Bob McCarty Writes

A friend forwarded an e-mail this morning that contained information I think you’ll find worth noting from Floyd Brown at the Policy Issues Institute via WorldNetDaily.

The e-mail serves two functions:

First, it invites people to join a movement to Impeach President Barack Obama; and

Second, it asks people to donate funds to finance the effort.

Rather than ask you to get involved in this effort based solely on any influence I might wield, I point you instead to the message’s meat-and-potatoes information about impeaching a president as contained in Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution:

“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.”

The message continued:

Obama hasn’t committed treason or accepted bribes… at least any that we know about… yet. But is Obama guilty of committing ‘high crimes and misdemeanors?’

And what does “high crimes and misdemeanors” mean anyway?

Our Framers were very familiar with the term… it’s from English Common Law, and essentially means “bad behavior.”

Are we saying that our Founding Fathers set the standard for impeachment of the President of the United states at “bad behavior?”

Yes.

It also included information from CSPAN that explains the intent of our Founding Fathers more clearly:

“The Congress decides the definition [of impeachable offenses]: by majority vote in the House for impeachment, and by 2/3 vote in the Senate for conviction. The Framers of the Constitution deliberately put impeachment into the hands of the legislative branch rather than the judicial branch, thus transforming it from strictly a matter of legal definition to a matter of political judgment.”

“Representative Gerald Ford put it into practical perspective in 1970, when he said an impeachable offense is ‘whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.’”

Finally, the message writer asked four important questions and provided one clear answer to them all:

Is it an impeachable offense for a president to attempt to take over every major industry?

Is it an impeachable offense to devastate the world’s best health system?

Is it an impeachable offense to be so blind to reality and so compliant to the worst elements of radical terrorists… that you put American lives at extreme risk?

Is such behavior beyond bad… is it a crime against a free people?

You better believe it. Case-closed… Now let’s roll.

Again, I’m not telling you what to do (as if I could), but I do think its past time to “IMPEACH OBAMA!” Don’t you?