“I am not a racist. Now that we cleared that up, my guest is gonna talk about the newest way they think black people are the cancer of the earth, and I’m gonna agree with them. in a non-racist way.” -Megyn Kelly.

Sandman2, well, presenting articles of impeachment would STILL not show that the reps are doing “something for their paychecks.” While it only takes a simple majority (of ALL those present and voting) to pass an article of impeachment, that’s only in the House. For the Senate (which is in charge of actually trying the case), it requires that ever-lovable 2/3 majority to convict. So even if the GOP-controlled House could manage to present articles of impeachment for the Senate to consider, with the present composition of the Senate, there is NO way that impeachment would ever happen. Hell, the GOP would have to manage to pick up a solid 22 Senate seats in next year’s elections—while losing no more than 13 House seats—in order for impeachment to stand more than a snowball’s chance in Hell of proceeding. Next year’s Senate election will only have 19 current Democratic seats at stake. I don’t know how many of those 19 will be “open” seats (from incumbents retiring) or how many are really “safe” seats (there do seem to be a fair number of “red” states with Dem Senators such as Alaska, Arkansas and Louisiana, to name a few) but there is just NO way that the current GOP could possibly swing that many Senate seats. (Since 1961*—following the admission of Alaska and Hawai’i when the Senate increased to its current 100 seats—the biggest swing in seats happened in 1980 when the “Reagan Revolution” changed the Senate by 12 seats, and note that involved a Presidential election. For mid-term elections, the biggest switch was in 1994, with just 9. In both cases, the switch benefitted the GOP. Just by looking at the states involved, 10-12 switching to the GOP is possible but anything more than 12 would be little more than GOP wishful thinking.)

*It’s worth noting that prior to the 1960 election, there are a couple of higher switches that depend on how you look at them. Since the direct election of Senators (provided by the 17th Amendment), the biggest switch was in 1958 with 15 seats shifting (from GOP to Dem; Alaska elected 2 Senators in the Nov 1958 election and it was admitted as its Senators took office on 1/3/59—excluding them, the switch was just 13). The two greatest shifts in US Senate history, however, both resulted from the Civil War and Reconstruction. (The immediate political aftermath of the secessionist states makes the seating of the Senate in 1861 hard to judge with any true definition. As the new Congress didn’t begin until early March at this point in history, a number of Southern States were still actually represented in Congress at the beginning of the year—even after the start of the new Congressional session—only to withdraw within a few weeks of the session. A similar problem occurs with the Reconstruction period since some states had Senators appointed by the Reconstruction governors which allowed the state to be represented in the Senate but once the state was formally readmitted under civilian control, the state legislatures were quick to replace their Senators before they could actually “run” for re-election.) Probably the real “biggest shift” was a 17-seat shift in 1824 with the major parties renaming themselves when the Democratic-Republicans changed to Democrats and the Federalists changed to National Republicans; the DRs/Ds went from 43 down to 26 and the Fed/NRs went from 5 to 22. (Since there were only 48 Senate seats at the time, that would be the equivalent of a 35-seat shift today.)

Ho hum. Are ratings in need of a boost? Or are Tea Partiers feeling defeated after getting their butts kicked over the shut down? Lets jin up some crap about impeaching Obama (every right-wingers fantasy) and pretend that making a misleading statement in a speech is an impeachable offense. The rubes need some more red meat.

Impeachment would just be the exclamation point on a useless do-nothing House of Representatives!
I guess in an ironic way this could be considered a positive for Congress in that they actually did SOMETHING for their paychecks!
Are there people that think Megan Kelly is anything but a shill for the right-wing? Really?
I wasn’t sure the right-wing could get any worse than they are now, but I stand corrected.
These useless f**ks stand in the road blocking traffic, then complain that the traffic is terrible, and then scream that the DOT Commissioner needs to be removed for not doing something about the slow traffic!

Here we go.

Lars Larson????
What a joke that scumbag is!
Anyway, I LOVE when Fox echoes the cries for impeachment that come from the STOOPIT and Tea Billies of their base. Fox is just once again leading the very gullible and ignorant down the lonely path of disappointment. They’re on the wrong side….again. Can anyone even remember the last time Fox was successful with anyone outside the dreaded ‘Cabal of Cretinous’?

@dave Wright. Now that Jabba the Ailes and Fux Noise have sanctioned it, you can bet that the House teabaggers are already at work on Articles of Impeachment.

Of course they’ll talk impeachment. It costs nothing and appeals to the base very well. Surprised the House hasn’t already tried it.