Fringe Tea Party Groups Organizing ‘National Impeach Obama Week’

President Barack Obama listens to a question during a news conference at the U.S. Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Now that the House has approved a lawsuit against President Obama and impeachment cries have increased, a few conservative groups have put together “National Impeach Obama Week.”

The groups are organizing protests during the week of August 23 to call for Obama’s impeachment, according to a blog post by activist Robert Ogden on the conservative blogging site, Western Journalism.

“Gerald Ford said after the Nixon was forced to resign under threat of impeachment that an ‘impeachable offense’ is whatever the Congress will vote for at a given time. We are not here to argue about what is impeachable, but to demand that this lawless, subversive and anti-American president be removed from office,” the organizers wrote on the Impeach Obama Week website.

The groups offer a list of Obama’s impeachable offenses and call on other activists to organize rallies during the last week of August.

Only a few groups have endorsed the impeachment week so far, including the Tea Party Patriots of Brookhaven in New York and the Ventura County Tea Party in California.

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  1. But the idea originated in the White House.

  2. "Gerald Ford said after the Nixon was forced to resign under threat of impeachment that an ‘impeachable offense’ is whatever the Congress will vote for at a given time

    I think this is the first Gerald Ford quote I’ve ever seen. And even this he ripped off from Warhol.

    “Art is anything you can get away with.”–Andy Warhol

  3. This is good! Say it Loud and Say it Proud.

  4. Show Congress that there is public demand for removing the Great Usurper. Everyone is welcome to join in. This is a nonpartisan effort.

    “Great Usurper” and “nonpartisan” in the same paragraph is comedy gold.

    Gold, Jerry!

  5. A more apropos Gerald Ford quote is:

    The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

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