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So many pejorative terms to lay on this, so little time or space to count them all.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with disgusting, revolting, sickening, reprehensible and colossally stupid.<\/p>\n

That’s where I come down on this notion of impeaching President Obama for exercising his constitutional executive authority.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/could-obama-impeached-over-immigration-order-173840884.html<\/p>\n

The impeachment babble has begun boiling again on Capitol Hill. Some Democratic lawmakers say it’s possible, which is no surprise. What is a surprise is that now a Republican or three is talking openly about impeaching the president if he goes ahead with plans to issue an executive order that delays deportation of some 5 million undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n

On what basis would they impeach Barack Obama? They think he’s overreaching.<\/p>\n

I’ve looked up the impeachment provision in the U.S. Constitution. Article II, Section 4 says the president or vice president can be removed from office if they are convicted of “Treason, Bribery or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”<\/p>\n

I’ve yet to know what “high crime or misdemeanor” the president would commit if he is acting in accordance with his legal and constitutional authority.<\/p>\n

And, gosh, do you think the president’s legal team is going to turn him loose without first understanding what he can or cannot do? I doubt it.<\/p>\n

Yet the “I” word has returned to the debate if the president acts.<\/p>\n

For the record, I hope he doesn’t execute those orders during the\u00a0duck session of Congress. I want him to wait for the new Congress to take its seat. I want him to push forward the legislation he favors, demand quick action on it after thorough debate and then let Congress vote it up or down.<\/p>\n

If it goes down, or if he gets a bill he cannot sign, then\u00a0the president\u00a0can take the action he deems necessary.<\/p>\n

This impeachment talk — in the simplest term possible — is pure crap.<\/p>\n

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So many pejorative terms to lay on this, so little time or space to count them all. Let’s start with disgusting, revolting, sickening, reprehensible and colossally stupid. That’s where I come down on this notion of impeaching President Obama for exercising his constitutional executive authority. http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/could-obama-impeached-over-immigration-order-173840884.html The impeachment babble has begun boiling again on Capitol … Continue reading 'I' word returns to Capitol Hill<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[540,1941,2250,2253,5043],"class_list":["post-7103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-gop","tag-immigration-reform","tag-impeachment","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}