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Rocknrule Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:19 PM
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How likely is it that the Republicans would actually try to impeach Obama?
In the likely event that they retake the House, they will witchhunt him even more ruthlessly than they did to Clinton. What BS charge would they try to impeach him for? Jaywalking? Putting his elbows on the table?
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Erose999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:19 PM
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1. The probability of an impeachment fiasco = 1
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maryellen99 Donating Member (342 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:20 PM
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2. very likely
they will probably go after him for that damn birth certificate
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mindwalker_i Donating Member (836 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:25 PM
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17. Yeah, here's to weekly hearings
on the birth certificate. Like I keep saying, give them enough rope...
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cbdo2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:21 PM
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3. They can't really do anything without the Senate though, right?
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:24 PM
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13. They can investigate forever and they can impeach.
Edited on Tue Nov-02-10 10:28 PM by kenny blankenship
Not being able to get a conviction in the Senate didn't stop pukes from impeaching Clinton, after a million hours of committee hearings, Ken Starr witchhunts in fed courts, etc. It can be very very damaging politically and derails a presidential agenda with the shadow of a pending legal judgment against him, even if it ends without issue in the Senate.
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:25 PM
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16. Not right.
The House can impeach him. The Senate would then hold the trial.

I think it is much more likely that the rabid republicans will hold hearing after hearing, to create distractions and disruptions. I doubt that they would actually consider impeaching him.
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cbdo2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:31 PM
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23. I could really see this scenario backfiring on them then.
I really doubt they would try it this term because he'll have a pretty easy reelection if they are too petty. Instead they'll wait for his second term to try something this major.
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rrneck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:21 PM
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4. Shit. They'll spend fifty million dollars
fucking with his birth certificate.
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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:21 PM
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8. Is there a way to cut off taxpayer money off the House
for them to touch in regards to impeachment?
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:23 PM
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12. That would be political suicide
Edited on Tue Nov-02-10 10:24 PM by GoCubsGo
For that alone, it would be worth the 50 million dollars, since there is no there there. Piss away 50 million bucks on a witch hunt while the country is falling apart at the seams? Yah, that'll work. Go for it, assholes.
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Ozymanithrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:21 PM
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5. About 100%. They only need a simple majority in the House...
which they will have.

Now, they will never make it stick in the Senate.

But they will try with investigations out the Ying Yang.
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somone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:21 PM
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6. They will throw all kinds of red meat
and pass all kinds of crap. That's a given.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:21 PM
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7. It is likely
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Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:22 PM
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9. He just has to make sure they have nothing
the thing that got Clinton was that he did lye, if he hadn't they would not have been able to do shit.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:22 PM
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10. 100%
They are Republicans. They will do it.

Though they've watered down the concept of impeachment.

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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:23 PM
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11. They will demand to see his birth certificate and make him recite the lord's prayer.
You know, to prove he's not the devil.
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EmeraldCityGrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:24 PM
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14. Count on it.
I read "The Hill" on occasion and it's always brought up.

Personally, I think it's one reason they refuse to address their agenda,
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:24 PM
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15. Zero. When Obama is still in office in six months, the tearacists will be pissed. nt
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pacalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:25 PM
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18. Since pigs fly these days, they could very well try. It actually is expected that there
Edited on Tue Nov-02-10 10:27 PM by pacalo
will be a lot of investigations against Democrats in general by the very party that campaigned on fiscal reform. They'll try to make cuts on Social Security & Medicare in order to pay for these investigations, imo.
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GreenStormCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:25 PM
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19. Zero. They learned their lesson from the disaster with Clinton.
Instead they will sent him bills that he will have to veto and claim that he is an obstructionist, or that if he signs them he will alienate his base.
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cbdo2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:32 PM
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26. This is what I'm thinking too as the "better strategy". It's only the wacky/crazy/fringe that want
him impeached so they'll try to sway the more rational of them with their stupid politics. Then they'll go for impeachment in O's second term.
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:28 PM
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20. VERY likely. Watch out for a Birth Certificate investigation.
And anything else they can think of. They are foaming at the mouth to impeach the first black President who had the nerve to win.
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nemo137 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:28 PM
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21. Try? Sure.
I mean, shit, that Issa-creature has all but promised it. Whether anything comes of it, I don't know. I don't know if it'll even make it out of the House.
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FarLeftRage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:30 PM
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22. History will be repeated...
these assholes definitely will do this...
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npk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:31 PM
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24. After tonight who knows
I fear what these people will do over the next two years.
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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-10 10:32 PM
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25. issa
watch that little weasel. he's what put schwarzenegger in office :( he's a troublemaker.
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