so what exactly is the impeachable bengazi offense?

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40. They're totally different mechanisms.

There is no popular recall formula for a president, just the whim of the house, and the whim of the house was pretty much decided the moment Ohio was called earlier this month.

As like what happened with Clinton, this congress or the next one will attempt to impeach the president on some absurd premise or another. I can't see it not happening, regardless of petitions or media spin or whatever else. The House spent the last few years being as obstructionist as it could be, that didn't work, so they'll do what happened in the nineties and try to remove the president on some flimsy excuse like Benghazi or having an inappropriate vowel-to-consonant ratio in his name or something like that.

That'll happen, the proceedings either will or won't fall flat on their face, and in a worst case scenario the Senate will try the "charges," shoot them down because of the Democratic majority (probably coupled with a few Republican defections in the final vote), and life will go on with the main cost being a lot of wasted time and energy which would be wasted by this congress no matter what.

The public has zero say in that entire process. Comparing a presidential impeachment to a state governor's recall just doesn't make sense.

I'm largely indifferent to the whole thing. It's just another form of the ridiculous tantrums that have been going on the last several years in the first place, and has just as good a chance of getting rid of the president as anything else people have tried so far. Unless the Democrats lose both the House and the Senate by substantial amounts in 2014, this month's election is the closest the GOP will get to removing the president from office. I'm not going to say "I don't care," because the entire thing is going to be a ridiculous, childish waste of time, money and other resources, but I'm not going to say I'm really worried about the outcome either.