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Jack Kingston toys with impeachment fire [View all]
By Jay Bookman
As our folks at Political Insider have noted, U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston recently opened the door to pursuing the impeachment of President Obama. In an interview with Aaron McCready, a metro Atlanta resident who hosts his own Internet-based talk show, it went down like this:
Kingston: I do think that the move by John Boehner in terms of suing the president is the right step ... I think he's done plenty wrong for a lawsuit. Not a day goes by when people don’t talk to us about impeachment. I don’t know what rises to that level yet, but I know that there’s a mounting frustration that a lot of people are getting to and I think Congress is going to start looking at it very seriously.
McCready: Well, if this lawsuit, and I said this in the first half of the show. I’m concerned about this lawsuit because, and first of all, I agree that the president needs to be held accountable. But with this lawsuit, by the time there’s any resolution in it, he’ll be out of office, so is this maybe the first step to issue articles of impeachment?
Kingston: You know, it could go in that direction if there was a big discussion. I mean, I think it’s possible. It just keeps getting worse and worse. It could go in that direction."
McCready: Well, if this lawsuit, and I said this in the first half of the show. I’m concerned about this lawsuit because, and first of all, I agree that the president needs to be held accountable. But with this lawsuit, by the time there’s any resolution in it, he’ll be out of office, so is this maybe the first step to issue articles of impeachment?
Kingston: You know, it could go in that direction if there was a big discussion. I mean, I think it’s possible. It just keeps getting worse and worse. It could go in that direction."
If you listen to the interview (available here: the section quoted above begins shortly after the 46-minute mark), you find that McCready did not steer the conversation toward the direction of impeachment. Kingston volunteers the remarks quoted above, without prodding. They were part of the message that he sought to communicate.
In those remarks, Kingston of course offers no serious legal grounds for pursuing impeachment. That's because in the conservative world, the fact that they hate Obama very very very very much somehow substitutes for the "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors" required as an impeachment standard in Article Two, Section 4 of the Constitution.
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http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/jay-bookman/2014/jul/16/jack-kingston-toys-impeachment-fire/
Kingston was/is one of the worst Bushco defenders, there was nothing Bush could do that he didn't want to cheer on.
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