And that isn't happening.

It will have political consequences, but maybe not the political consequences for which the Republicans hope. Impeachment of Clinton hurt Republicans and helped Clinton. (Then again, did it hurt Gore, though? Hard to know.)

I don't think this is all about Obama, who is in office, will remain there for another two years and cannot run again. I think it's about Democrats in general and November 2014 in particular. They want the Senate and they want it bad.

Give me $50 and I'll impeach Obama...

See how Tea Partyriffic I am...

I would not be surprised to see them attempt to impeach Obama for breathing.

Just a political attack, and a Neocon war-preserving tactic.

It will greatly alienate their supposed base, that being the military.

"Leave no man behind," President Obama didn't and the Republicans would've.

Thanks for the thread, global.

It actually doesn't play well. We bring our troops home, all of them. That's what we do.

Going back through different articles, it sounds like this has been in the works for about 3 years. I found an article published in April on a military site that said the deal to exchange the 5 was back on, if I could find it with google, it wasn't a secret. Can you imagine 30 days of debate in congress? This was similar to getting bin laden in the sense it was very risky for the team that had to execute the exchange, after a 30 day debate it would have endangered everyone involved. So Obama didn't call them in plenty of time for the talking heads to go berserk before the fact, so what? In the words of the great Hillary Clinton, "what difference does it make?" he's back in US hands, it's done, if the gop wants to try to impeach Obama they'll look like idiots, it would take years to impeach him, is this what they want to do for the rest of his term? the backlash will be relentless, they will pay for it for a long time.

Obama doesn't often walk into a Republican trap. He sets them.

I think that if we are a bit more patient, we will see the final play in his notorious chess game. He knows the level of intelligence in that group and seems to enjoy playing with them. Granted, this was supposedly a situation that required speed, but Obama isn't so stupid as to fall into the Republican pit unless he has his proverbial ass covered.

For one, he got their permission to trade a year or so back. We don't know the REAL circumstances of the "walk away". Even though there is obviously a "rest of the story" Obama is one to let the Repugs trip all over themselves to "git" him. I think he enjoys that scene they put on. The more they expound, the deeper the pit they dig.

The only problem is that the public will believe the hyperbole, not the moment when they fall through the net. Only the Democrats will while giving a

Just my humble opinion!

Obama has been criticised for not pursuing bushco for war crimes. Shrub and Cheney have already been convicted Malaysia. If the US gors that route, the Hague won't be far behind. How fard do the repubs want to push us on bergdahl?

The group in Malaysia was just that -- a group. Without any legal meaning or authority whatsoever. It would be like you and three of your neighbors holding a war crimes trial and convicting someone. It has no meaning.

impeachment has been discussed by the press and the talking heads on the cable news shows. The Repubs did not put me up to posting this as you have insinuated.