Could Obama Actually Be Impeached? New Bill In Congress Pushes For It.

Could President Obama actually be impeached? A new bill in Congress is pushing for the impeachment of Barack Obama if the 44th president uses the military in Syria, or anywhere else — calling it “an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor” —  without congressional approval.

In fact, military force without congressional approval has been used over 125 times, as Joe.My.God. notes, but why should that fact stop a Republican House from getting their way?

The only problem? The bill’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Walter Jones (image, above,) of North Carolina, doesn’t seem like your regular radical Republican. In fact, he is one of the few Republicans who “became one of the leading Republicans opposed to continued involvement in Iraq.” More via Wikipedia:

Jones called on President George W. Bush to apologize for misinforming Congress to win authorization for the war. Jones said, “If I had known then what I know today, I wouldn’t have voted for that resolution.”

He contends that the United States went to war “with no justification.” On the subject, he said, “I just feel that the reason of going in for weapons of mass destruction, the ability of the Iraqis to make a nuclear weapon, that’s all been proven that it was never there.” He added that his change of opinion came about from attending the funeral of a sergeant killed in Iraq, when his last letter to his family was being read out. On June 16, 2005, he joined with three other members of Congress (Neil Abercrombie, Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul) in introducing a resolution calling for the start of a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq to begin by October 2006. Jones covered the hallway outside his office with photographs of soldiers who had died in Iraq.He said, “If we were given misinformation intentionally by people in this administration, to commit the authority to send boys, and in some instances girls, to go into Iraq, that is wrong. Congress must be told the truth.”

In 2007, he and Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA) introduced the Constitutional War Powers Resolution, which seeks to “prohibit the president from ordering military action without congressional approval, except when the United States or U.S. troops were attacked or when U.S citizens needed to be evacuated.”

Jones sits in the same seat his father — a Democrat — occupied for over a quarter-century. Of course, he is responsible for the whole “Freredom Fries” debacle…

So, will Obama get impeached for using the military without congressional approval? “At present, the resolution doesn’t have much chance at passing, which is how the Obama Administration likes it,” The Atlantic notes.

For fun, of course, there’s this from (don’t laugh) birther HQ World Net Daily:

An unscientific poll today revealed that nearly 9 in 10 respondents say it’s time now to move on impeachment proceedings for Barack Obama.

The WND poll revealed that of nearly 10,000 votes by this evening, only handsful picked negative responses to the question, “Is it a smart idea to pursue impeachment of Obama now?”

Of course, there’s a bumper sticker…