IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES
MichaelConnelly.Viviti.com
I have recently been asked by a number of
different people if I think that the President of
the United States, Barack Obama, has committed any
offenses that subject him to being impeached by the
Congress of the United States. The answer is without
a doubt yes because he is repeatedly breached his
oath of office. The oath of office of the President
of the United States the simple and concise. It
reads:
"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute
the office of President of the United States, and
will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect,
and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Instead of living up to that oath, President Obama
has actively attempted to subvert, ignore, and
completely destroy large parts of the Constitution.
I believe the President of the United States is well
aware of what he is doing, and it is completely
intentional. Listed below are what I believe are
impeachable offenses and the list continues to grow.
1. President Obama has appointed numerous people to
cabinet level positions without the advice and
consent of the U.S. Senate, as is required by the
Constitution. These individuals are given
extraordinary power and independent funding, and are
not under the scrutiny of Congress. The fact that
Obama calls them Czars does not make them legal.
2. The push by Pres. Obama to pass health
care legislation in the Congress of the United
States that he was fully aware was unconstitutional.
He has continued to use his powers and executive
branch of government to implement this legislation
despite the fact that a federal judge has declared
the entire law unconstitutional, and ordered that it
not be implemented.
3. Despite the fact that the United States
Senate refused to pass the Cap and Trade bill, the
President has ordered the Environmental Protection
Agency to use regulations to implement key portions
of the bill, including those regulating so-called
greenhouse gases. Obama himself has acknowledged
that this will force energy prices in this country
to skyrocket. He is taking these actions in direct
defiance of the will of the people of the United
States, the will of Congress, and the Constitution.
4. Through the Department of the Interior
Obama has placed a moratorium on offshore oil
drilling or exploration off both the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts of the United States and in parts of
the Gulf of Mexico. He is also prohibited new
drilling exploration in any states in the United
States. These actions by the Department of Interior
have continued in direct defiance of several court
orders issued by a federal judge in New Orleans,
Louisiana the declared that the department had no
authority to issue such a moratorium. In fact the
Secretary of the Department of the Interior has been
held in contempt by the same judge.
5. Instead of allowing American companies to
drill for oil domestically, Obama has betrayed the
American people and authorized loans of billions of
dollars to countries like Brazil and Mexico so that
they can drill for oil, and then sell that oil to
the United States. This will dramatically increase
our dependence on foreign nations such as Venezuela,
Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and even Libya that do not
serve the interest of America or the American
people.
6. President Obama has abdicated his
responsibility to enforce the laws of the United
States against illegal immigration. He has virtually
declared our southern border an open border by
declaring certain areas of federal land in states
like Arizona as off-limits to federal, state, and
local authorities. This is despite the fact that
these areas are being used to bring in thousands of
illegal immigrants, massive amounts of drugs, and
also being used by foreign terrorists to infiltrate
the United States. He has also ordered the border
patrol not to arrest most illegal immigrants
entering the country, and has stopped deportation
proceedings against thousands of people in this
country illegally. He is bypassing the Congress of
the United States which has sole authority over
immigration matters.
7. The President and his Atty. Gen. Eric
Holder have clearly violated their oath of office by
joining with foreign countries in a lawsuit against
the sovereign state of Arizona to stop it from
enforcing the federal immigration laws.
8. President Obama has ordered the Federal
Communications Commission to adopt regulations
giving the federal government control of the
Internet and its contents, including providing Obama
with a kill switch that gives him authority to shut
down the Internet if he sees fit. This is in direct
violation of a decision by the United States Supreme
Court that the FCC has no Constitutional authority
to control the Internet.
9. One of the paramount responsibilities of
the President of the United States and his executive
branch of government is to enforce and defend laws
adopted by Congress unless they are declared
unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court.
Obama has decided that he should ignore this
Constitutional mandate, and that as President he is
more powerful than either the Congress of the United
States or the Supreme Court. He has unilaterally
declared that the Defense of Marriage Act passed by
the Congress is unconstitutional, and further
declared that he will not have the Justice
Department defend it against lawsuits. He has
essentially said that he is the supreme ruler of the
United States, and that the Congress and the Federal
Judiciary are irrelevant.
10. It has recently been learned that acting through
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms the
Obama administration has been involved for the past
several months in getting legitimate and law-abiding
gun store owners along our southern border to supply
weapons to straw buyers that the government knew
would deliver them to the drug cartels in Mexico.
This was billed as a sting operation against the
cartels when in fact it was designed to produce
fraudulent data showing that large numbers of
weapons were going from the United States to the
Mexican drug dealers. This data was then to be used,
and is being used, to try to justify new gun control
regulations to limit the rights of American citizens
to keep and bear arms. It has nothing to do with
arresting members of the drug operations. The
administration has, in effect, armed our enemies,
and one border patrol agent has already been killed
by one of these weapons. Now, he intends to impose
gun control laws by Executive order so he will not
have to deal with Congress.
11. The President of the United States is not
authorized by the Constitution to take our nation to
war without the consent of the Congress of the
United States. The only exception to this is the
authority granted to the President by Congress under
the War Powers Act. This law allows the President to
take immediate action without the consent of
Congress if there is an imminent threat to the
security of the United States, or its citizens.
Although there was clearly no such imminent threat
caused by the Civil War in Libya, the President
committed members of the United States military to
combat missions in a foreign country without the
consent of Congress. He based his authority on a
United Nations resolution, and a resolution by the
Arab League.
12. Last but not the least, of my dirty dozen of
impeachable offenses, is the fact that since taking
office the President has used executive orders, laws
pushed through Congress in the dark of night, and
administrative actions by his departments to
nationalize and control automobile manufacturers,
banks, insurance companies, and portions of the
healthcare industry. This is designed to take our
country from a free enterprise economy to a
socialist economy. There is absolutely no authority
in the Constitution of te United States that allows
the President to do this.
Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution provides
as follows:
“The President, Vice President and all civil
Officers of the United States shall be removed from
Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of,
Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and
Misdemeanors."
I contend that among those high crimes and misdemeanors is the
intentional violation of the oath of office
administered to the President and all other federal
officials. In fact, federal law at 5 U.S.C. 7311
specifically provides that violation of the oath of
office includes advocating the overthrowing of our
constitutional form of government. This is
specifically declared a criminal offense in 18
U.S.C. 1918 and is punishable by both a fine and
imprisonment.
In the 12 areas I mentioned in the paragraphs
above I firmly believe that Obama, Eric Holder, and
numerous other members of his administration have
gone beyond just advocating the overthrow of our
constitutional form of government. They are actually
engaged in making it happen, and as a result should
be impeached and convicted.
Will there be an impeachment and conviction
in the current Congress? Probably not, since it
takes a two thirds vote in the House of
Representatives to impeach, and a two thirds vote in
the Senate to convict. With Harry Reid and the
progressives still in control of the Senate, and
many of them guilty of some of the same impeachable
offenses, they will resist it.
However, we are the American people and we still have a right to control our government, and the people elected to represent us. Therefore, I am personally calling on the conservative members the House of Representatives to bring this action based on the grounds I have enumerated so that the American people can understand what is really at stake here. Then “we the people,” can make our voices heard.