Here is a measure of both this movement’s effectiveness and Barack Obama’s stark, brazen criminality: Even the RINOs are talking impeachment.
In Rochester, New Hampshire, on Monday morning, former Utah governor and Obama’s one-time ambassador to China Jon Huntsman told a citizen that Obama’s war in Libya may be an impeachable offense. ABC News posted the following transcript of the exchange between Huntsman and the “voter”:
Voter: You mentioned Libya, and you mentioned the Constitution a couple of times. The president has decided to make Congress irrelevant, go around Congress, not — not go to Congress and ask for whether permission to go to war for — with, with Libya. He takes, what he thought, a UN resolution as his mandate to be able to go to war in Libya, do you think that’s unconstitutional in what he’s doing in Libya right now?
Huntsman: Well, last I looked the UN was not our Constitution. We ought to recognize who’s responsible for declaring war and giving the approval for these kinds of things, and get back to the basics of who should be driving these decisions.
Voter: What should Congress be doing in the fact that he went around Congress and he’s, he’s not abiding to the War Powers Act?
Huntsman: I think, I think Congress is, is in a mild uproar about it.
Voter: It’s very mild.
Huntsman: I have a fundamental problem, generally, I mean beyond this decision, just with the decision that has been made to get involved, in Libya, in a tribal country, when we have no definable interest at stake, we have no exit strategy. Look in Afghanistan, you want to get involved in tribal government? How hard it is to extricate yourself once you’ve gotten involved? Let history be your guide. Thank you.
Voter: Do you think it’s impeachable?
Huntsman: I’ll let Congress make that decision.
The mainstream media, flexing its sagging muscles, tried to turn Huntsman’s words into a bigger scandal than the president’s unconstitutional war itself. To his credit, when pushed for a clarification, Huntsman replied, “Congress should do whatever Congress chooses to do.”
As proof of Republican “extremism,” that is pretty weak stuff. Uber-Democrat Jerrold Nadler has compared Obama to a king, a dictator, and “an absolute monarch” precisely over launching an unauthorized war — not in a barbecue pit in someone’s backyard but from the floor of the House. But the media have a love affair with Huntsman, the liberal Republican who supports homosexual civil unions and the debt deal. In their skewed world, Huntsman is John McCain-lite, the “straight-talking” candidate who tells the GOP base what it does not want to hear. To media talking heads, this is a dog whistle that, if “even” Huntsman refuses to “rule out” impeachment, then far-Right Tea Party “insanity” must have infected the entire party.
Thus, the media quoted Democratic operative Ty Matsdorf, who fumed “it’s sad to see Jon Huntsman abandon his convictions for a chance to appease the rabid right-wing base by refusing to rule out impeachment.”
Of course, as a private citizen, Huntsman is not in any position to “rule out” anything. As he properly noted, that is Congress’ job. Yet this tempest-in-a-teapot is a triumph for Matsdorf’s employer, American Bridge 21st Century, which ABC News describes as a “Super PAC,” and which captured the “damning” video. This anonymously funded 501(c)(4) opposition group was founded by Media Matters head David Brock, a major recipient of George Soros’ money. The secretive group has raised a paltry $1.5 million in the first half of this year. However, it has attracted a number of top-level Democratic Party operatives, including Rodell Mollineau, Staff Director of the Senate Democratic Communications Center; Shauna Daly, former research director at the Democratic National Committee; and Susan McCue, Harry Reid’s chief of staff.
If the group has its way, it will have many more videos of this kind. The New York Times reported earlier this month it has hired at least 12 full-time “trackers,” employees with video cameras tasked with stalking and recording every statement Republican candidates make in hopes of finding a word or phrase they can twist to Obama’s advantage.
As a foreign policy statement, Huntsman’s words are not particularly surprising. Like Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann, Huntsman opposed the Libyan war from the beginning, and in May Huntsman said, “We probably don’t need to be in certain parts of the Middle East where there are domestic revolutions playing out, where we probably just ought to let them play out.” The real story is that Obama has so overstretched his constitutional powers in Libya that even a Republican willing to serve in his administration cannot defend him.
Instead, the media present this as a case of Republican “extremism,” using as proof a piece of video that records a non-committal answer from an irrelevant candidate.
This, America Bridge hopes, will make the contributors shell out the big bucks. Step right up, folks!
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I agree. Obama thinks that he is all supreme. he is a real dictator. He obeys no laws what-sp-ever. he believes he is above the law.
