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Congressman: We could impeach Obama
'You could probably get the votes in the House of Representatives to do it'
WND
Bob Unruh
8/12/2013
Excerpt:
One member of Congress believes there are enough votes in the House to impeach President Obama, but he says such an effort might damage the country because of the Democratic Party grip on the Senate.
A House impeachment vote would mean nothing without a conviction in the Senate, points out Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas.
He, like others in Congress, is back in his home district facing constituents.
Buzzfeed reported he responded Saturday to a question from a constituent at an open house.
The Constitution requires a president to be a natural-born citizen, which the Founders apparently defined as the offspring of two citizens of the nation. Obama’s father never was a U.S. citizen.
The issue got so much attention during Obama’s first term that he presented a document he claimed was his birth certificate from the state of Hawaii.
Since then, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Cold Case Posse investigative team have concluded the document is a fraud.
WND has reported that members of Congress are expressing interest in the dispute.
Farenthold said at the open house Saturday that it’s probably too late to address the matter.
“I think unfortunately the horse is already out of the barn on this, on the whole birth certificate issue,” said the congressman. “The original Congress, when his eligibility came up, should have looked into it, and they didn’t. I’m not sure how we fix it.”
Farenthold told the audience in Luling, Texas: “You tie into a question I get a lot: ‘If everyone’s so unhappy with what the president’s done, why don’t you impeach him?’ I’ll give you a real frank answer about that: If we were to impeach the president tomorrow, you could probably get the votes in the House of Representatives to do it. But it would go to the Senate and he wouldn’t be convicted.”
He cited the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, who was not convicted by the Senate.
That episode, he said, “redefined sex” for a lot of young people.
“What message do we sent to America if we impeach Obama and he gets away with what he’s impeached for and he is found innocent? What then do we say is OK?” Farenthold asked.
Other members of Congress are commenting on the eligibility issue.
On Think Progress was a report that Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., thinks Obama may not be eligible for the office, but it’s too late to do anything about it.
Mullin told a town hall meeting: “We had the opportunity to get another president in there. … We had four years to take care of that. Our country’s facing some serious issues. If the rest of the American people thought that was a big enough issue which, I thought it probably would’ve been. Who would’ve thought we would ever actually be questioning if we had a natural-born president being president? Who would’ve ever thought that we’d actually be there? … So when I say we lost the argument, we lost that argument. Now let’s move on to some other issues. I believe it’s still there, but my God if we didn’t prove it the first four years, what do you think the chances are now?”
And At Salon, Florida Republican Ted Yoho said he’ll support legislation to investigate, even though he thinks it’s a “distraction.”
He said he will support a plan by Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, to look into Obama’s birth certification.
“If it is true [that Obama is ineligible], it’s illegal, he shouldn’t be there and we can get rid of everything he’s done, and I said I agree with that.”
WND reported only a few weeks ago that Mike Zullo, the lead investigator for the Cold Case Posse in Arizona, said interest on Capitol Hill in the birth certificate issue in rising.
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View the complete article at:
http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/congressm...impeach-obama/
'You could probably get the votes in the House of Representatives to do it'
WND
Bob Unruh
8/12/2013
Excerpt:
One member of Congress believes there are enough votes in the House to impeach President Obama, but he says such an effort might damage the country because of the Democratic Party grip on the Senate.
A House impeachment vote would mean nothing without a conviction in the Senate, points out Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas.
He, like others in Congress, is back in his home district facing constituents.
Buzzfeed reported he responded Saturday to a question from a constituent at an open house.
The Constitution requires a president to be a natural-born citizen, which the Founders apparently defined as the offspring of two citizens of the nation. Obama’s father never was a U.S. citizen.
The issue got so much attention during Obama’s first term that he presented a document he claimed was his birth certificate from the state of Hawaii.
Since then, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Cold Case Posse investigative team have concluded the document is a fraud.
WND has reported that members of Congress are expressing interest in the dispute.
Farenthold said at the open house Saturday that it’s probably too late to address the matter.
“I think unfortunately the horse is already out of the barn on this, on the whole birth certificate issue,” said the congressman. “The original Congress, when his eligibility came up, should have looked into it, and they didn’t. I’m not sure how we fix it.”
Farenthold told the audience in Luling, Texas: “You tie into a question I get a lot: ‘If everyone’s so unhappy with what the president’s done, why don’t you impeach him?’ I’ll give you a real frank answer about that: If we were to impeach the president tomorrow, you could probably get the votes in the House of Representatives to do it. But it would go to the Senate and he wouldn’t be convicted.”
He cited the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, who was not convicted by the Senate.
That episode, he said, “redefined sex” for a lot of young people.
“What message do we sent to America if we impeach Obama and he gets away with what he’s impeached for and he is found innocent? What then do we say is OK?” Farenthold asked.
Other members of Congress are commenting on the eligibility issue.
On Think Progress was a report that Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., thinks Obama may not be eligible for the office, but it’s too late to do anything about it.
Mullin told a town hall meeting: “We had the opportunity to get another president in there. … We had four years to take care of that. Our country’s facing some serious issues. If the rest of the American people thought that was a big enough issue which, I thought it probably would’ve been. Who would’ve thought we would ever actually be questioning if we had a natural-born president being president? Who would’ve ever thought that we’d actually be there? … So when I say we lost the argument, we lost that argument. Now let’s move on to some other issues. I believe it’s still there, but my God if we didn’t prove it the first four years, what do you think the chances are now?”
And At Salon, Florida Republican Ted Yoho said he’ll support legislation to investigate, even though he thinks it’s a “distraction.”
He said he will support a plan by Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, to look into Obama’s birth certification.
“If it is true [that Obama is ineligible], it’s illegal, he shouldn’t be there and we can get rid of everything he’s done, and I said I agree with that.”
WND reported only a few weeks ago that Mike Zullo, the lead investigator for the Cold Case Posse in Arizona, said interest on Capitol Hill in the birth certificate issue in rising.
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View the complete article at:
http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/congressm...impeach-obama/