Tea Party Senate Hopeful Is Another Voice In Obama Impeachment Chorus

Joe Miller gives a news conference in Anchorage, Alaska on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010 to announce he will not continue legal challenges to the U.S. Senate election at a gathering with supporters and media. Lisa Murkowski ... Joe Miller gives a news conference in Anchorage, Alaska on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010 to announce he will not continue legal challenges to the U.S. Senate election at a gathering with supporters and media. Lisa Murkowski was certified as the winner of the Senate election on Thursday, Dec. 30. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010) THE MAT-SU VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN OUT MORE LESS
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Alaska GOP senate hopeful and tea party favorite Joe Miller has become yet another Republican voice urging President Barack Obama’s impeachment.

The Alaska Dispatch News reported that Miller called for House Republicans to seek impeachment at a Chamber of Commerce candidate forum on Wednesday.

“I think we all agree that Obama’s out of control,” Miller said.

Miller, who upended the Alaska Senate race in 2010 when he beat incumbent Lisa Murkowski (R) for the GOP nomination but then lost the general election to Murkowski’s write-in campaign, joined the impeachment caucus late last month. It appears that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin inspired him.

“Sarah Palin is right; it’s time to impeach this President for dereliction of duty, selectively enforcing the law, and usurping powers that the Constitution does not authorize,” Miller said in a statement on July 21. “He is willfully undermining the rule of law and creating chaos.”

Miller is currently polling third in the 2014 Alaska Republican Senate primary, according to TPM’s PollTracker, with an average of 20.5 percent of the vote.

According to the Dispatch News, Miller asked the GOP frontrunner, former attorney general Dan Sullivan, about impeachment on Wednesday. Sullivan agreed “110 percent that this administration is out of control,” but declined to endorse impeachment outright.

Sullivan did say he would take the issue seriously if the House impeached Obama and the question reached the Senate, the newspaper reported.

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  1. “Inspired” by the Whore of Babble On? This guy is seriously fucked up.

  2. Obama = KAOS!

  3. If a teabagger is talking impeachment, you know they’ve got nothing. No drill baby drill, no 47% bullshit, just the we are totally out of ideas, even bad ones, impeach threats.
    The Nixon albatross hanging around their necks really bothers them. They won’t be shedding it anytime soon. When the pain of letting a black dude steal their thunder is added in with the special addition of a woman being next in line, whom is their nemesis nightmare, they are going berserk and throwing tantrums.
    Yet to be elected teabagging wanna-be’s will be fighting this same fight several Democratic President’s from now : )

    When’s the lawsuit BTW?

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