On his radio program today, Glenn Beck argued that nobody in the GOP is seriously calling for President Obama’s impeachment, but Democrats and the media keep talking about it because doing so will help Obama pass immigration reform.
Saying that there is not one person within the Republican Party that is seriously considering impeaching Obama (despite the fact that he totally deserves it), nor even seriously making the case, Beck said that the issue keeps being brought up nonetheless, linking it to the immigration debate by warning that progressives are winning the fight over immigration reform by framing it in terms of “justice” rather than “freedom. “
Conservatives are going to lose the P.R battle, he warned, because “the president is going to change the subject and he’s going to make it about impeachment.”
“So who wants it?” Beck asked, rhetorically. “The president does, because then he’ll be able to say ‘I demand justice.'”
Impeachment, Beck explained, is just like the birther and race issues in that they were also ginned up by Democrats and the media, not conservatives and Republicans, in order to help Obama.
“The birther thing is over, the black thing is over,” he said, “so now he needs to be able to call for justice” by using the threat of impeachment to promote his political agenda:
