Impeachment? Not Now!

Candidate Cooper Commentary
By Chuck Cooper
2016 Presidential Candidate
(June 9, 2014)

Impeach And Convict President Obama?
Possible, But Won’t Happen Anytime Soon!

President Obama’s illegal release of five Taliban terrorists from Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba last week in exchange for a U.S. Army Soldier’s release from Taliban confinement in Pakistan has triggered an explosion of impeachment calls from Republican, Independent and Democrat citizens alike.

The internet and TV news reports have suddenly been covered up with petitions, blogs, comments and opinions on Obama’s possible impeachment. The voices are growing louder and more insistent. Google “Impeach Obama 2014” and you’ll find numerous political websites and news reports about the quickly growing impeachment ground swell among bloggers, analysts and even members of Congress.

Even the White House received and responded quickly to an impeachment petition posted on its own website. (Read the petition and WH response here: www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/02/17/we-people-response-reaffirming)

So, is all this hoopla going to result in Congress voting to impeach the President? Not likely to happen any time soon, folks.

(Read the “Presidential Impeachment Process” from Wikipedia below to fully understand what must take place to impeach a President.)

It will be political suicide for the GOP to begin impeachment proceedings in the House now. Yes, they would likely muster the required majority vote in the GOP-controlled House; but the Democrat – controlled Senate conducts the trial and it would take a required 2/3 majority vote to convict. That won’t happen. And, when a House-generated impeachment measure fails to pass in the current Senate, it’s over for 2014.

But the possibility for impeachment and conviction remains, perhaps as soon as next January, provided of course a new Republican-controlled Congress is seated. If the Dems retain control of the Senate, the impeachment and conviction ball game will be over and Obama will run out his term as President.

But,if next November’s election results allow the GOP to maintain control of the House and the GOP to control the Senate, the current Harry Reid-muzzled Senate Conservatives will actually have their voices heard and their votes counted because a new GOP Majority Leader would replace Reid.

And, get this: If, perchance, voters provided a veto-proof GOP Congress, it would open the door in January for Congress to begin taking down Obamacare, to open the Keystone Pipeline, to rejuvenate the Coal Industry, to determine the truth about Benghazi, Fast and Furious, and restructure our Federal Tax Code and other Obama Administration ills forced on “We The People.
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Electing Conservative candidates in the November election is absolutely crucial to begin re-taking our country from liberal socialists who, under the law-breaking, dictatorial Obama Administration, have produced so many scandals, illogical spending, growth-impeding regulations, and self-serving dictates.

We need a nation-wide ground swell from voters who don’t want any more of Obama’s lies and changes to our God-instilled values and morals - regardless of their politics. It’s up to you to get out the vote! Yes, you!

Can I get an “Amen!”?

Presidential Impeachment Process - Wikipedia
At the federal level, the impeachment process is a two-step procedure. The House of Representatives must first pass, by a simple majority of those present and voting, articles of impeachment, which constitute the formal allegation or allegations. Upon passage, the defendant has been "impeached".

Next, the Senate tries the accused. In the case of the impeachment of a President, the Chief Justice of the United States presides over the proceedings….To convict the accused, a two-thirds majority of the senators present is required. Conviction removes the defendant from office. Following conviction, the Senate may vote to further punish the individual by barring him from holding future federal office, elected or appointed.

Conviction by the Senate does not bar criminal prosecution. Even after an accused has left office, it is possible to disqualify the person from future office or from certain emoluments of his prior office (such as a pension). If there is no charge for which a two-thirds majority of the senators present vote "guilty", the defendant is acquitted and no punishment is imposed.
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Dem's Pre-Election Plan

Info You Need To Know
From Chuck Cooper, 2016 Presidential Candidate

Please, please take the time to read this entire document. You will be disheartened, then hopeful and then encouraged about the information herein.


Because it’s Memorial Day weekend, you may have missed two shameful acts by U.S. Senators in the past three days which should make your blood boil. Again! These despicable acts are conclusive evidence of how corrupt and self-serving Democrats in the Senate are and how desperate they are to stay in power.

Easing The Ability To Fire Incompetent VA Employees
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives overwhelming passed the “VA Management Accountability Act of 2014” by a strongly bipartisan vote of 390 – 33 and sent it to the Senate for action. The bill would ease federal workers union restrictions on the VA Director by allowing to him to more quickly fire or suspend VA employees.

The very next day, Thursday, Republican Senator Marco Rubio asked for the Senate’s “unanimous consent” on the House bill that most thought was a no-brainer in allowing quick resolution to the systemic (and, perhaps, criminal!) issues with VA medical service. Not so fast, buckaroo!

