Right wing polling outfit - no surprise Re: Half of America wants Obama impeached - Even Democrats join surge of dissatisfaction in unprecedented numbers - Can you say, "Mid-term shellactifucation??"

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Obama's Legion of Flash Mobs @ 7/11.nig wrote:
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> Half of America wants Obama impeached
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> Even Democrats join surge of dissatisfaction in unprecedented numbers
> Published: 1 hour ago
> Bob Unruh
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> �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.
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> �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.
>
> Sign the petition urging Congress to impeach Obama.
>
> 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.
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> �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.
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> �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.
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> �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.�
>
> Read more at:
> http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/half-of-america-wants-obama-impeached/
>
> CB
> Can you say, "Mid-term shellactifucation??"
>