In my opinion, he knows this and that is why he is being so lawless in his last two years. No one will be able to stop him. In fact, I think knowing he can't be convicted of whatever impeachment charges are brought, just enables and emboldens him to keep acting like a dictator. In the history of our country, not one president has ever been convicted in an impeachment trial. Not one. So the odds are against it. And all that will happen is that the Republicans will be blamed for trying to oust the first black president and called the obligatory racists, we'll lose our chance at the presidency in 2016 and Obama will get the sympathy vote and become more popular than ever. Don't believe me? Just look at what happened to Bill Clinton. Exactly that.
Congress needs to try and defund and shut down some of his bureaucratic departments where he is doing the most damage. Short of that, I think we'll have to keep our powder dry until 2016 and try to control the Congress AND the presidency and turn back a lot of the damage he's done.
Political reality trumps anger and the desire to impeach him, as does the process required to convict him. Republicans would need 13 democRATs to cross over to vote for conviction. Ain't going to happen in this partisan climate. Some other route needs to be taken to reign him in until his time is up.
He can be impeached in the House. That’s exactly what’s needed to expose everything and deep six Clinton’s 2016 run. Who cares if the Senate doesn’t convict him. He’ll always carry the impeached label. If he’s as borderline as many think, he may come unglued. Might as well stick it up the liberals *&@# good!!