Faithless Execution Quotes

“Republicans, as well as Democrats committed to our constitutional framework, should fearlessly marshal the administration’s frauds, obstructions, and violations of law. They should demand transparency and accountability for the lies, the broken oaths, the betrayal of the rule of law, and the damage wrought—including lives not only devastated but lost due to the administration’s recklessness.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“Willful and repeated violation of the Constitution is the textbook example of high crimes and misdemeanors.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The Obama dream is the nightmare about which Alexis de Tocqueville warned: a comparatively soft tyranny, in which the individual serves an “immense and tutelary” state and its centrally planned, punctiliously regulated society, enjoying only as much liberty as the government deigns to grant him.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The rise of the administrative state over the last century has profoundly challenged the Constitution’s framework, but President Obama has quite intentionally undertaken to dismantle that framework.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“After the massacre, the worst domestic terrorist attack since 9/11, General George Casey, army chief of staff, bleated that a “greater tragedy” than the mass murder and maiming would be “if our diversity becomes a casualty.” The administration fraudulently labeled the killings of U.S. troops who were about to deploy to a war zone as “workplace violence,” not international terrorism—a finding that denied Purple Hearts to the soldiers killed and wounded in the attack.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“At home, the administration consulted with “experts” it has refused to identify in purging information about Islamic supremacism—the ideology that drives our enemies—from materials used to train law enforcement, intelligence, and military personnel responsible for our security. The obsession with bleaching the Islam out of Islamic terrorism reached mind-boggling lengths with the administration’s refusal to brand the Fort Hood massacre—in which thirteen Americans, mostly military personnel, were killed and dozens more wounded—as an act of terrorism.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The president has willfully defrauded the American people in the enactment and implementation of Obamacare.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The president and his subordinates have also taken the position that the federal government has a veto over a church’s choice of its ministers and employees. The Supreme Court rejected this offensive claim in a 9–0 ruling that even included the two justices appointed to the high court by the president.26”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The HHS rule blatantly denies the breadth of First Amendment protection, and violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, under which Congress promotes First Amendment liberty by prohibiting government from unduly burdening religious freedom.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The president and his subordinates have violated the First Amendment’s guarantees of religious liberty and freedom of conscience. The president and his subordinates at the Department of Health and Human Services have promulgated a regulatory mandate, under the PPACA, requiring that the insurance policies that Americans are now compelled to purchase must cover FDA-approved forms of contraception, including abortifacients.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The president and his subordinates have willfully undermined and prejudiced the rights of the American people to equal protection under the law and to engage in free political speech and association. He and his subordinates have employed the awesome powers of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the interest of partisan politics, selectively harassing conservative groups opposed to the president’s policies and denying them the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The president and his subordinates at the Department of Justice have used the executive’s awesome law enforcement power, including its access to vast sums of public money for conducting investigations and filing lawsuits, to intimidate the states into complying with Obama administration policies, including when those policies conflict with the states’ lawful powers, prerogatives and obligations under the Constitution and state law.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The president and his subordinates have compelled citizens of the states of Florida and Arizona, and other citizens of the United States, to expend public funds on extensive litigation over Justice Department lawsuits seeking to prohibit those states from preventing illegal aliens from voting in elections.12”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“He and his subordinates have undermined a congressional statute, Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, that enables state and local law enforcement officers to enforce the federal immigration laws within their jurisdictions.9”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“He and his subordinates have issued a visa to a self-proclaimed member of a formally designated Egyptian terrorist organization in order to enable that member of the terrorist organization to consult with administration officials at the White House, in violation of the federal laws that prohibit material support to terrorism.8”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“Far from faithfully executing the laws, he and his subordinates are undermining the laws in granting administratively the amnesty Congress has declined to grant by statute.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“He and his subordinates have directed the use of “prosecutorial discretion” to dismiss thousands of pending cases against illegal immigrants and to prevent the arrest and prosecution of thousands of illegal immigrants.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The president and his subordinates willfully defrauded the American people, including investors in the public securities exchanges, in connection with Solyndra, a solar energy enterprise that he and his subordinates subsidized with over half a billion taxpayer dollars despite obvious indication that the venture was not viable and would collapse.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The Iranian government aptly regards this agreement as a “surrender” by the United States. Rouhani publicly boasted in a tweet that “world powers surrendered to Iranian nation’s will.”57 Moreover, Iran’s foreign minister insists that, contrary to Obama administration claims, the regime “did not agree to dismantle anything” in its nuclear or ballistic program.58”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“Having turned a deaf ear to the Iranian people in 2009 when they were being crushed while attempting to rise up against their totalitarian regime—the leading state sponsor of jihadist terror52—President Obama reached out in 2013 to the Iranian regime’s new front man, President Hassan Rouhani.53”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“In addition, he and his subordinates have repeatedly, systematically and willfully provided Congress and the American people with false information about matters of grave public concern.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“That is no exercise of prosecutorial discretion, a doctrine designed to protect our liberties from overbearing law, not to subject us to legal jeopardy by overbearing executive aggression.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“Unlike the simple majority vote required for the House to approve articles of impeachment, a conviction by a two-thirds supermajority of the Senate is necessary to impose the Constitution’s impeachment penalty: “removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.”11”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“Congressional Democrats want the current president to use the enormous raw power vested in his office by Article II to achieve statist transformation. If he does so, they will support him. They do not insist that he comply with congressional statutes—which must be consistent with the Constitution in order to be valid, and thus may reflect the very constitutional values the left is trying to supplant.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The Framers reasoned that Congress, faced with a president who usurps legislative prerogatives, would fight back by cutting off money the president would need to carry out the usurpation.5”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“The GOP had better get past its angst—either that or be prepared to accept a government that is more a centralized dictatorship than a federalist republic under the rule of law.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“Finally, the Framers stressed that the impeachment remedy was a vital congressional check on the executive branch as a whole, not just on the president’s personal compliance with constitutional norms.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“Mason fixed on betrayal of the president’s fiduciary duty and oath of allegiance to our system of government, saying that “attempts to subvert the Constitution” would be chief among the “many great and dangerous offences” beyond treason and bribery for which removal of the president would be warranted.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“In addition to facilitating the arming of jihadists during the war, in violation of American criminal laws against material support to terrorism, the president’s policy enabled jihadists affiliated with al-Qaeda to seize parts of the regime’s arsenal in the chaotic aftermath of Qaddafi’s assassination. Thus fortified, terrorists conducted violent operations against American and other Western targets in the region.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment

“Holder’s department orchestrated the astounding “Fast and Furious” operation, in which large quantities of firearms were knowingly sent to vicious drug gangs in Mexico.”
― Andrew McCarthy, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama s Impeachment