There’s no need to impeach. He’s already effectively done. Why waste time on him at this point? Right now, it’s less about going after Obama than indicting Big Government as a whole.
I hope you indict Big Government with the charges of building the Interstate system, electrifying rural America, putting a man on the moon, helping seniors retire out of poverty, providing effective health insurance for the poor and elderly, and defeating the Nazis. On behalf of Big Government, I enter a plea of guilty as charged.
No doubt, BIg Government has done some great things. But we’ve reached a point where when things go wrong, the primary excuse is that, “It’s all too much for one man to manage.” The legacy of the Obama administration is that now both parties agree that the federal government is unmanageable by the President, the man who all executive authority and accountability is vested in by our Constitution. It would be unconscionable to add anything more to his already overfull plate.
Actually, it would be unconstitutional. The Founders intended for all accountability to reside in one person. Giving over executive power to an unaccountable, unelected bureaucracy goes against the spirit of the Constitution.
Was the trillion dollars the republcans pissed away in Iraq ‘big government’ or ‘fiscal responsibility’? It’a hard to keep the bullshit sorted. The existence of the tea party and the current scandal-mongering are purely reactionary, partisan politics. If any of it happened under a republican president there would be silence.
The spirit of the Constitution didn’t have the ghost of a chance.
“Now, see here, Mr. Paine, all of this “equality” stuff is all very well in theory, but surely the power of governance must rest in the hands of sober, responsible men of property and substance!”
And so it goes, as so it went.
That bald pathetic pin-prick is a liar through and through. He’s protecting the White House. Of course we’ll never know because they destroyed the evidence.
Eh, I’m still skeptical. I think what actually happened is no conspiracy. Senate Democrats summoned IRS officials to hearings to demand why they weren’t going after those damn Tea Party groups. Lerner thought she was doing what Congress wanted. Problem is, Senators saying something at a hearing doesn’t change law.
The LA Times calls for an independent investigator.
Yeah, those people still get to vote. Ignoring them might not be the best strategy. I understand desire to right them off - I really, really do; but you have to hope that some percent will eventually see reason. To get them there, you have to engage, as painful as it may be.
Well, not you specifically - and certainly not me - but someone. God help them.
That’s the same approach that cleared up the Whitewater real estate investment matter, isn’t it? :rolleyes:
I don’t think it’s a bad idea. It’s not as though Darryl Issa is actually investigating anything. He’s just subpoenaing people so he can yell at them.
We’d be better off electing R. Lee Ermey and giving him Issa’s job then.
“You demand taxpayers keep seven years worth of records on hand for an audit and your employees can’t keep their own records straight FOR SIX DAMN MONTHS?! AND YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THAT? WHAT THE HELL KIND OF STUNT ARE YOU TRYING TO PULL, YA BALD-HEADED JACK-WAGON?!!”
Actually, that’s pretty much what Ryan was saying, come to think of it.
I could go with that. The danger with Issa is that the moronic might believe he’s actually conducting some sort of good faith oversight. With Ermey even the dumbest observer would realize it was all just recreational outrage.
But Ermey would do it a whole lot better.
This bit is ridiculous and a false equivalency. The IRS requires seven years of tax records. It doesn’t require one to retain every receipt, every bank statement and certainly not every email message sent or received.
I think it was just theater.
Problem is, the archivist says they broke the law. And never told the archives they lost the emails.
And we’re not talking about an individual here; a public firm that failed to have systems in place to retain all email records could get slammed very, very hard by the Securities Exchange Commission and others for violations of the Sarbanes Oxley Act, among others. Anybody see Arthur Andersen around lately?
Paul Ryan is a fucking idiot.