Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is one of the most outspoken opponents of immigration reform and has been a loud critic of President Barack Obama’s decision to take executive action on immigration, but even Sessions doesn’t think impeaching the president would be a good idea.
“No, we are not going to impeach or have a move to impeach,” Sessions said at an event at The Heritage Foundation on Friday according to The Hill. “The president has certain powers. We truly believe, and I think it’s accurate to say he abused those powers.”
A number of Republicans have raised the prospect of Obama getting impeached over his recent executive action move. As TPM flagged on Thursday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) suggested that Obama could face impeachment or even jail time if he went through with the executive action move.
Meanwhile, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Friday said that “nobody’s talking about impeachment” concerning Obama.
Actually, there’s a list of Republican lawmakers and conservative figures who have raised the idea of impeaching Obama lately.
Watch Sessions’s speech below.
Apparently, he didnt get the memo…
So if Obama supposedly “abused those powers,” why not impeach him?
This little kabuki show the fundamental bullshit going on… Sessions and the GOP want to have it both ways—“Obama’s a turrible dictator who wants to eat white babies for breakfast, but we’re not going to do anything about it, neither.”
If for even one second the republicans really believed President Obama overstepped his authority they would have no hesitation to impeach him. Sessions is full of shit.
Truth is, I bet they have a grudging admiration for his jiu-jitsu moves on immigration. It’d be hard not to.