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Neil Cavuto Talks Impeachment

On yesterday’s Your World, host Neil Cavuto used the “i” word as he suggested that President Obama might be impeached as a result of Republican legal efforts against his recess appointments. Cavuto’s own FoxNews.com noted that it’s quite likely the Republicans have no legal case. But somehow Cavuto didn’t bring that up in his discussion with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), one of the litigants.

Paul said, “I think the President is unaware that the Constitution has checks and balances. He gets to appoint people, but they’re supposed to be approved by the Senate. Now he’s now defining that we were in recess, but that’s news to us because the Senators that are here don’t think we ever were in recess. So we don’t think the President should have that power. We think it’s Unconstitutional and illegal and we’re going to fight him in court.”

Cavuto asked, “What’s the protocol on this? …It doesn’t matter that most of you were away? What’s the deal?”

”There’s been a tradition for at least 80-100 years that as long as you’re gaveling in about every 3 days that that’s considered to be in recess,” Paul said. “…Some of this is that the power is supposed to be split. For high-ranking appointees, they’re supposed to be approved by the Senate. So I think it shows a certain lawlessness that this President says he’s going to grab up the law and tell everybody else what the law is… What he’s doing sets a bad precedent. If we continue on this precedent, tonight at 9:00, he could appoint a Supreme Court Justice. That is a terrible precedent and I think that kind of lawlessness, we don’t want to live under that.”

Rather than report that breaking tradition is not breaking the law and that there’s at least an argument to be made that President Obama’s decision was lawful, Cavuto kicked it up a couple of anti-Obama notches and talked impeachment. “Technically then, if he’s violating the Constitution or what are the separation of powers here, that’s an impeachable offense at its extreme. Do you agree?”

Paul seemed to acknowledge that he didn't have that kind of case. He said, “We have to have the courts determine whether or not he did violate the Constitution. We can actually make that accusation and we are. And we think it’s illegitimate what he’s done. And we will fight that in court… There is already a court case that’s beginning. I will have a Friend of the Court brief that goes along with that, challenging any decisions by the National Labor Relations Board as being illegitimate because he disobeyed the Constitution in appointing these people.”

Perhaps Paul backed off a bit because he knew – as FoxNews.com reported – that President Obama got a legal opinion from the Justice Department that cleared his appointment.  FoxNews.com also reported: Republicans angry at Obama’s move—and their allies willing to file suit—may not have a legal case. Nowhere in the Constitution is a recess expressly defined even though the document gives the chief executive the “power to fill up vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate.”


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truman commented 2012-02-02 11:30:12 -0500 · Flag
Why is Kneel so worked up about the Constitution? Didn’t his lord and savior Dumbya tell him that the Constitution is just a g-d piece of paper to be ignored at the whim of the President?
mlp ! commented 2012-02-02 07:06:24 -0500 · Flag
I sure that there has to be something in their beloved constitution about the offense of ‘Presidenting While Black’.
Maybe not in the real constitution, but I’m betting it’s in that fantasy document that’s dancing sugar plums in their pointy little heads.
mlp ! commented 2012-02-02 07:06:24 -0500 · Flag
I sure that there has to be something in their beloved constitution about the offense of ‘Presidenting While Black’.
Maybe not in the real constitution, but I’m betting it’s in that fantasy document that’s dancing sugar plums in their pointy little heads.
Kent Brockman commented 2012-02-02 04:11:12 -0500 · Flag
Yikes!
poodle not puddle
Kent Brockman commented 2012-02-02 04:09:47 -0500 · Flag
TeaGOP sez

Sure, you can watch us commit suicide and slash each other while we pick your pockets, but we got a scary black guy doing stuff we don’t like. Let’s see now, hmmmmmm, ahhhhhhh. Oh ya! Impeachment! Impeachment is the little puddle with the fluffy tail you just wanna set your pit bull onna! Fun fun fun for the whole FuckinStupidFamily!
Janet Tuhey commented 2012-02-02 03:04:28 -0500 · Flag
Ellen – no “like” button here, but I am clicking an imaginary one for your comment. Well said!
Ellen commented 2012-02-02 02:42:14 -0500 · Flag
Dee, don’t you know? Torture, war, terrorist attack – those are nothing compared to being a black Democrat who was democratically elected!
Ellen commented 2012-02-02 02:41:07 -0500 · Flag
Ack. Guest blogger was I… again.
Aria Prescott commented 2012-02-02 01:51:43 -0500 · Flag
Grover Norquist openly said that if Obama wins his re-election, the GOP plans to have him impeached. The only way Obama can appease them enough to avoid it is to extend the Bush Tax Cuts.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/impeach-obama—20120126

This is the first mainstream mention of the GOP impeachment plot from an influential member of the Republicans. At least that I know of. When it happened, I sent it to Ellen and she said we should wait.

Now that Fox News is picking up on the Meme, we have our answer on how Fox News will treat the story. The question now is how long until this is a regularly promoted idea with them?

I’ll be very surprised if Cavuto is the only person who comes out with his support before the week is out. As it is, I’m amazed Hannity’s gone this long without making it more than half his show.
NewsHounds posted about Neil Cavuto Talks Impeachment on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2012-02-02 01:31:30 -0500
Somehow, Cavuto failed to mention that even FoxNews.com doesn't think there's a case.








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