Meanwhile 1200+ women, children elderly and civilians have died by NATO/AMerican bombings of Libya; uncountable have been seriously wounded for life. Billions of dollars of infrastructure totally destroyed. Libya’s water supply was destroyed, then NATO bombed the tubes factory which makes the pipes to repair it.
Precision targeting! Like that precision bombing of the private household which murdered Colonel Gaddafi’s son and grandchildren – babies; and the Hamedi Family estate in Sorman (19 dead) (then killing Khaled himself in Tripoli)! And what of bombing
food-stuffs, agricultural areas for the production of food-stuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies and irrigation works, for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse Party, whatever the motive, whether in order to starve out civilians, to cause them to move away, or for any other motive. NATO attacked the facilities of the Broadcasting Department of Libya during the early hours of this morning. Three of their civilian technicians were killed and 15 injured while performing their professional duty as Libyan journalists.
Hundreds of thousands have been displaced (many forign workers from as far as Asia came to work in Libya’s factories and industries)—all now without jobs, homeless.
QUOTE FROM TIMOTHY BANCROFT-HICHLEY: “Benghazi is a bloodbath, not because the Libyan Armed Forces are committing massacres, but because according to eye witnesses, NATO helicopters spent Sunday afternoon machine-gunning civilians (pending confirmation) and NATO-backed mercenaries slaughtered women and children of the Warfalla tribe who entered Benghazi to help free their brothers from this terrorist scourge. The latest reports are that Benghazi has fallen and has been liberated by Libyan Armed Forces.
The mercenaries, it now transpires, are backed by NATO and the terrorists NATO supports.”
15 of those Amer/Euro/Austrailan mercenary INSTRUCTORS which were captured, are being held by Obeidi Tribesmen. The tribes are not asking for booty, but rather LIFE! They are demanding that NATO ceasefire totally. That is the only way these European, Australian and American instructors will return home safely.
Without the USA, NATO is dead. The commander of NATO is American as is 88% of NATO funds….and Americans are still flying sorties…and there ARE American boots on Libyan ground.
OBAMA is on this matter alone, in clear vilation of every law imposed on the American Presidency. Not only has he ensurped bothe the LEGILATIVE and JUDICIAL branches of the U.S. FEDERAL Government (CONSTITUTION); but he has also ignored International Law as well. He tried to pass his War Powers Act; but had instituted grave breaches of the
Bill of Rights in America–by continuance of the Patriotic Act /Office of Homeland Seurity and the TSA!—
As “BARRY SANTORO”, Obama stole Education funds. He has continously lied to defend his murderous and assassinating actions and policies.
Then he had the nerve to enter into a conflict against the democratic sovereign State of the Libyan JAMAHIRIYA !
I need not go further….
OBAMA must be impeached.
Sincerely:
Christella Bernardene Krebs
You can’t impeach a fraudulent POTUS. You must indict and incarcerate. Put him in prison for treason. Hell, the Feds questioned his citizen status when he was 5 years old. What changed? Did someone get paid off?
I put this comment on Expose Obama’s
thread about Obama…favoring Ramadan
over Easter.
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Would the authors on Expose Obama please refrain from
referring to this fool Muslim/Marxist/Impostor/ Pretender -to
-the-throne as “PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES”?????
Don’t you get it? He is a fraud and a criminal. His latest
attempt at revealing a ‘birth certificate’ was a huge
joke.. all experts are agreed.. it was a poorly done
fraudulent document.
Don’t you get it? He is a criminal with a depraved
history the like of which is insanely displayed in
every move and every action he takes against
not only America but other countries, such as Israel.
Don’t you get it? He is from the depths of Hell.
And that is where he will end up when Judgment Day
comes.
Never has a man been so hated and despised
in the history of American politics.
Never has there been so much concentrated
corruption as now exists in our branches of
government, Congress, and the Supreme Court.
This country is heading for the fate of Rome.
Alas, Babylon has fallen.
And if you are a person who cannot see these
underhanded motives and undermining
actions .. then you are blind, deaf, and dumb.
That or entirely uneducated and cannot see
the writing on the wall.. much less read what it
means to you and me and the rest of the world.
Obama is a traitor, a crook, and a liar.
Impeachment, in any normal century,
would have happened months and months ago.
However, this world has so many apathetic and
backwoods-educated citizens, illegals, muslim
influx, that it cannot rise above its ignorance
and take this fool out to the gallows and hang him
for treason.
When will the people become aware of what they
have spawned? When it is too late.. and we are
at that timeline now.