CharlesRabb

According to a report Friday in Reuters, Dan Pfeiffer, a leading adviser for Barack Obama, is saying that what the president is planning to do on immigration will make Republicans in Congress unhappy. Very unhappy.

The comments came at a breakfast organized by the Christian Science Monitor.

“The president acting on immigration reform will certainly up the likelihood that they would contemplate impeachment,” the report quoted Pfeiffer saying. He noted it would be “foolish” to overlook the possibility.

Pfeiffer said he can see Republicans moving toward impeachment, according to the report, “in retaliation for the immigration orders he is expected to unveil by the end of the summer.”

Pfeiffer’s remarks came a day after a House panel took the first step in filing a lawsuit against Obama over his use of executive power, clearing the way for the full House of Representatives, which will likely v**e on the measure before heading out of town next week for summer recess.

The House Rules Committee v**ed 7-4 Thursday along party lines to authorize the lawsuit – specifically over Obama using the power of the pen to delay the employer mandate of his Affordable Care Act.

Obama already arbitrarily has changed U.S. immigration policy several times, making changes to the deportation practices and the way i*****l a***ns are handled. There have been recent reports that he’s thinking about making i*****l a***ns “refugees.”

He also has set up meetings with the presidents of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador on the flood in recent months where tens of thousands of i*****l a***n children have been sent to the U.S. border from those countries, apparently because of Obama’s Deferred Action for Alien Children executive order.

Central Americans apparently have gotten the message that if children reach the U.S., they will be given housing, food, clothing, medical and even legal assistance.

The comments came just as a new poll revealed that nearly half of Americans believe that Barack Obama has “gone too far” in expanding his power and many of those – or one-third of all v**ers – believe he “should be impeached and removed from office.”

Those results are from a new CNN/ORC Poll, which interviewed 1,012 adult Americans July 18-20 for the survey. The margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points.

The results revealed that 45 percent of all respondents said Obama has gone too far, and 33 percent said he should be impeached. Very few people were unaware of Obama’s controversies and scandals, with only one percent responding with no opinion.

Sixty-five percent said they do not feel Obama should be impeached.

At the same time, 41 percent said Republicans in the U.S. House should go to court against Obama – while 57 percent said to deal with it another way. The poll showed that nearly one in five v**ers believes Congress should begin impeachment proceedings “in order to express dissatisfaction with his policies ro the way the president is handling his job.”

The rest believe impeachment is there for “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”

Even 13 percent of Democrats, and 17 percent of those self-identifying as liberal believe Obama has gone too far, while half of independents and 80 percent of Republicans are of that opinion.

On impeachment, it was 13 percent of Democrats, about one in seven, who believe Obama should be brought up on charges by Congress. It was the same percentage for liberals, while 35 percent of independents and 57 percent of Republicans agreed.

Reporting on its own poll, CNN cast the issue as a negative.

“There’s not a lot of public appetite for a Republican push to sue President Barack Obama, or for calls by some conservatives to impeach him,” wrote Political Editor Paul Steinhauser.

He also wrote “a small majority of Americans do not believe that Obama has gone too far in expanding the powers of the presidency.”

CNN also promoted another poll that said, “Obama’s numbers not great but holding steady.”

At Politico, Jonathan Topaz jumped straight to the bottom line, writing, “One third of Americans think President Barack Obama should be impeached, a new poll says.”

He continued, “A plurality of Americans – 45 percent – believe Obama has gone too far in expanding his p**********l powers. Thirty percent said the president has been about right in terms of p**********l powers, while 22 percent he has not gone far enough.”

Just a few weeks ago, another poll, from YouGov and the Huffington Post, said it was more than a third of all Americans “and two-thirds of Republicans” who say “Congress would be justified in bringing impeachment proceedings against President Obama.”

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And Joe Miller, a potential GOP candidate in Alaska to unseat Sen. Mark Begich, a Democrat, endorses the idea of impeachment.

According to a Huffington Post report on his campaign, Miller said, “Sarah Palin is right; it’s time to impeach this president for dereliction of duty, selectively enforcing the law, and usurping powers that the Constitution does not authorize. He is willfully undermining the rule of law and creating chaos.”

The idea has been gaining traction across America. For example, the South Dakota Republican Party passed a resolution at its state convention calling for Obama’s impeachment.

The resolution says Obama has violated his oath of office, citing the release of five Taliban combatants in a trade for captive U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl and the president’s statement that people could keep their health insurance companies. It also cites recent Environmental Protection Agency regulations on power plants.

And talk radio industry star Dr. Savage recently said, “I believe we should impeach Obama. It doesn’t matter whether Harry Reid lets a motion to impeach go forward or not. Merely bringing the charge of impeachment will slow down if not stop Obama’s agenda entirely.”

The comments come from Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., in an interview with radio host Gary Sutton.

“We have a president who has taken this to a new level. And it’s put us in a real … position where he’s just absolutely ignoring the Constitution, ignoring the laws, ignoring the checks and balances,” he said.

“The problem is, what do you do? … For those who say impeach him for breaking the laws or not enforcing the laws, you know. Could that pass, in the House? It probably, it probably could. Are the majority of American people in favor of impeaching President Obama? I’m not sure,” he said.

He cited the recent primary e******n loss for House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va.

“I think what happened in Virginia is what you’re going to start seeing around the country. … They’re going to look at their specific member of Congress and their own U.S. senator. If they don’t feel you’re standing up for them, they’re going to throw you out and they’re going to send somebody else there.”

