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I confess that I find Pence very scary as well, but he's not obviously mentally ill. [1] I assume the good old GOP will throw Trump under a bus when he has out

• fooey 10y ago
  The US is basically under 1 party rule at the moment. The minority party has virtually no power to initiate action or legislation, and very little power to block actions by the majority party. The right wing base of the Republican party just picked Trump over all the standard establishment candidates they put forward, so the establishment leaders in Washington are not going to want to risk alienating their voters in order to take down Trump.
• SEJeff 10y ago
  The house has to vote to impeach anyone in the Executive branch, such as the president. The act of impeachment is not "firing them", but the trial to determine if they are guilty and need to be removed or not. The senate then listens to the case and votes with a simply yay or nay on if they are guilty or not. Realistically, this means you'll need support from both the Senate AND House of Representatives to impeach a sitting president. It would also meant they'd likely not win the re-election in four years and as a result would be somewhat political suicide. Since the Republicans control both the house and senate majorities along with the president... They're unlikely to do anything other than sit back eating popcorn while Trump wrecks things.