Clyburn: GOP Will Impeach Obama To ‘Put an Asterisk’ by ‘First Black President’

‘There will be some reason found to introduce an impeachment resolution ... it is their plan’

“I’ve been saying for several weeks now long before the election, that if they maintain their majority in the House and get the significant majority in the Senate, there will be some reason found to introduce an impeachment resolution.

These Republicans have decided that this president must have an asterisk by his name when he leaves office. Irrespective of whether or not he gets convicted it is their plan to introduce an impeachment resolution. And they do have the total of 18 votes to pass it, because that would keep the country focus on foolishness rather than on what we need to do in order to move agenda forward. You know too well, you will not get 2/3 votes in the Senate to convict.

So why are we going through this whole charade? It is to put an asterisk next to this first African-American president in the history of the country, put an asterisk next to his name when the history books are written …

They [Republicans] know that that is an issue that the president feels very strongly about. They are not going to do anything themselves on immigration for two reasons. Number one: they cannot find the kind of unanimity within their caucus, or their conference to do that. And number two: they believe that the president is so committed to this issue that he will, in fact, perform an executive order to get it done and that will be the peg upon which they will hang an impeachment resolution."
 

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