CNN/ORC Poll: 65% Don't Want Obama Impeached

by JASmius

Aaaaaaaaand that's why House Republicans won't impeach him - at least not until after the midterm elections:

One in every three Americans agree with former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s call for President Barack Obama to be impeached, a new survey shows.

The CNN/ORC International poll released Friday also reveals that close to one in two Americans think Obama has excessively expanded the powers of the presidency, CNN reported.

However, Americans [by 57% to 41%] say that Republicans, led by House Speaker John Boehner, should not sue the president for changing an ObamaCare mandate without going to Congress first....

In the poll, 33% of Americans say Obama should be impeached and removed from office while 65% said that he should not face impeachment.

And yet Americans are split down the middle (48%-48%, with the other four percent in tequila comas) on whether The One has penned & phoned himself into a raging tyranny that has rolled up the U.S. Constitution and handed it to Moochelle for tampon usage.  I'm not sure if there's any direct or proportional relationship between these respective numbers, largely because I don't think there's enough collective mental acuity in the respondents to power a bi-valve interior combustion twice-exhausted bi-axle nitrocycle.  But I do know that John Boehner isn't going to allow an impeachment inquiry when the poll numbers against it are that lopsided.  At least not for another four months.

And I cannot say that I blame him.

By the way, please don't come back at me with the media bias objection.  Nobody is more aware of media bias and the big, fat thumb they drop on the left side of the polling scale on a regular basis, the election season psych-ops and the rest.  But those factors affect public opinion at the margins.  If the polling split on impeaching O was the same as the split on whether he's "gone too far" and abused his powers, this would be an entirely different post (though the Speaker would probably be just as reticent about pulling the "I" trigger).

Of course, the public opposes Congress suing the King by almost as big a margin, and Boehner is full speed ahead with that gambit.  But there isn't nearly the political risk in a lawsuit that won't be resolved for years that there is with impeachment.  And while "principle" and "backbone" "cajones" and all of that sort of "fire-eater" stuff are fine and good, we must also remember that (1) all of this takes place in the political arena and (2) America is no longer a constitutional federal republic.  Rather, it is in the transition stage from mobish democracy to socialist oligarchy, and most likely a lot closer to the latter.  If House Republicans resolved today to impeach Barack Obama regardless of public opinion and their own insufficient numbers, all of False Messiah's crimes, scandals, and "failures" would be forgotten in a heartbeat, the media-propelled public backlash in O's favor would be huge, the GOP would go from odds-on favorites to regain the Senate by a large margin to prohibitive favorites to lose the House, and we on the Right would be all the way back at square one, if we weren't already on the cattle cars headed for the Alaska gulag.

That isn't "leftwing propaganda," or what the White House "wants us to think".  It is cold, hard reality.

That being said, the same overall conditions would still exist after November 4th.  The difference is that the next election would be almost two years away.  Remember the Polaroid-esque (or "Instagram-esque" if you're under the age of fifty) nature of American pop culture.  The public was even more opposed to Bill Clinton's impeachment than they are O's, but House 'Pubbies went ahead anyway after the '98 midterms, and it had no specific detrimental electoral effects in 2000.

Again, it's all about doing things at the right time.  If Ted Cruz had held off on his defundageddon crusade last fall until after the ObamaCare Killer Asteroid had impacted, the public would have been much more in favor of a government shutdown showdown.  In the same way, waiting to impeach O until after we have the Senate back and the electoral coast is clear is the sane course of action.

Which makes the damn lawsuit so inconvenient, since it's Boehner's anti-impeachment insurance policy.  Maybe a new Speaker will see the practicability of litigatory and "more direct" anti-Regime action moving "forward" on parallel tracks.


UPDATE: Looks like the White House saw the CNN/ORC poll as well:

A top White House adviser said on Friday Republicans might try to impeach President Barack Obama over his go-it-alone immigration strategy, as Obama prepared to talk about the U.S. border crisis with Central American presidents.

Dan Pfeiffer, one of Obama's longest-serving advisers, told reporters that the executive actions Obama will approve at the end of the summer aimed at tackling illegal immigration will likely generate ire from Republicans who have blocked comprehensive immigration legislation.

Still think Barack Obama doesn't crave his own impeachment?