Do You think Obama's going to Be Impeached?

[Mr Khan]

Dodece said:
No chance at all really, because Obama is so fucking clean you can eat off of him. Whether you like his positions on a personal level is aside from the point. Outside of the founding fathers it is doubtful that we as a nation have had a President so firmly grounded in Constitutional law. Sure the Republicans could try, but the truth of the matter would be something they wouldn't like. Obama would take them behind the woodshed, and tan their asses.

Which entirely sidesteps the entire political ramifications of what doing so would entail. The American public is just about split down the middle on whether they think the man is doing a good job. The approval of Congress on the other hand is in the single digits. It would be yet another public relations disaster, and whether the tea party likes the idea or not. Some Republicans are up for reelection come the fall, and they need Independents to cast votes for them. They really don't want those voters thinking three ring circus when they go into the voting booth.

Congress needs evidence that a crime has been committed, and frankly screwing up on the job isn't necessarily a crime. Yes it may have been tragic, but there is no obvious intent. It isn't like the President told Holder to go give guns to drug cartels so they can murder American citizens. It was a colossal fuck up is all. Congress got its pound of flesh, and wanted to go rooting for more. So the President interceded to stop what was obviously politically motivated bullshit. It was just a hair brained stunt for the purposes of political grandstanding.

Congress had no justifiable need to know the name of every confidential informant, every memo, or every single word that was ever said. Hell giving that kind of information to Congress. Would be like handing a child a loaded gun. Pun most definitely intended. Congress doesn't know the meaning of confidential. If you have a national security secret needing to be protected the last person you want to share in with is a member of Congress. They will immediately go tell a thousand people.

Not to play the other side (I am the resident leftist, of course) but he had an American citizen assassinated without trial. Certainly not constitutionally correct.

@ Kasz. Likely because they'd be stupid enough to try it again. Seems to be the mantra of the party, after all.