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the union-backed self-described “democratic socialist” who chairs the Senate Committee on Veteran Affairs, objected to Rubio’s proposal because “we need the time to read” the 2 ½ page House bill. Instead of taking any action now, Sanders said he is going to hold a hearing on the House bill several weeks from now! Sander’s action blocked the bill from immediate consideration and passage.

It is important to note that earlier on Wednesday Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reportedly met with Democrats. Could it be that during that meeting the plan to block the House bill was devised? If so, there was time to alert House Democrats of the Senate’s plan before the House vote.

That tip-off gave House Democrats, all of whom are up for re-election in November, the cover to vote for the House bill knowing it was going nowhere in the Senate. House Democrats would then be able to truthfully claim that they had voted in favor of the measure during their campaigns prior to the November election.

Meanwhile, later Thursday afternoon, 48 Democrat and 2 Independent Senators sent a signed letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell urging that he recommend the Washington Redskins change its name. Apparently the name change for a football team is more critical to the Democrat Senators than taking action to allow the VA to clean house. (Oops, forgot about all that union money supporting Democrat politicians.)

Amnesty by Executive Order in August? (From the Patriot Update, May 23, 2014):
On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) gave House Republicans six weeks to pass amnesty legislation before President Barack Obama starts to use executive actions to ease deportations and change immigration laws.

“We’ve waited 329 days, we’re willing to wait another six weeks,” Reid said, according to Politico. “But at the end of six weeks, if something hasn’t been done, then there’s gonna have to be a move made. And it’s too bad we have to do that, because we all know things can be done administratively, but it’s better to change the law.”

Schumer, who has previously said there could be legislation by “June or July,” concurred. “They have about a six-week window, from June 10 after the last Republican primary until the August recess. If they don’t pass immigration reform then, the President will have no choice but to act on his own,” he said, according to The Hill.

Schumer, along with Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), has said that this year is the last chance to pass sweeping amnesty legislation. (What? Is Obama intent on disbanding Congress?) The New York Democrat has also suggested that Congress pass the Senate’s amnesty bill, which the Congressional Budget Office determined would lower the wages of American workers, but delay the implementation of it until Obama leaves office in 2017. Reid also endorsed Schumer’s suggestion, which would give amnesty to all illegal immigrants who arrived in the country before 2014.”

(Read the rest of this Patriot Update article here: http://patriotupdate.com/2014/05/obama-amnesty-executive-order-august/#DY2sz4sHeLTcHcRY.99)

My Comments:
This threat is clearly an attempt to put the Republican controlled House of Representatives in a political bind. If the House succumbs and passes the Senate amnesty bill as is, it will not take effect until January 1, 2017, unless of course, the Senate somehow fast-forwards the bill to an earlier effective date or Obama issues another executive order to make the law take effect immediately after passage but before this year’s election.

If the amnesty law takes effect as claimed on January 1, 2017, a new Republican President-Elect, without Republican control of the Senate, will be unable to repeal it.

But, If the House stands firm and refuses to pass an amnesty bill before the threatened deadline, it faces the likelihood that an executive order will grant immediate amnesty to illegal immigrants. Read that as an edict from the Oval Office granting voting rights to millions of new, now illegal voters who, out of thanks to the USD (U.S. Dictator), will almost certainly vote for the Democrats in next November’s General Election and subsequently sweep the 2016 Democrat nominee into the Presidency.

So, regardless of what the House does before this November’s election, there is a strong possibility that literally millions of new likely Democrat voters will appear at the polls in November. We all know what that will do to our once-cherished Democracy.

The good news is that there is a way out of this dilemma! First the House may decide to significantly change the Senate bill by adding numerous amendments and changes and engage in time-consuming debate with a last-minute passage in an attempt to hold off the threatened “executive order.” That strategy may not work, but at the very least, doing so would indicate to voters that they had a specific plan of their own to reform immigration laws.

I suggest what I believe is a better strategy for the House. It’s a long shot, at best, and will require historical fortitude from many current House Republicans and Democrats who are upset that the President is by-passing Congress in making laws of his own.


