2008 GWB vs. 2015 BHO Impeachment Actions

It will not be surprising that there will not be a peep or whisper from any mainstream media liberals that President Obama has ever committed any impeachable offenses, much less than ever going forward with a loud brouhaha about any signed articles of impeachment against Obama like what was passed in the House against President George W. Bush. The so-called charges detailed in the G.W. Bush impeachment resolution had indicated an unprecedented abuse of his executive power to sell the war in Iraq to the American people. So after all of the screaming in the end-game scenario for G.W. Bush as a shameless lame duck President, he left public office rendering those impeachment efforts moot. The public spectacles, however, were created.

President B.H. Obama also leaves as lame duck President, but with no such taint of impeachment resolutions about his Presidential Order on immigration or loud media uproar about his shamelessness since the liberal congress will do nothing and the silent press were complicit with President Obama. The public spectacular lies, however, will be created. 

Background Info: Jonathan Turley in 2007 was a frequent on-air legal analyst contributor to the uber-liberal Keith Oberman host on his 'Countdown' show on the left-wing Air-America channel. Both the 'Countdown' show which is now defunct and the Air-America channel struggled due to low viewer ratings which went off the air in January 2010. 

Bio: Professor Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law. He has written over three dozen academic articles that have appeared in a variety of leading law journals at Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, University of Chicago, and other schools.

Jonathan Turley has historically picked upon the liberal vanguards of societal injustice, progressive political causes and ideas to champion. However, many of his personal views align with the ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, which further enable political debate on whether those views really value our core basic Constitutional principles or open them up to Supreme Court Judicial review to revise the Constitutional Laws as written. It is this revisionist interpretation that is undermining our Republic today while turning over power to the Federal government instead of the people.

An interesting and informative 'rear-view mirror' glance back to the Jonathan Turley blog site in an October 2007 visitor question has an eye-opening response from Jonathan Turley.

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Blog Site Question: 

On 1, October 16, 2007 at 10:19 pm             James B. Roth

Dear Mr. Turley,

PLEASE help me!!

Knowing the Constitution and Bill of Rights as well as you do, would you say that Bush and/or Cheney have violated the Constitution and/or Bill of Rights enough to be impeached?

My congressman, Robert Wexler, (D-FL U.S. Rep.) says no. If he is mistaken, I would like to give him a list of impeachable offenses if I could. Please help me to compile such a list.

Respectfully,
JBR

Blog Site Reponse:

on 1, October 17, 2007 at 11:55 pm                  

Dear Mr. Roth,

In my view, President Bush clearly committed an impeachable offense in ordering the domestic surveillance program which is a federal crime.

The Democrats, however, allowed the law to be extended in one of the most bizarre decisions in decades. The White House immediately claimed that the move established its legality. There are a variety of alleged violations of law but little serious effort in Congress to force disclosure of the information. Years ago, Democratic leadership promised not to allow impeachment investigations let alone proceedings.

Jonathan Turley

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Ex Post Facto Info: 

On June 10, 2008 U.S. Rep. Wexler co-sponsored and signed Dennis Kucinich's articles of impeachment for George W. Bush. He referred to the Congressional Oath of Office saying it was the duty of Congress to act, and stated: "President Bush deliberately created a massive propaganda campaign to sell the war in Iraq to the American people and the charges detailed in this impeachment resolution indicate an unprecedented abuse of executive power."

The House voted 251 to 166 to refer the impeachment resolution to the Judiciary Committee on July 25, 2008, where no further action was taken on it. Bush's presidency ended on January 20, 2009, with the completion of his second term in office, rendering impeachment efforts moot.  

As American as Apple Pie - Cinco de Mayo

With the immigration issue on everyone's mind and how to solve the problem of citizenship and assimilation into American culture, it is natural for new Americans to embrace their ancestral culture with pride, but must also remember they have now pledged their allegiance to the United States of America as U.S. citizens.

Although Tacos, Pizza & Chocolate Cookies were invented in Mexico, Italy and the United States, respectively, some things are not what they seem. "Cinco de Mayo es no hecho en Mexico" - Cinco de Mayo was created in the U.S. for the U.S.  In fact, many Mexicans don't know why we crazy Americans call their national day of Independence as May 5. It has no association with Mexican Independence, but does commemorate a battle on May 5, 1862, in which the Mexican army defeated the French forces of Napoleon III.  It has been uniquely an American way to identify the Hispanounidenses, the "Hispanics of the United States."

Memo: El Grito, every 16^th of September since 1810 is the Mexican Fiesta par excellence! On this day Mexicans all over the world celebrate Mexico’s independence from Spanish rule.

Over a century later, the Chicano movement has picked up the "Cinco de Mayo" Independence Day as an expression of their demands for civil rights which did more to just make it laughably even a more American celebration.  It was a clever choice  because it didn't carry the risk of pitting different Hispanic nationalities against one another under the single banner of Mexican culture. After all, there are over twenty Spanish-speaking countries, mostly Mexico, but also Cuba, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Nicararagua, Guatemala, Dominican Republic and others in the Hispanic Melting Pot.

To the contrary, a racially prejudicial movement, “La Raza" (the race), Upside down US Flaghas undermined Hispanic assimilation into U.S. citizenship by teaching that the United States stole the southwest from Mexico, that the Pilgrims brought plagues to intentionally wipe out indigenous peoples, and that Thanksgiving should be changed to a day of atonement for the evil that the U.S. perpetrated on the Mexican people. La Raza demands that the United States return the southwest states back into Mexico. What we have here is something  insidious and used to teach disdain for the United States and the overthrow of our government. “Sowing of seeds of hate” has nothing to do with ethnic pride; it is an attempt by socialist radicals to use our Hispanics as pawns in their war against capitalism and the existing power structures. The ultimate La Raza disrespect: The US Flag flown on Cinco de Mayo upside down under the Mexican flag on an American High School flag pole in Montebello, California.

The Tucson School District offers a course: Mexican-American Studies, formerly known as “La Raza" (the race) Studies. Read this jaw-dropping excerpt, “An Epic Poem", from the course textbook which states:

I shed tears of sorrow, I sow seeds of hate
The force of tyranny of men who rule by farce and hypocrisy,
In a country that has wiped out all my history, stifled all my pride….
My land is lost and stolen, My culture has been raped
Poverty and city-living under the colonial system of the Anglo has frustrated our people’s culture
One note, especially to those young Chicanos, hard drugs and the drug culture is the invention of the gringo because he has no culture.
We have to destroy capitalism…The Declaration of Independence states that we the people have the right to revolution, the right to overthrow a government that has committed abuses and seeks complete control over the people. This is in order to clean out the corrupted, rotten officials that developed out of any type of capitalistic systems.

Obama at a La Raza speechSay President Obama, shouldn't these kind of La Raza textbook materials under the Federally funded Schools' curriculum be exposed during the current Senate Immigration System Debates? 

We are a land of immigrants and that fact has made us strong as a country. What unites us as a nation is the idea that we are all Americans, with allegiance to and pride in this country, even as we honor and respect the many cultures and countries that our families came from, La Raza supporters are not, they suborn treason.