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one_voice

(20,043 posts)
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 12:57 PM Aug 2013

The New Fad Taking The Country By Storm: "Overpasses For Obama’s Impeachment"...pics

The group “Overpasses For Obama’s Impeachment” held rallies around the country this weekend calling for Obama’s impeachment. The group lists 12 reasons for Obama’s impeachment on their website and has quite the following on Facebook. It’s the next big thing.


I saw them on Saturday in Delaware...here's the picture



Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania



Mount Vernon, Illinois



more pics at link. http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/the-new-fad-taking-the-country-by-storm-overpasses-for-obama


Reasons for Impeachment

1. President Obama has appointed numerous people to cabinet level positions without the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate, as is required by the Constitution. These individuals are given extraordinary power and independent funding, and are not under the scrutiny of Congress *snip*

2. The push by Pres. Obama to pass healthcare legislation in the Congress of the United States that he was fully aware was unconstitutional. He has continued to use his powers and executive branch of government to implement this legislation despite the fact that a federal judge had declared the entire law unconstitutional, and ordered that it not be implemented *snip*

3. Despite the fact that the United States Senate refused to pass the Cap and Trade bill, the President has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to use regulations to implement key portions of the bill, including those regulating so-called greenhouse gases. *snip*


The other 9 at link http://overpasses.org/index.php/reasons-for-impeachment/



and their facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/OverpassesForObamasImpeachment

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The New Fad Taking The Country By Storm: "Overpasses For Obama’s Impeachment"...pics (Original Post) one_voice Aug 2013 OP
A couple of them got busted. Wait Wut Aug 2013 #1
Awesome thanks! one_voice Aug 2013 #20
My bro shanti Aug 2013 #2
In the last couple of weeks... one_voice Aug 2013 #22
fucking losers get over it warrior1 Aug 2013 #3
I have a feeling this fad will not even reach "cat bearding" levels Guy Whitey Corngood Aug 2013 #4
I saw on Saturday also and.... Motown_Johnny Aug 2013 #5
Yeah, I commented in that thread too. one_voice Aug 2013 #23
I googled Extortion 17 Capt. Obvious Aug 2013 #6
They did it down here on Saturday too. LuvNewcastle Aug 2013 #7
Yeap, wingers want him impeached.... who wouldah thunk it uponit7771 Aug 2013 #8
As I am part of the uneeded left mick063 Aug 2013 #9
They all look so normal... n/t EC Aug 2013 #10
Filthy Racist Morons. NYC_SKP Aug 2013 #11
1.wrong. 2.wrong 3.wrong spanone Aug 2013 #12
Good way for idiots to waste their time. Comrade Grumpy Aug 2013 #13
Freeway blogging began with "Impeach Bush." OnyxCollie Aug 2013 #15
everyone needs a hobby.. frylock Aug 2013 #31
What I would like to say to them bakpakr Aug 2013 #14
Proof that tea-baggers + logic mix like oil + water! bullwinkle428 Aug 2013 #18
Teaklan: "waaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh! WE LOST TO A KENYAN NO FAIR! Wahhhhhhhhh!" Dawson Leery Aug 2013 #16
Healthcare is unconstitutional? Do they know how dumb they sound? NightWatcher Aug 2013 #17
I recognized a couple of troll DUers. trumad Aug 2013 #19
The R's want to control the Senate for a reason! Coyotl Aug 2013 #21
Exactly! one_voice Aug 2013 #24
How ridiculous! JimDandy Aug 2013 #25
Bunch of racist gun lovers. ugh! Little Star Aug 2013 #26
The folks in the first pic look like waiting room patients ... JoePhilly Aug 2013 #27
Has anybody seen a non-white protester in one of these? They've done it sinkingfeeling Aug 2013 #28
That last picture give me the sadz. Rex Aug 2013 #29
I count five people, including the kid. Warren DeMontague Aug 2013 #30

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)
1. A couple of them got busted.
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 01:01 PM
Aug 2013
Yay cops!!!!
Friggin' whiny-ass teapers. If I had been one of those cops I would've just bumped them over the edge. Not really, but I would have wanted to.



