As Brian noted yesterday, Liberty Counsel has now launched a campaign urging the House of Representatives to file articles of impeachment against President Obama for having supposedly committed multiple high crimes and misdemeanors.
What exactly those “high crimes and misdemeanors” are is kind of hard to say but it doesn’t really matter apparently because, as Mat Staver and Matt Barber explained on a recent “Faith and Freedom” radio broadcast, “high crimes and misdemeanors” means basically whatever Congress says it means at any given time:
Staver: The Constitution refers to high crimes and misdemeanors and when you think of a misdemeanor, you think well there’s a specific criminal offense. No, the Constitution throughout its history and through the intent does not refer to these as actual crimes; a high crime and misdemeanor is not an actual misdemeanor in the terms of the criminal sense, or a felony in the terms of a criminal sense, it’s whatever Congress says it is at any given time and that has been the case for people accepting bribes or people lying, like President Bill Clinton, he lied to the American people. That was an impeachable offense.
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Barber: You know, high crimes and misdemeanors is a relatively subjective analysis that Congress is supposed to reasonably make. As you point out, there’s not a clear definition, there’s not an itemization of things that reach the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. That’s left up to the discretion of Congress to look at and if you look at this president’s long list of abuses of power, or lying to the American people, of intimidation, or bullying, of selective enforcement of the laws. All of those things together clearly far surpass the threshold that you need for a reasonable, subjective analysis to arrive at the conclusion that his president, over and again, has committed multiple high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Barack Hussein Obama has brought great shame upon himself, upon the American people and upon the United States of America.
