Monday, July 07, 2014

Obama’s Border Dissolution Is Treason. The Answer Is Impeachment. It Would Work.

It’s now nearly three years since VDARE.com’s Federale pointed out that President Obama had begun an Administrative Amnesty, unilaterally abrogating immigration law he had sworn to uphold—and that the appropriate answer was impeachment. Needless to say, our warning was ignored by the Romney campaign (which duly lost) and by Conservatism Inc. media mouthpieces (which had to play catch up, not for the first time). Now impeachment talk is everywhere:
The “I-word” – impeachment – is creeping back into the political lexicon nearly 16 years after the House of Representatives impeached President Bill Clinton for lying under oath about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
From conservative media outlets to the campaign trail to book stores, chatter about impeaching Obama and members of his administration has heated up in recent weeks. It’s fueled by conservative anger over the president’s increasing use of executive actions on issues such as immigration and air pollution regulations, the exchange of Taliban detainees for the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdhal, and the familiar issue of the Affordable Care Act.
[Some on right push to impeach Obama, By William Douglas, Sacramento Bee, July 2, 2014. Links in original, except to Andy McCarthy’s book; VDARE.com emphasis.]
Just before the Independence Day Immigration Day weekend, Obama upped the ante yet again by proclaiming petulantly that, because the (n.b. democratically-elected) House of Representatives would not bend to his will, he would act alone i.e. expand the Administrative Amnesty. Simultaneously, he has allowed the southern border to dissolve in a surreal parody of Camp of the Saints [Immigrant moms crossing Texas border at alarming rate, by Rick Jervis, USA Today, July 5, 2014]as part of a clearly-calculated drive to Elect A New People.

It’s no surprise that the Congressional GOP Leadership (J. Boehner, proprietor) doesn’t want to accept its constitutional responsibility and impeach: it’s on the other side. But some sensible immigration patriots are quailing at impeachment too, for example RedState’s Erick Erickson (here) and Daily Caller’s Mickey Kaus (here).