Karl Rove: ‘Shame’ On Obama For Trumping Up Impeachment Talk (VIDEO)

Karl Rove blasted both the Obama administration for fundraising off impeachment talk and Republicans for raising the possibility in the first place.
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Republican strategist Karl Rove on Tuesday blasted the Obama administration for fundraising off impeachment chatter from the right, even as he chided those Republicans who put fuel on the impeachment fire in the first place.

“[Obama] wants nothing more than Republican and conservative leaders to step forward and say, ‘We agree, we ought to try and impeach him,’” Rove said on Fox News’ “On The Record With Greta Van Susteren.” “That’s what the president wants. Just like he wanted people to step forward on the birther issue, because he knew it undermined the credibility of the Republicans and conservatives and served his, President Obama’s, purposes.”

Rove accused the President of concocting a “constitutional crisis” in order to line the Democratic Party’s coffers and energize his base ahead of pivotal midterm elections.

“This man is playing with the American people by suggesting a constitutional crisis where none exists,” he said. “Shame on him, shame on those people in his administration who participate with him, and shame on those conservatives and Republicans who help him along.”

The GOP strategist pointed out that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said his caucus has no plans to impeach the president and claimed there was “no serious Republican leader” who has stepped forward with justification for such a maneuver.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) would not rule out impeaching President Obama, however, after he was asked about the prospect three times on “Fox News Sunday.”

Watch below, courtesy of Fox News:

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Notable Replies

  1. Blame the impeachment talk on Republicans.

  2. KKK is walking around with a noose hanging from his belt inquiring “lynching, who said anything about a lynching…oh this? It’s just an antique I was left by my close cousin Lee Atwater”.

  3. Avatar for iann iann says:

    I think republicans use “1984” as an instruction manual. War is peace, up is down, Obama is responsible for impeachment talk, women are responsible for their rape, poor are responsible for their poverty, more guns will lead to less violence etc. etc. The corporate media dutifully repeats the lies. Wonder if George Orwell over ever saw this one coming?

  4. Avatar for jsfox jsfox says:

    In other words: All this impeachment talked we started is backfiring on us, so it is time to once again . . . BLAME OBAMA!

  5. All a plot to take the focus off of BENGHAZI!

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