"What would Republicans do with a Mueller-report on Obama? Start impeachment."

[DetlefK]

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/04/22/mueller-report-subpoenas-republicans-trump-obama-impeachment-column/3529799002/

Imagine for a second that it’s 2014. Barack Obama is president of the United States. The attorney general is Eric Holder, and Republicans control Congress. Republican leaders have called on the attorney general to appoint a special counsel to investigate the IRS’ alleged targeting of conservative groups.

Now imagine what Republicans would have done if a special counsel had been appointed and the president had ordered his removal. Imagine what Republicans would have done if instead of releasing a full and complete copy of the special counsel’s report, the attorney general instead provided Congress and the American people with a four-page summary document. Imagine how Republicans would have reacted if they issued a subpoena for the report, and the attorney general responded by calling it “premature and unnecessary.”

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As I read Jordan’s statement, I couldn’t help but think of the many times I heard him talk about the importance of vigilant presidential oversight when Obama was in office, Republicans controlled the House, and I was an adviser and spokesperson for Republicans on the House oversight panel. During this time, we issued more than 100 subpoenas to the Obama administration, held the attorney general in contempt of Congress, filed a lawsuit challenging the president’s use of executive privilege, and formed a special select committee to investigate what happened in Benghazi, Libya.

All the while, Republicans like Rep. Jordan defended and championed our aggressive brand of oversight. Speaking at a contempt hearing of an Obama administration official, Jordan boasted, “The only route to the truth is through the House of Representatives.”

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While voting to hold Holder in contempt of Congress, Jordan asked, “How can you ignore the facts when you don’t get the facts? That’s what this is all about. … I just want to get the information.”

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Former Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy once said, "The notion that you can withhold information and documents from Congress no matter whether you are the party in power or not in power is wrong. Respect for the rule of law must mean something, irrespective of the vicissitudes of political cycles." Former Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith once argued that “when the administration repeatedly ignores constitutional and legal limits on the president’s power, it undermines the rule of law, with very real consequences.” Darrell Issa, my former boss and another former chairman of the Oversight Committee, released a report stating explicitly that “Congress is constitutionally obligated to provide thorough oversight of the executive branch.”

[wasupaloopa]

1. They would need both houses of Congress which we don't

have

[VOX]

2. If Obama had pulled JUST ONE of 45's stunts...

The “case” for his impeachment would have been made by Repugs before you could pronounce the very word “impeachment.”

It’d be an absolute certainty.

[Volaris]

3. agreed and the Senate and the president needs this list of quotes throw back in their face.

Republicans need to love Congressional Oversight for a republican president as much as they love it for a Democratic one, or else they just love themselves, and 'oversight' is just another thing they can put their dicks in.

And if thats their position as a political excersice, I really dont care?, BUT THEN I WANT THEM MADE TO OWN THAT HIPOCRACY, and have to run for re-election on it.

ITMF, and LET the republican Senate find him not guilty, and see where that gets them.

[VOX]

4. With you all the way. Impeach the living s*** outta that non-stop, lying MF.

Republicans have always had a lot to answer for, and now this travesty of an “administration” is ignoring congress. Make like it doesn’t even exist.

That POS Party has gotten away with so much over the past three or four decades. Now, all they have— their ENTIRE act— consists of a mix of fear and rage (about POC, women with power, “caravans,” etc., you name it), resentment, suspicion, xenophobia, homophobia, sexism, false promises. Every item checked on their list is something they needlessly fear or, it gets to their “what about me?” complex, as in: “Where’s MY government handouts?”

All they can do is package fear and anger for mass-media consumption, and Fox, Sinclair, talk radio, Breitbart, et al do not skimp on the fear-and-anger formula.

IMPEACH NOW. Not worried about no conviction by the Senate. The point is to get these crimes out of the dark and into the media sunlight. Those who are going to vote for Trump are already primed to do that, so there’s no chance of luring them away.

[uponit7771]

5. Not ... EVEN ... A ... THOUGHT !!!!