Fair enough.
Impeachment by the House is achieved by a simple majority vote.
No, impeachment does not mean removal (remember Clinton?).
Removal requires a 2/3 vote by the Senate. The vote is taken after a trial. If the trial isn’t a sham, as it was for Clinton, and the full depth and scope of Obama’s crimes are revealed, then I don’t think it would be impossible to get enough Democrats to vote for his removal, if the idea of backing so much lawlessness is something they don’t want hung around their necks. But even if the vote were to fall short, it would be worth the effort to shine a bright light onto what’s really been going on with this “transparent” administration. He might not be removed, but hopefully he’d be so exposed and humiliated that he’d be lucky to be asked to speak at the opening of a new supermarket.
“Removal requires a 2/3 vote by the Senate. The vote is taken after a trial. If the trial isn’t a sham, as it was for Clinton, and the full depth and scope of Obama’s crimes are revealed, then I don’t think it would be impossible to get enough Democrats to vote for his removal, if the idea of backing so much lawlessness is something they don’t want hung around their necks.”
Despite what the Constitution calls it, a “trial”, removing a President from office is, first and foremost, a political act. If the Republicans win every seat that is leaning or firmly GOP, the Democrats will retain 45 seats. You would have to get 12 of them to ‘convict’. As you said, Clinton’s trial wasn’t a ‘sham’, it was a political act and so would be Obama’s.
“But even if the vote were to fall short, it would be worth the effort to shine a bright light onto what’s really been going on with this “transparent” administration. He might not be removed, but hopefully he’d be so exposed and humiliated that he’d be lucky to be asked to speak at the opening of a new supermarket.”
You mean like Bill Clinton? He’s going around the country receiving six figures for giving speeches. Removing Obama from office is simply a pipedream.
BTW, even if the Republicans took 67 seats, how long would it take to “shine that bright light”? You would have to build a case compelling, not just to conservatives, but to liberals as well. If the GOP does this as a political act, the GOP would never be competitive at the national level again. By the time you get all this done, Obama is out of office.
No, the best path is to ‘shine the bright light’, do all the investigations without calling them an impeachment. Convince the American people that Obama is a fraud and the Democrats incapable of running a country.