Edit to add text from YouTube 'cuz it annoys me when people don't do that:

Survival Doc (the videographer) and Mark M. are arrested for not obeying an officer and Mark was also charged with resisting arrest. Did he resist arrest? You be the judge. Oh, and they never read us our Miranda Rights. We spent 24 hours in the St. Charles Count Jail with Missouri Hwy Trooper Jenkins acting as judge, jury and executioner. (Note: I am the videographer of this video and the activist who was arrested wearing the yellow t-shirt. Near the end, as a cop had my left hand in a handcuff behind my back I am holding the camera in my right hand and as the cop is reaching for my right hand I pass the camera off to Constitution Kim who finishes the recording documenting my arrest.)
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shanti

(21,675 posts)
2. My bro
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 01:04 PM
Aug 2013

Is a long haul trucker, and he was telling me about these signs all over the place, especially past the Mason-Dixon Line.

one_voice

(20,043 posts)
22. In the last couple of weeks...
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 01:50 PM
Aug 2013

we've had people set up at the post office and a group out side a WaWa. The manager at the WaWa said if he had his way he would have made them leave but he couldn't. I will say this, both groups were given a hard time.

They were in the wrong part of Delaware to pull that crap.

 

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)
5. I saw on Saturday also and....
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 01:10 PM
Aug 2013

... here is a link to a thread from Sunday that someone in WA started on the same subject: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023480070



P.S. Impeaching Pres. Obama gets us an incumbent Pres. Biden in 2016. I wonder if they comprehend that.

LuvNewcastle

(16,844 posts)
7. They did it down here on Saturday too.
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 01:15 PM
Aug 2013

They need to update their list of offenses; at least two of them are just plain wrong. They say that he's funding Obamacare even though it has been declared unconstitutional. Also, they say that he has "unilaterally declared that DOMA is unconstitutional." I'm sure there are plenty of other things.

frylock

(34,825 posts)
31. everyone needs a hobby..
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 04:48 PM
Aug 2013

I would hold quite a grudge if my folks dragged me out there to waste my Saturday afternoon on that crap.

bakpakr

(168 posts)
14. What I would like to say to them
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 01:26 PM
Aug 2013

Let me say this first I like Joe Biden I think he is great.

Here is a conversation I would like to have with the Impeachment crowd;

ME-So what do you like about Biden that you don't like about President Obama?

Them- Biden what do you mean? Then they go on a Biden rant.

Me- You do know if you impeach President Obama we will have VP Biden as president then. Also most likely he will be president for the next 11 years. Three to finish out President Obama's term and then 8 more of his own.

Them- Deer in the headlights look, slow wisps of steam start coming out of their ears. Then their heads explode.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
17. Healthcare is unconstitutional? Do they know how dumb they sound?
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 01:33 PM
Aug 2013

And how are guns that little girl's future, is she related to the Glocks or Bushmasters?

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
21. The R's want to control the Senate for a reason!
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 01:48 PM
Aug 2013

They can't wait to have an impeachment-capable Congress that can forestall any Supreme Court appointments.

JimDandy

(7,318 posts)
25. How ridiculous!
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 01:57 PM
Aug 2013

But Bush, who deserved impeachment, was never brought up on charges, because our democratic leaders took it "off the table."

sinkingfeeling

(51,445 posts)
28. Has anybody seen a non-white protester in one of these? They've done it
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 03:20 PM
Aug 2013

twice here in NW Arkansas. First time in July there were 7 and last week there were 2 (total participants and all white.)

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
29. That last picture give me the sadz.
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 03:22 PM
Aug 2013

Little girl, you are so behind the 8 ball that I feel sadz for you and your future.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
30. I count five people, including the kid.
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 03:22 PM
Aug 2013

I don't get the feeling this "fad" is enjoying some massive surge in popularity.

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