It's Always Been About Race

Everybody who's surprised the repugs are still claiming that the very existence of Barack Obama on the planet is cause for impeachment, stand on your head.

Last week it was the "scandal" of a president daring to issue exercutive orders.

What's really scandalous and unconstitutional to them is that there is a NI**ER IN THE WHITE HOUSE! Of course everything he does is an immediate threat to the very survival of the nation. Repugs have been fighting this unspeakable abomination for four years now and haven't even been trying to hide their reasons.
Racism is the source, the inspiration, the reason for everything repugs do. Even the fraudulent "pro-life" movement is nothing but cover for their racism.

Digby:

In discussions with Falwell, Weyrich cited various social ills that necessitated evangelical involvement in politics, particularly abortion, school prayer and the rise of feminism. His pleas initially fell on deaf ears.

"I was trying to get those people interested in those issues and I utterly failed," Weyrich recalled in an interview in the early 1990s. "What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation."

In 1979, at Weyrich's behest, Falwell founded a group that he called the Moral Majority. Along with a vanguard of evangelical icons including D. James Kennedy, Pat Robertson and Tim LaHaye, Falwell's organization hoisted the banner of the "pro-family" movement, declaring war on abortion and homosexuality. But were it not for the federal government's attempts to enable little black boys and black girls to go to school with little white boys and white girls, the Christian right's culture war would likely never have come into being. "The Religious New Right did not start because of a concern about abortion," former Falwell ally Ed Dobson told author Randall Balmer in 1990. "I sat in the non-smoke-filled back room with the Moral Majority, and I frankly do not remember abortion ever being mentioned as a reason why we ought to do something."

As I said, it's not fair to attribute the current evangelical opposition to abortion to this shady history. It's been a long time and I assume their feelings are sincere. But I also think it's important to realize that this evangelical opposition was conceived as a purely political strategy to organize in the wake of desegregation. These ancient fault lines are all connected.

So let me add my voice to so many others saying to repugs: PLEASE impeach President Obama, and do it before the 2014 elections.