Conservatives getting crazier: If re-elected, impeach Obama for "treason" over Benghazi

[ashtonelijah]

Looks like they know they're losing. Some conservative crackpot has decided that Republicans should work to impeach Obama if he's re-elected:

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2012/10/29/beyond-impeachment-benghazi/

These assholes have no intention of working for the American people after the election. These Tea Party and far right loons will try to push this impeachment narrative and hold Republicans in Congress hostage to their agenda.

We NEED the House and the Senate if we want to get anything done. These people have lost their shit.

[abumbyanyothername]

1. I wonder if Obama is the right guy

to take full advantage of this opportunity to destroy the Republican Party as we know it.

He might just be too nice for the job.

[aletier_v]

14. Obama doesn't need to destroy the Republicans

All he needs to do is keep repeating,

"Please proceed, Governor"

[NWHarkness]

2. Bank on it

If Obama is reelected and the GOP holds the House, they will impeach him. That's a given, as far as I'm concerned. But they will just make fools of themselves doing it, as with Clinton, and like that situation, it will lead to big Dem gains in the midterms.

[Panasonic]

12. They can impeach him 100,000 times, but it doesn't mean that the Senate will take action

and with Reid as the bulldog bearer, he should not even bring it up at all.

[Cosmocat]

16. right - the House can bring articles of impeachment up

but the Senate is where the actual impeachment hearings would occur.

That being said, I fully expect the House to be raging dicks for the next two years, at least.

[Drale]

3. "These assholes have no intention of working for the American people after the election"

They haven't worked for us in 35 years at least, why do you think they would now? Google Darrell Issa and look at all the crap he's either "investigated" or said he's going to investigate, including President Obama.

[doublethink]

4. Ha! I really thought they were going to bring up the 'impeachment'

word before the election. Guess I was right. They are so predictable in their fake outrage over this created 'story' by Faux News.

[bamacrat]

5. Really?

Yet if we even suggested the Bush administration messed up we are traitors and shitty American's for question the divine authority of the president. This is total bullshit. Let them try can you imagine the utter outrage in this country. Hell, I think even a majority of people who will vote for Romney would call this stupid.

[Turbineguy]

6. This is one reason to hope

Romney gets in. These morons will not rest until they lose their jobs, their homes, their cars, their pensions, their beltbuckles and find themselves standing at a freeway offramp with a cardboard sign that reads, "Obama did this to me!"

[Swede Atlanta]

7. Haaaaaaaa......

There is no conceivable basis for impeaching or holding for "treason" the current president of the U.S. over the events in Libya.

These guys and gals pull this shit out of their asses...... and good luck to them with their internal hatred.

I hate to say it but if a few blow the gasket and pass on, I will not remorse their loss.

I'm not being mean but just saying if I have people that are so hateful then I really don't mind them moving on to their lives in hell or a graveyard. The world has benefited from the event.

[Warren Stupidity]

8. the good news is that they are now plotting their revenge.

it is starting to sink in that this election is not going their way.

[catbyte]

9. This pisses me off no end. 3,000 people died on Bush's watch but this is SO MUCH WORSE

[maxsolomon]

10. please please please try it

divide the country further, tarnish your brand further. lose the house in 2014. the backlash cometh.

[tanyev]

11. Good Lord, I was just at the doctor's office and they had Fox News on.

A giant storm bearing down on them, and all they can blather on about is Benghazi. I think I even heard someone say something about Obama using the storm to avoid the Benghazi issue.

[reflection]

20. I honestly do not understand

their obsession with Benghazi. It's so... surreal. Like Groundhog Day playing out, but with people dumber than actual groundhogs.

[november3rd]

13. Any Issue

They've just been looking for some issue they can seize upon and inflate into a Whitewater that their noise machine can use to cast aspersions on the Administration and spoil Obama's second term.

[Cosmocat]

18. They'll find SOMETHING

book it ...

[tarheelsunc]

15. So when is Issa's impeachment trial?

[lolly]

17. The whole machine seemed primed to spring into action

As others have pointed out, the Romney campaign was hoping for just such an opening:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/18/1146402/-New-Revelation-At-47-Dinner-Romney-Was-Hoping-For-Something-Like-Iran-Hostage-Crisis-VIDEO

" As you watch the video, notice the man (is that a British accent?) asking Romney how he can “duplicate” an Iran hostage type scenario. Instead of dismissing the question as going against American interests, Romney agrees that the strategy would be beneficial. The entire video is worth a listen but at the end, Romney says, “if something of that nature presents itself, I will work to take advantage of the opportunity.”"

Once they had the pretext, they set the pre-fab outrage machine in motion.

[progressivebydesign]

19. then can we throw Bush and Cheney in jail for doing nothing about 9/11?? nt

[BlueDemKev]

23. Oh no, that would be PARTISAN you know.

[ncteechur]

21. If they do they lose House in 2014. eom

[BlueDemKev]

22. I've heard that, too.

They're thinking this will be a repeat of 1972-73, when Nixon won re-election (by a huge margin) despite the fact a marginal backpage story concerning Watergate was slowly creeping its way up to the front page. Then, right after the election, the story exploded full-steam. Nixon may not have resigned until the second half of 1974, but 1973 was really the year Nixon came apart.