re: #116 Charles Johnson

Republicans will try to use the threat of impeachment to stop Obama from issuing executive orders, or failing that, they’ll try to use the executive orders as cause for impeachment by saying they’re unconstitutional.

There’s some serious political calculation going on in the White House these days. Does Obama issue the executive order on immigration? It would surely trigger impeachment proceedings in the House. Fox would be screaming night and day, and Limbaugh would chortle with glee as his ratings went through the roof. The GOP would publicly crucify Obama for daring to treat Latinos as though they were human beings.

And then in 2016, the results of this would sweep the GOP out of every statewide office in Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Louisiana, North Carolina, Arizona, Colorado, etc. etc. It would lock in a Democratic advantage at the polls that would be like the one that has reigned in California since 1994 and Pete Wilson’s ugly, racist Prop 187 proved that the GOP was the party of old white men with nothing but hatred in their shriveled hearts.

Would it be worth it? Can the U.S. survive the next two years of dysfunction, with Joe Biden at the helm after Obama is convicted in the Senate and sent to prison? The riots here in L.A. after that conviction would make 1992 look like pattycake.