If President Obama gets impeached...

[Joe Biden is your president. Deal with it.]

If the GOP goes through with this, I think they may have handed the house to the Democrats this November. only 35% of Americans want Obama impeached. but the rest say no.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

He won't be impeached. End of story.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

There is no chance of Obama being impeached to begin with. If Bush couldn't get even the House to impeach him, neither will Obama.

[7,052,770]

There is no chance of Obama being impeached to begin with. If Bush couldn't get even the House to impeach him, neither will Obama.

While I agree that Obama is very unlikely to be impeached,  your comparison to Bush is a non sequitur.  Clearly republicans are much more impeach-happy.

[ElectionsGuy]

Yes, he survives, but he won't get impeached in the first place.

[Blue3]

Impeachment just means being accused, which is a House majority.

To be convicted requires 2/3 of the Senate. Which has a 0% chance of happening.

[Eraserhead]

He won't be impeached. End of story.

[Middle-aged Europe]

If Obama gets impeached, I'm going to shave my head.

[Orser67]

He'd probably be fine, unless the GOP has solid evidence that Obama did something Watergate-level. I don't see how Republicans get to 67 votes otherwise. Best case scenario for them is that they have 55ish seats after the mid-terms, so they'd need at least 12 Dem votes. I don't see any current investigation that could get 12 Dem Senators to vote for impeachment.

Also, I think impeachment is more of a 1% possibility than a .0001% possibility.

[politicallefty]

He'd definitely survive any vote in the Senate, as there are nowhere close to 2/3 of the Senate willing to convict and remove the President. As for impeachment itself, I would urge the House to move forward with impeachment hearings and proceed with a vote prior to November. I would be downright ecstatic to see John Boehner hand over the Speaker's gavel back to Nancy Pelosi.

[TDAS04]

Yes, he survives, but he won't get impeached in the first place.

[Paul Kemp]

There is no advantage to impeaching him for the Republicans.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

If they impeach it'll be after Novemeber when Harry Reid is handing the senate gabble to Jon Cornyn (Mitch loses to Alison Grimes)

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Yes, but he won't be impeached. The establishment learned it's lesson of dealing with the Tea Partiers during the shutdown.

[JerryArkansas]

He will survive, we all know that.  I think it could pass the house.  It will come up for a vote, there is just to many in the house who want it, but the chances of it passing are about 50-50.  I know of about 15 members who won't vote for it.  It all really depends on what happens in november and if Boehner is tossed out as speaker.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

There is no chance of Obama being impeached to begin with. If Bush couldn't get even the House to impeach him, neither will Obama.

While I agree that Obama is very unlikely to be impeached,  your comparison to Bush is a non sequitur.  Clearly republicans are much more impeach-happy.

I don't disagree with you on that, but I think Boehnor would block an impeachment vote for the same reasons Pelosi blocked Kucinich's impeachment vote.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Yes, he survives, but he won't get impeached in the first place.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Obama has a 41 percent approval and GOP even lower.

GOP provides a checks and balance in our system of gov. Impeachment has only been about removal of corrupt judges. We are only 2 yrs out from a prez campaign.

Since at the present moment they dont have any chance for conviction, it is seen by most as a political weapon.

It will only remind voters on what sympathy Clinton went through, during Lewinski.

[MATTROSE94]

He'd definitely survive any vote in the Senate, as there are nowhere close to 2/3 of the Senate willing to convict and remove the President. As for impeachment itself, I would urge the House to move forward with impeachment hearings and proceed with a vote prior to November. I would be downright ecstatic to see John Boehner hand over the Speaker's gavel back to Nancy Pelosi.

I agree with you about Obama surviving an impeachment vote in the Senate. No Democrats would  vote in favor of it and the only Republican's who would likely support it would be Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Jim Inhofe, Jeff Sessions and maybe Tim Scott and Rand Paul.

[pbrower2a]

The House can impeach him even for trivialities -- not only "high crimes" like soliciting bribes or embezzling funds, but misdemeanors. meaning just about any misconduct. If it votes on a party-line basis it can get articles of impeachment passed.

Conviction is the decision of the Senate.

Articles of impeachment could bring down the House Republican majority in the subsequent election of the House.