GOP Rep.: ‘Fair Number’ In House Would Vote To Impeach Obama

Republican Bill Flores puts on his coat before watching election results, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010, in Bryan, Texas.
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Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX) said that while he thinks impeaching President Obama would be a bad move for House Republicans, a number of his colleagues would vote to oust the President.

“If you were to ask persons and many folks in the House, has the president violated the law and will he be worthy of impeachment, I think a fair number of people would say yes,” Flores said during a telephone town hall last week, according to audio obtained by Buzzfeed.

Flores then explained to constituents that while the House has the power to impeach the president, two-thirds of the Senate would then need to vote to convict the president.

“I think all of use would agree there’s no way you get two-thirds of the Senate,” he said. “So what would happen if you did that and then you failed?”

“Well, first of all you haven’t accomplished anything because you’re not gonna change the president’s behavior if he hasn’t been convicted. And in all likelihood the media would side with the president and would help him turn his situation around just like the situation that happened with Bill Clinton back in the ’90s,” he continued.

Flores concluded that because an impeachment trial would probably be fruitless, it would just hurt the GOP.

“I think it would hurt the Congress to engage in that type of activity unless you have a high likelihood that you’re gonna be successful,” he said. “I think in this case it’s pretty obvious we can’t be.”

He then said that because “doing nothing” and impeachment are both bad options, the best move is to sue the president.

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  1. “If you were to ask persons and many folks in the House, has the
    president violated the law and will he be worthy of impeachment, I think
    a fair number of people would say yes,” Flores said during a telephone
    town hall last week, according to audio obtained by Buzzfeed."

    Well, that’s like saying a fair number of House republicans are brain dead idiots.

  2. Avatar for bdtex bdtex says:

    “We have no plans to impeach the President. We have no future plans,”- Boehner

  3. Avatar for jsfox jsfox says:

    We have no policies of our own that can win us a national election in the foreseeable future. We are also unable to actually govern so therefore we are left with several choices. 1.block everything the other side proposes, 2. do nothing and 3. try to impeach every Democratic President.

    The mission statement of the modern Republican Party

  4. Avatar for xyxox xyxox says:

    That’s the third time today those damned Democrats tried to force us into talking about impeachment!

  5. Does “fair number” mean maybe ten (10) in actual count?

    So it’s still a HUGE stretch to get a majority?

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