Bob Unruh | WND
The faux stone columns from his Denver acceptance speech are crumbling, the fireworks have fizzled and the unadulterated adulation of Barack Obama is a sour feeling of disillusion, as a new poll reveals half of America wants him impeached, including a stunning one in four Democrats.
“It may be early in the process for members of Congress to start planning for impeachment of Barack Obama, but the American public is building a serious appetite for it,” said Fritz Wenzel, of Wenzel Strategies, which did the telephone poll Thursday. It has a margin of error of 4.36 percent.
“Half or nearly half of those surveyed said they believed Obama should be impeached for the trifecta of scandals now consuming Washington.”
Actually, on the issue of the Benghazi scandal, where four Americans were killed when in what may have been a politically motivated series of moves, a surging danger to Americans at the foreign service facility there was ignored until al-Qaida-linked terrorists attacked, 50.1 percent of Americans said Obama should be impeached. That included 27.6 percent of the responding Democrats.
On the scandal of the Internal Revenue Service intentionally harassing conservative and Christian organizations? Forty-nine percent said they agree that impeachment is appropriate, including 24.4 percent of the Democrats.
And on the fishing trip the Obama administration took into AP reporters’ telephone records in search of something that may well have been done by his own administration, 48.6 percent impeachment is appropriate. That included 26.1 percent of the Democrats.
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It was only two months ago that respondents to the same poll suggested, although in smaller numbers, that impeachment was appropriate for other Obama scandals. At that time 44 percent said he should be impeached for his campaign to give amnesty to illegal aliens inside the U.S., and 46 percent said he should be impeached for launching the war to remove Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
“What is clear from the data is that Obama is at risk of losing his base,” Wenzel explained. “On each of these questions, about one in four Democrats said they agreed Obama should be impeached. What could be more alarming to the White House is that it appears that most of American is tuned in to these issues now, as 93 percent of registered voters said they get at least one news update on these issues every day.”
He continued, “Of the three issues now in the news, the one that has been there the longest, and the only one that has to do with the death of American citizens, is seen as the most important to Americans. While 49 percent said the Benghazi murders of U.S. diplomatic personnel is the most serious issue, 26 percent said IRS harassment was most serious, and 25 percent said the seizure of AP phone records was most serious. With news still breaking on all three fronts, it is impossible to know which of the three scandals will ultimately be the most damaging to the Obama administration. These findings clearly show Americans are concerned about what is going on in Washington.”
It spells headwinds for Obama, too, as he lobbies American voters to grant him his wish of having a Democrat Congress during the last two years of his reign, Wenzel said.
“What could be most concerning to the White House is that the Democratic Party effort to retake the U.S. House of Representatives next year may be at risk because of these issues. Asked whether they would lean to vote for the Democrat or the Republican in their own congressional district based on what they know about these three situations, 46 percent said they would lean toward voting for the Republican, while 39 percent said they would lean toward voting for the Democrat. Another 16 percent said these issues make no difference in their congressional vote,” Wenzel said.
He said, “The appetite is growing for impeachment proceedings. It is too early to say it is time for those proceedings to start, but it’s now possible to see that day on the far horizon.”
Of those who did not vote in 2012, based on their knowledge of Obama’s administration now, 37 percent say they would have gone back to vote for Republican Mitt Romney, 27 percent for Obama, and others undecided.
That the situation is serious for Obama was confirmed by former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan.
“We are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate. The reputation of the Obama White House has, among conservatives, gone from sketchy to sinister, and, among liberals, from unsatisfying to dangerous. No one likes what they’re seeing. The Justice Department assault on the Associated Press and the ugly politicization of the Internal Revenue Service have left the administration’s credibility deeply, probably irretrievably damaged. They don’t look jerky now, they look dirty. The patina of high-mindedness the president enjoyed is gone,” she said.
