Republicans Floating Impeachment Is Helping Democrats Raise Money
The tactic has brought big dollars into Democrats’ coffers, and it has kept Republican aides and lawmakers busy as they keep swatting down the idea whenever it sprouts up.
“No, no, no, no,” National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Greg Walden (Ore.) said emphatically when asked about the possibility of impeachment hearings or proceedings in the House against Obama. “Democrats are the ones talking about it, and they’re trying to fundraise off it.”
Rep. Devin Nunes, a California Republican close to Boehner and incoming Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), said there are “very few” Republicans who want to “move to impeachment.”
But it’s the ever-growing crazy wing of the Republican Party that broached this in the first place, and the GOP should own its own responsibility for the “i” word rearing its ugly head.
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R.J. Carter July 29th, 2014 at 10:32
The overpass in my town had a crowd with one of those Impeach Obama banners and other signs the other day. They probably had about 80 to 100 people standing up there on both sides. Which is more than can be mustered for a march on Washington, these days.
Carla Akins July 29th, 2014 at 10:34
That is a lot of people for one of these.
R.J. Carter July 29th, 2014 at 10:46
That’s what I thought. Maybe instead of trying to get a million people in Washington, they ought to just concentrate on getting a few dozen people on every overpass local to them. They might get a better turnout. (Sort of a Hands Across America thing.) Not everybody can just take off for DC on a whim to hold a sign.
ChrisVosburg July 29th, 2014 at 12:30
RJ writes: Sort of a Hands Across America thing
Actually this is a thing already, although it’s called “Overpasses for America.” They’re mostly into calling for the impeachment of Obama, which means they’re made up of whole cloth by the White House, I guess, according to John Boehner, but they also dabble in migrant hating.
From a Right Wing Watch roundup of nativist crazy:
“Overpasses for America is a group led by activist James Neighbors that organizes demonstrations over highway overpasses to call for President Obama’s impeachment. The group went a step further this year when it backed Operation American Spring, an effort meant to flood Washington with protesters and force Obama out of office , which also came up slightly short of expectations.”
Yes, the Million Doughy Guy March came up “slightly short of expectations,” hee hee.
M D Reese July 29th, 2014 at 10:40
We had a rag tag band of about 30 ‘baggers for awhile who would stand on the corner and wave their signs. They’ve since gone back to what they really were–just a group of 12 or so pro-birth freaks.
R.J. Carter July 29th, 2014 at 10:32
The overpass in my town had a crowd with one of those Impeach Obama banners and other signs the other day. They probably had about 80 to 100 people standing up there on both sides. Which is more than can be mustered for a march on Washington, these days.
Carla Akins July 29th, 2014 at 10:34
That is a lot of people for one of these.
R.J. Carter July 29th, 2014 at 10:46
That’s what I thought. Maybe instead of trying to get a million people in Washington, they ought to just concentrate on getting a few dozen people on every overpass local to them. They might get a better turnout. (Sort of a Hands Across America thing.) Not everybody can just take off for DC on a whim to hold a sign.
ChrisVosburg July 29th, 2014 at 12:30
RJ writes: Sort of a Hands Across America thing
Actually this is a thing already, although it’s called “Overpasses for America.” They’re mostly into calling for the impeachment of Obama, which means they’re made up of whole cloth by the White House, I guess, according to John Boehner, but they also dabble in migrant hating.
From a Right Wing Watch roundup of nativist crazy:
“Overpasses for America is a group led by activist James Neighbors that organizes demonstrations over highway overpasses to call for President Obama’s impeachment. The group went a step further this year when it backed Operation American Spring, an effort meant to flood Washington with protesters and force Obama out of office , which also came up slightly short of expectations.”
Yes, the Million Doughy Guy March came up “slightly short of expectations,” hee hee.
M D Reese July 29th, 2014 at 10:40
We had a rag tag band of about 30 ‘baggers for awhile who would stand on the corner and wave their signs. They’ve since gone back to what they really were–just a group of 12 or so pro-birth freaks.
M D Reese July 29th, 2014 at 10:42
I love it–the GOP invites all the loonies into the bin, and then gets freaked out when they break everything. What’s that old saying about making your bed and lying in it? Or is it the one about having your cake and eating it?
ChrisVosburg July 29th, 2014 at 12:37
I’ve always liked “You’ve buttered your bread, now lie in it!” or, “You’ve made your bed, now eat it!”
M D Reese July 29th, 2014 at 16:16
Well butter my buns and call me a biscuit! My mom liked to call worthless people (see: Mitch McConnell) “bald-headed stumps”. I would love to know where that came from. (She was from Texas)
M D Reese July 29th, 2014 at 10:42
I love it–the GOP invites all the loonies into the bin, and then gets freaked out when they break everything. What’s that old saying about making your bed and lying in it? Or is it the one about having your cake and eating it?
ChrisVosburg July 29th, 2014 at 12:37
I’ve always liked “You’ve buttered your bread, now lie in it!” or, “You’ve made your bed, now eat it!”
M D Reese July 29th, 2014 at 16:16
Well butter my buns and call me a biscuit! My mom liked to call worthless people (see: Mitch McConnell) “bald-headed stumps”. I would love to know where that came from. (She was from Texas)
SkeeterVT August 7th, 2014 at 03:11
OF COURSE, the Republican leadership is getting increasingly scared at all the “impeach Obama!” talk, because they know full well that:
1) Getting the Democratic-controlled Senate to convict and remove Obama from office is an exercise in futility.
2) Impeaching the nation’s first black president by the almost all-white House Republican caucus will almost certainly be attacked as a racially-motivated “high-tech lynching,” as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas called his critics during his 1991 confirmation hearings — and further alienate non-white voters.
3) They will forever foreclose any chance of taking back the White House in 2016, by provoking Hillary Clinton to name Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren as her vice-presidential running mate as “anti-impeachment insurance.”
SkeeterVT August 7th, 2014 at 03:11
OF COURSE, the Republican leadership is getting increasingly scared at all the “impeach Obama!” talk, because they know full well that:
1) Getting the Democratic-controlled Senate to convict and remove Obama from office is an exercise in futility.
2) Impeaching the nation’s first black president by the almost all-white House Republican caucus will almost certainly be attacked as a racially-motivated “high-tech lynching,” as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas called his critics during his 1991 confirmation hearings — and further alienate non-white voters.
3) They will forever foreclose any chance of taking back the White House in 2016, by provoking Hillary Clinton to name Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren as her vice-presidential running mate as “anti-impeachment insurance.”