Here’s the Cooper Plan:
1. House Republicans stand firm, dig in and refuse to succumb to the threat of an “executive order” granting immediate amnesty and voting rights to current non-citizens. That puts the ball back in the Dems hands forcing them to decide whether or not to proceed with their threat of an “executive order.”
2. If the “executive order” comes, even if is issued just days before the Nov. election, the House takes action by:
a. Immediately (overnight) seeking a Federal Court injunction to stay the implementation until the Court determines whether or not that executive order is Constitutional.
b. Immediately (overnight) filing a companion law suit in Federal Court claiming the executive order is un-Constitutional.
c. Immediately (the next morning) beginning impeachment proceedings on the grounds that the President over-reached his Constitutional authority in issuing the executive order (and any others the House wants to include.)

I’m not an attorney and have never taught Constitutional Law at Harvard, but the focus of this plan is to take any and all possible steps to delay implementation of any “executive order” granting amnesty and voting rights to currently non-citizens until after the 2014 election. Surely, lawyers in the House can figure out how to delay. (Maybe, House Speaker Boehner can even pull a “Harry Reid” and refuse to bring any amnesty bills to the House floor!)

This action will give all Republican House members and Republican Senators and 2014 Senate candidates the opportunity to use this issue, among many others, as a winning election strategy next November. But, before the election, they will need to pass a specific new immigration law they would all support after the election.

Here’s the deal! If Republicans maintain control of the House in November and if all Republicans can energize the electorate enough to take control of the Senate, too, the ball returns to our court beginning in early January next year when the new Congress is seated.

If the new Senate is controlled by Republicans enough to over-ride any veto by the President, Congress can begin to heal many of the ills created by the current Administration. Here’s what that Congress could do: repeal Obamacare, re-structure or eliminate the VA, re-structure or eliminate the IRS, discover the truth about Benghazi, approve the Keystone Pipeline, create real jobs and get the economy booming again and others.

A giddy serendipity of a Republican-controlled Senate is that Harry Reid’s power and authority would be emasculated! Yes, he would still be a Senator for four more years and he would possibility become Minority Leader, but he would become a “toothless” tiger. That possibility excites me!

This scenario scares the living daylights out of Democrats and socialistic program supporters. That’s why they have been so aggressive in spreading lie after lie about the issues and scandals we face in this country. That’s why they are so desperate to retain control of the Senate. Get accustomed to it; the Democrats will do anything to stay in power! It’s gonna be a really nasty next few months.

Just remember, It may be May, friends, but November is coming! If we stick together we can have the mother of all parties on Nov. 5.

May God Bless America as we return it to our foundational roots.

"Shut 'er Down!"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (May 20, 2014)


President Cooper Would Shut Down VA;
Transfer Most Veteran Benefits To States


BLAIRSVILLE, GA – In what will likely become a hotly contested, explosive idea, especially among “big government liberals and socialist Democrats,” 2016 Presidential Candidate Chuck Cooper dropped a political bomb today when he suggested that as President he would shut down the Veterans Administration, sell existing facilities to private firms and transfer most veteran benefits to the individual states.

Cooper said he would insist that all veterans be included in the current healthcare program provided for Congress and other federal officials. “Our veterans need and deserve the best medical care we can possibly provide for them,” he said.

“In view of continuing revelations of likely criminal activity among top level VA officials, administrators, supervisors and other employees, it is apparent that drastic measures must be taken immediately to assure the best medical care possible for all of our veterans,” Cooper said. “Obviously, bureaucrats have been unable and unwilling to provide that for our vets,” he continued.

“Recent discovery that as many as 100 veterans died because of unacceptable and unwarranted delays in getting the medical attention they desperately needed, Cooper said. “It is sinful, pre-meditated murder and indefensible negligence by those providers,” he stated. According to the Presidential hopeful, “the lack of Congressional oversight is just as responsible for these grossly unnecessary deaths and they need to be held accountable too. We can take care of them this coming November,” he said.

Cooper himself is a non-combat veteran who has been eligible for VA care, but was “kicked out” of the VA system because he missed two consecutive assigned appointments at the Lufkin, TX clinic in 2002-03. He was working in Alaska on the appointment dates and notified the Texas clinic ahead of time that he would be unable to keep the appointments. The “Veterans Advocate” in Lufkin told him nothing could be done because “rules are rules.” He is now covered under Medicare and private health insurance.

Cooper fumed when he learned from news reports last week that nearly $500 million was spent on VA office furnishings and accessories instead of hiring more medical practitioners to help care for veterans. “I will do everything I can possibly do to encourage Congress to shut down the VA and fire the administrators as soon as possible.

In closing, Cooper said: “I’ve heard the vocal words of both President Obama and his Cabinet head of the VA say that they are ‘mad as hell’ about what has gone on at the VA over several decades,” Cooper noted. “Well, I’m mad as hell, too. Dishing out tax-payer dollars to the victims’ families surely doesn’t bring closure to them for what their own government did to them,” he said.

