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June: Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) posts six reasons Obama should be impeached on his Web site.- Why? Breaking his oath to the Constitution, Obamacare, and a few other things.
Aug 12, 2013 · In 2011, Florida Rep. Ted Yoho actually made a list. Yoho, who was elected to Congress in 2012, said on his campaign website: Our President, Mr. Obama, should be impeached on the grounds of:
- Elspeth Reeve
- “Pushing His Agenda”
- “Commands from The U.N. Or NATO”
- “All This Stuff”
- Benghazi
- Defaulting on Our Debt
- Enhanced Gun Background Checks
- Bergdahl Prisoner Exchange
- U.S. Troops in Syria
- Allowing Transgender High School Students to Use The Bathroom
- Sarah Palin’s Immigration Grab Bag
Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX), August 1, 2011, at a Tea Party rally. Hypocrisy Bonus: Burgess said at the time he intended impeachment to grind policy efforts to a halt. “I agree with you it would tie things up,” Burgess said, “No question about that. We need to tie things up.” Yet Burgess voted against impeaching Trump, citing the need for governmen...
Fmr Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL), 2011, on his campaign website. That’s not how it works: Yoho was a member of the Florida legislature at the time, campaigning (successfully) for a seat in Congress. Yoho had an impeachment laundry list ready, including the Obama administration supposedly taking “commands from the U.N. or NATO,”displaying Yoho’s startling l...
Fmr Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), August 2013 town hall meeting. Drawing a Constitutional blank:The late Senator didn’t really indicate his specific trip wires for impeachment, telling constituents “I think there’s some intended violation of the law in this administration but I also think there’s a ton of incompetence.” Coburn went on to state that he wa...
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), May 2013, on “The Rusty Humphries Show.” Worse than Watergate?Inhofe claimed Obama deserved impeachment over Benghazi because “Of all the great cover-ups in history — the Pentagon papers, Iran-Contra, Watergate, all the rest of them — this … is going to go down as most egregious cover-up in American history.” Nevermind tha...
Rep. Louie Gohmert, October 2013, interviewat the Value Voters Summit. Power of the parse: Gohmert did a full procedural face-plant with his allegation that a debt default “would be an impeachable offense by the president.” Congress holds the power of the purse, not the President. A debt default would have occurred if Congress had failed to pay Unc...
Fmr Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX), 2013, statement. Stockman threatened impeachment in reaction to Obama’s executive actions to enhance background checks on gun purchases. Stockman, among other conservative voices, bleated that Obama was somehow seizing guns out of the hands of owners. Obama would eventually lament, after additional school shootings, ...
Fmr Rep. Allen West, June 3, 2014, blog post. Phone a friend: West thundered that Obama had engaged in “unilateral negotiations with terrorists” in exchanging five Guantanamo Bay detainees for US Army Private Bowe Bergdahl. In fact, the discussions leading to Bergdahl’s release had been multilateral, involving the United States, Afghanistan, and Qa...
Fmr Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), March 7, 2012 news conferenceon Capitol Hill. Anti-War: Jones, who died in early 2019, was a complex Republican in Congress. Deeply regretful for having voted for the invasion of Iraq, Jones renounced that vote in 2005 and afterwards consistently hewed an anti-war line. He vowed to impeach Obama “If Congress sends one ...
Oklahoma State Legislature, May 2016, S. Con. Res 43. Impeach everybody! Oklahoma State Sen. Anthony Sykes teamed up with State Rep. John Bennett in writing a measure that called upon the state’s Members of Congress to impeach “the President of the United States, the Attorney General of the United States, the Secretary of Education and any other fe...
Sarah Palin, July 2014, in Breitbart. Palin announced she could no longer contain herself (this supposes she ever had contained herself), and called for Obama’s impeachment in an exclusive column for Breitbart. Her breaking point was immigration, via an item in Breitbart (good marketing loop there) claiming the United States was about to experience...
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Aug 18, 2014 · Republican Rep. Ted Yoho of Florida doesn't want to need to impeach the president, but says if an impeachment does happen, President Obama will have brought it upon himself. Yoho added he raised the possibility of impeaching the president with House leadership last year.
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Jul 30, 2014 · An impeachment effort after the November election would dominate Washington in the final two years of Obama’s presidency, posing possible benefits and risks.
Jul 29, 2014 · Who Said Impeachment? The conservatives who wanted to impeach Obama are acting like it was never their idea. ... It seems as if someone has gotten to Rep. Ted Yoho. Courtesy of the Office of ...
Jul 31, 2014 · Karl Rove claimed Obama was trying to create a “constitutional crisis where none exists.” “Do you think anyone in Washington in the G.O.P. is serious about impeachment?” demanded the radio ...
