“Was it not you who was comparing impeachment to a legal event?”
Actually, no, it was another poster that used the congress-as-grand-jury impeachment/indictment analogy to begin with -but the procedure is a unique event, one that is both political and legal as it is a trial for “high crimes and misdemeanors”. It can be both a political event and a legal procedure at the same time.
“At any rate, since you understand that impeachment is a political event, you should understand why it’s not going to happen.”
Just because you say its not going to happen means nothing. Its happened twice before. You don’t know what the future holds. We are being governed as an effective dictatorship now, and things could get so rough in the next 15 months that we would have to use the impeachment procedure to get him out of office.
“The Obama administration is roadkill on the way to a Republican/Tea Party sweep in 2012”
Seemingly. But don’t count you chickens just yet. News reports today are that the Obama Administration plans to manufacture 300,000 new voters for himself by the time of the 2012 elections, just like that. How do you know some third party candidate won’t be put up to run to split the anti-democrat vote in 2012, thus getting him re-elected?
I think you are putting way too much trust in your own unfounded predictions.
Just because my prediction doesn't mesh with your expectations doesn't mean it can't be right.
But I'll stand on this prediction: there won't be an impeachment. A resignation, perhaps, but not an impeachment.
Know your post wasn't to me, but I wanted to confess ... I represent that remark, and once more wanted to caution anyone reading me and taking my predictions into their consideration ... do such with a ten pound block of salt. Thank you ngat for allowing me the opportunity to place a necessary disclaimer.