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How President Obama will be impeachedPostPartisan
By Jonathan Capehart June 18 at 4:22 PM
Writing about Rep. Eric Cantors (R-Va.) stunning primary defeat last week, I warned Democrats that the House majority leaders loss was as much a wake-up call for them as it was for the GOP. Well, now I want to warn them about a very real possibility: President Obama will be impeached if the Democrats lose control of the U.S. Senate.
Yeah, yeah, I read Aaron Blakes astute piece in The Post on the impeachment process. He says probably not to the question of whether the House could impeach Obama. But probably is not definitely. And with the way the impeachment talk has gone, probably not could become absolutely if the Senate flips to the Republicans.
Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.) became the latest to openly discuss impeaching the president. In response to a question from a radio host on Monday, the two-term congressman who was swept in during the tea party wave of 2010, said, Obama is just absolutely ignoring the Constitution and ignoring the laws and ignoring the checks and balances. Articles of impeachment, he added, probably could pass in the House.
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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.
YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)They learned something from the Clinton impeachment.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)it will probably work out the same way with this president. His popularity will soar, and the R's will look stupid and petty. And show themselves as the racist a-holes they are.
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)a simple majority.
They will look like (even bigger) fools and fail epically.
IADEMO2004
(5,575 posts)They don't ever learn.
Reter
(2,188 posts)I could be wrong, but I honestly don't think they will. They know it will hurt them next time there's an election.
BootinUp
(47,209 posts)bornskeptic
(1,330 posts)If impeached, he would be tried in the Senate no matter who controls it, and there is zero chance he would be convicted, since conviction requires 67 votes.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,452 posts)Still, I would like to keep the Senate all the same.
ShadowLiberal
(2,237 posts)If 51 = 67 to the GOP then they might be dumb enough to feel 'comfortable' enough to impeach Obama and 'confident' in it.
But yeah, even worse case scenario of a total democratic wipeout in November the GOP still won't have anything close to 67 seats. They'd need to flip more senate seats than were flipped after the great depression (Democrats went from being outnumbered 2 to 1 in both houses of congress to outnumbering the GOP 4 to 1 in congress over several cycles).
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)swing the Supreme Court to the Right for a generation.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,452 posts)They will (eventually) be forced to accept whoever President Obama nominates. I'm sure that if they get the Senate and a SCOTUS vacancy opens, they will play games with it and try to delay the inevitable but, in the end, they will get pressured into confirming (people might not pay attention to Federal Judiciary vacancies but a perpetually vacant SCOTUS seat will not go unnoticed) somebody- and it ain't going to be Scalitomasroberts clone either. Just my $0.02.
BlueDemKev
(3,003 posts)...by VOTING in both the 2014 midterm elections and the 2016 presidential election.
CBHagman
(16,992 posts)Many, many people sit out the midterms. Some aren't even aware there are midterms. They only register that there are other races on when the nation is electing a president. We've got to get out the vote.
MiniMe
(21,722 posts)There is no way they will get 67 votes in the Senate, even if the repubs have a majority.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)and they like getting attention
yellowcanine
(35,703 posts)And that assumes that all of the Republican senators would vote for impeachment. They didn't for Clinton, why would they for Obama on even sketchier charges?
Impeaching Clinton backfired.
Impeaching Obama would be even more of a disaster.
It won't happen.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)happens, too. Hatred of this president and ODS isn't just an affliction that has befallen the political right.
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)something they WILL NOT HAVE even if they win big in 2014. In fact it's mathematically impossible.