Impeaching Obama

President Obama has had a quite controversial presidency and the Republican Party is livid about some of his actions.  There has been a lot of talk in the Republican Party about trying to impeach Obama on many separate charges.  The Republicans have been upset with Obama ever since he was voted into office and they have been trying to come up with reasons to impeach Obama since the beginning.  There are many pros and many cons of impeaching Obama for the Republicans.

     First of all, let’s start on why the Republicans want to impeach Obama and what grounds they are going to have on to impeach him.  In recent news, Obama has been the first president to ever cross the federal law by negotiating with terrorists.  When news came to America that there was an American soldier being held captive by an Afghan terrorist group.  Obama broke American foreign policy by negotiating with terrorists and he traded 5 high-ranking Taliban terrorist members for the American soldier.  The Republicans have called these acts by the President to be high crimes and misdemeanors and should be grounds for impeachment.  In another case, Obama has granted legal relief to approximately 5 million undocumented immigrants.  This has angered the Republican Party to no end and they have stated that the Immigration and Nationality Act does not give the President the power to give undocumented aliens the right to legal relief. 

     There are several pros and cons to impeaching the President, especially differing from separate political party views.  First of all, the republicans believe that they should impeach Obama for the acts that he has committed.  The road to impeachment is just how Congress sees Obama’s crimes and if they are considered high crimes and misdemeanors in the member’s eyes.  The main pros to impeaching the President is purely justice for his unconstitutional acts.  The problem is impeaching Obama could also end up blowing up in the Republican’s faces.  The successor of Obama’s office would be Joe Biden, and putting Joe Biden in office would be a nightmare for the conservative Republicans.  Joe Biden is as liberal as it gets and the conservative-majority Congress would never be able to get anything done with laws continually getting shot down by the new President.  I believe Obama has done acts that are grounds for impeachment, but impeaching Obama would be a mistake because it would make things harder for the Republicans to get things done.  Also, the Republicans would never be able to get enough votes to actually impeach President Barack Obama. 

Sources:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/22/opinion/the-impeachment-of-obama-on-immigration-may-be-legal-but-its-wrong.html

http://www.westernjournalism.com/calls-obamas-impeachment-well-grow-louder-armys-decision-charge-bergdahl/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2014/12/08/impeachment-of-obama-would-do-serious-damage-to-republicans/

Benjamin Netanyahu's Speech in Washington D.C.

Benjamin Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of Israel and he is currently in Washington D.C. to address a session of Congress about U.S. ties with Iran in a nuclear power deal that Israel and Netanyahu think would be a very bad deal if the U.S. goes through on it.  Current Speaker of the House John Boehner invited Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress on this pressing issue but he did not go through the White House when inviting him.  This has caused quite a stir in the Obama administration because this is the first time somebody has ever been invited to speak for Congress without the consent of the current president. 

                This issue is very pressing in Israel as voters prepare to make their decision on whether or not to re-elect Netanyahu as their prime minister.  Many people in believe that they need to maintain their current “special relationship” that the Israelis have with the United States of America.  Many Obama-supporters are also quite outraged about this special invitation by John Boehner.  The invitation breaks a U.S. policy that states that Congress will not host a foreign political figure that is currently up for election in their respectable country.  Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu are both in very bad holdings as they are disagreeing on how the U.S. should handle Iran and their nuclear weapons program.  Obama stated: ”This is not a personal issue.  I think that it is important for every country in its relationship with the United States to recognize that the U.S. has a process of making policy.” earlier in the week.  Obama has made several statements angry about Netanyahu’s claims about what must happen with Iran and Obama states that none of his predictions have come true.  Nobody would like to see the U.S. and Israel’s current state come to an end, therefore they are trying to let this whole controversy blow over as the two leaders of each respectable country disagree on a very important issue in the world.  Netanyahu is set to address Congress on March 3.

Sources:

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/world/middleeast/white-house-and-netanyahu-aipac-conference.html?_r=0

2. http://time.com/3729230/israel-netanyahu-address-congress/

3. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/02/390132671/netanyahu-s-speech-to-congress-is-already-controversial