*Subject:* Case for Impeachment of Obama from the Washington Times.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/22/the-case-for-impeachment-142967590/ President's socialist takeover must be stopped By Jeffrey T. Kuhner<http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/jeffrey-t-kuhner/> 5:58 p.m., Thursday, July 22, 2010 [image: Mugshot]President Barack Obama arrives in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 9, 2010, to speak about the retirement of Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens and the West Virginia mine tragedy. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) - Print<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/22/the-case-for-impeachment-142967590/print/> - Email <http://www.washingtontimes.com/mail-a-friend/369/6121/> - View 64Comment(s)<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/22/the-case-for-impeachment-142967590/comments/> - Enlarge Text|Shrink - Click-2-Listen Social Networks [image: facebook]Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10284859404> [image: twitter]Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/washtimes/> Question of the Day Will the Democrats' edge in fundraising totals hinder Republicans in this fall's elections?<http://www.washingtontimes.com/polls/2010/jul/democrat-edge-fundraising-republican-fall-election/> - Yes - No - Undecided - Other Login to Vote <http://www.washingtontimes.com/accounts/login/?next=> View results<http://www.washingtontimes.com/polls/2010/jul/democrat-edge-fundraising-republican-fall-election/results/> President Obama has engaged in numerous high crimes and misdemeanors. The Democratic majority in Congress is in peril as Americans reject his agenda. Yet more must be done: Mr. Obama should be impeached. He is slowly - piece by painful piece - erecting a socialist dictatorship. We are not there - yet. But he is putting America on that dangerous path. He is undermining our constitutional system of checks and balances; subverting democratic procedures and the rule of law; presiding over a corrupt, gangster regime; and assaulting the very pillars of traditional capitalism. Like Venezuela's leftist strongman, Hugo Chavez, Mr. Obama is bent on imposing a revolution from above - one that is polarizing America along racial, political and ideological lines. Mr. Obama is the most divisive president since Richard Nixon. His policies are Balkanizing the country. It's time for him to go. He has abused his office and violated his oath to uphold the Constitution. His health care overhaul was rammed through Congress. It was - and remains - opposed by a majority of the people. It could only be passed through bribery and political intimidation. The Louisiana Purchase, the Cornhusker Kickback, the $5 billion Medicaid set-aside for Florida Sen. Bill Nelson - taxpayer money was used as a virtual slush fund to buy swing votes. Moreover, the law is blatantly unconstitutional: The federal government does not have the right to coerce every citizen to purchase a good or service. This is not in the Constitution, and it represents an unprecedented expansion of power. Yet Obamacare's most pernicious aspect is its federal funding of abortion. Pro-lifers are now compelled to have their tax dollars used to subsidize insurance plans that allow for the murder of unborn children. This is more than state-sanctioned infanticide. It violates the conscience rights of religious citizens. Traditionalists - evangelicals, Catholics, Baptists, Muslims, Orthodox Jews - have been made complicit in an abomination that goes against their deepest religious values. As the law is implemented (as in Pennsylvania) the consequences of the abortion provisions will become increasingly apparent. The result will be a cultural civil war. Pro-lifers will become deeply alienated from society; among many, a secession of the heart is taking place. Mr. Obama is waging a frontal assault on property rights. The BP oil spill is a case in point. BP clearly is responsible for the spill and its massive economic and environmental damage to the Gulf. There is a legal process for claims to be adjudicated, but Mr. Obama has behaved more like Mr. Chavez or Russia's Vladimir Putin: He has bullied BP into setting up a $20 billion compensation fund administered by an Obama appointee. In other words, the assets of a private company are to be raided to serve a political agenda. Billions will be dispensed arbitrarily in compensation to oil-spill victims - much of it to Democratic constituents. This is cronyism and creeping authoritarianism. Mr. Obama's multicultural socialism seeks to eradicate traditional America. He has created a command-and-control health care system. He has essentially nationalized the big banks, the financial sector, the automakers and the student loan industry. He next wants to pass "cap-and-trade," which would bring industry and manufacturing under the heel of big government. The state is intervening in every aspect of American life - beyond its constitutionally delegated bounds. Under Mr. Obama, the Constitution has become a meaningless scrap of paper. To provide the shock troops for his socialist takeover, Mr. Obama calls for "comprehensive immigration reform" - granting amnesty to 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens. This would forge a permanent Democratic electoral majority. It would sound the death knell for our national sovereignty. Amnesty rewards lawlessness and criminal behavior; it signifies the surrender of our porous southern border to a massive illegal invasion. It means the death of American nationhood. We will no longer be a country, but the colony of a global socialist empire. Rather than defending our homeland, Mr. Obama's Justice Department has sued Arizona for its immigration law. He is siding with criminals against his fellow Americans. His actions desecrate his constitutional oath to protect U.S. citizens from enemies foreign and domestic. He is thus encouraging more illegal immigration as Washington refuses to protect our