WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that if President Obama moves forward with a rumored executive order to legalize five million illegal immigrants, he will be trying to provoke Republicans to impeach him because that would help Democrats in the midterm elections.

“There is a rumor that the president, around Labor Day, may use executive action to legalize five million people who are here outside the law,” Gingrich said during a speech Tuesday, sponsored by the Young America’s Foundation. “And I think if they do it, it will be trying to provoke the Republicans to institute impeachment.”

Asked if Republicans should impeach Obama, Gingrich replied: “No.”

“It won’t succeed in impeaching Obama,” Gingrich said. “It’s the Democrats who want to talk about it because they raise money off of it.”

Gingrich, speaking at the 36th Annual National Conservative Student Conference at George Washington University, explained that Democrats are able to increase fundraising numbers by making their base think impeachment is a real possibility. But Speaker of the House John Boehner ruled out the possibility of that happening on Tuesday.

Obama is considering legalizing five million illegal immigrants who are parents of American-born children, according to reports. “The country would go crazy if the president were to do something so stupid,” Gingrich said.

The plan could backfire politically on Democrats, he said. The right move for Republicans if Obama issues such an executive action, Gingrich said, would be to move a bill in the House saying it’s illegal. As that bill would move to the Senate, it would put Senate Democrats in an awkward position, he theorized.

“And the Democrats running for re-election even in seats that look like they’re not in trouble would be in trouble overnight,” he said.


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/29/newt-o.../#ixzz38undvSiG

Does he deserve impeachment? Absolutely!

Is it the wisest strategy? No

Use the damn power of the purse and strangle back. Put the choke hold on funding until this guy gets it. He isn't the Emperor. The courts are slow. By the time the SC gets the challenge it's too late! Grab the throat and force the issue to be faced with the best response given under the Constitution.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/brittany...-obamas-amnesty

CNSNews.com) -- Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) issued a statement Tuesday declaring that Congress “must use its spending power” to prevent President Obama from using executive power to grant amnesty to thousands of illegal aliens.

“The Obama Administration has openly declared its plan to implement a unilateral executive amnesty for 5 to 6 million more illegal immigrants. This unlawful amnesty, urged on by congressional Democrats, would include work permits, taking jobs directly from millions of struggling American citizens,” Sessions said.

“Any action Congress might consider to address the current border crisis would be futile should the President go forward with these lawless actions,” he added, declaring that “Congress must speak out and fight against them.”

“It must use its spending power to stop the President’s executive amnesty,” Sessions urged.

Sessions also called out House Republican leadership for not including stipulations in their proposed $659 million border security bill, scheduled to come before the House later this week, that would block Obama from using his executive power to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. According to Sessions, the bill allows for “loopholes” and is “a plan for expedited asylum, not expedited removal.”

“That the House leaders’ border package includes no language on executive actions is surrender to a lawless President, and it is a submission to the subordination of congressional power,” Sessions claimed.

Sessions said the House bill will not “make our rogue president actively enforce anything, coming nowhere close to the kinds of reasonable enforcement activities needed to restore the interior application of our immigration laws.”

“A package that is silent on blocking amnesty creates an opportunity for Senate Democrats to add elements of their party’s open borders and mass immigration agenda,” he said. “This legislation is unworthy of support.”

Impatient with the stalemate in Congress over comprehensive immigration reform, President Obama promised last month to "fix as much of our immigration system as I can, without Congress."

According to press reports, Obama plans to use his executive power to grant work permits to potentially millions of illegal aliens, with some Democratic lawmakers calling on him to also unilaterally defer deportations.

Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 of the U.S. Constitution says: "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time."

from Jonah Goldberg's recent column

"Sorry to email you late on a Friday, but I need your urgent support," Nancy Pelosi wrote me.

The House minority leader went on to explain that "for the first time in history, Congress voted to sue a sitting president." And, "Today: the White House alerted us that they believe 'Speaker Boehner ... has opened the door to impeachment.'

"What Republicans are doing to President Obama is historic -- and offensive," she wrote. And then, in a bright bold red text that can't be done justice in black and white, she chided me, "With everything happening right now, I'm a little disappointed to see that you haven't had a chance to chip in to defend President Obama.
"Jonah -- we could use your support today."

Nancy (apparently we're on a first-name basis) went on to promise that ALL GIFTS ARE TRIPLE MATCHED!

But what is interesting about these emails is the transparent glee. Far more than Republicans, Democrats love talking about impeachment. Not just Pelosi and the DCCC, but White House spokesman Josh Earnest, Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer and first lady Michelle Obama all chummed the waters with the I-word, igniting a frenzy among reporters who pretend that this is a real thing.

http://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgold...medium=facebook

http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/29/krauth...chable-offense/

"Like many on the right, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer is politically opposed to impeaching President Barack Obama. But on Tuesday, he declared that legally, the rumored White House order granting amnesty to as many as 6 million illegal immigrants “would be an impeachable offense” — and Obama’s talk of impeachment may be a way to preempt that pushback" Krauthammer