Republicans Want to Impeach President Obama—Without Looking Crazy

[DonViejo]

Will Republicans Try to Impeach President Obama?

They expect a Senate majority and the wind at their back. The trick is doing it without looking crazy.

By David Weigel

On Saturday night, as Washington’s press corps was distracted by a surge of celebrity selfie opportunities, it was missing a kind of milestone. Jeanine Pirro, a former New York Republican star who tumbled out of politics and onto Fox News, was calling for the impeachment of President Obama over “a story no one wants to talk about.”

The story was the 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. Referring to that, on Fox, as “a story no one wants to talk about” sounded a bit like CNN asking where all the Flight 370 coverage had been. Not Pirro’s point—she was saying that the media failed to see where the Benghazi story was going to lead. Hint: Impeachment.

“We have impeached a president for lying about sex with an intern,” she said. “A president resigned in the face of certain impeachment for covering up a burglary. Why wouldn't we impeach this president for not protecting and defending Americans in the bloodbath known as Benghazi?” Pirro then addressed the president directly—though at this point in the evening he was giving a sardonic dinner speech—with a warning that “your dereliction of duty as commander-in-chief demands your impeachment.”

Just one segment on a slow news night, but there was a sense of inevitability about it, of the Overton Window being shifted by hand. Ever since the aftermath of the Benghazi attacks, Republicans and conservatives have compared the Obama administration’s on-the-ground failure and intra-office spin job to Watergate. Politicos compare contemporary scandals to Watergate for one of two reasons: Laziness, or to gently raise the specter of impeachment.

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[liberal N proud]

1. I think we have moved beyond crazy

The republicans are lunatics.

[The Magistrate]

2. I Expect They Will try, Sir, And Look twice As Crazy When They Do As They Do Now

I do not think they can help themselves --- like an alky who knows there is a full bottle in the house somewhere....

[vankuria]

3. "A story no one wants to talk about"

Is Jeanine Pirro nuts, that's all they talk about on Fox, they should rename it the "Behghazi Network"!

[FreeJoe]

4. Why would they suddenly be concerned about looking crazy?

I thought that was an integral part of their branding.

[Atman]

5. "Why wouldn't we impeach this president for not protecting and defending Americans..."

"...in the bloodbath known as Benghazi?"

Absolutely amazed she'd go there. What if the sentence was "Why wouldn't we impeach this president for not protecting and defending Americans in the bloodbath known as 9/11, or Iraq or Afghanistan?"

[wandy]

9. I can think of three reasons why she wouldn't go where you suguest.........

1) The GOP's part in the bloodbath known as 9/11, or Iraq or Afghanistan has long been flushed down the memory hole of the people she is speaking to.
2) The people she is speaking to wouldn't believe the GOP's roll in in the bloodbath known as 9/11, or Iraq or Afghanistan even if you proved it to them. Again!
3) She wouldn't get paid as well.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. oops ... too late.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Yup!

Looking crazy has nothing to do with it. This has been the game plan since the Rethugs got their ass's handed to them in 2012. All the ground work was done to protect their seats in the Gerrymandering of 2010. Wake up folks,why haven't any Supreme Court Judges retired,this is the game plan of the 1%ers and the Military-Industrial-Complex people. Bohener is all in,his seat is protected and the Rethugs are looking like keeping the House,and he is about as hateful of Obama as any body in his party.

Stay tuned,notice how the so called Media is hinting to something going down,this ain't going away because Faux lost ground in the ratings war for the first quarter and Roger Allies still quarter backs the Rethugs.

[surrealAmerican]

8. I love how they seem to think that impeaching Clinton was some sort of "success".

You played that card, it lost, and now you can't use it again. There should be no more talk of impeachment unless there is an actual crime being covered up.