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GOP Congressman: We Can’t Impeach Obama Because We Don’t Have The Votes Yet
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Apr 13, 2012 08:54am |
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| Author | Benjy Sarlin |
| News Date | Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:20:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Why hasn’t Congress impeached President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder? Rep. Todd Akin says it’s simply a lack of votes. But he says that may change eventually.
“That’s a good question,” Akin told a constituent on Tuesday who asked just that. “I can’t speak for the other 400 and some congressmen, but I believe when they take a look at impeachment the question is do you have the votes to do it and, if you do it, it goes to the Senate, what’s going to happen with Harry Reid?”
Akin continued, saying that “some of these are tactical questions, what’s the right way to do these things.”
“I think some of the thought was, he’s coming up at this point for election and the best way to impeach him is the ballot box,” Akin said. “So I think that’s the thought, because you’re never going to get something through the Senate. That doesn’t mean that at a certain point you just say enough, I don’t care enough about the Senate, duty calls us to just get up and just impeach this guy. |
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