mike pence would create a Christian theocracy

Mike Pence will be so terrible that we all would wish Trump was our president. Pence is a religious freak that will take the country to the extreme. It is like Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Nobody liked the guy but once he was gone, the mayhem ensued. The same will happen with Pence.

Trump is still regrettably your president. The House impeachment is the equivalent of a grand jury trial. It is used to find out if there is enough evidence to take a case to a jury trial, which will be the Senate hearings. The Speaker of the House Pelosi will be the prosecutor who will decide when that happens. In the meantime Trump is free to go about committing more crimes and hopefully not taking the entire country down with him.

We might be a tad more better off, but congress is not going let do much. Unless he makes attempt to fix Trumps fuck ups during remainer of the term.

It's kind of beside the point. Trump has broken the law, thinks he's above it, and needs to go. If Pence does the same, he'll get impeached too. One problem at a time.

These attempts to play 12-dimensional chess aren't how the system works. You hand down an indictment (impeachment articles in this case) if the evidence warrants it, and there's not an exception if you don't like the next guy in line.

The irony is that if they weren't concealing evidence we could probably impeach Pence as well. Then we'd have President Pelosi, if only briefly. As a progressive I don't trust her either, for entirely different reasons, although she'd be a thousand times less bad than Trump, to be sure.

I find it difficult to believe that Pence would be as bad or worse than Trump. In some subtle Machiavellian ways he could be, I suppose. He likely wouldn't hand his own ass to us on a sliver platter like Trump has. But that's a problem for another day. Pence would be politically crippled and unlikely to win in 2020, so that's in the mix, too.

With a year left in office he would be the most lame duck President in the history of the Presidency. He would not be a real problem.

No. Hell no, fuck no, shit no, goddamn NO....although not necessarily in that order. There is not ONE being in this cabinet of Dr. Caligari's unimaginable horrors that would be suited to do the job. They are ALL odious abominations of nature. The ONLY things impeachment (which will NEVER happen) will do are a) bruise little Lord Cheetodicks ego and b give me a glorious, glimmering ray of sunshine in this otherwise dismal nuclear holocaust of a presidency.

As I understand it, Pence is a theocrat. I'm not sure if he'll do a better job, but he's probably more in keeping with usual decorum. I am sure I'll disagree with a lot of stuff he does, if not all of it.

By the way, Trump is still officially president if and until the Senate passes the articles of impeachment. Impeachment is like a grand jury indictment.