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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 05:16 PM
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Poll question: How soon after Republicans retake the House will they start impeachment proceedings?
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 05:17 PM
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1. I voted "They won't start... "
Because I'm quite sure it's already in the works.
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abelenkpe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 05:22 PM
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3. I agree with JuniperLea.
They are already calling for impeachment and that is what will happen if the house is won by republicans.

I check out the news on yahoo all the time. You would not believe the comments section. The article this morning detailing the new oil rig explosion had numerous people claiming it was a conspiracy by environmentalists and President Obama calling for his impeachment. Truly. And not from one poster but from many. The world has gone insane. Take care everybody!
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 05:25 PM
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5. Insane, indeed...
My sister said there was a tent set up near her office, with a big sign that said, "Impeach Obama!" and a guy was taking signatures. This was in Orange County, CA... a very red area of California. It sickens me.
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 05:18 PM
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2. Within a year.
They can't do it immediately because they'll look like opportunist assholes and they know it, plus it'll take a while to trump up some baseless charge against Obama. Expect something like "We the House find President Smellyface Obama should be, like, impeached and stuff because he's a black Negro and we don't like Negroes."
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 05:23 PM
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4. This is September, the elections are in November
and no polls have ever won an election, only voters do.
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Liberal_Stalwart71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 11:10 PM
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13. Thank you! Why doesn't the OP add an option with an "N/A" because Democrats will work to
get out the vote?

This is why Democrats lose all the time. Why even post a shitty poll like this?

Get the fuck off your asses and get out there and work to get people to the polls!!!!
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Ozymanithrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 05:26 PM
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6. They will begin investigations immediately.
But the idea is to string it along, take as long as possible so they can get all the investigations a full airing on friendly media. Every day, a new gate will hit the news. They day they actually begin proceedings is irrelevant. It is the process that they want, because they know they Will never have the Senate actually convict him.
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 06:46 PM
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8. Where's "a nanosecond"?
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 06:52 PM
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9. Impeach him for what?
What "high crimes and misdemeanors" has he committed?
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LastLiberal in PalmSprings Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 08:08 PM
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10. Exactly.
The only ones I can come up with are "PWB" (Presidenting While Black) and insisting he has the right to ride in the front of Air Force One. I'm sure the Repugs are putting together a Christmas list of crimes he has committed since he was a zygote.
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JoePhilly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-10 12:44 PM
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16. Your last sentence is spot on ...
They will investigate every corner of his, and Michelle's life. They will investigate every associate they ever had.

All the have to do is find ONE person to make an allegation from their past and the game begins. Whitewater, Paula Jones ... it will be the same, but different.

Maybe Tony Rezko ... an old friend from indonesia, crazy distant relative. They won't need something that is true, just something that the stupid will believe. And they will use that as a distraction as they again raid the treasury.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-10 10:30 AM
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14. Guilt really doesn't matter one bit...
Look what they did to the Clinton's while Bill was in office. They were constantly embroiled in legal defense of accusations that were never even close to the truth. They don't need no stinkin' high crimes and misdemeanors to start their big stink.
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ShadowLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-10 09:49 PM
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18. For not showing us his birth certificate! And for being Muslim (which really means for being black)
That's what they'll do, impeach Obama for something stupid like they did Clinton, just because he's black and they want to de-legitimatize his presidency by throwing a stain of impeachment on it.

Besides, if conservative talk radio starts to demand for Obama's head via impeachment you know they'll have to cave in, with all the GOP politicians who have been forced to apologize to Rush Limbaugh for daring to criticize him, some of them have even been primaried out of office over attacking conservative talk radio gods like Glenn Beck, despite having a very conservative voting record.
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Joe Bacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-10 12:39 PM
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30. David Limbaugh has drawn up the articles of impeachment
His "Crimes Against Liberty" has a set of impeachment articles proposed against Obama. And its being pimped by the Screw York TImes.
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 09:30 PM
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11. Never. nt
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 10:21 PM
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12. Who knows? It won't accomplish much. We will still have a Dem President if they
Edited on Thu Sep-02-10 10:21 PM by Jennicut
succeed as the VP would simply take over. Personally, I think it would backfire on them. And what they really want is to merely tie things up until 2012.
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Aramchek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-10 12:38 PM
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15. pathetic flailings do not become you
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-10 04:41 PM
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17. It sounds as if you have resigned yourself to a loss 2 months before an election...
stop watching the talking heads and get to work...help people to get to vote, rally the D's in your district and quit selling crying towels.

The last thing we need is self-fulfilling prophecy.
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golfguru Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-10 10:12 PM
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19. I can't see any scenario for impeachment
Obama has not started any new wars.
Obama has not lied in court about his sexual peccadillo's ala B.J. Clinton.
Obama has not tortured enemy combatants or any body else.

Nope...no impeachment coming.
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Joe Bacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-10 12:36 PM
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28. They will make one up.
Make no mistake about it! The Republicans WILL make something up to impeach Obama on and their pals in the Whore Press will beat the impeachment drums and whip up the lynch mobs. Right now Limbaugh's brother's book outlining the case to impeach Obama is going up the Best Seller list on the Screw York Times. The right is already drawing up articles of impeachment over Sestak, health care, Van Jones, ACORN and Sherrod. And I'm sure 19th Century Fox will be going into full lynch mob mode the minute the Republicans win in November.
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Milo_Bloom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-10 10:33 PM
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20. Really? You think we could get THAT lucky?
The last time they spent their effort on trying to impeach the president, they made that president incredibly popular and did poorly in the following elections.

If I could count on them doing that, I would go out and vote republican just to insure that the democrats would have REAL fillibuster proof majorities in 2012!
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johnaries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-10 10:58 PM
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21. Immediately. They'll need the distraction while they run the
economy and the country into the ground.
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-10 10:02 AM
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26. Ummm...
They already did that. Which is why it blows my mind that the idiots in this country are so willing to give the Congress right back to them.
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thelordofhell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-10 11:23 PM
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22. Unrec
The republicans won't re-take the House

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Joe Bacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-10 01:09 AM
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23. They will start it right away
No doubt in my mind that they will start with thousands of subpoenas over everything Obama has done. They will vote out articles of impeachment as soon as they can, sadly if they get to that part, enough Blue Dogs will join the chorus to drive Obama out of office.

Then they will go after Biden.
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StreetKnowledge Donating Member (921 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-10 01:20 AM
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24. Sadly, probably true.
And its why we need to remove the Blue Dogs from the Party, if you ask me. They are nothing more than right-leaning mercenaries.
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Joe Bacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-10 12:32 PM
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27. Keep pushing for Real Democrats!
I love how the Whore Press keeps attacking us for backing real Democrats while the incumbent DINOs win some primaries. We came close with Bill Halter, we almost knocked out Benett the Buffoon, and Alan Boyd. but we DID get Jack Conway nominated in Kentucky and we retired Specter. And Bland Blanche is on her way to doubling her salary as a lobbyist. We cannot give up and go away. We got to keep the pressure on these DINOs and knock them out!
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-10 09:38 AM
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25. They won't win - Bohner will have tears in his eyes when he tees off....nt
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bornskeptic Donating Member (951 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-10 12:37 PM
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29. I have no idea about who will be President when they retake the House.
It's very possibly someone who hasn't graduated from high school yet.
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Yeshuah Ben Joseph Donating Member (763 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-04-10 12:47 PM
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31. Don't they have to plant an intern first?
To create the "grounds for impeachment" like they did last time?
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