Grover Norquist hopes congress will impeach Obama...

[Drunken Irishman]

http://news.yahoo.com/impeach-obama-194325174.html

NORQUIST: Obama can sit there and let all the tax [cuts] lapse, and then the Republicans will have enough votes in the Senate in 2014 to impeach. The last year, he’s gone into this huddle where he does everything by executive order. He’s made no effort to work with Congress.

Oddly enough, the comments to this article are pretty level-headed...which is unusual for Yahoo! readers.

And why are Republicans signing pledges to Norquist?

[rhett o rick]

1. Norquist should ask Justice Roberts what he thinks about a Unitary Executive now? nm

[DCKit]

2. I wish I could think and believe as magically as Grover does.

The (R) brand is seriously damaged, and he's still imagining they've won. For all eternity, too boot.

In my magical world, there would be no (R)s, Blue Dogs or DLC Democrats. But I don't believe in magical thinking. We have to get rid of them the hard way and be patient while doing so.

[WonderGrunion]

3. Wait, does this mean Norquist agrees the Republics have no chance in 2012?

If so...Yay!

[LostinRed]

32. Yeah it seems he believes Obama will win re-election.

And Obama will win re-election. Knowing the Republican they probably will try to impeach

[liberal from boston]

4. Norquist wants Obama impeached

Grover you are so delusional. Any member of Congress & Senate that signs your crazy no tax pledge should be impeached!!!!! Only oath is to the Constitution & not to some non-elected politcal partisan!!!

[Frustratedlady]

17. Grover is a traitor. eom

[Andy823]

20. I agree.

They should just slap the irons on him and take him to GITMO like they do with other suspected terrorists! Maybe after 30 or 40 years he might be a changed person!

[SaintPete]

30. Obama's 2nd Term?

Some little monster woke up on the wrong side of Sesame Street, I'm thinking...

[BeyondGeography]

5. Good to see he's conceding the election

Curb your enthusiasm, Grover.

[unblock]

6. of course, when he says "enough votes in the senate in 2014 to impeach", he means

enough votes in the house to impeach and enough votes in the senate to remove.

and if you were to ask him about the "high crimes and misdemeanors" that are the grounds for impeachment, he means that obama is <strikeout>black</strikeout> a democrat.

[onehandle]

7. I hope Grover Norquist has painful, persistant hemorrhoids.

I bet you $10,000 my hope is more likely than his.

[yourout]

41. Grover Norquist IS painful, persistant hemorrhoid

To bad there is no surgery to get rid of this pain in the ass.

[thelordofhell]

8. This Just In---Grover Norquist Concedes 2012 Election To President Obama

republicans give up all hope for the Presidency in 2012!!

[southernyankeebelle]

9. I keep asking myself why would a working middle class republican would think it is ok that

republicans sign pledges that is against their own interests. I think if I had gone to one of their hometown rallies that would be a question I would ask first off. If he answer that he would sign a pledge then I wouldn't vote for him. I would think this would be illegal.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

10. That's it. Republicans have to admit they hate the country that made their party possible.

[Skink]

11. Colbert should challenge him to debate

[cgnick]

24. Ol' Grover would get sliced and diced. eom

[bayareaboy]

12. Or by 2014... ...

Rover Grover might just be a member of the Whig party of the 21 century!

[madinmaryland]

13. Hmmm. So the bathtub idiot thinks Obama will win in 2012, and the pukes will pick up 30 seats

in the Senate.

What a fucking idiot.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

14. Maybe Gingrich can take Grover to the moon with him

and they can set up a tax-free colony/state for themselves and the dust. Pfft.

[meow2u3]

19. Maybe Obama could use the powers Congress gave him (NDAA)

to detain Norquist. After all, he does have ties to terrorist organizations

[LarryNM]

26. + 1,000 n/t

[Ebadlun]

15. Who is he and why do Republicans give a shit what he thinks?

I really can't figure it out - he must have a massive stash of photos.

[JHB]

39. he has better than photos: he knows who has the money...

...and where they have it stashed.

[roguevalley]

16. This man is such a fucking bastard. I am amazed that anyone talks to him

he's married to a muslim (which is not the point here. Who cares but their side which is the point. They will overlook stuff they hate to lick a dollar bill). their own personal hatreds have no internal cohesion. Fucker straight to the bone. I hope he gets audited. you know he cheats

[fromwyoming]

18. who is grover norquist?

And why does he matter?

[JHB]

40. A vandal intent on plundering civilization...

...and he matters because he brings together a lot of like-minded hordes and helps keep them on-target against us. Without people like him they'd be just as likely to break ranks and chew each other apart.

[Nevernose]

49. Oddly enough, probably one of the most powerful men in DC

Even though most people have never heard of him. Although far to the right of Reagan, he sees himself as Saint Raygun's torchbearer. He holds a weekly lunch meeting that is a veritable who's who of up and coming Republicans, and conservatives don't get anywhere in DC without his blessing. He makes everyone running for office sign a "tax pledge" that would make Ayn Rand proud, and it gets a little crazier every year. I think it's fair to say that he both shapes and reflects the Republican party's looniness as any given moment.

[yellowcanine]

21. Last time Republicans tried impeachment to overturn a Presidential election it didn't work out so

well.

[Gore1FL]

23. The last times they tried to emply supply-sides economics it didn't work out so well either.

They aren't good at the scientific method.

