Dem: GOP eyes 'impeachment circus' to thwart Obama agenda

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) says congressional Republicans are planning an "impeachment circus" to thwart President Obama's legislative goals on the economy and immigration reform.

"It's like a magician who snaps his fingers in one place so you won`t see what he`s doing with his other hand," McDermott said Friday during an appearance on MSNBC. "They are basically trying to keep the president from doing anything on jobs or on immigration or on climate change or any other issue that the American people are facing or pensions or anything."

The former House Ethics Committee chairman said that Republicans would turn to the impeachment strategy after they were unsuccessful in using the debt ceiling and government shutdown as leverage to dismantle ObamaCare.

"They've run the let's run the country over the cliff strategy and that didn't work. And so now back at the second one of the Republican strategies. That is let`s impeach the president," McDermott said.

The Washington Democrat warned that "as long as they can keep this impeachment circus going, nobody will pay any attention" to more substantive policy issues.

Via: The Hill

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Watchdog Lists DC 'Most Corrupt'

Bribery, awarding special favors to campaign donors, violating gift rules, soliciting illegal campaign contributions, using campaign cash for personal gain, and having sex with patients.

Those are some of the allegations against lawmakers in a new Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington report on the “most corrupt members of Congress.”

Many of the lawmakers on the list will sound familiar since they’ve been under the watchdog group’s microscope for years. Reps. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.), Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), Don Young (R-Alaska) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), for instance, have appeared on the list for at least three years in a row.

While some have been cleared by congressional ethics investigators, others on the list are still battling investigations — and some aren’t even being probed.

Here’s a look at a few who top the charts:

Via: Politico

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