re: #126 Khal Wimpo

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.

What makes you think Obama would be convicted by the Senate? They would need a 2/3rds majority or 67 votes to convict, at most there are only going to be 55. Do you really expect them to get TWELVE defectors to vote to impeach the Obama?