In case you haven't noticed, they plan to impeach Obama next year

[Gman]

They have a plan. There's a bit heightened level of talk from the nuts about it. Cruz, Bachman, Gomert et al. They're setting it up.

We know they're crazy enough.

[Iggo]

1. So they're just gonna hand us the House then?

Sweet!

[Scuba]

3. +1

[napkinz]

22. looks like a PLEASE PROCEED moment!

[Rex]

32. They don't know how to turn the stupid off.

Since the shutdown worked out so well for them!

Why walk over coals when you can light yourself on fire with a flame thrower?

[NYC_SKP]

2. I knew it. It's the Birf Certificate again. We should have made a better fake COLB.

Now we'll have to put the rush on opening the FEMA camps.

I'm thinkin' right after Thanksgiving.

[RKP5637]

8. Damn, those FEMA camps sound more and more like a good idea!

[enough]

4. At least they're consistent. (nt)

[spanone]

5. fuckem

[RKP5637]

6. These people are absolute ZEROS! They contribute absolutely nothing in life than increasing

distortion, entropy and chaos. ... bunch of disgusting irrelevant losers.

[2naSalit]

9. I lovingly refer to them as

a waste of good air that could be put to better use by endangered species.

[RKP5637]

12. Well said !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[2naSalit]

14. Thanks.

It's a standard retort I came up with during the W years. It works well on many occasions. Feel free to reuse it when the need arises.

[Lizzie Poppet]

23. Oh, that's not all they increase.

They're very good at increasing corporate profits and the bank balances of the wealthiest Americans.

[CFLDem]

7. Well if they want to nail their own coffin

We should gladly hand them the hammer by calling their bluff.

Should work real well towards Republicanising all those minority voters they need.

[NightWatcher]

10. Not Gonna Happen

They've felt the backlash for their batshit craziness.
They are going to scream, bitch, and moan about how bad the ACA is and it's not going to work (Benghazi).

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

11. They've been planning it since November 2008 nt

[Agnosticsherbet]

13. They have a majority in Congress so they can do it any time they want.

They have a rabid minority who will simultaneously cream their pants and salivate uncontrollably while declaring it is God's will that the Communist, Nazi, Socialist, Muslim Kenyan be removed from office.

What they don't have is the ability convict in the Senate.

Doing it in an election year is about as blatant as a bald assed political act as they can manage.

I don't think they will do it, just use the promise to get their constituents to the polls to get a Senate majority while suppressing the Democratic Party vote.

[winter is coming]

16. Yeah, that'll go over well with the voters.

[gollygee]

17. I'm surprised they haven't tried yet

Whatever. My guess is it'll hurt them more than him. Especially if it's about Benghazi, because it'll be the chance to very publicly show that they're all conspiracy theorists. They'll come out of it looking stupid.

[Dwayne Hicks]

18. Even still

Say the republicans somehow manage to gain a senate majority, I highly doubt they will have 67 votes needed to convict. And like 96 they will pay the price heavily.

[HeiressofBickworth]

19. And they will have to invent

some kind of "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" upon which to bring charges and, of course, secure conviction in the Senate.

A belief that Obama was born in Kenya or a belief that he is a Muslim, don't fall into any of those categories. Opposition to the ACA does not fall into any of the categories. After multiple hearings, Bengazi hasn't produced any criminal charges. Hatred of a Black President isn't sufficient either. A manic desire to reverse two presidential elections isn't sufficient either. They can't just say, we want to be the party in power so let's impeach the sitting President -- and it would have to be VP Biden, too, before the Boner could become president. The list could go on and on. So what charges will they bring in order to start impeachment proceedings?

Yes, the crazy runs strong in Tea Party circles.

[Gothmog]

20. I have no doubt that the GOP will try this stunt

These idiots need to keep their base happy

[tularetom]

21. Who could have seen that coming?

[IrishAyes]

24. I have no doubt they'll try.

And if they do, it will backfire on them like a nuke explosion. Talk about driving the final nail in their coffin!

[ucrdem]

25. Remember the Alamo.

They'll probably lose this one too.

[Coyotl]

26. Let me guess, they don't want the whole year to go by without doing something.

[Baitball Blogger]

27. They're ornery and they think the U.S. government can be taken over through a standard

hostile-take over.

We need to be mean and be prepared to enforce the law each time they break it. And they will break it. They have done it so often that they don't expect anyone to come after them.

