...You think there are going to be Senate Democrats who will vote to convict based on the GOP "conjuring up" charges over an executive order even you acknowledge is not a crime??? Talk about wishful thinking.
The President is about to piss into the face of the American People and to declare war on Congress.
The Senate, as presently constituted, will not convict.
The Senate, as constituted after January, 2015, when the new Congress is sworn-in, may prove to be another matter.
If you think that Democrats have been running away from Obama during the run-up to the 2014 mid-terms, you ain't seen nuthin' yet...
An EO on so-called immigration reform at this time in history may prove infuriating to both the American People and large numbers of Elected Folk in the House and Senate...
I served-up an example of how the math could work out, in the Senate, in order to convict, in an earlier post...
Given the fair number of Democrats who will want to distance themselves from Obama on this one, coupled with an Independent or two, and, perhaps, buying-off one or two of the more corruptible ones, and consoling them with the idea that at least there would still be a Democrat in the White House to finish out the term...
I'm not convinced that it IS merely wishful thinking...
I think that the odds are against it...
I also think that the odds against it are diminishing as we watch...
If the President wants a (metaphorical) war with the American People and with the Congress, then he can certainly have one...
When a national leader no longer has the support of his people nor his legislators, that nation usually finds the means to 'fire' him, and remove him from office...
The particulars of the charge don't really matter all that much...
Only that the boys and girls in Congress conjure-up something that can be made to stick in the Senate during a trial...
But, of course, that's all crystal-ball -type stuff at this point...
Still, I think we're in for a rough and highly interesting ride, in the coming months...