Freshman Republican Rep. Steve Stockman (Texas) on Monday said he would "seek to thwart" executive action by President Obama in regard to gun laws by any means necessary, even if it means "filing articles of impeachment."


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You obviously don't realize the attention of the POTUS will be drawn to defending his office. Also if the VPOTUS is charged in impeachment charges also he will be worried more bout protecting his office. There have been two presidents impeached none removed from office a lot of weeping and wailing and some changes in policy.JALLEN wrote:Sorry, that is not practical, or wise.
It would be far better to stand up at the State of the Union and holler "Liar!" in unison.
For one thing, unless Obama keels over from heart failure at that, you don't end up with President Biden.
If it simply MUST be tried, get it done before January 20, 2014 when the half way point is reached, so Biden won't be eligible to serve twice more.
What a splendid idea! I would counter the backlash with a simple statement "Respect is earned. When the President decides to respect Congress, the street will again begin to run both directions." The Republicans are on the loosing side of every argument anyway. It is time for a Gonzales moment.JALLEN wrote:Sorry, that is not practical, or wise.
It would be far better to stand up at the State of the Union and holler "Liar!" in unison.
For one thing, unless Obama keels over from heart failure at that, you don't end up with President Biden.
If it simply MUST be tried, get it done before January 20, 2014 when the half way point is reached, so Biden won't be eligible to serve twice more.
Three, actually.MoJo wrote:You obviously don't realize the attention of the POTUS will be drawn to defending his office. Also if the VPOTUS is charged in impeachment charges also he will be worried more bout protecting his office. There have been two presidents impeached none removed from office a lot of weeping and wailing and some changes in policy.JALLEN wrote:Sorry, that is not practical, or wise.
It would be far better to stand up at the State of the Union and holler "Liar!" in unison.
For one thing, unless Obama keels over from heart failure at that, you don't end up with President Biden.
If it simply MUST be tried, get it done before January 20, 2014 when the half way point is reached, so Biden won't be eligible to serve twice more.
Yet Nixon was not impeached; so only two. The committee voted to bring the article before the full house, & of course as you stated, Nixon beat them to the punch. Nixon was a victim of media bias. He didnt do much different than JFK & many more before.JALLEN wrote:Three, actually.MoJo wrote:You obviously don't realize the attention of the POTUS will be drawn to defending his office. Also if the VPOTUS is charged in impeachment charges also he will be worried more bout protecting his office. There have been two presidents impeached none removed from office a lot of weeping and wailing and some changes in policy.JALLEN wrote:Sorry, that is not practical, or wise.
It would be far better to stand up at the State of the Union and holler "Liar!" in unison.
For one thing, unless Obama keels over from heart failure at that, you don't end up with President Biden.
If it simply MUST be tried, get it done before January 20, 2014 when the half way point is reached, so Biden won't be eligible to serve twice more.
Andrew Johnson, BJ Clinton, and of course Nixon who beat them to the punch by resigning, to my mind a distinction without a difference. Poor Nixon! He got caught acting like a Democrat.
I've been reading a great deal about John Connally, who Nixon greatly admired. Connally told Nixon to burn the tapes, but Nixon, hospitalized with blood clots, didn't get to it in time.
Woah nelly! Don't whitewash Nixon. He committed crimes in office that were worthy of impeachment. Just because other's may have done similar things does not excuse what Nixon did.Jim Beaux wrote:Nixon was a victim of media bias. He didnt do much different than JFK & many more before.
For the time, what Nixon did was indeed counted as outrageous...compared to the stunts they pull now, it barely rates a blink...and THAT is a real sign of the times.baldeagle wrote:Woah nelly! Don't whitewash Nixon. He committed crimes in office that were worthy of impeachment. Just because other's may have done similar things does not excuse what Nixon did.Jim Beaux wrote:Nixon was a victim of media bias. He didnt do much different than JFK & many more before.
For the time??? Following Johnson and Kennedy? Oh, please!K.Mooneyham wrote:For the time, what Nixon did was indeed counted as outrageous...compared to the stunts they pull now, it barely rates a blink...and THAT is a real sign of the times.baldeagle wrote:Woah nelly! Don't whitewash Nixon. He committed crimes in office that were worthy of impeachment. Just because other's may have done similar things does not excuse what Nixon did.Jim Beaux wrote:Nixon was a victim of media bias. He didnt do much different than JFK & many more before.
I think you missed what I was getting at, or I did a poor job of it...by for the time, I mean in the court of public opinion...the press "exposed" Nixon, and the public lapped it up...now, no one hardly blinks. I did not mean to imply that no one else had done anything of that level or worse, I know they certainly did.JALLEN wrote:For the time??? Following Johnson and Kennedy? Oh, please!K.Mooneyham wrote:For the time, what Nixon did was indeed counted as outrageous...compared to the stunts they pull now, it barely rates a blink...and THAT is a real sign of the times.baldeagle wrote:Woah nelly! Don't whitewash Nixon. He committed crimes in office that were worthy of impeachment. Just because other's may have done similar things does not excuse what Nixon did.Jim Beaux wrote:Nixon was a victim of media bias. He didnt do much different than JFK & many more before.
Like I said, he was acting like a Democrat, and got caught at it. He had watched Lyndon Johnson for twenty years getting away with all sorts of that stuff, and figured it was how the game was played. The Kennedy's weren't exactly altar boys in that department either. It was John Kennedy who inspired little Billy Clinton to want to be President in the worst way, which eventually he was.
Robert Haldeman got it right. "We're so [expletive deleted] square, we'd get caught." Sure enough! If Nixon had burned the tapes, we would never have heard that!