[CK_John]

28. They also plan on taking the senate, then they will impeach soon as their members are in place.

[onenote]

33. They plan to capture 2/3 of the Senate?

You realize that they'd have to capture over 20 Senate seats currently held by Democrats to do that?

[CK_John]

37. I think we only have a 6 seat lead in the senate and turtle neck becomes majority leader

if he get reelected.

[zipplewrath]

38. they need mor than a majority

Having a GOP majority in the Senate doesn't do it. They need 2/3 to convict, and they'll never get there. And that's presuming all of the GOP senators will vote to convict. Dubious. They didn't with Clinton.

The only way the House impeaches is if they do it like the last time, with a lame duck House after the 2014 elections and before the House ajourns in January 2015.

[onenote]

44. There's this thing called the Constitution

It spells out that a 2/3 majority in the Senate is needed to convict.

I'm pretty sure you can find a copy on the Internet.

[CK_John]

48. My post was a statement that the GOP is planning to get control of the senate, in addition to

impeachment by the House. They don't care if the senate even votes or not. The GOP just want to put an historic mark on his presidency.

[Gman]

29. I think it's just part of what they are doing.

What they're doing includes shutting down the government and everything else the nutcases in their safe gerrymandered districts want. It will be their undoing in November 2014 and could be what hands the House back to the Democrats. And that danger will ignite the intra-party warfare to white hot levels.

[Cali_Democrat]

30. As I said previously, they view any Democratic President as illegitimate.

Clinton was impeached, Obama will be impeached and the next Democratic President will most certainly be impeached.

[Rex]

31. Yeah, I mean look how well that shutdown worked for them!

The M$M has had a very hard time pushing as Obama being low in the polls and people disproving, then ignoring the GOP and Congress are in the teens and single digits.

I will believe it when the clown car rolls up and tries it. Obama will laugh them out of clown court.

[TheDebbieDee]

34. That's next year. This year they want to impeach AG Jeffrey Holder....

[Jim Lane]

46. They'll test the waters with the Eric Holder impeachment.

I predict they won't actually impeach Obama. They'll get enough negative reaction over any attack on Holder (Eric, not Jeffrey, BTW) that they'll decide to back off.

I hope I'm wrong, though. I agree with the other posters who say that more House craziness is good for us.

[tavalon]

35. Shhhh, don't let them know we know

This is our way back into the house. Let them find something idiotic to impeach him for. Impeachment doesn't necessarily mean he has to leave office, but we will get the house back. Massively. This is better than a Government shutdown and almost as good as threatening until the last minute not to raise the debt ceiling. But, voters often have short attention spans. Do something like this in 2014 and it is a massive win for the Democrats. So, breathe deeply, and see the silver lining.

[cali]

36. Not going to happen.

[Recursion]

39. God, we can only hope so

That would be the best news for the mid-terms in a while.

[annabanana]

40. huh . . .I just kind of assumed they'd already started . . . . like in

January of '08

[bigwillq]

41. There is no need to impeach. What a waste of time.

Elections have consequences. If you don't like a candidate, do everything you can to vote them out of office.
You can't just impeach everyone you don't like.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

42. how fucking stupid ... waste the nation's time trying to impeach a Lame Duck.

fuck me hopping.

[fadedrose]

43. What's their plan

to quell the racial riot they're going to provoke if they use some stupid lie?

They need a REAL reason to do anything like that and Obama would never do anything that serious.

[JNinWB]

45. The House TPers dont do policy or legislating---might as well impeach Obama

Everything the Rs do is to drum up outrage against Obama and the Democrats. Drumming up this outrage and paranoia is crucial for their direct mail/email scams to separate the rubes from their cash.

Once I realized that the Republican Party (and associated groups) has morphed into a gigantic money-raising entity, I interpret everything they do as an opportunity to raise more money. They are very effective; their scams do not require governing, legislating or telling the truth.

Shut Down the Government---Starve the Poor---Crash the Economy---Kill the ACA---Impeach Obama!

SEND MONEY

[Pretzel_Warrior]

47. Not true

[Hotler]

49. Remember when Nancy Pelosi said....

"Impeachment was off the table."? Oh! And these gems from Mr. Obama: "Now is not the time to point fingers." (just after the inauguration), "What Wall St. did was immoral, but not a crime." (Sixty Minutes). How much you want to bet that the President pardons Bush/Cheney before his term is out? If only we had some fight and spine in Washington.