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Showing Original Post only (View all)Jonathan Capehart:"How President Obama will be impeached" [View all]
Chilling stuff.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/06/18/how-president-obama-will-be-impeached/?tid=pm_pop
Last few paragraphs cut to the chase:
. . .A Republican-controlled Senate could lead to Obama becoming the third president impeached and the first ever to be removed from office.
I dont make this prediction lightly. The tea party-infused GOP has done things many once believed impossible. Im thinking specifically about the two instances it brought the nation and the world to the brink of economic ruin because of its resistance to raising the debt ceiling. If Republicans are willing to ignore their leadership and jeopardize the full faith and credit of the United States, there really is nothing they arent willing to do. And a Republican takeover of the Senate would only embolden them.
Ive said this before and Ill keep repeating it until the message sinks in for Democrats inclined to sit out the midterms: Obama is not on the ballot in November, but Obama is on the ballot in November. Democrats have it in their power to keep the Senate and save the Obama presidency from the all-but-certain asterisk of impeachment. Whether they use it is a very real concern.
I dont make this prediction lightly. The tea party-infused GOP has done things many once believed impossible. Im thinking specifically about the two instances it brought the nation and the world to the brink of economic ruin because of its resistance to raising the debt ceiling. If Republicans are willing to ignore their leadership and jeopardize the full faith and credit of the United States, there really is nothing they arent willing to do. And a Republican takeover of the Senate would only embolden them.
Ive said this before and Ill keep repeating it until the message sinks in for Democrats inclined to sit out the midterms: Obama is not on the ballot in November, but Obama is on the ballot in November. Democrats have it in their power to keep the Senate and save the Obama presidency from the all-but-certain asterisk of impeachment. Whether they use it is a very real concern.
Moral:
Please, please, please don't waste time on 2016 speculation right now.
NOW is the time for laser-like focus on 2014. Work for Democratic candidates any way you can. Register Democratic voters. And GOTV, GOTV, GOTV.
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"lesser of the two evils". Go join Ralph Nader instead of trying to justify that there is no
lostincalifornia
Jun 2014
#74
Which ever "third party candidate". I am criticizing you, "not condemning you", for not voting for
lostincalifornia
Jun 2014
#79
They won't take the Senate, and even if there is no way they could get two thirds. Worst possible
lostincalifornia
Jun 2014
#75
i expect they would as they are happy to create a pseudo event - so they & FOX will have something
Bill USA
Jun 2014
#27
He surely knows there will not be 67 votes to convict if an impeachment trial occurs
LonePirate
Jun 2014
#4
OK. I was under the false impression it had to follow the rules of a real trial
Dragonfli
Jun 2014
#10
This is a very gray area, probably intentional on the part of the Founding Fathers...
Swede Atlanta
Jun 2014
#32
The GOP has declared war on the Democratic Party and has been waging it for 3 decades now...
toddwv
Jun 2014
#11
AGREED! Too much polarization here and the mentality is getting scary to me...
Moostache
Jun 2014
#21
Agreed. An October surprise this year to bring both POTUS and government down so they can rewrite
freshwest
Jun 2014
#15
The LAST thing the Republicans will do is to shut down the government this year
jmowreader
Jun 2014
#16
I don't know ONE single Teabagger who did not blame Obama and the Democrats for it.
freshwest
Jun 2014
#18
Correct, a pattern for any President who does represent the ideology of the GOP party
Iliyah
Jun 2014
#31
I'm expecting any time now for Republicans to officially RUN on Impeachment....
Spitfire of ATJ
Jun 2014
#36
“@CapehartJ: RT @TPM: South Dakota Republican party calls for Obama's impeachment...<— ahem….”
Pirate Smile
Jun 2014
#53
I don't see how there would possibly be a two thirds vote to remove him in the Senate
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2014
#68
Agreed, plus they won't have 2/3 in the Senate to convict, so it will mean nothing, just like the
lostincalifornia
Jun 2014
#78
elected Dems still have time to make their case more effectively AND start serving the 99%
yurbud
Jun 2014
#72
It is nonsense. Even if the Democrats lost the Senate, which they won't, they will NOT have 2/3 to
lostincalifornia
Jun 2014
#76