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If the GOP takes over the Senate will Obama be impeached?

If the GOP wins the Senate will Obama be impeached?

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Dracula also did some amazing (in an amazingly stupid way) psycho-analysis of President Obama in his little chit chat with O'Reilly. Apparently it was Obama's ego that had him do a press conference as the POTUS the day after the midterm elections.
 
Deacs89 said:
This board this week is almost as good a watching the meltdowns on MSNBC .... almost. The guy gets elected for 2 terms and as soon as he loses a vote (the midterm) everyone is racist again. It is sickening.
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*Scratches head* *Checks username* "Deac8_" *Smiles knowingly*

All is right in the world.
 
Obama's pretty much hosed McConnell and especially Boehner. Both will face preliminary votes next week for leadership next week, but they won't get final approval until January. It's in both Obama's and Dems' interest to enact some form of immigration reform and if he does it via EO, Dems get all the credit which will help them in several 2016 swing states. McConnell and Boehner know the GOP can't remain openly hostile to Latinos, but they also know the base hates Obama's EOs. Senate is less conservative than the House, so McConnell survives and the Senate has already voted on the bipartisan bill. Boehner has more breathing room with a larger majority, but allowing a lame duck vote on immigration or letting an Obama EO granting "amnesty" without impeachment will enrage the Tea Party. Multiple law firms have already passed on Boehner's law suit, so he may walk away from leadership.
 
I doubt that's going to hurt Boehner.

The big issue for the GOP is Ted Cruz. Enough people love that crazy guy that he could build a caucus across houses that would be needed in order to get a majority.
 
FuckmouthedRube said:
Obama's pretty much hosed McConnell and especially Boehner. Both will face preliminary votes next week for leadership next week, but they won't get final approval until January. It's in both Obama's and Dems' interest to enact some form of immigration reform and if he does it via EO, Dems get all the credit which will help them in several 2016 swing states. McConnell and Boehner know the GOP can't remain openly hostile to Latinos, but they also know the base hates Obama's EOs. Senate is less conservative than the House, so McConnell survives and the Senate has already voted on the bipartisan bill. Boehner has more breathing room with a larger majority, but allowing a lame duck vote on immigration or letting an Obama EO granting "amnesty" without impeachment will enrage the Tea Party. Multiple law firms have already passed on Boehner's law suit, so he may walk away from leadership.
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Boehner has consistently put keeping his job over what was best for the country. The sad part is if he's replaced it will be by someone for more actively radical.
 
I'm really hoping Ted Cruz mounts some sort of substantive challenge to McConnell just for the political theater.
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
I'm really hoping Ted Cruz mounts some sort of substantive challenge to McConnell just for the political theater.
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Same or it at least influences Senate policy.

Chuck Grassley GATA on the Judy makes my so happy.
 
Ted Cruz has got to do something crazy in the next couple of months to get that spotlight back on him before just as crazy, but much smarter, Joni Ernst arrives on the scene and takes all of Teddy boy's thunder.
 
Cruz is objectively very intelligent, which is why his extremist right-wing views are so absurd. I've come to believe that he just thinks it's easier to pander to people who will follow anything he says (the Tea Party) than to actually engage intelligent voters.
 
Don't doubt that Cruz has well over above average intelligence, but he's more ambitious and confident than brilliant. There's no way he thought Obamacare was going to be repealed and he still went through with the government shut down. He was a great college debater and he probably thinks he'd crush any Dem nominee in the debates if he got through the primaries. Doubt that he's thinking about a Plan B if his political career crashes and burns, but it can't be lost on him that dolts like DeMint, Palin, Rush, O'Reilly, and Hannity all makes at least 7 figures.
 
Go said:
Ernst isn't smart because she's a woman, vet and a conservative?
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She isn't smart because she support personhood.

She isn't smart because wants to use her guns against the government if she doesn't like gun laws.

She isn't smart because she opposes any minimum wage and the EPA.
 
PhDeac said:
Vox compares Walker to Pawlenty.
http://www.vox.com/2014/11/7/7170671/scott-walker-2016-president
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Walker is definitely charisma-challenged, but Pawlenty had bigger problems. Like Romney, Pawlenty ran and initially governed as a moderate in a blue state, but when he thought he had a chance to run for President, he veered right. Walker didn't campaign on eliminating collective bargaining during his first campaign, but he's had to defend it in the recall and his re-election and he's never moved to the center. He's a lot tougher than Pawlenty. If Kasich and Walker were more charismatic, both would be extremely formidable.
 
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