This one will leave you scratching your head. Less than two weeks after President Obama was reelected, winning both the popular vote and the electoral vote, a wingnut group called Grasstops USA says that the American people have demanded that Obama be impeached:
“The American people have demanded that Barack Obama be impeached and now, Barack Obama has thrown down his gauntlet and is demanding his own impeachment over the growing Benghazi scandal. So, Mr. Boehner, Mr. McConnell what are you waiting for, it’s time to get busy.”
And by the “American people,” they of course mean their own utterly loony followers. But they’re the only ones who count. They’re the Real Americanstm, not all those dark-skinned people and women who voted for Obama.
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Taz
November 26, 2012 at 9:39 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Well sure, that’s why they re-elected him. You can’t impeach someone who’s not in office.
sunsangnim
November 26, 2012 at 9:39 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That’s right. The people re-elected him because the last impeachment scandal was so much fun that they wanted another.
holytape
November 26, 2012 at 9:40 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“Grasstops” as in smoking too much grass. Not the good stuff, but literally grass — all the brain damage and none of the fun.
dingojack
November 26, 2012 at 9:42 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Why do these ‘grass tops’* want President Joe Biden?
Dingo
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* I’m guessing they’re only tops when tea bagging someone weaker, other than that …
Zinc Avenger (Sarcasm Tags 3.0 Compliant)
November 26, 2012 at 9:57 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Grasstops: For when you just can’t bear to associate yourself with the plebian grassroots.
Jordan Genso
November 26, 2012 at 10:01 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What? The President is demanding that he be impeached? Couldn’t he just resign if he didn’t want the job anymore, or is it some very subtle dog whistle that suggests he would prefer to be fired to collect unemployment insurance?
Michael Heath
November 26, 2012 at 10:07 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I got accosted by an old man in McDonalds the other day about Benghazi. He asked me how the real estate business in our area was doing (he saw me walk over from my office). He then asked me what the effects of Obamacare were going to have on the real estate market. After I answered, ‘not at all but it would help economic growth nationwide than if we’d done nothing’, he used that opportunity to get into to with me about Benghazi.
Yes, in the Fox News viewers’ eyes, Benghazi is directly tied to how healthcare financing effects real estate. He claimed he was a Korean vet and, “his brothers”, our Libyan Ambassador and the four others who died, were called “bumps in the road” by President Obama. Fortunately I was next to order.
In fact this term was used by President Obama in a 60 Minutes interview to describe our efforts in general in the broader region and Middle East, he was not referring to the four who died. I then found out that Fox News and some Republicans leveraging Fox News are lying about the what the president said.
In light of President Bush’s record on Iraq, on torture, prior to 9/11, his record on al Qaeda after 9/11, to go after President Obama (who he of course called “Obama”) for the relatively trivial tragedy in Benghazi compared to the history of presidents in wartime, it’s very illustrative of how hateful and delusional older Republican voters have become. We can thank Fox News, AM talk radio, and viral emails for that. But hey, in early-2009 they were calling for the assassination of President Obama, so I suppose impeachment is moral progress.
Didaktylos
November 26, 2012 at 10:07 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Obviously, anybody who voted for Obama wasn’t a true American.
iknklast
November 26, 2012 at 10:24 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That’s what you get for going to McDonald’s!
cactusren
November 26, 2012 at 10:35 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
From the linked article:
Really, faxes? These people really are living in the past.
Chiroptera
November 26, 2012 at 10:49 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So soon after re-electing him? Man, we Americans are a fickle lot.
nooneinparticular
November 26, 2012 at 11:07 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“They’re the Real Americanstm, not all those dark-skinned people and women who voted for Obama.”
I’m really cranky this morning. I am SO tired of this meme. Yeah most “dark skinned” and Y challenged voters voted for Obama. But so did a whole shitload of “light skinned”, X deficient voters, including this one.
Raging Bee
November 26, 2012 at 11:11 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What the hell kind of a name is “Grasstops?” Is this a “grassroots” movement led from the top? A bunch of Randroid zealots pretending they’re the downtrodden “Makers of Things” at the ground level?
Seriously, are these people even trying to be coherent anymore?
Ibis3, member of the Oppressed Sisterhood fanclub
November 26, 2012 at 11:21 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
They (Grasstops) also want to “depose” John Boehner–he’s so weepy and soft that he’s caving on Obamacare and “Benghazi-gate”. Obama “ordered his own impeachment” at the press conference when he told McCain to leave Susan Rice alone and take it up with him instead. The birth certificate? Still not real.
bryanjohnson
November 26, 2012 at 11:40 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@nooneinparticular, #12
I think your sarcasm meter’s temporarily busted. Note the use of the trademark symbol after “Real Americans” in Ed’s post.
It’s a typical wingnut claim that Obama “stole” the election by courting “non-traditional” (read, PoC’s, women, lower class folks) voters while all “Real Americans” voted for Romney. Gag me with a spoon.
d.c.wilson
November 26, 2012 at 11:59 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Just more babble from the bubble. Because everyone inside the bubble is screaming formObama’s impeachment, then all of America must be. It’s also why they can’t comprehend how the Mooslim usurper got re-elected.
davem
November 26, 2012 at 6:48 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
‘Grasstops’ have to be people who believe that they are in a ‘grassroots’ movement, but are actually being led by high-ups in Corporate America and/or the Republican Party.
samgardner
November 27, 2012 at 11:24 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
if I recall correctly, there were groups demanding Obama’s impeachment just after his first election, before he even took office.