Former Rep. Tom Tancredo: Impeach Obama Once GOP Takes Senate Control

"There have always been two main arguments against impeachment even among those who support it in principle – first, that it is not practical because it would never succeed in the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate, and secondly that, well, you just can’t impeach the first black president no matter what he has done. But given the likely new political circumstances post-Nov. 4, both of those arguments have lost their power. If Republicans capture the majority in the U.S. Senate as now appears almost certain, the 2015 Congress is a new ballgame. If the House were to bring impeachment charges based on not only the amnesty but several other unconstitutional actions, do Democratic senators want to run for re-election in 2016 on a platform that starts with apologizing for Obama’s unconstitutional behavior?" - Former Rep. Tom Tancredo, writing for World Net Daily.

RELATED: Earlier this year Tancredo lost the Colorado GOP gubernatorial primary. In 2010 he also lost his bid for the governorship. He ran for president in 2008 but dropped out early due to poor support. Tancredo was the honorary chairman of the Youth For Western Civilization, a group that advocates against diversity and multiculturalism on college campuses.

COLORADO: Anti-Gay Birther Former Rep.Tom Tancredo Loses Governor Race

Whackadoodle former Rep. Tom Tancredo, who infamously said that President Obama should be impeached "and sent back to Kenya," has lost his bid for Colorado governor to Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, who has expressed support for same-sex marriage. Another excellent win for the Dems.

Rep. Tom Tancredo: Impeach Obama

Tom Tancredo On Defense After Saying "Obama Should Be Sent Back To Kenya"

Former GOP Rep. Tom Tancredo is under fire for telling teabaggers that the president should be sent back to Kenya.

"If his wife says Kenya is his homeland, why don't we just send him back?" Tancredo said at a South Carolina Tea Party rally over the weekend, the Greenville News reports. The so-called "birther movement," questioning Mr. Obama's origins, began during his presidential campaign. It has steadily persisted through Mr. Obama's presidency, in spite of overwhelming evidence he was born in the United States -- including his 1961 birth announcement, printed in two Hawaii newspapers. Tancredo is known for making incendiary remarks, particularly with respect to immigration, and has used extreme rhetoric to talk about the president before.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs described Tancredo's history of statements as "general lunacy."

Maddow On Tancredo & Jim Crow

In regard to Tom Tancredo's racist Tea Party Convention speech, about which I've blogged several times, last night Rachel Maddow ran through some of the infamous questions on voter literacy test questions given to black voters in the south during the Jim Crow days. I couldn't answer a single one.

Meghan McCain Rips Palin & Tancredo

Meghan McCain co-hosted The View yesterday where she criticized former Rep. Tom Tancredo for his Jim Crow-ish comments at the Tea Party Convention and warned that the teabaggers are alienating the nation's young voters. She also ripped Sarah Palin for the teleprompter/notes-on-hand nonsense. McCain always maintains that she is a loyal Republican, but she sure keeps saying the right things.

Tea Party Convention Opens In Nashville With A Racist Bang

The first ever Tea Party Convention got underway in Nashville today with a speech from former Rep. Tom Tancredo in which he lamented the loss of the Jim Crow days when southern blacks had to pass a literacy test in order to vote.

In his speech Thursday to attendees, former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo invoked the loaded pre-civil rights era buzzword, saying that President Barack Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country." Southern states used literacy tests as part of an effort to deny suffrage to African American voters prior to Johnson-era civil rights laws. "Prior to passage of the federal Voting Rights Act in 1965, Southern (and some Western) states maintained elaborate voter registration procedures whose primary purpose was to deny the vote to those who were not white," a website for civil rights veterans explains. "In the South, this process was often called the 'literacy test.' In fact, it was much more than a simple test, it was an entire complex system devoted to denying African-Americans (and in some regions, Latinos) the right to vote."

Tancredo went on decry the multicultural state of modern America and said that it's time for (presumably white) Americans to "take it back."

Tan-Cray-D'oh!

Right-wing fringe presidential candidate Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) has released his first attack ad in Iowa, complete with a bomb explosion. Tancredo, as always, is playing to xenophobes. Job stealers! Jihadists! Close the borders! The Iowa Caucus takes place January 3rd.