“The president, as usual, acts as if all of this is totally unconnected to him. He’s shocked, it’s unacceptable, he’ll get to the bottom of it. He read about it in the papers, just like you. But he is not unconnected, he is not a bystander. This is his administration. Those are his executive agencies. He runs the IRS and the Justice Department,” she continued. “A president sets a mood, a tone. He establishes an atmosphere. If he is arrogant, arrogance spreads. If he is too partisan, too disrespecting of political adversaries, that spreads too. Presidents always undo themselves and then blame it on the third guy in the last row in the sleepy agency across town.”
It’s even being compared to Watergate, that breakin episode that ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon.
That was confirmed by no less than Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, whose reporting on Watergate eventually snared the sitting president.
Woodward said recently, “If you read through all these emails, you see that everyone in the government is saying, ‘Oh, let’s not tell the public that terrorists were involved, people connected to al Qaeda. Let’s not tell the public that there were warnings.’ And I have to go back 40 years to Watergate when Nixon put out his edited transcripts to the conversations, and he personally went through them and said, ‘Oh, let’s not tell this, let’s not show this.’ I would not dismiss Benghazi. It’s a very serious issue.”
A Republican congressman recently brought up the subject.
“I would say yes. I’m not willing to take it [impeachment] off to take it off the table, but that’s certainly not what we’re striving for,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told CNN.
“We want truth, we want to bring the people who perpetrated the terrorism in Benghazi to be brought to justice, and we want to have the president do what he has said he would always do. And that is be open and transparent. Thus far, the White House has not done that.”
I signed the petition. When he was running for president for the first time, I couldnt vote I was too young..
dont feel bad…your vote would have just done as much as your petition did…absolutely nothing…ijs.
assassinating obama wouldnt fix the problem. biden would have to be assassinated too. as well as every other member of the current obama administration
lets do it ….
unless you guys plan on taking lucifer out as well, he will just create another bamaboy….DUH.
I completely agree. No need replacing one evil incompetent ass with a dozen others.
Only Half?
Which half? The employed half or the half that lives off of government handouts paid for by the employed half?
The employed half wants to be rid of the scourge of the present government.
you know what “statistics” mean….some of the truth, half of the truth, or none of the truth.
Of course then there is the politically adjusted truth and then the real truth.
Sorry folks, you are a day late and several dollars short of getting rid of Obama. You had the chance in November, but too many of you sat on your hands and didn’t vote. Now we are stuck with him for another four years? If you think his misactions have been something thus far, just wait and see what he has in store for us in the future. Moral of the story is you make your bed, you have to sleep in it.
no no sweety, YOU are a month late and a grand short if you think the votes is what made bamaboy a winner o_0….like, really?? wake up…i couldve swore you already were, smh.
I’d love to know where these statistics come from, it’s so perplexing why so many people choose to judge that it is one major party or the other when in fact it is BOTH of them yet these people persistently & illogically keep voting for one of the other.
All people are calling for change BUT the vast majority continue the merry-go-round by voting the way they always have, why cry for change then ignore it & do the same.
Just the mere thought within the two main political parties that some other person was going to have the balance of power OR another smaller party threatening to take some of their seats would have them in immediate damage control & doing whatever possible to avoid this threat to their well established gravy train, they may even start to listen to what voters want.
This is alas unlikely to happen while ever there are so many people who would rather whinge about things instead of doing the ONLY thing that can truly change things, WITHDRAW YOUR SUPPORT from both major parties & instead support minor parties & independents.
If enough people did this we would witness the biggest political reform the world has seen & then rid the system of all the people & businesses with their own motives so we could actually set about fixing things for real !
Half ? humm, but certainly not the half that live off entitlement programs Welfare and food stamps, and especially the illegal immigrants that voted for him . and certainly not the Chicago Mafia that helped him steal the 2012 election . hey, what the hell am I thinking about ? Obama is not going to be removed by impeachment . only by assassination . Do you feel lucky punk ?
Your last quote sure worries me, and I hope someone in the FBI is keeping track of these insinuations. As for the half, on the contrary of the half you are alluding, I think is your half that wants him impeached: the Republicans.
we now live in a police state, remember?? so of course the fbi, cia, and whatever other rats scurrying around are most certainly keeping track of EVERY damn thing….so relax, your big moronic brother will keep you protected from ppl who are against tyranny.