One of the great moments in sports is to attend a hockey game at the University of Wisconsin (UW).\u00a0 While Wisconsin fans are known for their over-the-top support of their football and basketball programs, this pales in comparison to the following of the UW hockey team.\u00a0 They are quite simply some of the most rabid fans in the world.<\/p>\n
One of the traditions at a UW hockey game is the \u201cSieve Cheer.\u201d\u00a0 This is the cheer given when the other team gives up a goal.\u00a0 It is designed to intimidate the other team and to humiliate the opposing goalie.\u00a0 It works!\u00a0 At first there is loud cheering for the goal.\u00a0 Then the stadium becomes deathly quiet.\u00a0 Suddenly, everyone in the stadium starts whispering \u201csieve…sieve…sieve,\u201d slowly, softly and in perfect unison.\u00a0\u00a0 You can hardly hear it at first; you just kind of feel the air move.\u00a0 But each time they whisper sieve, they whisper it a little louder.\u00a0 The chant builds and builds until the entire stadium is standing up screaming, \u201cSieve!\u00a0 Sieve!\u00a0 Sieve!\u201d at the top of their lungs.\u00a0 It is a thing of beauty.<\/p>\n
The point is that some words are just like the Sieve Cheer.\u00a0 When you hear them, you know something big is coming.\u00a0 In terms of a President of the United States, there is a very similar word.\u00a0 It is \u201cimpeachment.\u201d\u00a0 This is rarely used.\u00a0 Only two Presidents in the history of the United States have ever been impeached:\u00a0 Andrew Johnson and William Jefferson Clinton.\u00a0 Both were acquitted.\u00a0 (Many people assume that Nixon was impeached, but that is not true.\u00a0 Nixon resigned because Republican Senators advised him that they could not support him if he was impeached.)<\/p>\n
It is extremely rare for political opponents to use the word \u201cimpeachment\u201d with regard to a sitting U.S. President.\u00a0 There were some extreme left radical Democrats who talked about impeachment with regard to George W. Bush, but this was never taken seriously, other than by Dennis Kucinich.\u00a0 Even the biased main stream media and liberal Democrats, including people like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, knew they had no grounds for impeaching George Bush.<\/p>\n
But this week, Newt Gingrich used the word \u201cimpeachment\u201d with regard to Barack Obama, and he was serious.\u00a0 I was stunned, because Mr. Gingrich is very bright and is a very serious man.\u00a0 I believe he chose this word carefully and deliberately.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gingrich brought up impeachment with regard to the decision by the Obama administration to unilaterally decide that the Defense of Marriage Act is clearly unconstitutional<\/em>.\u00a0 The issue is not whether you agree with this legislation, or not.\u00a0 The issue is whether the President of the United States has the authority to unilaterally decide the constitutionality of a law passed by the United States Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton.\u00a0 Gingrich did something brilliant.\u00a0 He explained this in terms that even the liberal left can understand.\u00a0 The following is from an interview with Newsmax.com:<\/p>\n \u201cImagine that Governor Palin had become president. Imagine that she had announced that Roe versus Wade in her view was unconstitutional and therefore the United States government would no longer protect anyone\u2019s right to have an abortion because she personally had decided it should be changed. The news media would have gone crazy. The New York Times would have demanded her impeachment.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n First of all, he campaigned in favor of [the law]. He is breaking his word to the American people,\u201d Gingrich says.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cSecond, he swore an oath on the Bible to become president that he would uphold the Constitution and enforce the laws of the United States. He is not a one-person Supreme Court. The idea that we now have the rule of Obama instead of the rule of law should frighten everybody. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe fact that the left likes the policy is allowing them to ignore the fact that this is a very unconstitutional act,\u201d Gingrich said.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n I doubt that anyone is going to immediate jump on the impeachment wagon.\u00a0 Republicans are terrified because of the fall-out from the Clinton fiasco.\u00a0 The liberal left and the Democratic Party only consider impeachment when a Republican is in office.\u00a0 But Gingrich makes a very strong point, and this is going to force a lot of people to take a serious look at this issue.\u00a0 Gingrich is clearly right.\u00a0 The question is whether anyone will do something about it.<\/p>\n Keep in mind some other important factors.\u00a0 Obama is likely to be out of office in about 18 months.\u00a0 As long as Republicans are confident he will lose, they are unlikely to take on the risk of launching an impeachment effort against another Democratic President. They are also more focused on cutting the budget and repealing Obamacare.\u00a0\u00a0 In addition, the world is on fire, and things are bad enough without paralyzing the U.S. Presidency with the distraction of an impeachment trial.\u00a0 Obama is pathetically weak as it is.\u00a0 This would become worse if he were being impeached.\u00a0 If Obama is removed from office, Joe Biden becomes President of the United States.\u00a0 Biden would be required under the constitution to name a new Vice President, subject to confirmation by the Senate.\u00a0 That person would immediately become the favorite to be elected President in 2012.\u00a0 Republicans could lose a lot of sleep over that scenario.\u00a0 They already think they are going to run the table in 2012, and this could change everything.<\/p>\n I do not know where this will lead, but the word has been uttered by someone who cannot be ignored.\u00a0 The main stream media has to address the issue because they cannot ignore this type of charge from a man like Newt Gingrich, a former Speaker of the House.\u00a0 This is just like being at a UW hockey home game and hearing that first, ever so soft \u201cSieve.\u201d\u00a0 You always wonder just how loud it is going to get.<\/p>\n TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the great moments in sports is to attend a hockey game at the University of Wisconsin (UW).\u00a0 While Wisconsin fans are known for their over-the-top support of their football and basketball programs, this pales in comparison to the … Continue reading