would sure slow down his attempt to destroy our country. And, he could join Bill Clinton with the status of being an impeached president. A long time ago I think maybe there was another president that was impeached, Andrew Jackson maybe, I don't remember.

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May 18, 2013 22:09:28   #
LAwrence
 
It was An
drew Johnson. He was not convicted either.
I would hope the congress will impeach him but I won't hold my breath.

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May 19, 2013 09:29:48   #
Tasine Loc: Southwest US
 
I think Obama should be impeached because it would then be on the record. The Senate's response would also be on the record. I want him impeached because then his hundreds of executive orders should be invalid, and hopefully some of his legislation would also be invalid (not sure about that). But Congress is NOT, as usual, going to do the right thing. Doing the right thing would set a precedent, and apparently they see that as a bad thing.

Something that does NOT rely on the US Congress doing anything is this: If he ever leaves office, I hope and would love to trust there will be a prosecutor who will try him for treason, get a sane jury, and send him to Leavenworth! That's where he belongs.

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May 19, 2013 09:47:26   #
CrazyHorse Loc: Kansas
 
Tasine wrote:
I think Obama should be impeached because it would then be on the record. The Senate's response would also be on the record. I want him impeached because then his hundreds of executive orders should be invalid, and hopefully some of his legislation would also be invalid (not sure about that). But Congress is NOT, as usual, going to do the right thing. Doing the right thing would set a precedent, and apparently they see that as a bad thing.

Something that does NOT rely on the US Congress doing anything is this: If he ever leaves office, I hope and would love to trust there will be a prosecutor who will try him for treason, get a sane jury, and send him to Leavenworth! That's where he belongs.
I think Obama should be impeached because it would... (show quote)


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May 19, 2013 11:20:50   #
zonkedout1 Loc: Wyoming
 
Your Ted Cruz quote is factually inaccurate. What he could have said, is that this is the first president to overtly abuse IRS authority. But abuses are part of the Nixon impeachment hearings. Those are on record. Murmurings of LBJ's abuses abound. Clinton, manifestly targeted individual enemies. Never has the IRS been used as an obstruction against the formation of tax exempt education groups.

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May 19, 2013 11:50:49   #
CrazyHorse Loc: Kansas
 
zonkedout1 wrote:
Your Ted Cruz quote is factually inaccurate. What he could have said, is that this is the first president to overtly abuse IRS authority. But abuses are part of the Nixon impeachment hearings. Those are on record. Murmurings of LBJ's abuses abound. Clinton, manifestly targeted individual enemies. Never has the IRS been used as an obstruction against the formation of tax exempt education groups.


Quid Pro Quo, zonkedout1: I'm sorry, but you must not have been monitoring even the socialistream news lately. Your statement: "Never has the IRS been used as an obstruction against the formation of tax exempt education groups." , is inaccurate. Conservative groups with names sounding conservative and Tea Party patriots groups were delayed many months from obtaining tax exempt status so that they could accomplish receiving more contributions from folks willing to contribute more money if they could deduct it from their tax returns. Moreover, it has been reported that liberal groups and groups with liberal sounding names got their requests granted many within two to three weeks. Those facts pard constitute evidence of obstruction and bias selection by the IRS without doubt, and in my opinion such evidence is sufficient to support a legal judicial opinion of IRS obstruction. Your comment makes me suspect you may be connected to the IRS is some fashion and bias, or otherwise I just have to pass it off as another drivel from a liberal.

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May 19, 2013 13:21:48   #
oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)
 
LAwrence wrote:
It was An
drew Johnson. He was not convicted either.
I would hope the congress will impeach him but I won't hold my breath.


You are right about it being Andrew Johnson and the impeachment came from the serious Republicans in the House for him not wanting to punish the South more than they wanted to do. I am sure they would have had to do the same against Lincoln since he didn't want to do it either.

Crazy Horse will be glad to know that the Senate was just one vote from removing Johnson and a really rabid Senator from Kansas failed to vote for removal so he stayed.

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May 19, 2013 13:29:21   #
oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)
 
CrazyHorse wrote:
Quid Pro Quo, oldroy and LAwrence: The House votes Articles of Impeachment and the Senate conducts the trial. The basis for Impeachment is alleged violations of the Constitution or other "high crimes or misdemeanors". I agree with oldroy's thought process, but if you ponder it some, and I have, how is it do you believe Senate dims would vote just prior to their re-election, for or against Impeachment, if they where in a red state that voted against Obama? We only need 5 Senate seats to change in republican favor in order to take back the Senate. I think maybe we should do the impeachment that is well deserved and require the Senate dims up for reelection to go on record with their support of Obama's corruptness and unconstitutional acts, and face their elections in that posture, or vote for impeachment. I think it takes only a majority vote in the Senate to remove him from office. The House votes impeachment. The Senate tries the case and can remore the president from office. Even if Obama is impeached, but not removed from office, it would sure slow down his attempt to destroy our country. And, he could join Bill Clinton with the status of being an impeached president. A long time ago I think maybe there was another president that was impeached, Andrew Jackson maybe, I don't remember.
Quid Pro Quo, oldroy and LAwrence: The House vote... (show quote)


Your bolded part is not correct in that Article I, Section 3, Clause 6 says that it shall take a 2/3 vote to remove an impeached person. This part makes what you say about forcing those fools to vote yes or no before the election would hurt them in their attempted re-election attempts. It was that 2/3 number that kept Clinton from being removed since enough Republicans were just as afraid of what may happen.

I think there have been maybe 4 federal judges removed through impeachment so it is always a threat but not often carried through.

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May 19, 2013 13:46:36   #
zonkedout1 Loc: Wyoming
 
CrazyHorse wrote:
Quid Pro Quo, zonkedout1: I'm sorry, but you must not have been monitoring even the socialistream news lately. Your statement: "Never has the IRS been used as an obstruction against the formation of tax exempt education groups." , is inaccurate. Conservative groups with names sounding conservative and Tea Party patriots groups were delayed many months from obtaining tax exempt status so that they could accomplish receiving more contributions from folks willing to contribute more money if they could deduct it from their tax returns. Moreover, it has been reported that liberal groups and groups with liberal sounding names got their requests granted many within two to three weeks.
Quid Pro Quo, zonkedout1: I'm sorry, but you must... (show quote)


Okay, yes, I've been reading the news. I don't watch it. When, I say never, I should have said never before. Notice I said education, not patriotic groups. Sorry, I did mean 'never before' not never, and as for aspersions that I'm a liberal infiltrator into OPP, that's healthy paranoia, keep it up.

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May 19, 2013 15:23:39   #
CrazyHorse Loc: Kansas
 
oldroy wrote:
Your bolded part is not correct in that Article I, Section 3, Clause 6 says that it shall take a 2/3 vote to remove an impeached person. This part makes what you say about forcing those fools to vote yes or no before the election would hurt them in their attempted re-election attempts. It was that 2/3 number that kept Clinton from being removed since enough Republicans were just as afraid of what may happen.

I think there have been maybe 4 federal judges removed through impeachment so it is always a threat but not often carried through.
Your bolded part is not correct in that Article I,... (show quote)


Thanks for the correction. I should have looked it up, but didn't want to take the time. Thanks again.

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May 19, 2013 17:29:01   #
oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)
 
CrazyHorse wrote:
Thanks for the correction. I should have looked it up, but didn't want to take the time. Thanks again.


I seldom have to waste any time looking those things up but always do just to make sure. I have a copy of the book I taught high school kids about government from and also a copy of the Constitution. I can always just look where I know a part is without spending a lot of time. I have read that thing at least 25 times getting ready to teach the Constitution to those kids.

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