He said there never before has been a primary e******n defeat for a House majority leader.

“There’s a big message here,” he said. “People in Washington better pay close attention.”

The fact that Washington has serious problems was confirmed by Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer.

Referencing the White House claim that IRS emails sought by investigators looking into harassment of tea party and conservatives were “lost,” he said, “These guys are living on a different planet.”

He said computer experts said they are retrievable, but the Obama administration doesn’t want people to see them.

“Nixon lost 18 minutes. Obama now has lost two years of email,” he said. “One thing that people don’t remember, the second article of impeachment for Richard Nixon was the abuse of the IRS to pursue political enemies. This is a high crime. This is not a triviality.”
The idea recently was broached in response to Obama’s exchange of five Taliban leaders for an Army soldier who has been accused by his former colleagues of desertion.

Former Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., said, “I call upon the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives; Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to draft articles of impeachment.”

Andrew Napolitano supported West’s opinion.

“We have a federal statute which makes it a felony to provide material assistance to any terrorist organization. It could be money, maps, professional services, any asset whatsoever, include human assets,” he said.

Former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., wrote recently that impeachment is a valid response to Obama’s B******i scandal.

“But White House lies about B******i are only the tip of what is really a very large impeachment iceberg,” he wrote in a commentary on WND. “We will hear many pundits say that wh**ever the t***h of what happened in B******i, it’s ‘only politics’ to lie about foreign events during an e******n campaign, and so, it’s not a scandal on the scale of Watergate. That argument misses the point that what B******i and Watergate have in common: What brought Nixon down was not the crime but the cover-up. And when it comes to cover-ups, Obama and his team make Nixon look like a rank amateur.”

He continued: “There is a pattern here of abuse of power through the deliberate disregard of constitutional norms and standards. And what makes that pattern so egregious and dangerous is the participation of a partisan media that actively supports and condones the ongoing cover-ups of Obama’s arrogant disregard of the Constitution.”

U.S. Senate candidate Mark Callahan, who recently called out a reporter who apparently was disrespectful to another candidate, according to Now Renew America, has signed a “Pledge to Impeach. It calls for members of Congress to agree to “acknowledge that my sworn oath of office, if I am elected, will require me” to “support the initiation of House impeachment proceedings against President Barack Hussein Obama, and his inner circle.”

It was Washington Post commentator Paul Waldman who reported the impeachment drive has gone mainstream.

“Now we have the B******i select committee, and a select committee is what you form when there may be crimes and misdemeanors to uncover,” he pointed out.

“It has no other business to distract it, and it will be led by Trey Gowdy, a former prosecutor who excels at channeling conservatives’ outrage,” Waldman wrote. “To be clear, this doesn’t mean that [House Speaker John] Boehner or the party establishment he represents want impeachment, not by any means. They realize what a political disaster it was when they did it in 1998, and they understand that the effects would likely be similar if it happened again.”

But Waldman wrote that “there are multiple Republican members of Congress who have at least toyed with the idea, and the committee’s hearings could build pressure in the Republican base for it.”

Among the people who have raised the prospect of impeachment are Watergate reporter Bob Woodard, actor Steven Seagal, Ambassador Alan Keyes, Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin and Oliver North, the former Marine Corps lieutenant colonel first known for his testimony as a National Security Council staff member under President Reagan.

“Tragically, this administration has gotten away with things that any other president would have been impeached for,” North said. “There’s no doubt in my mind.”

Seagal, whose dozens of films feature action and violence but also have an underlying theme of seeking justice, said Obama would be impeached if the t***h about the B******i attack was revealed.

His charge came Feb. 22 in an appearance at the Western Conservative Conference in Phoenix

“Never in my life did I ever believe that our country would be taken over by people like the people who are running it this day,” said Seagal.

“I think that when we have a leadership that thinks the Constitution of the United States of America is a joke, when we have a president who has almost 1,000 executive orders now, when we have a Department of Justice that thinks that any kind of a judicial system that they make up as they are going along can get by with wh**ever they decide that they want to do – like Ted Nugent said the Fast and the Furious, what’s happening with the Fast and the Furious? What’s happened with the t***h about any of the greatest scandals of American history that have happened right before our eyes?” Seagal said.

“If the t***h about B******i were to come out now, I don’t think that this man would make it through his term. I think he would be impeached,” he said.

Seagal has company in his worries.

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As WND reported, Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely said it’s time for millions of Americans to “stand up” to a federal government that is “conducting treason … violating the Constitution, violating our laws.”

He’s calling for marches, a legislative v**e of “no confidence” in President Obama and congressional leaders, even citizen arrests, drawing inspiration from the 33 million Egyptians who stood up to their government and removed Muslim Brotherhood officials from office.

The impeachment drive has been fueled by Georgetown professor Jonathan Turley’s congressional testimony.

The liberal professor has represented members of Congress in a lawsuit over the Libyan war, represented workers at the secret Area 51 military base and served as counsel on national security cases. He now says Obama is a danger to the U.S. Constitution.

He was addressing a House Judiciary Committee hearing Dec. 4. Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., asked him: “Professor Turley, the Constitution, the system of separated powers is not simply about stopping one branch of government from usurping another. It’s about protecting the liberty of Americans from the dangers of concentrated government power. How does the president’s unilateral modification of act[s] of Congress affect both the balance of power between the political branches and the liberty interests of the American people?”

Turley replied: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The danger is quite severe. The problem with what the president is doing is that he’s not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system. He’s becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid. That is the concentration of power.”

Congress already is addressing charges that Obama is violating the Constitution.