If "they" take over the Senate and keep the House,

[MoonRiver]

first order of business will be to impeach and convict President Obama. Next on the agenda will be to impeach and convict Joe Biden as soon as he is sworn in. After that I believe that Speaker of the House, in this case Boner, becomes the defacto President, until the next Presidential election, which they will have carte blanche to rig for their candidate.

What they want is a total governmental coup, and they WILL pull it off if Rethugs take the Senate (I'm assuming they keep the gerrymandered House). Then they can start enacting their long planned theocracy, run by the 1%, who will ensure the rest of us are permanent serfs. Only thing that can stop them is Democratic voters turning out in record numbers next November.

Really scary shit is possibly right on the American horizon.

Oh, and I really hope my paranoia is way off base.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. It could happen, and...

even scarier is that maybe something that insane is needed to wake this place up.

[sharp_stick]

2. They need 2/3 of the Senate to convict

In their wildest evangelical inspired fever dreams they don't get 2/3 of the Senate.

[vi5]

8. The way today's Democrats are?

Who will cave at the slightest inkling of GOP pressure?

All it will take is a few David Brooks and Tom Friedman editorials and some monologues by Morning Joe and they'll easily peel off enough spineless conservadems.

[dhill926]

18. respectfully disagree...

[vi5]

20. I was mostly kidding...

Today's Democrats are a by and large a craven bunch of spineless buffoons more concerned with what the DC media cocktail party circuit thinks of them than they are with what is best for the American people, but even they wouldn't go that far.

At least I think.

Or I should say....I hope.

[dhill926]

21. got it...

yep, not a fan of backing down either...

[House of Roberts]

3. Do you really think they will have 67 votes

in the Senate?

[840high]

23. No.

[Nye Bevan]

4. Utter nonsense.

Your paranoia is, indeed, "way off base".

[rock]

5. Doubt it

Under your supposition my guess is they won't even impeach Obama. Politicians have a real aversion to impeachment because what goes around comes around. They got their asses burnt the last time they tried. That's why we say that republicans' asses and faces look the same: really red.

[Art_from_Ark]

32. They didn't really get their "asses burnt"

Sure, they bucked the trend and lost a few Congressional seats in the 1998 midterms, but 2 years later they were in the White House and in firm control of the government.

[rock]

33. Well, you could be right

Maybe it's just their nature that their asses and faces look the same.

[FreakinDJ]

6. Tea-Farty Wet Dream

[IronGate]

7. Here's what I think of your CT.

[FSogol]

9. ALCOA!

[bigwillq]

10. I don't think it's possible

Unless Rs control like 80 seats in the Senate, which I think is highly unlikely.

[genwah]

11. Fuck impeachment. "If "they" take over the Senate and keep the House," I'm building

a guillotine, and starting "Torches n' Pitchforks 'R'' Us".

[HooptieWagon]

12. They can't get 67 Senate votes to convict.

Even Boner knows that.

[Warren DeMontague]

13. That won't happen, even if they capture the Senate.

They need 67 votes to convict in the Senate. I doubt they'd seriously pursue it. The house might, but at least some of them have to remember how much it bit them on the ass with Clinton.

They'll make a lot of noise, but not much action.

[el_bryanto]

14. It's a long shot - but they might try anyway.

If they can get Obama they will probably go after Biden, though, I agree with you there.

Bryant

[riqster]

15. Even if "all" they do is fuck up SC nominations, that would be bad enough.

[Jenoch]

16. What you describe would never happen.

[Chan790]

17. Not a credible threat.

1. They have no chance to get anywhere near 67 Senate seats.
2. It would cost them the House in 2016.
3. The arithmetic already favors Democrats for the Senate in 2016.
4. They have a hard road to climb to compete as-is in 2016 and they'd be handing the Presidency to the Democrats for possibly a generation or more.

It's not only not-credible. It's insanely stupid of them to ponder it...it's the end of the GOP until the day the moderate wing of the Democratic party defects to the GOP to combat the resulting left-pull resulting from that. You have to understand that not only does an Obama impeachment hurt them...it's likely to radicalize the Democrats to a sufficient extent to propel ideological liberals over "electable" moderates in Democratic primaries.

It's "Hello President Sanders, how do you like your two-chamber supermajority?" time if they impeach.

[11 Bravo]

19. There is no way on God's green Earth that the Senate would vote to convict.

What scares the ever-loving-shit out of me is what a Repug majority in the Senate coupled with a Repug President could do with the SCOTUS. That, IMO, is the battle we need to be concerned about.

[William769]

22. To begin with they wouldn't have the balls to do that.

And if they were to take the Senate (which I don't see happening, I do though see them losing seats in the house but keeping control), they needs a 2/3 vote to convict which in no way they will ever get.

[jmowreader]

24. It takes longer to impeach and convict someone than you think

I posted this last night: Only if the president and VP are removed simultaneously (this is why the VP can't travel in the same conveyance as the president) will the Speaker become President.

If Obama is removed Biden will choose someone they will REALLY fucking hate to be his new VP. And it doesn't have to be an elected official. If I was him, I would REALLY fucking piss them off: I would pick either Rachel Maddow, the president of Planned Parenthood, or the last president of ACORN. Then I would cut a deal with that person: I would resign from the office of the President (moving that person into the White House) and the new President would choose me to be their VP. It is totally legal and there's no "the right of the Republican Party to get its way all the time shall not be infringed" line in the Constitution.

[ISUGRADIA]

30. Appointed Vice President

An Appointed Vice President would have to be approved by both the US House and Senate.

[Xolodno]

25. Nah....

There going to pass:

1. Repeal of Obamacare
2. Law against Sharia Law.
3. Voter ID laws.
4. Insane amount of money and powers for "Border Patrol"
5. Sanctions against Iran.
6. Sanctions against Russia.
7. Sanctions against Palestine.
8. More funding for Military.
9. Revoke all progress with Cuba.
10. Minor tax reduction for people.
11. Massive tax reduction for corporations (and call it a jobs program).
12. Banish the EPA.
13. Make talk of global warming a crime.
14. etc.

Obama will veto all of it and they call him an obstructionist.

[MineralMan]

26. How hard are you willing to work to prevent that from happening?

That's really the question you should be asking.

GOTV 2014 and Beyond!

[YarnAddict]

27. Not going to happen

[GeorgeGist]

28. If ... then,

America deserves a Darwin Award.

[Abouttime]

29. Ain't going to happen

We've just seen the beginning of the backlash from the HL ruling, women are going to come out in droves to vote against the GOP this November.
I predict we easily keep the senate and we win back the house in a shocking rebuke of the right wing supremes.

[MoonRiver]

31. I can go along with you about the Senate, but Pugs have the House in a death squeeze.