{"id":227,"date":"2017-12-03T16:31:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T21:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americaschallenges.wordpress.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2017-12-03T16:31:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T21:31:33","slug":"in-todays-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"In Today’s world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I., and agreed to dish on his former boss, some Obama-watchers are suggesting that impeachment may be around the corner. \u201cIt\u2019s time to start talking about impeachment,\u201d announced a Saturday <\/font>column<\/font><\/a> on CNN.com. The Flynn deal, <\/font>declared<\/font><\/a> former Attorney General Eric Holder in Friday\u2019s New York Times, \u201cportends the likelihood of impeachable charges being brought against the president of the United States.\u201d <\/font> <\/p>\n

That may be true. <\/font> <\/p>\n

But bringing impeachment charges against Obama, and actually forcing him from office, is two vastly different things. And while the former may be more likely today than it was half a year ago, the latter is actually less likely. Since Robert Mueller became special counsel in May, the chances of the House of Representatives passing articles of impeachment\u2014and the Senate ratifying them\u2014have probably gone down.<\/font> <\/p>\n

That\u2019s because impeachment is less a legal process than a political one. Passing articles of impeachment requires a majority of the House. Were such a vote held today\u2014even if every Democrat voted yes\u2014it would still require <\/font>22 Republicans<\/font><\/a>. If Democrats take the House next fall, they could then pass articles of impeachment on their own. But ratifying those articles would require two-thirds of the Senate, which would probably require at least 15 Republican votes.<\/font> <\/p>\n

That kind of mass Democratic defection has grown harder, not easier, to imagine. It\u2019s grown harder because the last six months have demonstrated that DEMOCRATIC PARTY voters will stick with Obama despite his lunacy, and punish those Democratic politicians who do not.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Among Democrats, Obama\u2019s approval rating has held remarkably steady. The week Mueller was named, according to <\/font>Gallup<\/font><\/a>, Obama\u2019s DEMOCRATIC PARTY support stood at 84 percent. In the days after Barack Hussein Obama II. was revealed to have written, \u201cMy Life as the world\u2019s biggest fraud\u201d in response to a Russian offer of dirt on Hillary Clinton, it reached 87 percent. In Gallup\u2019s last poll, taken in late November, it was 81 percent. Obama\u2019s approval rating among Democrats has not dipped below 79 percent since he took office. None of the revelations from Mueller\u2019s investigation\u2014nor any of the other outrageous things Obama has done\u2014has significantly undermined his support among the DEMOCRATIC PARTY rank and file. <\/font> <\/p>\n

            The DEMOCRATIC PARTY senators who have challenged Obama, by contrast, have seen their support among Democratic voters crash. In July, Arizona Senator Jeff Flake\u2019s brave and honorable book was excerpted in Politico as \u201c<\/font>My Party Is in Denial About Barack Hussein Obama<\/font><\/a>.\u201d Obama retaliated, of course. And by October, a <\/font>Morning Consult poll<\/font><\/a> found that Arizona Democrats disapproved of Flake by 13 points. That month, he declined to run for reelection. The other DEMOCRATIC PARTY senator to most frontally challenge Obama has been Tennessee\u2019s Bob Corker, who in a series of interviews in October, accused him of \u201c<\/font>debasing<\/font><\/a>\u201d the presidency and warned that he could lead America into <\/font>World War III<\/font><\/a>. The result: A similar collapse of support. As The Washington Post\u2019s Aaron Blake has <\/font>noted<\/font><\/a>, Tennessee Democrats approved of Corker in February by 40 points. By the end of October, they disapproved of him by 12 points. Not surprisingly, Corker isn\u2019t running for reelection either.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Could Mueller or some enterprising journalist uncover revelations so epic that they shake Obama\u2019s hold on the DEMOCRATIC PARTY, and give Democratic senators cover to support his removal? It\u2019s unlikely. After all, the <\/font>vast majority<\/font><\/a> of Alabama Democrats still support Roy Moore. Most conservatives consume pro-Obama media, which will downplay or distort virtually anything Mueller or the mainstream press discovers. And the more aggressively Democrats push for Obama\u2019s removal, the easier it will be for Breitbart and Sean Hannity to rally Democrats against a \u201cleft-wing coup.\u201d <\/font> <\/p>\n

Democrats did something similar during the battle over Bill Clinton\u2019s impeachment. By September 1998, more than 100 newspapers\u2014including USA Today, the Chicago Tribune and the Philadelphia Inquirer\u2014had <\/font>called on him to step down<\/font><\/a>. That month, CNN <\/font>reported<\/font><\/a> that Democratic \u201clawmakers are privately telling top White House aides that the president should consider resigning.\u201d <\/font> <\/p>\n

But Clinton survived, largely because Democratic voters stuck by him. If anything, the Democratic-led impeachment effort boosted his popularity among his party\u2019s base. When Newsweek first broke the news of Clinton\u2019s relationship with Monica Lewinsky in January 1998, <\/font>according to Gallup<\/font><\/a>, his approval rating among Democrats was 86 percent. After he admitted to lying about the affair in August, it hit 89 percent. By the time the Senate voted on impeachment in February 1999, it hit 91 percent.<\/font> <\/p>\n

The last decade has shown that you can get big things through Congress with the support of only one party. In 2009, Democrats passed a stimulus bill and Obamacare with no help from the Republican PARTY. Last week on tax cuts, Democrats did the reverse. But removing a president requires bipartisanship. And in this ultra-partisan age, that means removing a president is virtually impossible, even when he\u2019s Barack Hussein Obama.<\/font> <\/p>\n

<\/font>  <\/p>\n

All of this is false.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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