Republican politicians have been
obsessed with impeaching President Obama for years.
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| Sarah Palin - leading the impeachment clown march |
Surely
you thought that partisan posturing by far-right Congress critters couldn’t get
any nuttier. But here comes the GOP’s claim that all the talk about impeaching
President Barack Obama is being led by…Barack Obama!
Having
discovered that the larger public is appalled that his party would even
consider wasting time on such extremist nonsense, House Speaker
John Boehner tried to do a political back flip.
Impeachment
talk, he fumed, is “a scam started by the Democrats at the White House.” No
Republican lawmakers, the Ohio Republican barked to the media, are even
discussing it.
Boehner,
Boehner, Boehner — did you not hear Rep. Steve
Scalise of Louisiana, the new No. 3 on your own GOP leadership
team, tell Fox News that he refuses to rule out impeachment?
Or
Iowa’s Rep. Steve King,
who said flatly, “We need to bring impeachment hearings immediately.”
How
about Rep. Randy Weber of
Texas, who put it unequivocally: “The President deserves to be impeached, plain
and simple.” And Georgia’s Rep. Jack
Kingston confirmed that: “Not a day goes by when people don’t talk
to us about impeachment.”
Still,
Boehner received some backup on his dubious disclaimer from Glenn Beck.
The tea-partying radio ranter echoed the speaker’s ridiculous assertion that no
one in the GOP has given a moment’s thought to impeachment.
“Have
you spoken to one person (pushing such an idea),” Beck demanded in a recent
broadcast. “No one” has used the I-word, he snapped. But, in fact, Beck does know
one person who has: Himself. Also, Sarah Palin. And at least a
dozen others.
Put
away all hope for honesty or seriousness, ye who enter the nut house presently
known as Boehner’s House of Representatives.
OtherWords columnist Jim Hightower is
a radio commentator, writer, and public speaker. He’s also editor of the
populist newsletter, The Hightower
Lowdown. OtherWords.org