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ProSense

(116,464 posts)
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 03:11 PM Feb 2013

LOL: Republican Congressman invokes the "I" word

Congressional Republican Wants To Impeach Harry Reid

By Scott Keyes

A Republican congressman wants to impeach Harry Reid, and he might’ve gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for those meddling laws preventing Congress from impeaching senators.

Speaking last week to the Mifflin County Tea Party, Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA) seethed with anger about budget negotiations between the House and the Senate. His preferred solution to the impasse: impeach the Democratic Senate Majority Leader:

MARINO: I’ve made a suggestion that we should at least start talking about impeachment. I had my office staff do it. But we cannot find anything that permits the House to bring impeachment proceedings against Harry Reid. There’s nothing in the legislation we can find at this point to force him to vote or come up with a budget or anything like that. His membership in the Senate can call for a vote of “no confidence,” but we can’t even get a Republican senator to do that.

Watch it:

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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/02/26/1634191/tom-marino-impeachment/

Where do they find these morons?

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LOL: Republican Congressman invokes the "I" word (Original Post) ProSense Feb 2013 OP
Pennsylvania now has a lot of them thanks to gerrymandering. appleannie1 Feb 2013 #1
Another "I" word for this yahoo: riqster Feb 2013 #2
Ignoramus KamaAina Feb 2013 #4
funny, since the Constitution says it's HIS party shirking their responsibility to produce a budget bigtree Feb 2013 #3
I was expecting "insurrection." tarheelsunc Feb 2013 #5
Tom Marino loves the Constitution so, so much. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2013 #6
I wonder if they found anything EC Feb 2013 #7

bigtree

(85,998 posts)
3. funny, since the Constitution says it's HIS party shirking their responsibility to produce a budget
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 03:25 PM
Feb 2013

. . . ALL money matters MUST originate in the House. The Senate can originate a budget, but only by unanimous consent to waive the Budget Act (60 votes).

tarheelsunc

(2,117 posts)
5. I was expecting "insurrection."
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 03:35 PM
Feb 2013

The politicians that want to impeach their opponents without any real basis are pathetic. And yet, this comes, 99% of the time, from the right. Impeach Clinton because he may have had an affair, we should impeach Harry Reid because he won't push for our policies, we should impeach Pelosi just because, we should impeach the President because he's bla... BENGHAZI. Yet, if you DARE mention "impeachment" for a conservative who actually HAS committed crimes against the country such as Bush or Cheney, you're a treasonous traitor.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)
6. Tom Marino loves the Constitution so, so much.
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 03:38 PM
Feb 2013

I'm sure he'd love to find the article that talks about "impeaching" a member of Congress.

EC

(12,287 posts)
7. I wonder if they found anything
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 04:05 PM
Feb 2013

about all budgets begin in the House, not the Senate? It's right there in the Constitution. You're right, where do they find these morons?

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