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"The next, most important step": Right-wing media push Obama impeachment
Chait: FOX and the Conservative Media would drive a GOP House to impeach Obama From Jonathan Chait's October 6 New Republic article , "Scandal TBD; The coming Impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama": Hear me now and believe me later: If Republicans win and maintain control of the House of Representatives, they are going to impeach President Obama. They won't do it Right away. And they won't succeed in removing Obama. (You need 67 Senate votes.) But if Obama wins a Second Term, the House...

"The next, most important step": Right-wing media push Obama impeachment
A December poll found that 35 percent of Republicans already favor impeaching Obama, with just 48 percent opposed and the balance Undecided. That is a large Base of support to impeach Obama for literally anything at all. Once Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, and the like collectively decide that this or that incident represents an intolerable abuse of power by the Obama Administration, the Conservative Base will go from supporting Impeachment to demanding it. At that point, the...

Will Republicans Impeach Obama?
National Review's Jonah Goldberg is skeptical: Jonathan Chait insists that the GOP will impeach Obama if they take back the House. I think he’s nuts. I’ll bet him $500 to the charity of the winner’s choice it doesn’t happen. I don't have $500 to throw around on the legal defense fund for people charged with vandalizing Woodrow Wilson's grave, or whatever his favorite charity is, but consider the challenge accepted. If Obama wins a Second Term, and a GOP-controlled...

The Coming Impeachment Of Barack Obama
Here's the beginning of my new TRB column : Hear me now and believe me later: If Republicans win and maintain control of the House of Representatives, they are going to impeach President Obama. They won’t do it right away. And they won’t succeed in removing Obama. (You need 67 Senate votes.) But if Obama wins a Second Term, the House will vote to impeach him before he leaves office. Read the rest and see if I've convinced you. Meanwhile, Glenn Reynolds says I'm "trying to...

The impeachment of Barack Obama?
Jonathan Chait predicts : Hear me now and believe me later: If Republicans win and maintain control of the House of Representatives, they are going to impeach President Obama. They won’t do it right away. And they won’t succeed in removing Obama. (You need 67 Senate votes.) But if Obama wins a Second Term, the House will vote to impeach him before he leaves office. Certainly, many House Republicans would please their constituents by doing so. And certainly, it's going to be open...

Obama's day: A quick trip to Delaware
Good morning from The Oval. On this day in 1991, the U.S. Senate made Clarence Thomas a Supreme Court justice by the narrowest High Court confirmation vote in history, 52-48. President Obama makes a brief trip today to Delaware to raise money for Senate Candidate Chris Coons . Coons is running against the highly publicized Christine O'Donnell for the Senate seat once held by Vice President Biden , who will accompany the president. Also on the presidential plate: Spending is soaring in the...

Justice Dept. seeks stay on injunction of military gay ban
The Obama Administration on Thursday asked a Federal Judge for an emergency suspension of her recent injunction that stops the ban on Openly Gay people serving in the United States Military. The Department of Justice asked U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips of California for a stay of her decision in preparation for the government's appeal of her ruling to do away with the law commonly known as "Don't ask, don't tell." That appeal would be made with the Ninth Circuit Court of...

Election Unlikely to Change U.S. Farm Subsidies
Friday, October 15, 2010 By Steve Karnowski, Associated Press Harnik) Minneapolis (AP) - Republicans might take control of Congress as they ride a wave of voter anger over Deficit spending and Big Government, but experts who follow agriculture say they Don't expect deep cuts in Subsidies to farmers who grow crops such as corn and soybeans. Those payments are long-entrenched policy that have had the support of a wide range of lawmakers, from liberal to conservative. Regardless of the election...

Jan Schakowsky, Socialism, and the Legitimacy of Liberty
Ive obtained an advance copy of Radical-In-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism , Stanley Kurtzs meticulously researched new book on our presidents Socialist roots. Its no hatchet job. It doesnt appeal to the prejudices of the reader, or spin facts to excite suspicion. Rather, Kurtz has done serious research to document the incestuous world of Far-left politics in Chicago, where Obama got his political start. Kurtzs goal is to answer the...

Pentagon Warns Gay Troops to Stay Silent for Now
Friday, October 15, 2010 By Anne Flaherty, Associated Press In this Tuesday, April 16, 2010 picture, from left, Petty Officer Autumn Sandeen, Lt. Dan Choi, Cpl. Evelyn Thomas, Capt. Jim Pietrangelo II, Cadet Mara Boyd and Petty Officer Larry Whitt, stand together after they handcuffed themselves to the fence outside the White House in Washington during a Protest for Gay Rights. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) Washington (AP) - The Defense Department on Friday warned Gay Troops that if...

Tangled Up In Red Ink: Obama Admin. Confesses To Another $1 Trillion-Plus Overrun
The Obama Administration today is set to confess to running a roughly $1.3 Trillion Deficit in the Fiscal Year that has just ended one during which Washington Democrats cancelled the federal Budget altogether in an unprecedented act of Fiscal negligence.  Countless times since he was elected, President Obama and his team have promised the American People a return to not a pivot to, the pivots are saved for creating Jobs but a return to Fiscal Responsibility only to end up...

Obama Administration Accepts USW Complaint Against China's Clean Energy Subsidies
President Obama showed once again he is willing to enforceU.S. Trade laws. Today, his Administration accepted the United Steelworkers ( USW ’s) petition under Section 301 of the Trade law claiming Chinas Government has used hundreds of Billions of dollars in subsidies, performance requirements, preferential practices and other Trade-illegal activities to dominate the Renewable Energy market. The 5,800-page petition, filed with the U.S. Trade Representative, identifies five major...