“This simply shouldn’t happen in the United States, for crying out loud,” he exhorted. “The idiots in charge were more concerned about keeping their jobs that taking care of their patients,” he claimed. “Shame on them!”

Fiscal Responsibility

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (May 8, 2014)


President Cooper Will Take No Salary;
Will Work For Food & Housing Only!


BLAIRSVILLE, GA – In a stunning announcement today, 2016 Christian Conservative Party Presidential candidate Chuck Cooper revealed that while in office he and First Lady “Sweet Sue” will refuse to take any salary and will serve as President for “food and housing with utilities and an occasional chopper ride to and from the White House and our home here,” he said.

“We won’t need any income unless the current administration decides to steal our life savings (and yours!) with higher taxes, higher energy costs, a de-valued dollar, hidden costs or removed procedures embedded in the secret Obamacare power grab or other sneaky middle-of-the-night strictly partisan policy,” he said.

Continuing he said: “Many, many of us Americans have suffered greatly because of the sense-less fiscal policies forced on us by current and previous Administrations. Liberal leaders don’t seem to understand the math that it takes to balance a budget or the need to do so. They seem to believe that we can spend our way to regained prosperity with money we don’t have. Hogwash! Bullpucky! “The simple math says when you spend more than you have you create debt which will eventually have to be paid,” he pointed out.

“Unfortunately too many politicians willingly pass our rapidly growing debt to those that follow them instead of doing something about it. We are drowning in the unsustainable debt those numb-skulled jerks have created. And, they won’t do diddly squat about it. Economists project our debt will have reached $20 trillion by the time I take office. What’s 20 trillion? It’s the number 20 followed by 12 zeroes for crying out loud,” he exclaimed. That’s an unmitigated sin!”

“Look at it this way: the current population of the U.S. is 309 million people. To eliminate a $20 trillion debt, every man, woman and child in this country would have to pay $64,700. Feds estimate Interest paid on our current debt is $220 billion each year.

“My goodness, most housewives know how to balance a budget to ‘make ends meet.’ If that’s the case, then why in the world can’t our leaders balance a budget to make ends meet for our country?,” he asked rhetorically. “Maybe that’s because so many are career politicians and depend on giving things away to the folks so the folks will continue electing them to office.

“The fact is that those politicians don’t want a balanced budget. Is that a preposterous proposition?” he asked. "Heavens no! Here’s why I say that: Because the goodies to their loyal voters would have to stop and their loyal voters will desert them. Our Executive Branch and Congressional leaders simply don’t want to risk their careers by doing their Constitutionally-mandated jobs,” he concluded, “but with your help we are going to correct that!”

In another “austerity” move, Cooper said he and “Sweet Sue” won’t be doing much world-wide travel like predecessors have done. “I see no need whatsoever in firing up Air Force One and accompanying aircraft and jetting around the world at massive, budget-busting expenses just to see other foreign leaders face-to-face. With today’s technology, we can do that from Washington, DC or Blairsville, GA,” he claimed.

“If foreign dignitaries and diplomats want to meet with us in person, they will be welcomed at the White House,” Cooper promised, “but there won’t be any of those extremely expensive ‘state dinners’ with star-studded entertainers to show off to them.

“That policy means the First Lady won’t have the need for any of those over-priced ‘wear one time’ designer gowns featured later in women’s magazines and society pages that some of her predecessors have purchased at government expense and all the fashion editors drool over.

“We are broke, for crying out loud,” he offered, “and are greatly jeopardizing the lifestyles and opportunities for all of us if we don’t act and act quickly. Our credit cards are maxed to the max,” he said, “and predatory loan sharks like China are eager to own us.”

Cooper concluded by saying: “You can take this to the bank. I won’t be taking any exotic, out-of-country vacations. I won’t be roaming the country raising funds or supporting political allies, either. There are lots of gorgeous vacation spots here within in our own borders. So, if we take a vacation, it will be right here in the US so we can support the local economies.

“And, why in the world would I need to raise funds? For Heaven’s sakes, I’ll be 78 when I take office. Any thoughts of a second term would be pure fantasy. I’ll be blessed to finish the first one.

“So, I’ve got nothing to gain or lose politically by insisting on a balanced budget and by having the courage and guts to make very difficult spending cuts to balance our budget. I will do my part by operating the White House on a very strict “bare bones” budget.

