Report: Obama Worried About Impeachment

By Todd Cefaratti 


The people of America twice elected a president- not a dictator. While a president is obliged to wield a great amount of power, his power is not unlimited. He is the nation’s top law enforcer- the man who, whether he agrees with a law or not, is honor-bound to enforce the nation’s laws created by the legislative branch.

Free from the burden of reelection, Emperor Obama has been failing in his duties by acting more and more as a despot and circumventing Congress. Congress embodies the will of the people and by ruling via executive orders, the president is not merely cutting out Congress…

 

…He’s cutting the American people out of the mechanisms of government.

 

Now, with several top conservatives howling for his impeachment, President Obama seems to be mindful of the fact that what he’s doing could land him on the unemployment line. 

According to a report in Politico, during a meeting with pro-illegal immigration demanding executive orders to facilitate amnesty, Obama wondered, “You’re not going to get me impeached, are you?”

 

Politico reports:  

President Barack Obama listened to immigration activists run through a long wish list of executive actions – then added a request of his own.

 

“You’re not going to get me impeached, are you?” Obama said, according to people in a private White House meeting late last month. “Because there’s lots of other things I want to do besides immigration.”

 

The president was joking … mostly. Obama said he was frustrated that Republicans wouldn’t talk about passing an immigration bill but were openly toying with an impeachment vote over the notion that he would use his executive powers to circumvent Congress. 

The issue came up enough in the meeting, one person in the room said, that it caused some anxiety among immigration reform advocates that Obama could use the threat of impeachment as a rationale against going too big or too fast on executive actions.  

The president is right to be wary of these zealots. The president is, in no way, a law creator. He is to enforce the law or should otherwise be removed to make way for someone who will. He has the power to veto laws and he can exert political influence, but granting amnesty via an executive order is like granting a royal decree- something we swore off long ago as incompatible with our republic’s ideals.

 

On Wednesday, Obama met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to ensure them that he would not be backing down on his pledge to ease deportations and to secure money to house and reward those who have come here illegally. 

Obama and his supporters continually claim that those coming here illegally are children; however, these “children” include late-teens and full-grown adults- a fact often unreported in news reports from the mainstream media.

 

It’s good that impeachment is on Obama’s radar, but the truth is that impeachment should be on the minds of every lawmaker who cares about law and order. Whether one agrees with the policies of this president or not, we all must agree that we live in a republic centered on the concept of law and order and a president simply must be willing to enforce the law and he must refrain from creating new laws with a pen and a phone.