Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh: Foolish for Boehner to Take
Impeachment 'Off the Table'
by Tony Lee 30 Jul 2014, 6:55 PM
PDT
After conservative icon and talk
radio host Rush Limbaugh blasted House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) for declaring that impeaching Obama was off the
table, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin praised Limbaugh for understanding
the importance of not emboldening Obama to act even more lawlessly.
"Rush is right," she wrote in a Wednesday
Facebook post. "The GOP wants to take impeachment off
the table? When will you learn liberals won't hate you less if you play nice in
these tumultuous times? No matter how polite, complacent, and complicit you
are, Obama will continue to harm our Republic and make you impotent. Even
today, his very un-presidential speech mocked you for always being a' 'hatin'.
Your apathy is their power."
On his Wednesday radio show,
Limbaugh criticized House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) for announcing to
the world that Republicans would not impeach Obama.
"Boehner took it off the
table if it was ever on the table, and I don't like all these things being
'taken off the table,' by the way," Limbaugh declared. "We just said
we're not gonna shut the government down, so we're not gonna use the power of
the purse to stop Obama. Okay. Now we're saying impeachment's off the table, so
we're not gonna use the Constitution to stop Obama."
Limbaugh said the "Republican
Party is bragging or broadcasting that they're not gonna do anything to stop
Obama" because, despite Obama's record-low approval and record-high
disapproval numbers, the GOP establishment still believes that, "if
there's any pursuit of Obama politically, that it's just gonna send the
independents running right to the Democrats in the midterms and all that."
"They really do believe, even
now, that the public does not want to hear their Dear Leader criticized,"
Limbaugh said of the squeamish GOP elites. "They don't want to hear their
Dear Leader subject to impeachment talks or what have you, and so the
Republicans are doing everything they can tell everybody, 'We're not gonna
impeach him! We're not gonna do it!' It's just purely defensive. It's rooted in
fear, and I think it's a miscalculation." Limbaugh said is not intending
to lead the impeachment movement but realized the foolishness of taking
impeachment off the table, which would only embolden Obama.
Palin asked Republicans who
complain about Obama's lawlessness but do not want to consider impeachment:
"After soothing Obama by reassuring him that he'll never be held
accountable via the ultimate serious check on his lawlessness, you'll now ease
on down WHAT road to stop the madness? What's the plan to stop his fundamental
transformation of America?"
"Please don't tell us you're
armed with a phone and a pen and now a bunch of lawyers filing suit," she
said, of Boehner's lawsuit against Obama. "You can't bring those to the
front lines and win."
And please don't underestimate the
wisdom of the people. We see Team Obama's obvious strategy in pushing you back
in a corner as you lay down the ultimate weapon of force our Founders provided
you in our Constitution. Congress, you've already disarmed yourself of the
other weapon the Constitution gives you by refusing to use the power of the
purse to defund Obama’s lawlessness. Now you’re completely unilaterally
disarming by taking any notion of impeachment off the table while Obama gleefully
pushes forward with amnesty by fiat. He's called your bluff, GOP! But it's not
too late.
Stand tall and don’t be afraid to
educate the public about the Constitution’s remedy for a lawless imperial
presidency. If you educate Americans about what impeachable offenses really
are, they will listen. And trust me, if Obama moves on amnesty, Americans will
look to you for action. If you stand up for the Constitution, you won't let
them down. Please be stronger, wiser, and more courageous for us. We'll have
your back. Reciprocate.
As Palin has been emphasizing,
Limbaugh also emphasized that many do not understand what "high crimes and
misdemeanors" actually are:
High crimes and misdemeanors does
not mean theft, larceny, murder, any of that.
High crimes and misdemeanors means dereliction of duty! High crimes and
misdemeanors means action outside the Constitution. High crimes and misdemeanors means action
detrimental to the country in violation of the oath of office. It's an entirely different the thing than a
criminal definition.
Andrew McCarthy, the former
federal prosecutor and author of Faithless Execution: Building
the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment, recently wrote in National Review, that many politicians
are oblivious to what "high crimes
and misdemeanors" actually mean.
"Contrary to some less than
informed opinion, 'high crimes and misdemeanors' – the legal standard for
impeachment – refers not to indictable criminal offenses but to profound
breaches of the public trust by high-ranking officials," McCarthy wrote. "Once the standard is understood, it becomes easy to
see that the president and his underlings have committed numerous, readily provable
impeachable offenses. "
Palin called for impeachment on the
pages of Breitbart News, and said Obama's
lawlessness on illegal immigration that impacts American workers of all
backgrounds and races, including legal immigrants, was the tipping point. After
her announcement, a third of Americans a majority of Americans are for it. And
Palin said the threat of impeachment can prevent Obama from acting more
lawlessly. And if Obama goes ahead with more executive actions on illegal immigration by granting work permits to
millions of more illegal immigrants, even more people will consider
impeachment. She has said if more Americans learn that the Founders intended
impeachment to be the ultimate check against a
lawless executive, they would be in favor
of it.
John Boehner
John
A. Boehner is the speaker for the U.S.
House of Representatives, a member of the Burning Tree Club, and the House leader for the Republican establishment.
Note: Jack Valenti was a
member of the Burning Tree Club, and
a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
Marvin H. Edwards
is the VP for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and was a director at the Constitution
Project.
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
James
E. Rogers is a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and was a director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Klaus Kleinfeld is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), was a director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
John
S. Chen was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and
was a director at the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce.
Larry
D. Thompson is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and
was a director at the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce.
James
W. Cicconi is a director at the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, was an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a partner at the Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP.
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is a senior
counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, LLP, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s
great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), was a member of the Iraq Study
Group, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Lee
H. Hamilton was a co-chair for the Iraq
Study Group, is a co-chair for the Independent
Task Force on Immigration and America's Future, and an honorary trustee at
the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the lobby firm for the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce.
John
A. Boehner is the House leader for the Republican
establishment, a member of the Burning
Tree Club, and the speaker for the U.S.
House of Representatives.
Jack
Valenti was a member of the Burning
Tree Club, and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Marvin H. Edwards
is the VP for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and was a director at the Constitution
Project.
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
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