Impeachment

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Obama's, that is.

Thought it would be fun to see what the GOP wanted to impeach President Obama for over the last eight years.

These are in no particular order.  Just from the first couple pages of a simple Google search.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/20/oklahoma-republicans-want-to-impeach-obama-over-transgender-bathroom-rights-even-though-its-futile/?utm_term=.37c07ab29107

Quote:No, states can't actually impeach U.S. presidents. But Oklahoma Republican lawmakers are urging Congress to take up their cause. Reuters reports the Republican-denominated state legislature filed a measure Thursday calling for Obama's impeachment over the administration's recent recommendations that public schools accommodate transgender students in bathrooms.



Lawmakers argue the president overstepped his constitutional authority with that directive. The White House directive was "bibically wrong," state Rep. John Bennett ® said in a statement, according to Reuters, adding that it violated state's sovereignty.


The impeachment call came hours after Oklahoma lawmakers approved a bill that would make abortions a felony and put anyone who performs them in jail for up to three years. If Gov. Mary Fallin, a Republican, signs the bill into law, 
Oklahoma can expect a big legal fight in which its pretty much guaranteed to fail, given Roe v. Wade. (The governor late Friday decided to veto the bill.)


The impeachment push is similarly doomed and therefore highly symbolic. But before we get to that, here's some background: Oklahoma is not the first state to demand the president step down. South Dakota's Republican Party approved a resolution in 2014 calling for Obama's impeachment after the Guantanamo Bay detainee swap to free Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Other GOP politicians, like Sarah Palin, have also essentially called for the president to step down. At one point in 2014, Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.) even mused that House had the votes to do it.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-back-impeachment-jail-time-obama

Quote:GOP back to ‘impeachment,’ ‘jail time’ for Obama


As the 2014 cycle progressed, the number of congressional Republicans talking about impeaching President Obama faded, and there’s no real mystery as to what happened. GOP leaders, fearing a public backlash, told Republican incumbents and candidates to dial it down a notch. Why rile up Democrats, who too often stay home in midterm cycles, when they’re tuning out?
 
And as a consequence, for months, the “i” word more or less faded. That is, until very recently.
 
Last week, Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas), less than a month into his first term in Congress, announced his belief that President Obama, without a doubt, “deserves impeachment.” He’s not the only one talking like this.

Quote:Republican Rep. Tom Marino of Pennsylvania says President Obama is “getting close” to impeachment. “People say, ‘should the president be impeached?’ I say, we’re getting close to that,” the Marino said in a video posted on YouTube Wednesday by the local newspaper, the Wellsboro Gazette.
 
Marino said he was talking about impeachment because “it comes up consistently at town hall meetings.”

Well, that’s a good reason. Marino was a little fuzzy on what, exactly, would be the grounds for presidential impeachment, but for many GOP lawmakers, that’s a minor and inconvenient detail that shouldn’t interfere with reckless rhetoric.
 
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), meanwhile, has no use for subtlety and is already talking publicly about “jail time” for the president:

Quote:In an appearance on “The Steve Malzberg Show” [Tuesday], Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., continued his crusade against President Obama’s executive actions on immigration reform, calling on the federal courts to find that the president’s actions violated the law.
 
If Obama defies such a ruling, Brooks said, then Congress should pass a contempt citation against the president for his “reckless conduct” and demand that he comply with the court’s decision.
 
He said that Obama would then drop his executive actions since he, like Richard Nixon, doesn’t want to “incur the wrath that comes with a contempt citation with potential fines and jail time.”

At this point, I still consider it unlikely that GOP leaders will go along with the far-right’s impeachment crusade, but conservative media appears to be on board, and the number of congressional Republican talking up the idea since the elections keeps growing.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/archive/Impeach_Obama_Groups_Already_Forming.html

Quote:[/url]President-elect Barack Obama won't be inaugurated for another ten weeks, but groups are already forming on the Internet to [url=http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081105214913.k5rna1c2&show_article=1]call for his impeachment.


Several groups exist on the social networking site Facebook, calling for the removal of Obama from office for a number of reasons, including planning to not uphold the Constitution of the United States and campaign finance violations.

