Repub Congress -- What if next Pres is a Dem who breaks the law?

[StefanX]

This is for you (supposedly) law-and-order Republicans in Congress: If you support the right of the President to break the law... aren't you worried about what will happen if the next President is a Democrat?

Let's say a Democrat gets elected and decides to secretly spy on you all. You're gonna have a pretty hard time impeaching the second criminal if you didn't bother impeaching the first one.

The knife cuts both ways. If you support this President's right to break the law, it could come back and haunt you.

If I were a lawmaker, I'd think twice before sending out the message that obeying the laws is "optional".

[TerdlowSmedley]

1. Just so long as he's not, God forbid, getting laid . . .

[Lost-in-FL]

2. It will be more interesting since my guess is it will be a sex scandal...

[yknot]

3. Improperly disposing of his chewing gum

will get him drawn and quartered in public. Republicans are nothing if not hypocrites.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

5. Chucklenuts has just made one of the branches of government

completely irreverent. Think the repugs are going to allow that happen? Well, as a matter of fact, yes...until another Democratic president is in office. Then it will be back to full throttle screaming at the top of their lungs over faux investigations into land deals, cat fan clubs, missing keyboard keys, travel office "scandals" and blow jobs. There are only three branches of government with Georgy says there are three branches of government. The repugs in this time period will go down in history as memorable as Benedict Arnold. Traitors, one and all, if they don't stand up to Chucklenuts.

[edbermac]

4. They'd impeach him for jaywalking...

:kick:

[baldguy]

6. The GOP has made impeachment into politics by other means.

Clinton set the model: he was not impeached for any supposed crime he committed, but for being a Democrat. The GOP Congress impeached him for one reason: because they could.

Bush sets another model: no matter what actual crimes he commits, he will never be impeached by this Congress or any other Congress controlled by Republicans - simply because he's a Republican.

No President should try to hide from honest Congressional scrutiny. If he does, I've got a problem with that.

[Independent_Liberal]

9. Republicans think they're above the law.

They want a dictatorship. They want to rule people and be bullies. Why don't they just admit it?

[EST]

7. The fascists do not plan for there ever to be a democrat

president, and, in that case, why bother to consider an impossibility?

[goforit]

8. Any man who breaks the law should be arrested!!! No alliegence !!!

[TexasProgresive]

10. Impeach, convict and jail.

No one is above or below the law. a caveats - It must be something that has to do with the Constitution, national security or the like. It can not be perjury because of a question asked that should never have been voiced.

[tlsmith1963]

11. Good Points

And if a Democrat did what Bush is doing now, I would want him impeached too. No exceptions. I wish the Republicans could be the same way. But no--they protect their own.

Tammy

[NewJeffCT]

12. You mean if Hillary was president right now...

The Republicans would be defending her illegal use of wiretaps just as vigorously as they are defending Herr Bush?