I recently wrote on the issue of impeachment that has been reportedly so widely in the media. As I noted in the column and in prior interviews, there is no serious move toward impeachment by the Republicans and most of the impeachment talk has come from the White House and Democrats, including in fund-raising campaigns. Indeed, I was critical of the Washington Post column after one of the hearings in which I testified on executive over-reach. While the issue of impeachment was mentioned only a handful of times and usually to dismiss it as an option, the column was entitled “Republicans see One Remedy for Obama — Impeachment.” It seems that even denying impeachment as an option still constitutes discussing impeachment. Now The Hill newspaper has looked at the congressional record to see who is raising impeachment more often. The result was that Democrats raised the issue 20 times more often than Republicans, who barely uttered the “I” word.
The Hill found just 4 references to impeachment on the House and Senate floors by Republicans while finding 86 such references by Democrats.
Of course, the issue remains a cash cow for Democrats with millions being raised to fight off impeachment when the money could be just as well spent on chupacabra repellant. As of yet, President Obama has not committed an impeachable act and Speaker Boehner has steadfastly ruled out such an effort in the House.
The top three House Democratic leaders — Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.) and Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn (S.C.) also have all been flogging the impeachment horse. The black caucus has also been active in raising the issue, including Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee who raised it 18 times. She is followed by Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson (six times), New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (nine times), CBC Chairwoman and Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge (once), California Rep. Barbara Lee (twice), New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne (once), North Carolina Rep. G.K. Butterfield (twice) and Maryland Rep. Donna Edwards (once). Other members discussing impeachment are Reps. Kurt Schrader (Ore.), Bill Pascrell (N.J.), Steven Horsford (Nev.), Luis Gutierrez (Ill.), Louise Slaughter (N.Y.), Jackie Speier (Calif.), Chris Van Hollen (Md.) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.), the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.
Source: The Hill
*There were quite a few*
SWM, I recognize the poster Anon’s tactics, but here were quit a few misogynists on Althouse, h could be any one of them. I doesn’t really matter who he is, he represents the low, mean and dirty commenters on the right on any rightist blog, I’ve seen his type many times in the past.
The last time (on another thread) that someone told another person that he was full of it, JT deleted the comment.
JT?
http://jonathanturley.org/2014/08/08/the-hill-democrats-have-raised-impeachment-some-20-times-more-often-than-republicans/#comment-1255483
Bullying and harassment, to be sure, if one reads all the comments.
Isolate the victim, one of the ways bullies do their thing. But guess what? I fight back.
Annie, that other anon said he posted on Althouse. He was here 2 or 3 years ago.
Annie, Actually, I thought there was an effort to stop white Irish guys from commenting.
What I see happening here on the Turley blog is a concerted effort to harass liberal women commenters. It’s become apparant that certain tactics are being used to isolate, demean and abuse female commenters to possibly get them to stop commenting here. It’s a tactic I’ve seen on other right leaning blogs such as Althouse, but it’s sad to see that it’s happening here in earnest also. What happened to this place?
Annie- now you are playing the victim? Poor Annie. Poor little you. Cannot stand up to those big, bad, libertarian bullies. Boy, now you are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Why do these blog comments always have to become personal?
If you want to ignore someone, just do so. There is no need to inform them. They will figure it out when you don’t respond. (And don’t think I’m just picking on Annie. She just happened to be the one that stated she was going to ignore different entities.) There’s just too much “I” and “you” going on. As JT requests on numerous occasions, please stop the tit-for-tat.
NEWSFLASH – ISIS HQ
“I say this to America, that the Islamic Caliphate has been established. And we will not stop. Don’t be cowards and attack us with drones. Instead send your soldiers, the ones we humiliated in Iraq. We will humiliate them everywhere, God willing, and we will raise the flag of Allah in the White House.“
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They did that in 2008 when the ineligible son of a foreign citizen was not denied by Speaker Pelosi and was illegally ensconced in the White House.
Barrack Hussein Obama.
The reason the requirement for president was increased from “citizen” to “natural born citizen” in the final constitutional draft was to preclude foreign allegiances (per the Washington/Jay letter) requiring two citizen-parents drawing from the definition in the Law of Nations, the contemporary legal reference, which the framers “pounced on” according to Franklin.
The flag of Allah is fundamentally transforming America.
Annie, there was an anon on here a while back that was very uncivil and attacked liberals especially women. Not sure if this is one and the same.
Anon – I am soooo hurt. I am on ignore by Annie. I may die. My world is crumbling around me. /sarc
Annie – you pretty much told anon he could not comment on your comments. You really are full of it lately. Not sure what it is, but you are full of it.
Anon, you’re on ignore too.
Annie-I don’t even know why I bother to engage you. You’e proven time and time again to be the master of changing the subject whenever JT posts an article that is critical of liberals. I’m sure you find the echo chamber, err, I mean “blog”, started by some former commenters, to be much more to your liking: no different points of view and everyone agreeing that Republicans and Conservatives are evil.
Paul, your ‘observations’ are yours. I get to tell you that what you said was offensive to me. Also, I don’t believe I indicated that one commenter couldn’t respond to a comment directed toward another commenter.
You’re back on ignore.
http://impeachobamaweek.net/
All 50 states and DC
Damn those Dems…
Perhaps the Democrats know more about raising money than do the Republicans. Republicans get money from the rich. So raising a rediculous issue first raised by a Republican make$ $enSe.
Anon, that’s quite uncivil, now it will be interesting to see if it gets deleted.
Annie – did you narc anon out?
Annie-God, you’re full of s__t.
Paul, my sex life is none of your concern and I find it offensive that you continue to ‘insert’ it into this conversation. I suggest you stop. It borders on harassment.