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Bachmann: Impeach Obama? That's Up To Congress (VIDEO)
President Obama and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), the chair of the new House Tea Party Caucus, seems to be sitting on the fence over whether President Obama should be impeached. Instead, she's saying that those questions are up to Congress to determine.
In an interview with NewsMax, Bachmann was asked about former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo's (Republican/Constitution) statements that Obama should be impeached for allegedly refusing to secure the border in order to force an immigration reform package. Bachmann -- who has said that subpoenaing and investigating the Obama administration is "all we should do" if Republicans gain control of Congress -- didn't quite give a definite answer.
"When it comes to the issue of securing our borders, again it seems to have a political basis rather than a basis that is grounded in what is good for America, our economy, and the safety and health of the American people," said Bachmann. "Whether or not this is an impeachable offense is one that the Congress would have to make a determination on. But I think clearly the president isn't acting out of the best interests of what would be good for people's safety and good for our economy."
The key moment comes at the 6:15 mark:
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Walter Mitty
July 28, 2010 1:44 PM
Support Tarryl Clark, who's running a smart, energetic take-the-fight-to-Bachmann campaign.
http://tarrylclark.com/
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Mrwilson1
July 28, 2010 1:47 PM
if Ms Bachmann is a spokesman for the tea party, that I think you can see what their agenda will be if they make any inroads into Congress during elections.
All you'll see is gridlock, nothing being done for the American people, there will be no going back to the Constitution as they quoted it, and the United States will take a step back into the past for the tea party wants us by their own inaction.
does anyone wonder where Ms. Bachmann was when George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and the other George W. Bush was when the borders were not being strengthened are protected? Why is it only now that that is a complaint worthy of impeachment? isn't the mass murder of almost 4000 of our own soldiers by in a upper management in the White House an impeachable complaint?
I would like to know if Ms. Bachmann ever is in the Congress representing her people. I would like to know how she keeps her job
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Matt Jones
July 28, 2010 2:15 PM in reply to Mrwilson1
Getting soldiers killed probably isn't impeachable - it is sort of the CiC's job.
Torturing prisoners and blatantly ignoring FISA to wiretap people, on the other hand, seem like they should have been impeachable.
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thepoliticalcat
July 28, 2010 3:24 PM in reply to Mrwilson1
Don't you remember? She was fawning over Bush, pawing him, hugging him, gazing at him in adoration.
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toddincabo
July 28, 2010 3:26 PM in reply to Mrwilson1
"I would like to know how she keeps her job"
Ain't that the damn truth. I have no desire to go anywhere near her district if the majority of people there are anywhere near as batshit crazy as this woman.
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VAsouthernliberal
July 28, 2010 1:48 PM
Are the voters in Minn. so desperate that they keep voting this idiot in office?
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toddincabo
July 28, 2010 3:30 PM in reply to VAsouthernliberal
I think I read somewhere last year that her district is like 98% white.
They're own mini Alabama goin' on.
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toddincabo
July 28, 2010 3:31 PM in reply to toddincabo
their
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stefsstuff
July 28, 2010 4:17 PM in reply to toddincabo
They also have the highest foreclosure rate in the state. What can Bachmann do for her district? Other than making a fool out of herself everytime she opens her mouth - NOTHING!
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agostage
July 28, 2010 4:29 PM in reply to VAsouthernliberal
It's just dist. 6 - I grew up there but now live in dist. 5 - where the Muslim Keith Ellison is our rep - a bit of a contrast.
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toddincabo
July 28, 2010 4:42 PM in reply to agostage
WOW !!!!
and she hasn't put up a fence yet ?
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ericf
July 28, 2010 5:06 PM in reply to toddincabo
After all the foreclosures, they can't afford the fence.
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Steve LaBonne
July 28, 2010 2:31 PM
It worked so well for them the last time. They lost ground in Congress and needed the Supreme Court's thumb on the scale to get Commander Codpiece in.
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jdb316
July 28, 2010 5:09 PM in reply to Steve LaBonne
Very true. Of course, you could also argue that the impeachment, and the Clinton scandal(s) that led to it, made Al Gore reluctant to embrace Clinton successes and gave Bush 2 a line of attack.
Yes, I know about the Supreme Court's shenanigans. But how did Gore lose his home state - a state that Clinton won twice and that twice elected Gore to the Senate with 60+% of the vote?
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CityGuy
July 28, 2010 9:59 PM in reply to jdb316
Tom DeLay personally rammed impeachment through to benefit the GOP. Clinton had been ready to make a deal, whereby he stood in the well of the House and was reprimanded by Congress. DeLay opposed this face-saving measure, because he thought that even an unsuccessful impeachment would help Repugs. Remember: Party First for most GOPers. Well they didn't win the popular vote in 2000-and probably didn't win Florida either. But yeah, Gore certainly lost his home state. So maybe DeLay's plan worked after all.
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mostman
July 28, 2010 2:42 PM
Oh please shout this as loud as you can Mrs. Bachmann.
Add to the list of things to say to voters: "If Republicans gain control - nothing will get done - they will spend their time trying to impeach Obama. We have already seen what that does to productivity in Congress."
Despite what these morons think in their little isolated bubbles - Obama is popular. Are some of his views and programs slightly under water? Of course. But the MAN is popular. You wan't to run on impeachment - knock yourself out. Morons.
