Funny how Conservative icon Ronald Reagan secretly traded arms (including TOW missiles) to the Iranian Guards, in return for hostages, and yet we didn’t see the Republicans wailing for impeachment! That was a much more serious story than this one.
(If your memory is short, go look at the Iran-Contra affair)
What sanctimonious, bloviating idiots these Republicans are.
That was some funny shit…
Everyone here should gib a kuk at that.
Well, if the GOP hacks say Obama broke the law, then that’s that. He totally broke the law.
I wonder what they would say if he launched an illegal war against a country, like say, Iraq?
I bet they’d be rushing to impeach that president.
Not going to happen. Republican House leaders aren’t going to take any action that would energize Democratic voters in a mid-term election.
He looks like someone nailed a dead cat to his head.
Isn’t this opening line to a fill in the blank statement?
Surprise, surprise, surprise. Not.
The president needs to do a press conference in the Rose Garden, surrounded by military men and women in which he gets mad as hell defending his decision. He needs to say that we don’t know the circumstances of Bergdahl’s capture but we’ve already launched an investigation and we’ll know more once we actually get to talk to him. He then needs to pivot to the callousness of suggesting we leave a soldier behind. He should get loud and angry telling them, “We NEVER leave a soldier behind no matter what we may THINK he may have done. We bring him home and we sort it out later, but we don’t abandon the men and women who serve our country, we don’t abandon our fellow Americans.” And then he should list all the times in the last 20 years or so that a president exchanged prisoners for POWs. He should end with something like, “Some Republicans are threatening to impeach me because I sought to bring home a captured American soldier. I will never apologize for protecting our troops, I will never apologize for saving the life of an American serviceman. If they want to impeach me, so be it.”
His approval rating would go up 5 points overnight. He has a real opportunity here to put Republicans back on their heels by appealing to the American people’s sense of decency. This is an issue on which he can win big if he gets mad and leans into it.
Let me take a fucking guess. If Bergdahl had died in Taliban hands, they’d be getting ready to impeach him for that.
Andrew McCarthy, who’s written an entire book that builds a case for impeachment against Obama
Oh - amazed he has not released an iPhone app - you know - enter the things that piss you off about Obama, the dates, and a few other factors & the presto, a fully synthesized fecal laden cased is spit out - ready for ranting.
If the Republicans proceed with this, it will just re-open all the sordid details of Reagan’s Iran-Contra prisoner exchange… which was done, of course, completely without Congressional notice.
I suppose this is just their way of dealing with the last Game of Thrones episode: “Hate Obama, guh guh guh”
Except for repealing Obamacare, it certainly could be.
One quick question: Since the war in Afghanistan is winding down, won’t the prisoners at Guantanamo be release pretty soon anyway?
Stalin kept German POW’s until 1956, eleven years after the war ended. I see the repukes leaning more toward his approach rather than FDR’s.
What he needs to do is step down.
No reason to fear, the GOP will continue to make complete fools of themselves over this. It is all they have. The backlash is coming and it will be ugly.
Since there is no statute of limitation on murder, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and a few others should be brought up on charges for murdering over 4,500 U.S. soldiers and millions of Iraqi’s shouldn’t they? Let’s have those trials first and see who goes down.
Normally, I would agree but this is going to be a base election in which both parties are fighting to turn out their people. Nothing on this planet would excite the Republican base more than the idea of getting rid of that terrible nigra in the WH. If the demand for impeachment on the right gets too loud they could risk suppressing a dejected base.
Bingo! We have a winner.