Obama impeachment a possibility, says Ron
Paul
By
DAN
HIRSCHHORN | 10/3/11 3:52 PM EDT
Ron Paul
said Monday that President Barack Obama’s targeted
killing of
Anwar al-Awlaki might be an impeachable offense.
Asked at a Manchester, N.H. town hall meeting about last week’s killing
of the American-born
Al Qaeda
leader, the Texas congressman said impeachment would be “possible,” but
that he wants to know more about how the administration “flouted the
law.”
Paul called the killing a movement toward “tyranny.”
“I put responsibility on the president because this is obviously a step
in the wrong direction,” Paul said. “We have just totally disrespected
the Constitution.”
The comments once again put Paul at odds with his Republican rivals over
foreign policy and the war on terror in the latest indication of how
his foreign policy views stray far from Republican orthodoxy even in a
GOP that’s taken on an increasingly isolationist bent. Candidates like
Michele Bachmann and
Mitt
Romney who included the president in a list of people he commended
in a statement released Friday have generally been supportive of the
killing. No one else in the field has spoken out against it.
But Paul’s stuck with the civil libertarians who’ve criticized the
targeted killing of an American citizen without public due
process.
Paul, speaking at the University of New Hampshire’s Manchester campus as
part of a brief swing through the state, also made another pitch for
eliminating the federal income tax.
“If our lives and our liberty are our own, we ought to be able to keep
the fruits of our labor,” he said.
But he modulated a bit when asked about eliminating social welfare
programs, offering a caution that he said “might be a bit too pragmatic
for some.”
“I have an ideal of what we should strive for and a goal, and that would
be no social services,” he said. “But for me it’s trying to work our way
out of this. … I don’t argue we should drop those cold. I don’t even
believe in closing down the
Federal Reserve in one day.”
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