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Dave Adams
July 28, 2010 3:24 PM in reply to mostman
The productivity of Congress? Well yeah that's one problem. How about diverting Clinton attention from Al Quaeda for another?
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drunkpeter
July 28, 2010 3:04 PM
Let's not forget the Clinton years. The bar was set low for impeachable offenses by Republicans back then, and they'll drop it lower if they get a chance.
If the House goes Republican, Obama will be impeached. All it takes is a simple majority.
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
July 28, 2010 3:17 PM in reply to drunkpeter
And over the course of the nalpalm fueled debate those proceedings will unleash, I'll give 5:1 odds one of the Republicans is going to lose his internal censor and let slip with the "N" word on C-SPAN.
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toddincabo
July 28, 2010 3:36 PM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
Yep, my bet would be Mr. Waterloo or Beauregard Sessions III himself.
but...there are plenty of candidates...
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Ugg the Repug
July 28, 2010 3:49 PM in reply to toddincabo
You lie! Har har har.
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admiralmpj
July 28, 2010 5:31 PM in reply to Ugg the Repug
Funny, as an African-American. I'm hearing the N word from the GOP all the time, however disguised it may be.
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CityGuy
July 28, 2010 10:01 PM in reply to Ugg the Repug
"Hell no you can't!" -Sorry, just had to say it.
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drv
July 28, 2010 3:38 PM
And where are all those Democrats who said the last Congress shouldn't impeach Bush because that would just make the next Democratic president a target for similar treatment? Now we could get the same treatment for Obama without having the benefit of seeing Bush impeached. So much for appeasement.
The Republicans are so bankrupt of ideas that *every* Democratic president from now on will have impeachment threats thrown at him or her. To paraphrase a ridiculous RNC chairman, "'Cuz that's how they roll, baby!"
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slb
July 28, 2010 6:50 PM in reply to drv
And where are all those Democrats who said the last Congress shouldn't impeach Bush because that would just make the next Democratic president a target for similar treatment?
Hah! Yeah. I got regularly scolded on another board for pushing for impeachment hearings on Bush. I knew they weren't going to have the votes for it in the long run, but I wanted the truth brought out for all to see.
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SoSad69
July 28, 2010 3:55 PM
by that logic, all the republicans that pulled the rug out from under bush when he had a comprehensive immigration plan. Maybe those republicans should be impeached. That was one of the few things Bush actually had done right during his 8 years. But his own party torpedoed the bill to protect the farmers and business owners that need/want cheap ass labor.
Maybe Michelle should actually read up before opening her pie hole. She's a joke.
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Ahmedsaid
July 28, 2010 4:02 PM
Oooohhh, Michele. Love you, girl. You the best.
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jsdc007
July 28, 2010 4:16 PM
Does this idiot know that Impeaching someone doesn't mean throwing peaches at them?
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Bob in AZ
July 28, 2010 4:21 PM
MB: "I think clearly .."
Um, no.
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chimpale
July 28, 2010 4:28 PM
Her grounds for impeachment: Obama won the 2008 election by a wide margin and that made us really really mad. Crazy mad. Oooh we're so mad we can't even see straight. Isn't that enough?
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CityGuy
July 28, 2010 10:03 PM in reply to chimpale
Exactly.
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JraSquared
July 28, 2010 4:35 PM
Um...aren't you...you already.....
Ow, my head
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FlownOver
July 28, 2010 4:49 PM
Go ahead, you lunatic bitch – file a resolution. Do it now. Nobody's stopping you.
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Spyder308
July 28, 2010 4:49 PM
We need to take our ideas to conservative web sites. Here we are preaching to the choir. That is the place to attack Beauregard Sessions III, and Bachmann.
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ericf
July 28, 2010 5:08 PM in reply to Spyder308
They wouldn't listen, and I have no interest in being a troll. We need to reach the people who don't visit political web sites and probably haven't tuned in to the election yet. The state Democrats are trying a lot of phone banking and doorknocking this year.
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IC4U
July 28, 2010 6:50 PM
Isn't she a great leader ! I really do have to work on my sarcasm.
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Hidden Oak
July 28, 2010 8:45 PM
Shorter Bachmann: "I'm not a Congressman. I just play one on Fox News."
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labman57
July 28, 2010 10:12 PM
Whenever someone says the phrase "Impeach Obama", Bachmann gets a bit damp in the loins.
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wallygator
July 29, 2010 7:26 AM
Bachman clearly says the Tea Party is (worth lis)--tening to.
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RON MCCREA
August 14, 2010 8:00 AM
COMMON SENSE BARRACK OBAMA MULIM/ISLAMIC NAHHH NO WAY BOY ALOT OF PEOPLE WERE SURPRISED
MAYOR BLOOMBERG FORGOT HIS INVISABLE RUG TOO AND WE ARE TO DONATE TO THOSE VERY PEOPLE THAT TOOK 9/11 THEY WERE ALL IN ON IT FROM BUSH UP IRONWORKERS COLLECTED AND MY BROTHER EMT COLLECTED ON JERSEY SIDE AND NOW WE MOVE DEEPER INTO A WAR OF WARS , IMPEACH BBQ THAT LANDMARK
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