Impeach Barack Obama was formed under the assumption that the winner of Tuesday's election will waste little time in violating his oath of office and already has more than 2,500 members on Facebook:

"This group has been created under the assumption that it takes approximately 7 seconds for a modern day President to violate this oath. So we should be ready."

Impeach Barack Hussein Obama seems mostly concerned with the Democrat's prior support for an assault weapons ban and accusations that he's a closet Marxist.

"Obama has voiced support for various unconstitutional programs such as the assault weapons ban, universal healthcare, and various schemes for wealth distribution. What are we going to do about it? RESIST SOCIALISM! IMPEACH HIM!
might as well start before he gets in office." 

The Agence-France Presse notes that there are currently many more groups calling for the impeachment of current President George W. Bush, but the president's had eight years to generate a lot of fodder for critics. Few of those groups seem to have gathered the level of support that Obama impeachment groups have already attracted.

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/03/five-years-of-conservatives-calling-for-obamas/199555

Quote:Five Years Of Conservatives Calling For Obama's Impeachment
New Book Tries To Bring Fringe Impeachment Cause To The Mainstream

https://thinkprogress.org/top-10-reasons-republicans-want-to-impeach-president-obama-b72e97741ba0

Quote:[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]For more than two years, Republicans in Congress have wanted to impeach President Obama.
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[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]Every few months, they come up with creative new rationales to justify their desire to prematurely remove Obama from office, ranging from his immigration policies to birther hysteria to conspiracy theories about Arctic islands.[/color]
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ThinkProgress has compiled the top ten reasons why Republicans have proposed impeaching President Obama:[/color]

Quote:[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]1. To get Obama’s birth certificate. Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) suggested that Congress use the threat of impeachment to force Obama to show his birth certificate. [10/13/10][/color]

Quote:[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]2. “Giving away” seven Arctic islands. Wes Riddle, a Texas congressional candidate, is peddling a bizarre conspiracy theory that Obama gave away seven Arctic islands to Russia. Despite the fact that the treaty ceding these islands was ratified by the Senate in 1991, Riddle said he will push to impeach Obama over the matter. [6/22/12][/color]

Quote:[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]3. Obama’s new immigration policy for undocumented students. Allen Quist, a former state representative running in Minnesota’s 1st congressional district, said that he would lead the impeachment charge against Obama for the president’s new immigration policy that would prevent one million undocumented students from being deported. [6/26/12][/color]

Quote:[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]4. “Refusing to secure the borders.” Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) told radio host Lou Dobbs that Obama is refusing to secure the border and it “comes awfully close to a violation of [his] oath of office.” [7/19/10][/color]

Quote:[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]5. Failing to extended the Bush tax cuts. Grover Norquist, author of the anti-tax pledge that nearly every Republican in Congress has signed, told National Journal that if Obama allows the Bush tax cuts to expire, “Republicans will have enough votes in the Senate in 2014 to impeach.” [1/29/12][/color]

Quote:[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]6. Not defending DOMA in court. Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) said he “absolutely” supports impeaching Obama after the administration announced it would not defend a portion of the Defense of Marriage Act in court. [3/2/11][/color]

Quote:[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]7. To stop Obama from passing new laws. Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) told a Tea Party group that he would push for impeachment just to block Obama’s legislative agenda. “It needs to happen, and I agree with you it would tie things up,” Burgess said. “No question about that.” [8/9/11][/color]

Quote:[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]8. “Shenanigans” in Obama’s immigration policies. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), second-in-command among Senate Republicans, told radio host Bill Bennett that, because of Obama’s immigration policies, “impeachment is always a possibility” if there are “shenanigans involved.” [6/26/12][/color]

Quote:[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]9. If Obama used the 14th Amendment to declare the debt ceiling unconstitutional. During the debt ceiling showdown, Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) and other Republicans have floated the possibility of impeaching Obama if he declared the debt ceiling unconstitutional rather than allow the country to default. [7/7/11][/color]

Quote:[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]10. If the government defaults. When Republicans forced the debt ceiling crisis, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) announced on Twitter that if Congress doesn’t increase the debt ceiling and the federal government is forced to default, “Obama would be impeached.” [7/25/11][/color]

Some more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efforts_to_impeach_Barack_Obama
Good times...good times.