As a fundamentally racist institution ‘The Tea Party’ is fully conversant in the special language used to conceal their actual meaning.
In this case ‘National Impeach Obama Week’ can be freely translated as ‘Lynch This Uppity Negro Week’.
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Only Democrats are talking about impeachment…?
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Or as it’s better known “National We’ve Got Nothing Better To Do” week.
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That’s OK. I’m sticking with “fringe.”
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Gerald Ford said after the Nixon was forced to resign under threat of impeachment that an ‘impeachable offense’ is whatever the Congress will vote for at a given time…
He may have said that, but he was wrong. The US Constitution defines what constitutes an impeachable offense.
Of course that doesn’t matter to conservatives…they’re always wrong.
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I don’t think the Tea Party ever had an original idea, up to and including its name.
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Closeted moderate republicans must me so proud of what there gene pool has created. A monster that they refuse to attack for fear of becoming more insignificant than they already are.
Fun to watch, bad for country and the taxpayers money.
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The American Psychiatric Association needs to organize shock therapy week for the Tea Pity.
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I have, in fact, heard the question asked. And have wondered the same thing myself many times.
I have never heard an answer, even the typically incoherent answers that come from the tea party types.
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Only a few groups have endorsed the impeachment week so far, including the Tea Party Patriots of Brookhaven in New York and the Ventura County Tea Party in California.
That’s terrific Candi; even better, though, is “IRS questions Brookhaven and Ventura Tea Party groups regarding their 501©(4) status”.
That would drive the price of popcorn sky high.
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WATB…it’s the conservative way!
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Good catch!
It didn’t sound right, but nothing they say ever sounds right…err…correct.
It always sounds “right”.
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Can’t fix stupid and the tea party has the market cornered.
BIRTHERISM? Are ya freaking kidding me?
Ron White is a PROPHET I tell ya.
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The bed-wetters will never approve of a black man in the White House infinitely more powerful, more intelligent, and wealthier than they could ever dream. In their small minds, Barack Obama is the Negro who’s taken over the Plantation and all they can do about it is to try and bring down the government he runs. Good luck with that, dimwits.
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Wow. That’s quite a laundry list they got there.
Too bad none of stands up to even the most casual review.
And “bizarre and erratic behavior”? Really?
Projection…it’s the conservative way!
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Hell, they ever so stupidly co-opted “teabagger.”
That old marquee is looking dim.
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“Great Usurper”?! They’re beginning to sound like rhetoric from the Middle East…
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Expect another resounding victory like the Trucks All Over Washington spectacle.
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Actually, what Ford said (which is not quite what the Tea Party Lynch Mob says it was) was quite correct:
What, then, is an impeachable offense? The only honest answer is that an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history; conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body [the Senate] considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office.
The Constitution (Article II, Section 4) may define an impeachable offense as “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors”, but “other high crimes and misdemeanors” is so vague as to be meaningless. Is jaywalking a misdemeanor? Yes. Is it an impeachable offense? It is if a majority of the House of Representatives decides it is. Is the Senate likely to convict for jaywalking, even with prima facie evidence? No. It is very important to keep in mind that impeachment is not a legal process based on a hearing of the evidence, but a political one based on the political will of the majority.
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“Gerald Ford said Nixon was forced to resign under threat of impeachment”?
Nixon resigned because he knew, what was on those 18 minutes…and so did Rose Mary Woods!!
He knew he was clear of everything, if the world would have forgotten about the tape…and when it became public knowledge? Dick Nixon’s choice was clear.
Threat of Impeachment doesn’t mean anything, to any Politico…it’s just how they decide to play the game.
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