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To: Alter Kaker

Why don’t you tell me. After all sounds like you have it all figured out.

I’m not the one who has forgotten that the president isn’t the only branch of government.


41 posted on 10/01/2012 8:13:34 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: cripplecreek
Why don’t you tell me. After all sounds like you have it all figured out.

I've read the Constitution a few times and impeachment is the only way of removing a President via another branch of government. While a simple majority of the House is needed to impeach, 2/3 of the Senate (67 votes) would be needed to impeach a President. Assuming a party-line vote, we'd need to win a lot of Senate seats to get there. If we held all Republican seats and picked up every seat even remotely competitive, that would only get us to 60 seats. We'd have to start winning in places like Delaware, New Jersey, California and Rhode Island to get even close to 67 and I honestly don't know what candidates if any we have running in those states. I looked up the New York US Senate race (another possibility) and apparently our candidate is only down 43 points as of the last poll.

68 posted on 10/01/2012 8:31:25 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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