borders. Mr. Obama's decision on this case is treasonous. As president, he is supposed to respect the rule of law. Instead, his administration has dropped charges of voter intimidation against members of the New Black Panther Party. This was done even though their menacing behavior was caught on tape: men in military garb brandishing clubs and threatening whites at a polling site. A Justice Department lawyer intimately involved in the case, J. Christian Adams, resigned in protest. Mr. Adams says that under Mr. Obama, there is a new policy: Cases involving black defendants and white victims - no matter how much they cry for justice - are not to be prosecuted. This is more than institutionalized racism. It is an abrogation of civil rights laws. The Justice Department's behavior is illegal. It poses a direct threat to the integrity of our democracy and the sanctity of our electoral process. Corruption in the administration is rampant. Washington no longer has a government; rather, it has a gangster regime. The Chicago way has become the Washington way. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is a political hit man. He is an amoral, ruthless operator. It was Mr. Emanuel who reached out to Rep. Joe Sestak, Pennsylvania Democrat, offering a high-ranking job in the hopes of persuading Mr. Sestak to pull out of the primary against Sen. Arlen Specter. It was Mr. Emanuel who offered another government position to Andrew Romanoff to do the same in the Colorado Democratic Senate primary. And it was Mr. Emanuel - as the trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has revealed - who acted as the go-between to try to have Valerie Jarrett parachuted into Mr. Obama's former Senate seat. The only question was: What did Mr. Blagojevich want in exchange? This is not simply sleazy Chicago machine politics. It is the systematic breaking of the law - bribery, attempt to interfere (and manipulate) elections using taxpayer-funded jobs, influence peddling and abuse of power. The common misperception on the right is that Mr. Obama is another Jimmy Carter: an incompetent liberal whose presidency is being reduced to rubble under the onslaught of repeated failures. The very opposite, however, is true. He is the most consequential president in our lifetime, transforming America into something our Founding Fathers would find not only unrecognizable, but repugnant. Like all radical revolutionaries, he is consumed by the pursuit of power - attaining it, wielding it and maximizing it. Mr. Obama's fledgling thug state must be stopped. If Republicans win back Congress in November, they should - and likely will - launch formal investigations into this criminal, scandal-ridden administration. Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican and ranking member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has promised as much. Mr. Obama has betrayed the American people. Impeachment is the only answer. This usurper must fall. *Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a columnist at The Washington Times and president of the Edmund Burke Institute, a Washington think tank. He is the host of "The Kuhner Show" on WTNT 570-AM (www.talk570.com) from 5 to 7 p.m.* Comment: The question: "Is Obama a Socialist?" has been asked more and more frequently of late. Minimal vetting of Obama regarding his background and policies since his election irrefutably establishes that the man is substantially more than a simple Socialist. He is an extreme left-wing wanna-be Marxist Dictator in the mold of Hugo Chavez. Simply review the caste of hyper-radical Czars that Obama has inundated the WH with; his stated intention to form a brown-shirt Brigade: "Just as powerful and just as well funded as the U.S. military"; his systematic disregard and ridicule for the expressed will of the overwhelming majority of the American public; his insidious attempt to obviate the Electoral College process in order to enhance his re-election chances in 2012, and perhaps beyond; don't doubt that Obama's hoarding of a major segment of the approved 'Stimulus Funding' is solely for the purpose of underwriting his 2012 campaign; his oft expressed contempt for the U.S. Constitution, calling it "fundamentally flawed"; his blatant disregard, beyond tokenism, for the security on our Southern border; his determined endeavors to destroy America's energy sector; the progressive government takeover of broad sectors of the American economy, while insidiously leaving the malignant entities of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac unscathed so as to facilitate his objective of wealth re-distribution; his accumulative bankrupting of America, and the mortgaging of our children's future in order to formulate the crisis syndrome that sustains his ability to progressively cripple our free-enterprise capitalistic system, and to accelerate the descent into the financial abyss of Socialism; policies that make a double-dip recession a certainty; his repeated stoking of the embers of racism to divide the American people (ask Bill Clinton), and to deflect valid criticism of his abhorrent and destructive societal policies; racism that has been institutionalized by the Obama Justice Department; his recent derogatory comments about his opponents attending ribbon-cuttings which underscored the vicious, petulant, vindictive and petty true character of the man. This further display of immature conduct was notably beneath the dignity of the office that Obama occupies; and, further accentuates his lack of fitness for the presidency of the United States - our country - that he has so frequently demeaned in his commentary at home and abroad. Obama is an anomalous catastrophe that has befallen America; and, must be resoundingly rejected and corralled this November, until we can remove him in 2012. In brief, he is a real and present danger to America's economic and National Security interests. Greg Neubeck __ -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
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