“One more thing.” he explained, “I won’t approve any budget which isn’t balanced and which does not include funds to cut our horrible debt. We don’t have the dollars to continue our spending addiction. It’s time we ‘paid the piper,’” he said emphatically.

Run, Chuck, Run

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (May 2, 2014)

Christian Conservatives Name Cooper
As Their 2016 Presidential Candidate


BLAIRSVILLE, GA – In a not so surprising statement here today, Christian Conservative Party Chairman Chuck Cooper said he has decided to become the new party’s first official candidate for President of the United States.
Just yesterday, he announced the formation of the new political party. “I want to provide a political home-base for Christian Conservatives and other like-minded folks of faith whose goal is to return the U.S. to its foundational roots with common sense solutions based upon the Bible, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Ten Commandments,” he said.
During yesterday’s announcement, he hinted he would run for the Presidency. Now it is official.

Cooper, 75 and in decent health, is a political rookie. In fact, he has zero public service experience and has never run for or been appointed to public office. “I believe my lack of political experience is a game-changing benefit to my candidacy,” he claimed today. “Truth be told,” he continued, “I carry no political baggage. I’m not beholden or accountable to anyone other than God and my lovely wife of 52 years. I have no political skeletons to explain. I have no political paybacks to make. I have no one whatsoever pulling my strings. My yeas will always be yeas and my nays will always be nays. With me, you get what you see! Period!” he promised. “I’m not trying to build a legacy,” he insists. “I already have one. My family!”

Cooper claims emphatically that his candidacy has ONE and ONLY ONE agenda: “to jump-start the resurrection of the U.S. into the country our God-inspired Founding Fathers envisioned,” he stated. “I do not seek fame, fortune, power, riches, free golf or tax payer paid world-wide vacations for my family members and BFFs,” he said.

“Working with all Congressional Conservatives, regardless of party affiliation, we will set the table to provide the same opportunities we had growing up for all children and grandchildren everywhere. As a doting Grandfather, I can tell you that most parents and grandparents are extremely concerned, worried, and frightened about the life their offspring face unless things change significantly. Together, we can change our country’s destiny. It ain’t easy, but it is certainly do-able,” he said.

“I want to re-instill patriotism, belief, loyalty and pride in our country and to self-prove to all Americans that, with God’s help, the best years of our country are ahead of us. Provided, of course, that our country’s future is built on faith in God, on a good, practical education, on personal responsibility for the consequences of our decisions, on huge dreams and on hard work,” he said.

The “American Dream,” he noted, “has become a nightmare for most Americans. The lack of jobs has created an “insidious malaise” among our people. Creating public sector jobs rather than tax-supported government jobs is critical to our rebound. Jobs created by ‘Free Enterprise’ are the engine that drives our economic recovery. I want to provide real hope through real opportunities; not the false hope provided by the government with its debilitating handouts that hurt rather than help the recipients long-term. “For ‘chronologically advantaged’ Americans, I want to help establish policies to keep the feds from raiding our hard-earned retirement nest eggs,” he said. “That’s OUR money, Buddy-Ro. We earned it, we saved it. Keep your lousy mitts off of it.”

Shortly, Cooper will begin periodically releasing a series of “Christian Conservative Values” documents detailing his ideas for getting our country “back on track,” he said. “I will be very up front, direct and detailed in how I plan to lead,” he promised. “Take note that I said 'lead' not 'dictate,'” he pointed out. He said he may not be the smartest bear in the woods or the most dedicated salmon in the stream, but “I want to dedicate the rest of my life to helping get our train-wrecked country back on track and headed in the right direction,” he said.

“My management style is to find the best practical minds in our country and operate our country as a team. I won’t be the boss. I’ll be the team captain,” he claimed. “None of the carefully vetted team members I ask to serve will be ‘career builders,’” he promised. “All team members will make decisions and recommendations based on what is best for our country long-term,” he said. “We’ve had enough of self-serving, self-promoting, self-guided decisions and policies by so-called “leaders” who have ignored the fact that they work for us. We don’t work for them!” That will end when I’m inaugurated on January 20, 2017,” Cooper promised.

To that end, Candidate Cooper promises to release the names of his “dream team” cabinet members “sooner rather than later;” he will also name his hoped-for top advisors – his “management team” shortly. “This campaign is not about me,” he emphasized. “It’s about the White House, Congress and the Judiciary working together and adopting the same game-plan for what our country should be.

Cooper deferred commenting on his “campaign fundraising” plan now, but promised he’d release his “official bio” some stunning financial news next week.