[omegadawn]

if a couple of Republican senators were to suggest that obama be investigated, it does not mean that he would be investigated. They ‘know that the republican leadership would not allow it to proceed. All that would happen is that the media would label the senators as nutcase “birthers”

[jamese777]

if a couple of Republican senators were to suggest that obama be investigated, it does not mean that he would be investigated. They ‘know that the republican leadership would not allow it to proceed. All that would happen is that the media would label the senators as nutcase “birthers”

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It would all depend on how they went about convening an investigation. If it was bipartisan, there would be practically no mainstream media criticism.
Also it would need to be a House of Representatives investigation since Harry Reid and the Democrats control the Senate.

In the Senate though, there are some Republicans who just got reelected with better than 70% of the vote and they won’t have to stand for reelection for six years. For example, Senator John Thune of South Dakota didn’t even have a Democrat challenger for reelection.