Sarah Palin Is Right! by Mike Gold – Brainiac On Banjo #372 | @MDWorld
July 21, 2014 Mike Gold 5 Comments
Yep. I said it. Sarah’s right. Barack Obama should be impeached.
Damn. Now your blood pressure is spiking. I am so sorry.
Do you remember that schoolyard bully who grabs a kid, puts him in a hold, takes his arm and starts bashing his face, all the while screaming “why do you keep hitting yourself?” over and over. Well, for the past several weeks, John Boehner has been talking about suing Obama for acting presidential, after five years of being told by John Boehner he hasn’t shown any leadership skills. John’s idea of leadership is blocking each and every move the President makes and then blaming him for not doing anything.
John Boehner is a pussy. He doesn’t have the balls to press for impeachment. Or, perhaps, he remembers what happened the last time his ilk impeached a President: Bill Clinton went from being a guy with a strange cigar fetish to being the most popular man in the nation.
No, Boehner is still a pussy. Stop crying, Orangeman, and show a little leadership yourself. If the President committed sufficient crimes to warrant a civil suit, he has committed sufficient crimes to warrant impeachment. Congress says one of the grounds for impeachment is “exceeding the powers of the office in derogation of those of another branch of government.” My source is the 1974 Judiciary Committee’s report to Congress following the Watergate folderol, and that means it was a report issued and approved by a Democratic Congress. Um tut sut, mofo.
Isn’t that exactly what Boehner is laying at Obama’s feet? I mean, word for word? If Obama exceeded the powers of his office in derogation of those of Congress, you don’t call Judge Judy, you impeach him and have him tried by the Senate.
Sarah Palin makes up for her considerable lack of intelligence and commitment with pure tits-to-the-wind nothing-to-lose courage. No namby-pamby lawsuits for her. Obama exceeded the powers of his office in derogation of those of Congress, so, um tut sut, you impeach him and go to the Senate for a trial presided over by Republican Überführer Chief Justice Johnny Roberts. If Sarah knew anything about the process, she might be skeptical of doing this before a Democratic majority in the Senate, but, hey, she’s got her hanging judge.
I realize there’s a possibility the Senate majority might go red this November. You still need a two-thirds vote in the Senate to remove a federal official from office. But Sarah either doesn’t know that or she doesn’t care. History indicates that she doesn’t know that and she doesn’t care.
But she’s got the guts to call a spade a spade. John Boehner is a spineless little pussy mewing up at the sky.
Put up or shut up, Boehner. I vote for the latter.
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Rick Oliver
July 21, 2014 - 8:38 am
Heard an interesting analysis of Cantor’s primary loss on NPR a few weeks ago which boiled down to: Any Republican perceived as making any attempt at compromise in order to effectively govern is at risk from Tea Party challengers. So Boehner is between a rock and a hard place. He’s fully aware of how badly a full court press could backfire, but he has to do something to make it at least look like he’s still on the same team.
George Haberberger
July 21, 2014 - 9:51 am
“Bill Clinton went from being a guy with a strange cigar fetish to being the most popular man in the nation.”
Well, he wasn’t that popular with the Arkansas State Bar which made him surrender his law license “for inaccurate responses he gave under oath”. In other words, for perjury. And don’t forget the cost of all that legal representation left the Clintons “dead broke.”
Palin is not stupid and her experience in government far exceeded Obama’s. I’ve expressed all this before and have made my opinions known here and other places on the web. Specifically here: https://mdwp.malibulist.com/2013/01/rape-me-by-martha-thomases-brilliant-disguise-mdworld/
Rick Oliver
July 21, 2014 - 11:39 am
Sarah Palin was a city council member and mayor of a town with a population of 8,000. I live in a town with a population of three times that size, and no one in the world would count our mayor’s three terms as “experience” for any kind of national office. Palin was subsequently very briefly the governor of a state with a population so low it has more senators than congressional representatives. And if she’s not stupid, then she’s very clever at behaving as if she were.
Obama served eight years in the Illinois senate prior to being elected to the U.S. Senate, followed by two years of experience in the Senate prior to starting his run for the white house. He’s also a constitutional lawyer, which should count for something in the “experience” category.
You might make an argument that they were equally unqualified, but I’m not sure on what planet Palin’s experience “far exceeds” Obama’s.
