Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News Channel’s happy libertarian warrior, has finally caught the impeachment fever.
Napolitano has previously signaled that he’s receptive to such an action against President Obama, which thus far has largely gained traction in fringe right-wing circles.
But on Thursday, when asked by Fox host Neil Cavuto what Republicans should do about Obama’s executive actions, Napolitano didn’t mince words.
“Impeach him,” he told Cavuto.
Although impeachment may carry “odious connotations,” Napolitano said, the House GOP’s lawsuit against Obama will be “laughed out of court.”
“The remedy for this type of behavior, which causes the law to change materially, is right there in the Constitution,” Napolitano said.
But Napolitano said that even though there’s “plenty” of legal grounds for impeachment, he expressed doubt that there’s much of a political appetite.
It isn’t totally uncharted territory for Napolitano. In June, he said that Andrew McCarthy, who has the impeachment market pretty much cornered, had made “a very, very valid argument people are going to start talking about.”
At the time, it was the prisoner swap that secured the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl that had Napolitano thinking that Obama had committed a crime.
Yes, Reublicans. Keep beating that drum.
I know they don’t care (the distraction is all that’s important) and probably procedurally have the control to move forward regardless, but they realize that nothing Obama has done can be considered “high crimes and misdemeanor” or even against the law, right?
It was only a matter of time. Please, proceed. We’ll be thanking you for 2014.
Many of them don’t know (they’re that stupid) and the rest don’t care. A democratic president is in office. HE.MUST.BE.IMPEACHED.
Excuse me while I go bang my head against a wall.
Wow! Those democrats just keep finding ways to make it look like Republicans want to impeach the President…