Marchant Signs Affidavit
S.C. Lobbyist Larry Marchant has signed an affidavit backing up his claim to have had “Sexual Intercourse” with S.C. Republican gubernatorial nominee Nikki Haley. Marchant’s affidavit - sworn before a notary public in Richland County - reiterates his previous public statement that he and Haley had a One-Night Stand at a legislative conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. “After a night together of dinner and drinks with other participants of the conference,...

Open AG seat attracts well-financed candidates
For seven decades, Georgia Governors have appointed a series of AGs who stood as Incumbents and won re-election. This time, however, current Attorney General Thurbert Baker will step down at the end of the year because he chose not to seek re-election, instead running for Governor and losing in the Democratic Primary. There are two well-financed campaigns vying to succeed Baker. Democrat Ken Hodges, who spent 12 years as a South Georgia District Attorney, is facing off against Republican Sam...

Poll: 65% of Democrats & Republicans Oppose Outside Money in Their Elections
In the Georgia gubernatorial campaign, for example, three groups not from the Empire State of the South --the Democratic Governors Association (DGA), Republican Governors Association (RGA) and SEIU International-- pumped more than $3 million into the state to influence the election [SOURCE: State Ethics Commission ]. The result of all this outside money is an increasingly negative campaign permeated with ads focused on attacks, and not solutions. A new poll commissioned by the Center for...

Cook, Sabato's latest
“At the moment, 22 Democratic seats, including 10 open seats and 12 Incumbents, sit in the Lean or Likely Republican columns, while two Republican seats sit in the Lean or Likely Democratic columns, for a net of 20 Republican seats. That means Republicans only need to win 21 of the 40 seats in the Toss Up column to win a majority, not even counting many of the 30 Democratic seats in the Lean Democratic column that are rapidly becoming more competitive. At this point, all but four of...

TEA PARTY SET TO WIN ENOUGH RACES FOR WIDE INFLUENCE
An analysis of each House and Senate race found 138 Tea Party Candidates, all Republicans, running for nearly half the Democratic or open seats in the House and a third of those in the Senate or, in the case of two Republican House Incumbents, defending seats won with Tea Party backing in special Elections earlier this year. Tea Party nominees have performed better than expected in many cases, including races in which the establishment Candidates they defeated in the primaries were...

Johanns cites concern over Canadian oil sands pipeline
Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) says he is troubled with a State Department environmental review of a proposed Pipeline carrying Canadian tar-sands-based Crude Oil to Texas, arguing that it could harm Water quality in his State and that the Department must consider alternative routes. The concern by Johanns is a rare objection by a conservative Republican to a project that has earned pushback from Democrats and environmental groups. Johanns in a letter Thursday to Secretary of...

'Michele!' Left-Leaning Minnesota Thespian Produces Bachmann Musical (VIDEO)
Minnesota politics just got a bit more dramatic, with the introduction of " Michele! A Musical Bachumanntary ," a satirical musical from left-leaning thespian James Detmar. Detmar told TPM that the inspiration for "Michele!" came after being inundated by news stories about Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN). Several months ago, he was driving home when another story about Bachmann came on the radio, and pushed him over the edge. "It's not like I have a bunch of money to dump into the Tarryl Clark...

Result
The Republicans blamed Clinton for the shutdown, but Public Opinion seemed to favor the president. President Clinton's Approval Rating rose to the highest they had been since his election. The Republican's support was further diminished two days later when Gingrich made a widely-reported complaint about being snubbed by Clinton; Tom DeLay called it "the mistake of his Gingrich's life". "He told a room full of reporters that he forced the shutdown because Clinton had rudely made him and Bob...

New Rasmussen Poll Actually Bad News for Republicans
Is independent Tom Tancredo now becoming the de facto Republican Candidate for Governor of Colorado? He's now moved to within four points of Democrat John Hickenlooper to turn the race into a toss-up. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Colorado finds Hickenlooper with 42% support, while Tancredo, the Candidate of the American Constitution Party, earns 38% of the vote. Support for Republican Dan Maes continues to fall and now stands at 12%. Two percent (2%) prefer...

After Dem leaders skip vote, Bush tax debate flares on campaign trail
Democrats have tried to deflect the issue back at Republicans by accusing them of supporting Tax Breaks for “Millionaires and Billionaires.” Republicans have called for extending all of the Bush Tax Cuts, while Democratic leaders would extend the Cuts only for families making less than $250,000. “Republicans in Congress have been very, very clear where they stand — where they stand is for Tax Cuts for Millionaires and Billionaires, period,” said Nadeam Elshami, a...

DNC accuses Chamber of Commerce of ‘stealing election’
"Karl Rove, Ed Gillespie: They're Bush cronies. The US Chamber of Commerce: They're shills for Big Business," the ad's announcer remarks. "And they're stealing our Democracy. Spending Millions from secret Donors to elect Republicans to do their bidding in Congress. It appears they're even taking secret Foreign Money to influence our Elections. It's incredible, Republicans benefiting from secret Foreign Money. Tell the Bush Crowd and the Chamber of Commerce - stop stealing our Democracy."...

Dennis Kucinich's 35 Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush
The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush ," is available for the cost of $12; and a free downloadable PDF is available on the same site. These articles of Impeachment were introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressman Dennis Kucinich on June 9, 2008, as H. Res. 1258 Read all 35 articles in a PDF .

Political Science and Impeachment.
As Paul notes below , Jon Chait argues that a Republican-controlled House will impeach Obama (although they would have no chance to remove him from office.) First of all, Chait does address Paul's response in the subscriber-only section: The Republicans wouldnt dare repeat the mistake they made by impeaching Clinton, you say? Youre not thinking like a Republican. In the conservative mind, the Impeachment crusade was not a Political miscalculation but a misty, watercolored memory....In...