Newt Gingrich plays the impeachment card

Sounds like Newt has been listening to Rush Limbaugh lately.  Rush made the same analogy of how the left would react to President Palin the other day.  That aside, the idea of impeaching Obama over not defending DOMA in court is nothing more than a pure fantasy.  With a split Congress and weak knee Republicans all over the place, anything short of Obama giving all our nation's secrets to the Chinese will not lead to impeachment.


I also find talk like this very distracting for 2012. Just like Obama's birth certificate and his religion, the impeachment issue only muddies the waters and fires up Obama's base.  Obama is very beatable in 2012 for the simple fact that the nation simply cannot afford his wild and irresponsible spending.  


In 2012 all that is needed to defeat Obama is someone who can deliver this message crystal clear and then stand up to the blast furnace of hate the left is sure to project.  Newt Gingrich is simply incapable of both. So, to those conservatives who might be swayed by Newt's impeachment talk, take Newt's own advice and shrug it off.


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Obama’s Sestak problem is not going away

Joe Sestak isn’t fooling anyone with his half answer about being offered a job to drop out of his race against Specter. All seven Republicans on the Senate Judicial Committee are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint an independent prosecutor to look into the matter. 

We all know that seven Republicans asking anything of this partisan administration won’t amount to a hill of bean. However, liberal voices are starting to questions the White House/ Sestak offer.  Enter Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, who by no stretch of the imagination could be considered anti-Obama, is asking for details into the job offer.

 The White House and Joe Sestak should explain what happened with the alleged job offer, Gov. Ed Rendell said Wednesday before a press conference on Capitol Hill. 

"I actually think the White House and Joe Sestak should be a little more detailed and put this behind them," Rendell said.

He said the issue of whether Sestak was offered a job in the Obama administration to get out of the primary race against Specter isn't on the forefront of voters' minds. But, he acknowledged that it is a distraction that will only linger if not addressed.

Rendell said he is sure nothing illegal went on, noting that such conversations have been "going on for decades."

He predicted that someone at the White House probably told Sestak that if he wanted to do something with his "terrific background in the military" there would likely be a job for him with the administration. But Rendell said he does not believe it was any kind of a bribe to get Sestak out of Specter's way.

Rendell is the latest among a growing list of people that include Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin and Republican candidate for Senate, Pat Toomey, who are pressuring Sestak to come out and say who offered the job and what it was.

Lefty blogger Greg Sargent from the Plum Line also would like clarification, albeit from the Sestak side of the equation:

Senate Republicans are now calling for a special prosecutor to look intoJoe Sestak's claim that the White House offered him a job in order to drop his primary challenge to Arlen Specter. On the merits, this seems silly: Good government experts say that what Sestak claims took place doesn't seem like a big deal.

But that doesn't change the fact that Sestak has played this too cute by half, and he needs to clean up this mess. He needs to clarify what exactly happened -- even if it's thoroughly uncontroversial. For his own good and for the sake of the Democratic Party.

Sestak let the cat’s head out of the bag. Robert Gibbs confirmed that the cat was peeking out. At this point both sides need to come clean and just say what is what and let the chips fall as the may. The current situation where Sestak says he got a job offer and the administration says yeah but it was legal leaves out way too much detail to end the speculation. Both parties have to come clean or Sestak could go down and Republicans will have something to look into when they get control.

Already Rep. Darryl Issa has raised The Impeachment issue. I would caution Issa on that route. Have you seen the order of succession?

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The “Impeach Obama” billboard

First we had the “Miss Me Yet” Bush billboard and now an unnamed company in Wisconsin has erected the “Impeach Obama” billboard. 

An unnamed company has paid for a billboard along Highway 41 inOshkosh that reads, "Impeach Obama."

The tagline says: "America's small businesses are failing; help us spread the message."

It was paid for by an unnamed company represented by Tom Wroblewski who told the AP the sentiment is that Washington politics are bad for small businesses. 

The billboard is scheduled to remain up for at least six months, at a cost of $1,000 per month.

Jef Hall is the chairman of the Winnebago County Democratic Party. He says having a bad opinion of the president doesn't mean there's been an impeachable offense.

Wroblewski says despite the billboard's language, he's not suggesting Obama committed an impeachable offense. 

The term Impeach Obama is sure to grab attention, but the fact remains Obama has not done anything yet that rises to an impeachable offense. So in that regard this billboard is much less effective than the Bush billboard.

The fact that people are willing to shill out so much money to put up these messages really speaks to how bad Obama has failed to live up to expectations. It took eight years for Bush to become so unpopular, yet Obama has grown almost as unpopular in little over a year.

Small business owners are clearly not feeling very Hopey Changey these days.

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