Steffie knows an impeachment charge would go nowhere in Reid’s Senate. IIRC, impeachment requires 67 votes. It wouldn’t even get 100% of the Republicans in the Senate.
I have posted many times recently that, if The One ever gets impeached, it will be led by Democrats, not Republicans.
I absolutely believe Stephanopolous and cohorts talked about this on the phone many times. They knew that Clinton’s popularity numbers went UP during impeachment, and the media was able to spin it as all about sex and those greedy, puritanical Republicans wanting to just “get” Bill Clinton because they’re partisan bastards and hypocrite fundamentalists.
So they “hope” the Republicans take the bait, imagining how they could spin it as racist, too.
I’m sure they chuckle and high-five whenever they get together about Georgie’s birth control question to Mitt Romney and fervently hope they can start something again.
NEVER answer a Stephanopolous question without first thinking about just what he’s up to and what conversations he’s had with his friends.
Frankly, if I was a conservative Republican I would NEVER go on ABCCBSNBC, but that’s just me. Some think there is no such thing as bad publicity, but I wonder about that. Someone needs to starve the snake.
The House would impeach Obama. The Senate would not convict and throw him out, but so what? If the House can show valid Constitutional power violations, then level the charges and impeach. Put it on record.
Valid Constitutional violations, by definition, cannot be spun by the media into something else (such as Clinton’s “all about sex”). They also can’t be seen as technicalities - they need to show damage done.
The problem is the Boehner’s lack of courage to protect, and/or interest in, the Constitution.
Results for 1998 2000 +/-Although the GOP Lost two seats (RATS only picking up one) the GOP kept control of the House by a comfortable margin.
Republican Party 223 221 -2
Democratic Party 211 212 +1
Independent 1 2 +1