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McDonough wants to Impeach Obama

Potential US Senate or Congressional candidate and sitting Maryland Delegate Pat McDonough (R-MD) says that President Barack Obama should be impeached. Monoblogue has more on the story. Here's an excerpt from the monoblogue piece:

I won’t be able to make his press conference later today, but I suppose the question now is whether Pat wants to draw up the articles of impeachment next year or serve as one of the jurors. He delivered a scathing indictment of the President, part of which is detailed here:

“President Obama has created a backdoor amnesty law for 15 million illegal aliens through an unlawful policy that circumvents Congress. The consequences and impact of this reckless action on the people of the United States is enormous.”

“Mr. Obama’s administration with its characterization of citizens as terrorists, creation of enemies’ lists, and the attack against state laws with tax payers’ financed litigation is beginning to make Richard Nixon look like a Boy Scout. Lawlessness and disrespect for justice are promoting the illegal alien agenda,” said Delegate McDonough.

It’s obvious Pat is a hardliner on immigration, as evidenced by his role in the recent SB167 petition drive. But it would be the longest of shots that President Obama would actually be impeached, and it’s not even certain that he’ll be in office if Pat is indeed elected since polls show a number of Republicans neck-and-neck with him at this stage in the game. (I know, that and $5 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.) Yet Pat “maintains that if he were a member of the Senate or the House of Representatives, he would initiate the articles of impeachment process.”

Dagger Press reportedly has a larger press release from McDonough, including the specific bullet points that McDonough would argue are the reasons for impeachment. Here's an excerpt from that piece:

1. Forcing people to buy health insurance, the individual mandate has been losing in the courts.

2. Launching a war in Libya ignoring the WAR POWERS ACT.

3. Refusing to enforce the FEDERAL DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT.

4. Injecting race into the VOTING RIGHTS ACT. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. declined to prosecute new Black Panther Party members caught on video openly intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place in 2008. Two former Justice Department employees were told they should not enforce portions of the law, if the complainants are right.

5. Using the EPA to enforce a radical environmental agenda.

6. Allowing the FCC to grab the internet. Congress and a Federal Appeals Court rejected the Federal Communications Commission’s claim to have regulatory authority over the internet. Yet, the FCC released net neutrality rules.

7. Attacking the state for upholding the federal law. The Justice Department sued Arizona and other states for attempting to enforce the Federal Immigration Act.

8. Using the national Labor Relations Board as a goon squad. The NLRB sued to stop the Boeing Company from building a new plant in the “right to work” state of South Carolina because unions in Washington State objected. Nowhere in the Constitution does the federal government have the right to tell a business where they can operate. These examples were from an editorial in the Washington Times by Robert Knight, a senior fellow for the American Civil Rights Union.

9. Another heavy-handed intervention by the Obama administration has been their regulatory interference in the Gulf drilling process and other energy issues.

Now, I disagree with the President on a number of issues - but I'm not quite sure we have grounds for impeachment. At all. It also is a wasted effort and, frankly, not a serious hill to die on. Not sure what reason McDonough has for releasing his articles for impeachment besides to keep himself in the press and maybe appeal to a certain segment of Republican voters. Doesn't appeal to this voter, however. I still say we already have a better candidate for US Senate than McDonough running and, frankly, I'm not convinced he's the best person to run in Maryland's 2nd Congressional district...and he's the only reported candidate.