Five times that Obama obstructed congress, and no Dem batted an eye. But NOW it's impeachable??

Democrats have charged President Trump with “obstruction of Congress” because the president refused to allow Executive Branch employees to testify.  Democrats claim such refusals to comply with a request from congress is “obstruction of Congress.”  

But wait...didn't emperor Obama do exactly the same thing several times?

Why yes, yes he did.  So where was their outrage then?  If refusing to let an Exec Branch employee testify is impeachable, why were they silent when Obama did the same thing.  Examples (trivial first):

5.  Ordered the White House social secretary not to testify on party-crashers incident

At a state dinner in 2009, two party-crashers somehow got past the Secret Service and managed to meet and shake hands with Obama.  Congress wanted to know how this happened, and opened an investigation.  But for some reason the White House didn’t want it to be investigated, and when White House Social Secretary Desirée Rogers was asked to testify before Congress, the White House refused.  There wasn’t anything partisan about this investigation. In fact, Democrats were the ones running it.

What was the Obama White House trying to hide?  We'll never know.  But the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives was fine with it, and didn’t launch an impeachment inquiry.

4.  Refused to provide documents revealing Justice Kagan’s Obamacare conflict of interest

Elana Kagan served as solicitor general for the Obama administration before being nominated and confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. During her time as solicitor general, she was heavily involved in crafting a legal defense for Obamacare. This was significant as issues involving Obamacare were coming before the Supreme Court and federal law dictates that Supreme Court justices must recuse themselves when their impartiality “might reasonably be questioned,” such as with Elana Kagan and Obamacare.

Under 28 U.S.C. § 455(b)(3), a Supreme Court justice has a legal duty to recuse him- or herself from a proceeding if they have “served in governmental employment and in such capacity participated as counsel, adviser or material witness concerning the proceeding or expressed an opinion concerning the merits of the particular case in controversy.”

Of course, with a closely divided Supreme Court, Obama couldn’t afford to have Kagan recuse herself from Obamacare-related cases. So, when the House Judiciary Committee requested documents and interviews to get a clear understanding of her role relating to Obamacare while she was solicitor general, the Obama/Holder Justice Department refused to comply.

Kagan ultimately never recused herself from Obamacare-related cases. Imagine if the tables were turned.

3.  Refused to allow the political director for the 2014 midterms to testify

In 2014, Democratic operatives were concerned that the Obama White House wasn’t doing enough to help in the forthcoming midterms. So, Obama launched the White House Office of Political Strategy and Outreach to do more for their candidates. Of course, this raised legitimate concerns that Obama had just created a White House office specifically for political activity.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee launched an investigation in order to make sure the White House was complying with civil services laws that were designed to prevent executive branch employees from engaging in political activity. They subpoenaed David Simas, the director of the Office of Political Strategy and Outreach, but the Obama White House refused to allow him testify, and actually claimed Simas was “immune from congressional compulsion to testify on matters relating to his official duties” and thus would not appear before the committee.

2.  Refused to allow Ben Rhodes to testify about Obama's "Iran Nuclear Deal"

The Iran Nuclear Deal--unquestionably a treaty--was so bad Obama didn’t even try to get Senate ratification for it, and much of the negotiations were done without Congress being informed.  After Obama's deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes told the New York Times that the administration had used a false narrative to sell the Iran deal to the public, the White House refused to let him testify.

1.  Refused to allow Eric Holder to provide subpoenaed docs on administration gun-running

Obama's refusal to cooperate in the investigation of his administration's Fast & Furious scheme to sell military-grade weapons to Mexican drug cartels is perhaps the most significant example of Obama using executive privilege to justify their refusal to cooperate with a congressional investigation. Attorney General Eric Holder refused to provide subpoenaed documents to the House. 

The blatant attempts by the administration to resist cooperating with the investigation ultimately led to a historic vote declaring that Obama's Attorney-General was in criminal contempt.  The refusal to cooperate with congress was apparently fine with Democrats.  But of course, double standards are the norm now.

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