Will Obama be impeached or forced to resign before the 2012 elections? Howard Portnoy’s post in Hot Air, titled Can Obama Save His Presidency? suggests just that:

The fate of the Obama presidency is, I believe, a fait accompli. The question now is not how it will end — but when. I for one am growing increasingly skeptical that he can survive a complete four-year term without the American people or himself at some point crying “Enough!”

Surely even the most relaxed definition of “high crimes and misdemeanors” doesn’t cover having a far left -wing agenda, so impeachment is a non-starter. As for resignation, Portnoy’s analysis implies that it wouldn’t even occur to President Obama:

Obama was born into a radical political world view fostered by both his natural parents and, in the absence of any parent after his mother’s death, reinforced by Frank Marshall Davis, a black activist and champion of identity politics. When he came to Chicago as a young adult, Obama sought out and found the same sorts of people, from Wright and Pfleger to William Ayers.

How surprising then should it be that, for Obama, socialism is the norm — the gold standard according to which he sets his political compass and by which he attempts, however futilely, to plot America’s future course. It is his socialist philosophy that informs and infects his policies and his understanding of the job of President.

Jennifer Rubin in Commentary suspects that Obama is being told what he wants to hear:

I suspect that so long as there are allies and advisers whispering in his ear that all he needs is some rhetorical tweaking, we won’t see anything approaching a substantive revision of his agenda. If the president doesn’t correct course, the voters may do it for him in 2010. But for now, don’t get your hopes up for a swing to the center. After all, Obama is being told, and no doubt believes, that the mantle of liberalism has been passed to him from Ted Kennedy. He won’t give it up—unless the voters force him to.

Obama would never resign under any circumstance, even with an increasingly likely repudiation in 2010 elections. The more reasonable question to ask is if Obama’s actions and policies will limit his presidency to a single-term. Make no mistake – he will be the Democratic candidate in 2012. The next presidential election is 38 months away, and something – perhaps a foreign-policy win – will occur to improve his standing in the polls. Combine this with some rhetorical moderation in 2010-2011, and talk of a single-term presidency will evaporate.

Besides, can you imagine Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi as President?

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