[sulphurdunn]

22. Wow! In the Brave New Republican

republic, permitting the legally agreed upon expiration of a tax reduction meets the constitutional impeachment standards of a "high crime or misdemeanor". You could make a better case for suggesting that any attempt to use the Constitution as a vehicle to remove a sitting president for political expediency is an act of treason.

[Blue Owl]

25. Shitquist

n/t

[jwirr]

27. More obstruction. Same as with Bill Clinton.

[schmice]

28. Payback time

Norquist is now going to demand payback for the money he has lavished on Republicans by ordering them to impeach the President.

[VPStoltz]

29. Grove...You'd better have SCOTUS review your case because your brain has been impeached long ago.

[Obamacare]

31. This Norquist dude

whoever he is, just conceded the 2012 election to President Obama. He might be on to something, as in what we already know.lol

[Lil Missy]

33. Impeached for what? Being Black?

[Bolo Boffin]

35. For letting taxes go higher.

That's a high crime in Grover's little ledger book.

Mind you, it's not actually a crime, as in "not against the law." As a matter of fact, the tax cut is a law that expires, so this would be Obama honoring the actual law. But it snaps Grover's law in half, and that's ground for impeachment for him. I guess. Who knows what that idiot is thinking?

[Lil Missy]

38. Exactly. He's doing nothing impeachable by letting BUSH tax cuts expire.

I know, I'm preaching to the chior.

[gtar100]

34. "He's made no effort to work with Congress." Christ, Norquist is such an asshole.

Repugs in congress have spent the last 4 years doing everything they can to block *any* and *every* measure put out by Obama and then he says shit like this. Norquist is going to learn the hard way one of these days that not everyone is as stupid as the republicans are. He can scheme all he wants on how to manipulate people, but he's been exposed as a liar and a greedy son-of-a-bitch. He better stay close to his ivory tower because that shit won't fly on the streets.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

45. That statement could be mirrored to read,

Congress has made no effort to work with Obama.
And there is the real problem.

[madrchsod]

36. in the grand scheme of things..

99.9 % of the people do not care what the fuck he says.

[Ebadlun]

37. Unfortunately the remaining 0.1% includes rather a lot of congressmen

For reasons I still can't quite make out.

[CBHagman]

42. "He's made no effort to work with Congress."

That seems to be the new GOP mantra. It's the same old technique: Control the image of the opponent by stating something that is obviously untrue and/or calling into question his/her service and accomplishments. We've seen this movie many times.

So now the rational, fair-minded, consensus-building Obama is being depicted as a stiff-necked, prickly extremist. Expect this to ratchet up throughout the year, and don't be surprised if the media starts taking this as fact. That too is something we've seen a lot in recent years.

[NRaleighLiberal]

43. a small, vile, horrible human being.

[WingDinger]

44. Havent heard from that Issa punk. He was supposed to impeach also.

Tie Obama up with indictments and slander. This will accelerate their undoing. When you threaten, and then have no power, you are doomed.

[TomClash]

46. Norquist is the contemporary American Goebbels

Whitewashing the history of a Black President.

[PDJane]

47. What are they going to impeach him for???

Being black? Being right? Being good to babies? Being able to speak English?

I wish these people would get a grip.

[SemperEadem]

48. aside from marriage vows

why would any american pledge allegiance to anything other than the flag and the republic for which it stands? One nation; indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

That's what I have a problem with when it comes to office holders throwing in with 'pledges' to Norquist. Their first, lawfully sworn duty
is to all of the people for whom they are elected to represent THEIR interests in this government, not to one of its citizens who doesn't want to pay his fair share of taxes.

How would norquist know what was going on in meetings and negotiations Obama is having with whatever party? It's not like
he's in the room--anything he hears, he hears second hand, a.k.a. hearsay, inadmissible. Clearly, he doesn't take seriously
the various polling numbers which have come out recently showing the nation's total disgust with republicans of every level of
government. Wisconsin must have gotten past him.

It is insane and proof of living in an alternative universe to say that Obama has made no effort to work with congress. That has
been the main problem! He goes too far for consensus, when norquist and all those of his stripe know that their mission was
to frustrate the president implementing his policies. It has been admitted to as much by far too many.

[Zoeisright]

50. Fuck you, Norquist.

Just fuck you, you pig.

[on point]

51. Another idiot repuke thought. Impeachment is for crimes. It is not = to a recall.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

52. If Obama gets re-elected running on the same kind of message he delivered in his SOTU

then that means that voters support HIS position, not Norquist's, so Norquist is hyper-delusional if he thinks that people are going to support impeachment of Obama over letting the Bush Tax Cuts expire. Disagreeing with Grover Norquist over tax policy is NOT an impeachable offense. I also somewhat doubt if people are going to vote Obama in for a second term, as well as a hyper-obstructionist Republican Congress unless they're really dumb and don't want Obama to do anything.

[lonestarnot]

53. On what grounds fuckwit!

What a pig.

[Liberalman777]

54. They wanted to start Impeachment on Obama One day after he got elected..

Tough crap morons! You have to have tangable reasons to impeach! Not just because they are Democrat and you think it's your God given right that a Republican occupies the White House!

[DCBob]

55. What an idiot.

There is no way on earth this will happen.

[rtracey]

56. BS

Fact is once the true Americans realize what Norquist and his cronie repubicans are really up too, they will vote them out. If you are senior, a woman, gay, black, Latino, Asian, Jewish, why would you EVER consider being a republican.