Worried for our children wrote:
Hey Roy: im curious and perhaps you may know... If "I Won" (I like that), is impeached, for any one, or a combination of a few of his illegal actions, does that mean all of his executive orders, fiats, etc., shall become null and void?
Impeachment has to come from the House, and that could easily happen. However, the Senate has to then have a trial about the accusations made in the impeachment and unless they throw him out nothing like you mention can be changed. You do know just how likely the Senate is to do something like that, I take it? As long as Dirty Harry Reid is the Majority Floor Leader of the Senate he will determine what comes up on that floor and that trial isn't likely to be one of those things. He can't possibly be thrown out before sometime in 2015 and that would take a huge victory by the Republicans in the 2014 e******n.
Impeachment won't change anything but it would be nice to let him be the first President to be impeached unless you want to count the first "black President" in the words of Clinton. Actually Clinton was impeached and although the Republicans in the Senate had sufficient numbers to throw him out they refused to do it. Well, I guess Clinton wasn't the first one, at that. The Johnson that followed Lincoln was impeached and was one v**e in the Senate from being thrown out. People were sure he was out of there but the Senator from Kansas they were sure would v**e against Johnson failed to do so. It was purely political in that Johnson's plan for readmission of the southern States just didn't punish them enough. I have always thought that if Lincoln hadn't been assassinated he would have been impeached by the same Congress. Wouldn't that have been a sorry thing to happen?