Down to the basics: They want to impeach our President.

[Ninga]

Sweep away all the noise, the blah blah blah and at the bottom of the well you will find their dirty not-so-dark-secret is that "government default" is an impeachable offense.

This reads like an overwrought teen-age drama of souped up hot-rods playing chicken on a dark country road.
They are driving this country into default and do not plan on blinking......for one reason and one reason only...impeachment.
They are bound together like blood brothers having taken a death till we part oath. Eric Cantor has the reigns...John Boner has no balls...and Mitch McConnell didn't get his one term wish....but is driving the bus toward impeachment.

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[gopiscrap]

1. yup and weaken the presidency

because they know that it will be increasingly difficult for the repukes to win a presidential election.

[Ninga]

4. Thus it makes sad sad sense - they are offering up shit as nogiation because they hope our President

will NOT accept - so they can impeach.

They do. not. care.

[gopiscrap]

8. Yup, that's my fear also.

[Ninga]

11. I think your fear is based in reality...which makes it a catastrophic fear.....McConnell et al are

ego driven nut-cases who really really really doing all they can to full fill their mission.

[jeff47]

21. Impeaching doesn't do anything. Conviction after impeachment does

And conviction requires 67 votes in the Senate. Also known as "things that will not happen".

[flamingdem]

2. Yes, so called "Articles of Impeachment" are showing up on teabag sites

and they are chomping at the bit to start in on that campaign. In their dreams!

[lostincalifornia]

5. I believe if they do that, the republican party will not only lose both houses in 2014, but for

decades to come

[luvspeas]

6. slathering, slobbering and falling all over themselves is more like it...

racist scum.

[Ninga]

9. Make no mistake - they think the President will blink - they are in it all the way. nt

[lostincalifornia]

3. Since it is a Congressional responsibility, I suggest they start by removing themselves from office

[Buddaman]

7. BINGO!!!!

[Baitball Blogger]

14. I think it's time for someone to organize a million American march against the Congress.

[kiranon]

28. Marches everywhere to demonstrate that the Tea

Party Republicans are on the wrong side of history and rationality. They may have to actually see how large support is against them before they will believe it.

[malaise]

10. So we force the default and then impeach him

I hope the Feds are waiting to arrest these fucking ReTHUG scumbags.

How dare this UN win an election in America and twice to boot.
This is beyond treason!!!

[Ninga]

12. I have lived long enough and seen the unthinkable to be really really

worried that they will pull it off..

[jeff47]

19. Conviction in the Senate requires 67 votes for conviction.

They will not be able to "pull it off".

[Baitball Blogger]

13. They're acting like Tories.

Listen, no one, and I mean NO ONE has reigned them in for the unlawful things they have done in the name of politics since the Reagan years. This isn't just happening on a federal level, but on a state and local level, it's just insane.

You're all just seeing something that has been growing at the grassroots level for decades because it was coming under the radar in subtle ways that most Republicans weren't even aware was anti-Constitutional.

Now, who is going to show them that they have been following crazy lemmings all this time?

[Orsino]

15. Not quite.

Impeachment is probably a fine rallying cry for use on the dumbest of their followers, but a certain white vice president would take away one of their favorite toys. They must also be aware that a flimsy impeachment case would cut both ways.

What they want is to neutralize the agendas of this Democratic presidency, and to tar Dems enough to elect one of their own. Or to provide enough cover to hide a theft of the presidency.

[jeff47]

18. You're getting a bit ahead of yourself.

They'd need 67 Senators to vote to convict before the VP would take over.

[Orsino]

25. And even that is ahead of itself.

The actual calls for impeachment are only one little front in a much larger war.

[leftynyc]

16. That question should be asked

of every single repub running in 2014. Do you favor and will you vote for the impeachment of President Obama - either they'll support the teabagger assholes or they'll lose everyone else.

[Autumn]

17. Let the fuckers try. they will get nowhere with it. Just sound and fury

and in the end the silly fuckers lose.

[Uben]

20. To what end?

Impeaching Obama doesn't change anything. Biden becomes president and appoints Obama as VP. Then, Biden resigns, Obama becomes president again, and appoints Biden VP. Two can play that game and they won't gain a thing.

[luvspeas]

26. That would be awesome...n/t

[Archae]

22. What else is new?

I saw calls for impeaching President Obama back in 2009, days before he was even inaugurated.

On what grounds, you ask?

"He's not 'Murican!"

"He's a socialist!"

"He's a communist/nazi!"

"Him and ACORN stole da 'lection!"

Etc, etc...

[DCBob]

23. I dont think they will try it.. the optics would be horrific politically.

They will have satisfied most of their lunatic base by forcing the President to do something borderline illegal.

[corkhead]

24. No, I think they want to re-fight the Civil War

They didn't like how it turned out and are still angry about it.

Racism is only part of the equation IMHO; I think they would be trying just as hard to impeach any other non-repuke President

[Ninga]

27. I've been thinking that the GOP will take this to the brink just to

demonstrate to their base (which seems to be shrinking) that they stood firm in their convictions

On one side of the GOP page is impeachment - on the other side of the page, a laundry list of all of the mechanics that point to impeachment being highly unachievable - BUT THEY DON'T CARE. They want the President to Blink.