The final vote is due in about an hour
The Brazilian Senate will vote to impeach Rousseff, or not. Impeachment will require more than two-thirds of the 81 senators to vote for her ouster but that appears highly likely.
To drive home the point, Brazilian GDP was reported today for Q2 and it fell 3.8% year-over-year. Not many politicians could survive that even if they weren't implicated in a massive corruption scandal.
The Guardian has more on the background.
