Posted on 01/18/2018 1:08:28 PM PST by Kaslin
Historically, the first midterm elections in a new president's first term result in major losses for the president's party. The most famous recent example was in 1994, following the 1992 election of Bill Clinton. In spite of Clinton's oratorical skill, favorable media coverage, and appealing looks and smooth demeanor, the 1994 midterms were a disaster for the Democrats.
Led by the "villainous, scary" Newt Gingrich, Republicans won 54 House seats. In what came to be called the "Republican Revolution," they wrested congressional control away from Democrats for the first time since 1952. Once in control, Gingrich instituted his Contract with America programs, a series of congressional initiatives designed to implement what the Republicans felt was their electoral mandate from the populace. The liberal media hated Gingrich and the Republicans and resented their victory tremendously, ceaselessly deriding the Republican-controlled efforts and referring to it as the "Contract on America."
Similarly, during Ronald Reagan's first term in 1982, his Republican Party lost 27 congressional seats, despite Reagan's overwhelmingly lopsided presidential victory over the hapless Jimmy Carter just two short years prior. It appears that even popular presidents coming off strong wins are susceptible to profound congressional losses in the first contest out of the gate.
The Republicans may well lose control of Congress in 2018 for the first time since 2006. This is significant, because one of the things a congressional majority has the power to do is bring articles of impeachment against a sitting president.
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Impeach him for what?
El Puke-O
Let them do it.
We’ll deal with that.
Dems will NOT like the deal.
HATE and the promise of impeachment is what will motivate leftists to send PACs tens of millions to elect Democrats.
If the GOP passes some sort of amnesty for illegals and their ‘DACA’ illegals then the GOP deserves to lose the election.
They will have to.
Russian collusion...
Sh_thole nations comment...
Didn’t happen
Didn’t say it
Not high crimes? Well the Leftists think they ought to be.
Good. It’s the ultimate Look Squirrel. Let them wrap themselves around that axel and run on impeachment which nobody will want.
The dems can put all of their resources into chasing ghosts. There simply are no grounds for impeachment. And certainly none for removal.
Meanwhile, actual Americans are getting bonuses, bigger paychecks, better jobs, and watching their 401(K)s grow like crabgrass on a vacant lot.
One more time, dems are utterly out of touch and completely tone deaf.
Let’s be thankful for their stupidity.
Putting katsup on his steak?
If Dems want the gloves to come off...then the gloves will come off. I’m good with that.
Even if they do, impeachment does not mean removal from office. It’s just a formal statement of charges. It would be interesting to see what those charges could possibly be, however. Something like “we don’t like him”, or “he made us sad”, probably.
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“Impeach him for what?”
Pick a card, any card.
One can always depend on extra-Constitutional scu&bags to be extra-Constitutional scu&bags, and they’ll succeed because they have the backing of generations of indoctrinated scu&bags.
IMHO
I almost want to see it happen because like every thing else in the era of Trump, the attacks on him haven’t proven effective and only revealed that his attackers are mostly a collection of clowns.
Do not forget the gimmedat 47%. They vote and will vote en mass if their freebees are threatened by the tax cuts.
The Demoncraps might as well go on ahead and make their party the only legal one in the country. They certainly have that mentality.
I’ll march to Washington then. And if he’s then convicted, it’s war.
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