How many days after Clinton becomes president will Congress begin impeachment proceedings?

[Warren Stupidity]

Hypothetically Clinton gets elected president. Hypothetically more or less the same nutjob whackadoodle congress returns for its 2016 session. When will the impeachment over <what the fuck ever> begin?

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[C_U_L8R]

1. Seems like they've already started

Republicans are certainly afraid of our Hillary.
Good.

[houston16revival]

2. After lunch

Jan 20, 2017

3 pm

[joshcryer]

3. -17 days. They will prepare impeaching proceedings for 17 days.

115th Congress meets on Jan 3rd, unless we somehow flip it (the House), then they will have 17 days to prepare their impeachment. The moment she is sworn in it will be tabled. (Well, later that afternoon, before the inaugural ball.)

Note: not drunk posting I swear, I really think that's what they'll do.

[wyldwolf]

4. How did that work out for them the last time?

[think]

27. The party was severely tarnished by Clinton's handling of the situation. It didn't work out well

for Democrats at all.

The same applies to Hillary's decisions that get her to this current point.

Her poor decisions have made a mess of things. Hillary chose to do many things that may have been legal but the law was used as a yard stick as to the line that couldn't be crossed rather than a principle to be upheld. She will have to deal with and accept the consequences of those actions.

[wyldwolf]

30. On the contrary - the GOP speaker of the house resigned and we picked up house seats.

Polls conducted during 1998 and early 1999 showed that only about one-third of Americans supported Clinton's impeachment or conviction, Clinton approval numbers skyrocketed.

In 1998 Republicans lost five seats in the House—the worst midterm performance in 64 years by a party not holding the presidency. Gingrich, who won his reelection, was held largely responsible for Republican losses in the House. His private polls had given his fellow Republican Congressmen a false impression that pushing the Lewinsky scandal would damage Clinton's popularity and result in the party winning a net total of six to thirty seats in the US House of Representatives in this election.[86] The day after the election, a Republican caucus ready to rebel against him prompted his resignation of the speakership. He also announced his intended and eventual full departure from the House in January 1999.

GOP Speaker-elect Bob Livingston then resigned over reports of sexual impropriety.

Al Gore won more votes than any Democratic presidential candidate up to that point.

[onenote]

5. Ah, a trip down memory lane

Back to when similar predictions were being made about how fast the repubs would start impeachment proceedings against Obama after (1) his election in 2012 or (2) the mid term elections of 2014.

It ranks up there with the October surprise war on Iran threads of 2008. But behind the Karl Rove indictment/24 business hours threads of 2006.

This place can be a real hoot sometimes.

[grossproffit]

32. +1 Thanks for a dose of reality.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Embodied in your question is the assertion we should fear the Rethugs.

I can not speak for my fellow Democrats but I am not scared of the Rethugs and I don't walk around with a "Kick Me" sign on my ass...

All I can say to them is "Bring it."

[joshcryer]

7. I think it's a start.

As it assumes Clinton gets elected. That's quite an improvement over the posts here lately.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. josh, please ask me what I did when the Senate voted on the Articles Of Impeachment? /nt

[joshcryer]

10. I think there is a miscommunication.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. There isn't... I wanted you to ask me what I did so I could tell you I ordered a pizza.

The whole brouhaha was entertaining as Hell...

[joshcryer]

16. To be sure...

... There will be copious pizza deliveries in a few weeks.

Just saying, I like that we're moving on to speculating about Clinton winning, opposed to the daily posts I bookmark foretelling that she won't. Even if said speculation is under the guise of impeachment. It's a step up, to be sure.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

19. I get the Tombstone reference.

But the point I was trying to make was the Lewisnki brouhaha was great entertainment.

It is also was a boon for Clinton and the Democrats. He and the party were never so popular. We actually picked up seats in the 98 mid-terms, which defied historical trends.

[joshcryer]

22. see post 18 as an example of what I was taking about

But yeah, if they impeach they are so done.

I'm glad we're talking about her winning!

[Betty Karlson]

23. So those CNN match-ups where Clinton loses against three Republicans Sanders would beat,

all that didn't happen? There are no facts unless they help the coronation of St Hillary the Inevitable? You guys are starting to behave like a cult. I know this is a trying time for you, but candor compells me to call a spade a spade, and with that spade you are digging a very deep hole for yourselves.

Let me know when you are ready to crawl out of the hole. I've got some great reality you might like to taste.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. Sports is my other passion.

I see the same dynamic there; if my team can't win I am going to root for any team against the team that vanquished my team. That sentiment is strong here.

[joshcryer]

26. But no one wants to see the Yankees or Patriots win.

So I'll happily go with the team that beat my team to see them lose!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

28. What are we going to do?

So many vituperative posts...

I try to post about what I want to discuss and ignore the negative posts but it is difficult.

[Warren Stupidity]

13. You are free to read into what I wrote anything you please.

[NCTraveler]

8. Day one will be fine.

It will help build clout throughout the rest of her presidency and further alienate moderates from the Republican Party.

[randome]

11. For what egregious crime? Elected President While Female?

[hr][font color="blue"][center]You have to play the game to find out why you're playing the game. -Existenz[/center][/font][hr]

[Warren Stupidity]

14. Well for sure failure to maintain a properly presidential penis

will be part of the indictment.

[Betty Karlson]

24. The gender card! Haven't seen that one for weeks!

Is 9/11 also included this time, or are you saving that for the next occasion? I know you guys haven't got many cards to play...

[beac]

15. From what they have already said, I voted "zero."

I think they will want to stage a big counter-inaugural press conference announcing they will start the process the minute her hand is off the Bible.

Whackadoodle is too nice a word for them.

[Bettie]

17. If she becomes president

that will start right after their meeting about how to make her fail.

But they'll drop all of that when she adopts their full agenda a few days later.

[Betty Karlson]

18. She won't become president: she is unelectable, and we can only hope

that enough Democrats realise this before the convention starts.

[Jitter65]

21. Well, she wouldn't be the first Clinton to be impeached. How did that turn out for you? nt

[thucythucy]

29. Probably about the same number of days it'll take them to begin proceedings against Sanders.

Personal destruction and political theatre is what Republicans do.

[olddots]

31. trying to think like a Republican congress member

is like trying to figure out why people like Taylor Swift , Walmart and Mc Donalds .