Since then, it hasn't happened even once. But look there at the percentage of Americans who are now turned off to both parties and who therefore identify as "Independent." On 8 January 2014, Gallup headlined, "Record-High 42% of Americans Identify as Independents: Republican identification lowest in at least 25 years." It's not that people have been gravitating to the Republican Party; it's instead that they are gravitating away from both parties.
We are entering the period of America's great cynicism.
Ever since that time, that 8 January 2014 report from Gallup, this 42% has risen to 45% in the latest such poll, which was taken July 7-10. Furthermore, in that July 7-10 poll, there are 42% who are or lean as "Democrat," and again a close 40% who are or lean as "Republican."
What has been happening, in other words, is disgust with both parties, and a re-evaluation of what America is: is this still really a democracy at all -- really?
Consequently, the latest analysis by the Washington Post concludes that there is an 86% likelihood that Republicans will control both houses of Congress in 2015 and 2016, and only a 14% chance that one house (the Senate) will be in Democratic control during Obama's final two years in office. There still are Democrats, but they no longer care enough about politics for them to be able to prevent an Obama-Republican alliance from taking over this country and dragging it into far-right territory, in terms of governmental policies.
Basically, Democrats are demoralized because they've voted twice for a man who deceived them both times, and they are beginning to recognize that Obama is such a liar that they no longer have real hope for America. By contrast, Republicans have plenty of hope, for passing and getting signed into law almost their entire agenda, during the next two years, 2015 and 2016.
Strategically, Democrats in Congress therefore need to pull a rabbit out of a hat. If they don't do that, they're merely staying terrified, in a dead Party as it's going down and sucking the country down the toilet with them, where Republicans want it to go: the toilet of further decaying infrastructure, increasing concentration of wealth, and more gated communities, while the entire public sector gets privatized and prices for formerly public services soar, while those aristocrats' stocks soar even more than before as a result.
The latest poll on impeaching Obama shows that whereas only 19% of Americans supported impeaching Bill Clinton when Republicans started pushing for it in 1998, 33% of Americans already favor impeaching Obama right now (18-20 July 2014). That figure is 3% higher than the 30% who favored George W. Bush's impeachment in the same poll taken during 30 August through 2 September 2006, when the nation was absorbing his lie about his being certain regarding the continued existence of "Saddam's WMD" -- his actually fake "justification" for invading. Democrats in Congress then did not press for GWB's impeachment, because they feared it would be seen as "partisan." What would be their excuse now, when they actually need to do their job in order to prevent their Party from going down the toilet?
Furthermore, as that same poll-report also shows, that 19% rose to 29% by six months later, when the impeachment-vote actually took place. Starting with a 33% base now, outright majority-support for impeaching President Obama would certainly be within reach, especially because it would be led by Democrats (against a fake one of themselves), and because the case against Obama would be vastly stronger and far more serious than Monica Lewinsky's stained dress.
Granted: the vast majority of Democrats are (as all polls show) so uninformed and misinformed as to think that impeaching Obama would be attacking the Party instead of preserving and restoring it. They're still Obama's suckers. But Democrats in Congress are not. They have a job to do, both for their Party, and, even more importantly, for their country.
Will they do it?
If not, then here is one more Democratic voter who will be becoming an "Independent." But I then certainly wouldn't ever vote again for the Democrat who represents me in the U.S. House of Representatives, to whom I have communicated all of these facts.
On 30 June 2014, Gallup headlined "Americans Losing Confidence in All Branches of U.S. Gov't," and the next day, July 1st, they bannered, "Americans Less Satisfied With [level of] Freedom." That second poll reported also that ever since Obama entered the White House, the percentage of Americans answering "Yes" to the following question has risen from 66% then to 79% now: "Is corruption widespread throughout the government in this country?" This soaring sense of public corruption cannot be good news for political incumbents. Americans now are becoming alarmed at Washington's corruption. Congressional Democrats have one way to show that they're breaking away from the banksters' President. It would be a game-change, and not only for them but for the country.
America needs it. Who will step forward, then, to do what America needs to be done?
If the pressures from the Republican Party base succeed in getting a House Republican to come forth with an impeachment bill before any House Democrat does, then the bill will cite Republican reasons, and Democrats in both the House and the Senate will need to vote against it (because of its phony reasons), and they'll have permanently lost their only chance to redeem not just the nation but themselves, and especially their Party. That's why Obama is trying to goad House Republicans into doing it -- so as to protect himself. But his success in that regard would destroy his (nominal) Party. And that's precisely why a House Republican just might do it. House Democrats would be colossal failures if they don't do it first, citing (authentically) Democratic, true, reasons (of which there are many). That would have John Boehner tearing his hair out. The stakes in this are immense.
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