Witness their beloved cry of “We’re not a democracy! We’re a republic!”
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Trump could shoot a guy on 5th avenue, and you’d not get enough votes to impeach, even with the upcoming senate which is 50/50.
Trump would have to fellate a guy in the middle of 5th avenue. Then you’d get your supermajority.
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Hopefully there isn’t a Dem president together with a Rep Congress & Senate for a couple decades so we don’t have to endure four years of repeated frivolous revenge impeachment attempts…
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The Revenge 25 is going to be a problem I think.
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Impeached, you say? For a second time, you say? Yay… i guess.
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Maybe so, we’ll see. I think even a solid majority in the Senate to remove is a bit exciting, even if short of 2/3rds.
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So you’re saying Donald doesn’t know about it yet?
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This would be one of the only reasons I would like to see Trump get back his twitter account (if only for a day). I’d like to see what spew of self incrimination he could devolve into at this moment.
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I don’t believe so. The VP settles a tie in the Senate. It’s at least 2/3 of members present—so if all 100 Senators show up, that would require 67, I think.
If some GOP people don’t show up, the number is lower.
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You are correct. VP casts tie breaking vote ONLY when the senate is equally divided. Article 1, section 3
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Yes, it’s 67. And VP Kamala only counts as a tie breaker.
ETA; @Wally beat me to it once again!
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Think about this. 197 Republicans still don’t think what Trump is doing is impeachable (or rather, they don’t feel like they can publicly make that case, safely. I’m not sure if that’s better or worse). Election tampering, insurrection - attacks on the democracy itself. That’s what the Republican party is - fundamentally anti-democratic. No one should ever forget this, much less let Republicans pretend otherwise.
Revlon’s “Rotten Peach” foundation.
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Now it’s time to expel the traitors in Congress who helped the insurrectionists plan and execute the attack.
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Trump had a point, about repeated flushes.
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I have to apologize to Donnie- you are exceptional. On one measure.
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So we’d need 20 GOP Senators to boycott the proceedings, maybe? I think the standard quorum rules would apply. So if 5 or 6 Republicans vote to convict, we’d need another 16 or 17 to not show up. 
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Well, that would be one of the interesting things about DC statehood - all of a sudden the number of senators in the country would be divisible by 3 again! That hasn’t happened since before Alaska/Hawaii statehood. 
It seems to me that for the few statutory reasons something might require a 2/3rds vote in the Senate, a precise 68-34 result there might call for the VP to break the tie. (A measure that allows previously-barred-from-office-by-the-14th-amendment insurrectionists to hold federal office again, for example.) Presidential impeachment is a sticky question there, though, as the VP is not a disinterested party. That’s why the SC Chief Justice typically presides over presidential impeachment trials.
And again interestingly, Kamala may be able to preside in the upcoming trial after all since it will be of a president whose term has expired and that conflict-of-interest is not in play.
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So how many of the Republican Senators actually stood on the Senate Floor and blamed Trump for the riot that evening?
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