{"id":46218,"date":"2014-11-03T19:12:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T02:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/03\/ominous-prediction-or-just-tom-tancredo-being-tom-tancredo.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T08:20:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T15:20:06","slug":"ominous-prediction-or-just-tom-tancredo-being-tom-tancredo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/03\/ominous-prediction-or-just-tom-tancredo-being-tom-tancredo.html","title":{"rendered":"Ominous prediction, or just Tom Tancredo being Tom Tancredo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former presidential candidate, former gubernatorial candidate, former US Congressman (sighMyDistrictsigh) and nativist of the highest water, Tom Tancredo, joins the chorus of right-wing commentators arguing that if the GOP wins the Senate, Job One should be impeaching Barack Obama. Because FREEDOM! (And no invasion from south of the border.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/tom-tancredo-republicans-should-impeach-obama-if-they-win-senate\">http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/tom-tancredo-republicans-should-impeach-obama-if-they-win-senate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would be nice to think that the Impeach Obama rumblings are just as politically motivated and unlikely to happen as the Sue Obama threats were. But, honestly, I don&#39;t put anything past a GOP majority in both houses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6077666315581841265\/6077666329381701794'><img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-xc_NYtRkoYg\/VFg1U2ImCKI\/AAAAAAAC4Fg\/BYzLaW5HMrg\/o-TOM-TANCREDO-GOVERNOR-2014-facebook%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=660' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/M69JWyCRcgY'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former presidential candidate, former gubernatorial candidate, former US Congressman (sighMyDistrictsigh) and nativist of the highest water, Tom Tancredo, joins the chorus of right-wing commentators arguing that if the GOP wins the Senate, Job One should be impeaching Barack Obama. Because FREEDOM! (And no invasion from south of the border.) http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/tom-tancredo-republicans-should-impeach-obama-if-they-win-senate It would be nice to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/03\/ominous-prediction-or-just-tom-tancredo-being-tom-tancredo.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ominous prediction, or just Tom Tancredo being Tom Tancredo?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,353,380,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2014","category-nationalism-exceptionalism","category-poor-citizenship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/o-TOM-TANCREDO-GOVERNOR-2014-facebook[1].jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134875,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/01\/yes-just-colorado-needs-political-future.html","url_meta":{"origin":46218,"position":0},"title":"Yes, this is just what Colorado needs in its political future","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Oct-17 11:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A Steve Bannon-backed Tom Tancredo GOP candidacy for governor. Part of me wants to see it happen because I think that not in a million years could Tancredo (my [sigh] former US Representative, two-time failed gubernatorial candidate, and a guy who's managed to alienate both the state's Dems and the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tancredo.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12179,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/29\/ta_ta_tom.html","url_meta":{"origin":46218,"position":1},"title":"Ta-ta, Tom","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 29-Oct-07 6:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Colorado, at least, won't have Tom Tancredo to kick around any more. Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo has had enough. Of Congress, that is. The five-term member of the U.S. House...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2008&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19074,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/01\/unblogged-bits-mon-1-nov-10-2330.html","url_meta":{"origin":46218,"position":2},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Mon.  1-Nov-10 2330)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 1-Nov-10 11:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... GOP Rep. 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