It isn’t about whether you can get it, you likely can’t given the Democrats are holding the Senate at the moment.
But it is about doing the right thing. Congratulations to the South Dakota Republicans for their ethics and efforts.
Start putting people under oath and get things on the record. There has to be an accounting or laws mean nothing.
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – The state’s Republicans passed a resolution during their June 21 state convention, which called for the impeachment of the president.
The resolution claims that President Obama has “violated his oath of office in numerous ways,” specifically citing the exchange of five senior Taliban officials for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl without congressional notification or oversight.
Obama’s statement that people would be allowed to keep their insurance companies under Obamacare, as well as his recent EPA regulations on power plants were also key issues.
“Therefore, be it resolved that the South Dakota Republican Party calls on our U.S. Representatives to initiate impeachment proceedings against the president of the United States,” reads the resolution.
Allen Unruh of Sioux Falls was one of the resolutions sponsors. “I’ve got a thick book of impeachable offenses of the president,” Unruh said. He called on South Dakota Republicans to “send a symbolic massage that liberty shall be the law of the land.”
A retired Marine from Butte County, Larry Klipp, agreed, saying that matters have gone beyond mere political disagreement with Obama.
“If anyone in this room cannot see the horrendous, traitorous scandals run by the Obama administration, I will pray for you,” he said.
Delegates voted 191-176 in favor of the resolution.
Representative Kristi Noem, South Dakota’s lone member of the House of Representatives, was cool to the idea. “The best way for Congress to hold the president accountable is to continue aggressive committee oversight and investigations into the administration’s action like the ongoing VA scandal, the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS, Benghazi, and the recent Taliban prisoner exchange,” said Noem’s spokesperson, Brittany Comins.
If the House does vote to impeach Obama, the Senate would then rule on the validity, which would then require a two-thirds majority in the Senate to remove Obama.
Article 2 of the Articles of Impeachment adopted by House Judiciary Committee on July 27, 1974.
"Using the powers of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in disregard of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has repeatedly engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens, impairing the due and proper administration of justice and the conduct of lawful inquiries, or contravening the laws governing agencies of the executive branch and the purposed of these agencies.
This conduct has included one or more of the following: 1.He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavoured to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be intitiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner."
"It's inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it. I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives. ... I'll do everything in my power to make sure nothing like this happens again by holding the responsible parties accountable. ..." -- President Barack Obama condemning "misconduct" at the Internal Revenue Service, May 15, 2013.