Discussion: Krauthammer: Obama's 'Amnesty' Is An 'Impeachable Offense'

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"While Krauthammer chalked the executive order up to an
“impeachable offense,” last summer he suggested that if the GOP would be
walking straight into a trap set by the Democrats if they actually
pursued impeachment. "

A Flop,Flop eh ?

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Bring it on.

Teatroll Rosetta Stone says: “Governing while not a Republican is an impeachable offense.”

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Sounds like a plan to me.

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Telling the Fox Viewers what they want to hear.

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FYI,if you care to read:

"Political philosophy
Krauthammer has been called a conservative;.[35][36] Krauthammer is a supporter of legalized abortion;[37][38][39] an opponent of the death penalty;[40][41][42][43] an intelligent design critic and an advocate for the scientific consensus on evolution, calling the religion-science controversy a “false conflict;”[44][45] a supporter of embryonic stem cell research using embryos discarded by fertility clinics with restrictions in its applications;[46][47][48] and a longtime advocate of radically higher energy taxes to induce conservation.[49][50][51][52] Meg Greenfield, editorial page editor for The Washington Post
who edited Krauthammer’s columns for 15 years, called his weekly column
“independent and hard to peg politically. It’s a very tough column.
There’s no ‘trendy’ in it. You never know what is going to happen next.”[3]
Hendrik Hertzberg, a former colleague of Krauthammer’s at The New Republic during the 1980s, said that when the two first met in 1978, Krauthammer was “70 per cent Mondale liberal, 30 per cent ‘Scoop Jackson
Democrat,’ that is, hard-line on Israel and relations with the Soviet
Union;” while in the mid-1980s, he was still “50-50: fairly liberal on
economic and social questions but a full-bore foreign-policy
neoconservative.” Hertzberg now calls Krauthammer a “pretty solid 90-10
Republican.”[53]
Krauthammer’s major monograph on foreign policy, “Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World,”[25]
is critical both of the neoconservative Bush doctrine for being too
expansive and utopian, and of foreign policy “realism” for being too
narrow and immoral; instead, he proposes an alternative he calls
“Democratic Realism.” In a 2005 speech (later published in Commentary Magazine)
he called neoconservatism “a governing ideology whose time has come.”
He noted that the original “fathers of neoconservatism” were “former
liberals or leftists”. More recently, they have been joined by
“realists, newly mugged by reality,” such as Condoleezza Rice, Richard Cheney, and George W. Bush,
who “have given weight to neoconservatism, making it more diverse and,
given the newcomers’ past experience, more mature.” In “Charlie Gibson’s
Gaffe” in The Washington Post, September 13, 2008, Krauthammer elaborated on the changing meanings of the Bush Doctrine in light of Gibson’s controversial questioning of Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin
regarding what exactly the Bush Doctrine was, as if there was a single
definition. Palin was criticized for her response. Krauthammer states in
the article that “The Bush Doctrine” has had “four distinct meanings,
each one succeeding another over the eight years of” the Bush
Administration. Krauthammer states that the phrase “Bush Doctrine”
originally referred to “the unilateralism that characterized the
pre-9/11 first year of the Bush administration.” He states that “There
is no single meaning of the Bush Doctrine. He also states “the fourth
and current definition of the Bush doctrine, the most sweeping
formulation of the Bush approach to foreign policy and the one that most
clearly and distinctively defines the Bush years: the idea that the
fundamental mission of American foreign policy is to spread democracy
throughout the world.”[54]”

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Boy the rwnj are beating that drum and no one from the “librul” media is talking about how few executive orders Obama has written and how many GWB signed.

I hate the fucking media. I hate them worse than the repukes. I expect crap from them but I do expect the media, even as bad as it is to tell the fucking truth.

This is within his legal power. What overreach???

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"I expect crap from them "= The results of the 2014 mid term elections showed what the MSM can help do.IMHO.

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Let me see if I have the rules down. . .

Impeachable offenses

  • Blowjob from a consenting adult
  • Affordable health insurance
  • Immigration reform

Non-Impeachable offenses

  • Failing to stop the most devastating terrorist attack in American history, resulting in the deaths of 3,000 people.
  • Lying the country into a reckless war, killing 5,000 more with tens of thousands wounded and perhaps 100,000 innocent Iraqis killed.
  • Sitting on your ass while a major American city was under water. 2,000 dead.
  • Tanking the entire world economy, resulting in a 5,000-point drop in the Dow Jones, eight million jobs lost, and one-third of the country’s net worth destroyed.

Got it.

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“Well, I’m not a constitutional lawyer, but let me tell you my legal opinion that should binding upon anyone listening.”

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Please proceed, Republicans.

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Yes, that’s about right. I’d like to put this on my unread blog, if you don’t mind.

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Fizz, Fizz

is about all they’ve got…

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Too bad treason isn’t a death penalty offense. Oh, wait . . .

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Chuck, so when Reagan granted amnesty to 250000 undocumented immigrants by executive action how come he wasn’t impeached? Just askin

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Fair notice I have stolen this comment for use almost everywhere! I will of course give attribution.

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More evidence that the media loves to chase and give headlines to idiots.

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“perceived lawlessness” isn’t grounds. The grounds are “high crimes and misdemeanors”.

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Krauthammer stands for nothing!

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OK now that I have read it . . . What’ your point?

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