Impeach President Obama II

There are those who challenged my last post about firing President Obama. They ask whether I have any legal reasons for impeachment, if I was being histrionic, if I was being reactionary. I'll leave the last two characterizations for others to decide.

As to reasons for impeachment of a president, we learned at the end of the last century that it's not necessary to have strong, even legal, criteria for such an action. Nowhere in our laws will you find listed a blowjob in a side room off the Oval Office of the White House as a reason for a presidential impeachment. Yes, I know, the stated reason given by the Ken Starr investigation was that President Clinton lied about the affair. Wouldn't you? Besides, how does a lie about a sexual act compare to starting a war based on lies -- no impeachment for Bush, was there?

Following are actions Obama has done to warrant my wrath, none of which may satisfy legal requirements for impeachment. But I can hope, can't I? This is hard for me to say because the last president and members of Congress, both Republican and Democratic, are such liars and have done so much to destroy this country. Still, it's Obama who's in office now. Here is my list about Obama's wrong choices:

1. Has not ended either war, in fact escalating the one in Afghanistan and drone bombing in other countries.

2. Has not ended Don't Ask, Don't Tell -- first American injured in Iraq war was a gay Marine (lost his leg 3 hours after war started and his livelihood when he came out).

3. Has not signed by executive order a dictate to end (he can do it) the discharging of soldiers who have been outed.

4. Has not closed Guantanamo.

5. Has not ended CIA rendition.

6. Has not established new (protected) wildlife refuges, parks or forests.

7. Kept Bush's Secretary of Defense.

8. Named Geithner and Summers to Treasury, knowing they were part of the Wall Street establishment that helped to lead the financial collapse.

9. Bailed out General Motors and Chrysler instead of letting them fall as real capitalism dictates.

10. Continued to bail out banks and insurance companies even though TARP started under Bush.

11. Created Cash for Clunkers, against free market ideals.

12. Named Cabinet members who are not qualified, much the same as was done under the Bush regime.

A dozen reasons are enough for now. There are at least a dozen more to follow at some point. If you have reasons for liking what the president is doing, let us know.

Impeach President Obama

This week we learned that the military is sending the biggest tanks ever into Afghanistan to continue fighting that insane war. Such tanks have long been part of combat in Iraq, but they've been kept out of the Afghanistan War efforts until now. Why I don't know, except perhaps they were all in Iraq until recently.

President Obama is commander in chief of military forces and operations. He would have been consulted on the deployment of the tanks and he would have given his OK to such a tactic, which I believe will further escalate casualties for American soldiers and Afghan civilians.

I was a big supporter of Obama in 2008. I mean, who wouldn't want someone as our president who said he would correct the abuses, fraud and downright crimes of the Bush administration? But he was a liar then and he's a liar now. He is doing exactly what Bush did only with more thievery, pillaging and warmongering. We can wait until he loses in 2012 or we can hope to get rid of him now. I choose now. With Republicans leading the House in a few weeks, impeaching Obama might very well be at the top of their list of things to do.

With that said, there is one problem to all of this: Joe Biden. He would become president if Obama is impeached. Biden is a loser beyond belief. He never did anything as a senator for many years and has done even less as vice-president. Even worse, what he does do is against American interests. For example, these days he's going around the country, sometimes with his pal, turncoat Joe Lieberman, expounding the wonders of the scan machines at airports because he and Lieberman have "friends" who own the company that produces the machines. (Former Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff represents the company, as well.)

So you see, even though Obama could be impeached -- possibly -- we're still screwed. Will Sarah Palin win in 2012? I don't know. But I do know that if she does, we will know what we're getting. Fool me once . . .

Do You Hear Us Now?

Tone-deaf Democrats whine and moan about this week's Massachusetts loss for Senator. Their excuses range from them (the majority in both houses of Congress) not passing health insurance reform to Martha Coakley being a poor candidate to voters simply not understanding the issues. While it's true that some of those reasons are plausible, there are other more important ones.

Listen up, Democrats, starting with President Obama. YOU HAVEN'T DONE A DAMN THING FOR ANY OF US IN THE PAST YEAR!!!!!!!! That's why Coakley lost and Republican Scott Brown won. How can you expect anyone to vote for you when you do nothing? I believe that many voters in that state really didn't want to vote Republican. But what other choice did they have? With the two parties controlling everything, a vote for a third-party candidate would have been wasted.

I'll list a few things you, the Democrats, haven't done, but which voters elected you to do:

1) End two wars. The day President Obama announced sending more troops to Afghanistan was the day I knew we weren't going to get the change we believed in.

2) End Don't Ask, Don't Tell. What kind of a disgusting, bigoted law is that?

3) Protect the environment. Naming Colorado rancher Salazar was plain stupid.

4) Not bail out big banks. Coming out this week with rules for the banks is too little, too late because you've done everything for them for a year.

5) Not bail out Detroit automakers. We don't want their cars. Let them fail.

6) Consider, even briefly, making an attempt to do something for your base. You lost your base in Massachusetts. It was all about the base for the previous administration and Congress and it worked for them for quite some time.

7) Do what you could to help people save their houses. After all, your friends in the banking and mortgage industries were largely responsible for people getting loans they shouldn't have in the first place. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd share major blame in this area.

8) Do something about jobs. The stimulus program was too slow and covered everything from simply giving raises to government employees to installing insulation. I mean, what the hell?Where are the jobs? It's a year late, but doing something now would be a start.

President Obama, it's time to stop with the speeches and get to work. Like your predecessor, you spend too much time out on the golf course. The difference, however, is that Bush had Dick Cheney to do his work. For some reason, you've shoved Vice-President Biden back to his Naval Observatory residence and you rely on speeches to keep voters in line. We're tired of speeches.

If you and the Democratic Party don't change your way of doing business in Washington this very instant, you've only just seen the beginning of a complete revolt come November. It's not a possibility, it's a certainty. Will you hear us then?