This Bastard President is setting a precedent that will affect the republic for decades. IMO by NOT impeaching him the Senate and the SCOTUS are both abdicating power to the executive branch FOREVER. You can't unring a bell. This Jerk has usurped power on a grand scale, used the IRS against individual citizens! My god now he does everything by fiat. He thinks he is Caesar.
The US congress investigated Nixon because they THOUGHT he might be using the IRS as a weapon. On a hunch more or less. Now, with concrete evidence pointing to the highest levels NOTHING.
Everyone is forgetting the “Shot across the Bow”......
VETO override.
Given the unpopular President sinking even lower in the Polls, there will be Bills Vetoed, and there will be scared Democrats that see 2016 coming upon them.
A Veto Override, or several of them, only requires a dozen or so scared Democrats who want to avoid the “impeachment” decision by giving in to the VETO option.
I don’t know the Bill that will get it, but I predict it’s gonna happen sometime in 2015.
Veto override procedures: http://www.senate.gov/CRSReports/crs-publish.cfm?pid=’0DP%2BP%2CC%3E%23P%20%20%0A-37k
Impeachment itself will take the two years he has left to even get moving, there are far too many stall tactics they could easily use to slow it way down...and they would do so. Meanwhile Obama will continue forward.
However...it’s been said hit a man in his purse if you want to cripple him....and so they could stop his funding for whatever he wants to do. Will they is the question...they could have done so with Obama care and they didn’t.
The left used to claim that Bush could be impeached after leaving office. I would rather see Obama flayed in that manner, when there is little at stake politically in protecting him.