{"id":6931,"date":"2012-01-30T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T08:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6931"},"modified":"2012-01-30T00:01:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T08:01:50","slug":"impeach-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/30\/impeach-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeach Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans often provide us with a sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, as they resort to draconian practices in ways that we have seen before.  Whatever Bill Clinton\u2019s shortcomings, he did nothing worthy of impeachment, such as starting lengthily wars of aggression, torture, or using the federal bureaucracy in an attempt to attain a permanent Republican regime at taxpayer expense.  Nevertheless, they did impeach Clinton, just to gridlock the government and prevent him from achieving more of his objectives.  That time may well come again.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"Was4443134\"Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist has long held a tight grip on the marionette strings of the GOP. Wielding undue influence as the head of the Americans for Tax Reform, Norquist ensures that Republican lawmakers sign his anti-tax pledge and threatens them with electoral defeat<\/a> should they even think of deviating from it. Norquist has marked a successful few years, killing the deficit super committee agreement<\/a>, batting down<\/a> a tax increase on millionaires<\/a>, and, of course, ensuring the extension of the Bush tax cuts. <\/p>\n

Pleased with his headway, Norquist is now mapping out how he can ensure further anti-tax victories by securing Republican majorities. In an interview with the National Journal, he mused that a GOP mandate would obviously enact an extension of the Bush tax cuts, work to maintain a repatriation holiday for corporate profits, and even pass House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan\u2019s (R-WI) plan that jeopardizes Medicare. But when asked what Republicans should do if faced with a Democratic majority that won\u2019t keep the tax cuts, Norquist had a simple answer: \u201cimpeach\u201d Obama<\/font><\/strong> [Propaganda delinked]\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

Norquist and his Republican toadies could care less that Obama has done nothing worthy of impeachment, save offending their racism by committing the heinous crime of being elected while black.<\/font><\/p>\n

Note that every priority Norquist listed benefits the 1% at YOUR expense.  Norquist knows that Democrats will represent YOU, because otherwise, there is no need for the threat.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republicans often provide us with a sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, as they resort to draconian practices in ways that we have seen before.  Whatever Bill Clinton\u2019s shortcomings, he did nothing worthy of impeachment, such as starting lengthily wars of aggression, torture, or using the federal bureaucracy in an attempt to attain a permanent Republican regime […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}