George Haberberger
July 21, 2014 - 3:14 pm
Regarding Palin’s experience, I don’t want to rehash everything I said in the link above but just a small sample is:
As the governor of Alaska she was the executive over 16,000 full-time state employees and a $12 billion budget. In comparison, when Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992, Arkansas’s state budget was $2 million and among the smallest in the country. Alaska is larger than all but 18 sovereign countries
She was the commander in chief of Alaska’s National Guard and Alaska has a longer coastline than all other states combined.
She had more executive responsibility and control than the governors of all other states except Massachusetts based on budgetary and appointment authority and veto power,
And regarding Obama’s time in the Illinois Senate this from the New York Times:
“In the end, Mr. Obama chose neither to vote for nor against the bill. He voted “present,” effectively sidestepping the issue, an option he invoked nearly 130 times as a state senator.”
That does not exhibit a wealth of experience, unless sidestepping responsibility is considered experience. And since he is a constitutional lawyer, I would expect him to have a bit more respect for the constitution by adhering to his oath to defend it.
Rick Oliver
July 22, 2014 - 12:01 pm
Sarah Palin was governor of Alaska for two years. Alaska is large in land area, but very low in population. The total population of the state is well under 1 million. Only three states have fewer inhabitants. That enormous budget you seem to be so impressed by means that “Alaska spends significantly more money per capita than any other state.” So if by “experience” you mean “two years of experience spending more per capita than any other state government”, then, sure, she has “experience”.
George Haberberger
July 22, 2014 - 3:31 pm
Since you had this line in quotes: “Alaska spends significantly more money per capita than any other state.” I searched for it and found this website: http://www.alaskabudget.com/spending/
The rest of the paragraph is more enlightening. “In FY 2012, the state spent $13 billion, or more than $17,000 for each person in the state. Alaska’s spending may appear inflated by the money “spent” on Permanent Fund dividends, which pass through the state budget on their way to Alaska residents, and by money the state deposits into savings accounts, which is also counted in total spending, as well as the large amount of federal funds the state receives. Without dividends and savings though, Alaska still ranks first in the nation in per person spending ($13,000 per person), but 38th in terms of total spending. Other states with small populations (Delaware, Wyoming, Rhode Island, North Dakota) also regularly appear in the top 5 for per capita spending but near the bottom in total state spending.”
The page further reveals that Alaska spends its money on infrastructure, (which because of the state’s size, is significant); saving for the future, (certainly a noble, if rare, practice for government); and paying Permanent Fund Dividends to Alaska residents, (a state law created in 1982 when Palin was 18 and not in government).
What I fail to see is how any of reflects badly on Palin. Other facts from her administration that are in the link above: She cut spending and vetoed hundreds of millions of dollars in spending, not because times were tough, but because she wanted to keep government small and solvent. She reformed Alaska’s pension system and used surplus dollars to help pay down underfunded pensions, which reduced Alaska’s liabilities by 34.6 % to help provide analysts at Moody’s with enough confidence to later upgrade Alaska’s credit rating to AAA. She also reduced earmark requests for the state of Alaska by 80% during her administration.
This is experience. It is not voting “Present” 130 times.
George Haberberger
July 22, 2014 - 3:33 pm
Left out a work above:
What I fail to see is how any of THIS reflects badly on Palin.
R. Maheras
July 24, 2014 - 11:21 am
Mike — I agree. Boehner is a wimp.
Rick wrote: Obama served eight years in the Illinois senate prior to being elected to the U.S. Senate, followed by two years of experience in the Senate prior to starting his run for the white house. He’s also a constitutional lawyer, which should count for something in the “experience” category.”
Oh, god. Don’t get this Chicago native started on Obama’s flimsy experience level. And while I disagree with George’s statement that Palin’s political experience “far exceeded” Obama’s, I think the two were both way too green to have been on presidential tickets. As I’ve stated before, I think the 2008 two-party slate was probably the weakest group of candidates voters had seen in more than 100 years.
Re: Obama’s constitutional scholarship creds. His peers at UC barely knew he was around. He made no lasting impression on anyone, and published nothing scholarly of note.
Re: Obama’s state senator creds. First of all, as Hilary Clinton rightly pointed out during the 2008 presidential primary campaign, Obama’s Illinois Senate stint was a part-time job — he and his fellow 58 state senators met in Springfield about 110 days a year. Second, Obama’s entire eight-year run was glaringly unremarkable.
Re: Obama’s US Senate creds. He was a freshman senator who barely got to learn basic US Senate procedures and serve on a few committees before he announced he was running for president.
The fact is, while I thought he had the basic skills to represent Illinois in the US Senate, if I’d have known he lied to us and was planning on a quick-turn run for the presidency in 2008, there’s no way I would have voted for him in 2004.