Oh just
go for it already. Quit hemming and hawing and burping and belching and sniffing each other's butts like so many dogs in the nation's most elaborately decorated dog park and just
get the hell on with it.
Texas Republican Rep. Blake Farenthold said that Republicans could secure the votes to impeach Barack Obama in the House of Representatives. Farenthold was speaking at an open house held at a Civic Center in Luling, Texas, Saturday [when another one of America's dumbest proto-humans asked a goddamn birther question because they were fresh out of huffable paint.]
“I think unfortunately the horse is already out of the barn on this, on the whole birth certificate issue,” Farenthold said. “The original Congress when his eligibility came up should have looked into it and they didn’t. I’m not sure how we fix it.”
“You tie into a question I get a lot: ‘If everyone’s so unhappy with the president’s done, why don’t you impeach him?’” Farenthold continued. “I’ll give you a real frank answer about that: If we were to impeach the president tomorrow, you could probably get the votes in the House of Representatives to do it. But it would go to the Senate and he wouldn’t be convicted.”
I don't doubt
this House could drum up the votes to impeach Obama in ten minutes flat. You could also drum up the votes to repeal half of the amendments to the Constitution, to declare nuclear war on Hawaii, to recognize English as the official language of the mole people, to return to the gold standard
but declare that from now on beach sand is interchangeable with gold, to declare arsenic a vegetable, to reinstate slavery and to declare that dragons are real but only people of pure hearts and solidly conservative minds can see them. Farenthold wants to assure America that yes, the entire House of Representatives are exactly the sort of petty dumbasses that Farenthold considers
his people, but I promise you: Nobody in the country had any doubt about that. If there's one thing polls have pretty solidly determined at this point, it's that the American public has no delusions about just how aggressively incompetent and buffoonish their currently elected House is. 2014 may be the first year in which an actual venereal disease is elected to a seat in the House of Representatives, and America will do that because all involved will agree the venereal disease would be a marked step up. You want to vote to impeach the president? Go for it. It'll at least make for entertaining television.
Look, Texas, I was once plenty fond of you but this has to stop, this practice of sending out clouds of interchangeable legislative dumbasses to waft over the rest of America like so much acid rain. You want to run your state like a Tina Turnerless Thunderdome, you go for it, but that crap needs to stop at the border. Don't make us build a damn fence here.
