An immigration policy analyst from a think tank often cited by Republicans suggested to a tea party crowd that President Barack Obama should be executed.
Stephen Steinlight, a conservative scholar and senior policy analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies, said that efforts to “impeach” Obama did not go far enough because “there’s no court that’s going to stop Obama from doing anything.”
“We all know, if there ever was a president that deserved to be impeached, it’s this guy. Alright? And I wouldn’t stop. I would think being hung, drawn and quartered is probably too good for him,” Steinlight said, according to ThinkProgress.
“But you know, this man who wants to rule by the use of a pen, a telephone, let us not forget his teleprompter … the fact is that it would backfire very badly and we’ve got to be grownups and accept that we can’t have everything we want, you know, like his head on a skewer.”
When reached for comment, Steven Camarota, director of research at CIS, “distanced” the organization from Steinlight’s remarks.
“Steve was speaking figuratively and hyperbolically, obviously, for effect. In that respect his intemperate comments were similar to those who are often critics of President Bush, and I would say like those comments, they are ill-advised,” Camarota explained.
“I would also say that the Center for Immigration Studies does not in fact support drawing and quartering the president.”
CIS officials said Steinlight had been “disciplined” and instructed to “avoid” similar rhetoric in the future. “I reprimanded him and put a reprimand in his personnel file,” said CIS Executive Director Mark Krikorian.
“Steve sometimes has used impolitic language and I admonished him to choose his words more carefully in the future,” Krikorian said.
CIS is an organization that advocates reducing immigration into the United States. Steinlight has said that Hispanic immigration would lead to the “unmaking of America,” and that Muslims should be banned from immigrating to the United States because they “believe in things that are subversive to the Constitution.”
Remember, remember the Fourth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Barack’s intent was
To transform America.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove America’s overthrow;
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
A penny loaf to feed Barry
A farthing o’ cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down.
A faggot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar.
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head.
Then we’ll say ol’ Barry is dead.
Hip hip hoorah!
Hip hip hoorah hoorah!
