Radio host quits new job following threat to Broward schools Allen West's Chief of Staff

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The radio host who made comments that may have triggered a threat against Broward County schools has announced she's stepping down as chief of staff for a recently elected conservative congressman. Meanwhile the phone call warning of the attack that led to a three-hour lockdown has been traced to a caller outside South Florida, Pembroke Pines Police said Thursday.

Radio talk show host Joyce Kaufman, who just earlier this week was named Rep.-elect Allen West's chief of staff, said she didn't want to tarnish West's reputation.


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[FSogol]

1. It would be hard to tarnish West's "reputation."

He's a goofy Michele Bachmann wannabe and Kaufman appears to be criminally insane.

[Viking12]

3. He's a war crmiminal.

The case stems from an incident August 20 at a military base in Taji, just north of Baghdad, when West was interrogating an Iraqi policeman, who was believed to have information about a plot to assassinate West with an ambush on a U.S. convoy.

In testimony at an Article 32 hearing -- the military's version of a grand jury or preliminary hearing -- West said the policeman, Yahya Jhrodi Hamoody, was not cooperating with interrogators, so he watched four of his soldiers from the 220th Field Artillery Battalion beat the detainee on the head and body.

West said he also threatened to kill Hamoody. Military prosecutors say West followed up on that threat by taking the suspect outside, put him on the ground near a weapons clearing barrel and fired his 9 mm pistol into the barrel.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/12/12/sprj.nirq.west.ruling/

[Gold Metal Flake]

2. Live by the inflamitory rhetoric, die by the inflamitory rhetoric.

Buh-bye now.

[RockaFowler]

4. Aww poor baby

Now it's time to start impeachment proceedings against West.

Joyce Kauffmann didn't want to tarnish Allen West's reputation - too late Joyce.

[SDuderstadt]

7. Members of Congress cannot be...

impeached.

[RockaFowler]

8. They can't??

During the impeachment trial of Senator Blount, it was argued that the House of Representatives did not have the power to impeach members of either House of Congress; though the Senate never explicitly ruled on this argument, the House has never again impeached a member of Congress. The Constitution allows either House to expel one of its members by a two-thirds vote, which the Senate had done to Blount on the same day the House impeached him (but before the Senate heard the case).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States#Federal_officials_impeached

[SDuderstadt]

9. Read the Constitution...

specifically Article !!, Section 4:

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Members of Congress are NOT civil officers.

Article 1, Section 5 provides that:

Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.

Since Article 1, Section 2 provides, in part, that:

The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

And Article 1, Section 3 provides, in part, that:

The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present..

that would mean that the House could impeach a Senator without the Senate having any say whatsoever (other than to refuse to hear said impeachment and the House could not expel a member without the concurrence of the Senate.

That conflicts directly with Article 1, Section 5, which provides that each house shall determine the qualifications of their members as well as this provision, "Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member".

Have you ever taken a civics class?

[otohara]

5. Blaming Rachel in Comments

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Thank you Rachel. Between you and your dysfunction partner in liberal crime, MSNBC just can't quit support the left wing lunacy mold affecting America.

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[Scurrilous]

6. K & R

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