Rep. Jim Clyburn: If GOP Keeps The House, 'Obama Will Be Impeached'

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

ByAHA GARCIA Published AUGUST 11, 2014, 4:01 PM EDT

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) predicted on Monday that Republicans will attempt to impeach President Obama if they maintain control of the House this November.

Clyburn, the assistant Democratic leader, was responding on Twitter to someone who asked why Democrats weren't doing more to shut down the GOP's talk of impeachment.

LiberalPhenom @LiberalPhenom

@Clyburn Disappointed in lack of fire frm Ds in supporting POTUS. When do Ds stand up 2 GOP? Shut down all talk of impeachment? #AskClyburn

James E. Clyburn ✔ @Clyburn
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.@LiberalPhenom No way to shut down the talk, nor should there be, it's real and I predict if GOP maintain House, Obama will be impeached.
3:05 PM - 11 Aug 2014

Republicans recently voted to sue Obama for the executive actions he's taken. GOP leaders have repeatedly said they have no plans to impeach Obama, but recent polling has shown many Republican voters would welcome the move.

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[mikeysnot]

1. So Clyborn is

a Democrat from the white house now?

[Robbins]

2. Obama will be Impeached

There Is no way the republicans won't control the house come january.

[newfie11]

6. Can this happen if they don't take the senate?

What would be different from now if Dems still have the senate?

[HooptieWagon]

10. Even if Rs take the Senate...

... they still won't muster the 67 votes needed to remove Obama from office. So it would be just one more pointless temper-tantrum by the Rs.

[newfie11]

14. Very happy to hear that! Nt

[Blue Idaho]

23. The House impeaches the Senate convicts or acquits.

House passes articles of impeachment.

Senate holds trial and then votes to acquit or convict.


So yes - the House can (and will) impeach, the question is will the Senate convict...

[freshwest]

32. AFAIK, the impeaching (and the PR) is a House action.

The Senate only debates and votes to make it happen. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I recall reading about them trying to impeach Lincoln's successor; and watched the circus on Clinton. The HoR did their thing and the vote failed in the Senate. I'm too tired to look it up right now or think about it much. I'd like to know if I'm wrong on this.

[bigdarryl]

3. Old news

He said this a week ago

[SoapBox]

4. So what specifically and exactly are his crimes?

Because the activities (or lack there of) House Pukes and Baggers, are criminal.

[Pharaoh]

8. exactly!

I have yet to figure out what did he do that was an impeachable offense...........

And Why TF was Bush not impeached?

[beerandjesus]

16. Doesn't matter--and they've even said so

Lucky for them, the Constitution doesn't specify. So they can pretty much make up whatever the hell they want.

And it's easy to do that when you don't have a conscience, apparently.

[Cha]

21. Presidentin while being a Dem.. Certainly, President Obama

being 1/2 Black doesn't have anything to do with it.

[eggplant]

24. I believe he's guilty of Presidenting While Black. n/t

[madokie]

28. Presidenting while black

Only thing I can come up with.
I like my President just fine.

[rtracey]

5. And

And the Senate, if it goes GOP will still not have enough votes (2/3 majority) to convict. It will be a waste of taxpayer money, and if ever a GOP becomes president, and the house goes Democrat, there is the possibility of vice versa.... Although, the democrats tend to wimp out on things like that..... Bring on Grayson.....

[louis-t]

19. They only want the talking point.

They want to be able to point to Obama and say he was impeached. It's as simple as that.

[jwirr]

7. Sure but it does not appear to me that a lot of the people on DU are going to vote in November so

I guess that is what we want.

[Iamthetruth]

9. Sorry

Just don't see them doing it. They won't be as dumb as they were with Clinton, they have to know the American people have no interest in it.

[YarnAddict]

11. I agree with you on that . . . n/t

[beerandjesus]

17. Really?

Can you give ONE example from the last 10 years, of Republicans changing strategy on the grounds that the strategy didn't work?

[KinMd]

12. Even if repugblicans had 51 or 52 votes in sneate..

they might not get even a majority to vote to convict , must less 67. I could see Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski not going along.

[ffr]

13. GOTV in overwhelming numbers to overcome redistricting

is our best chance to take back the house. Voters need to get motivated in this off-year election. I'll be there trying to get them to the polls. You should too.

[beerandjesus]

15. Let's expand on that prediction

If Republicans keep the House, they will impeach Obama.

This will drive their approval ratings so deep into the ditch--as it did in the 90s--that Democrats will be poised for a huge sweep in 2016, as they were in 2000.

BUT.... HRC, who as already been anointed by many here on DU, will follow the Gore strategy of distancing herself from a relatively popular president (not to mention the base).

This, predictably, will inspire nobody, and Democrats will end up snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in 2016.

As a small consolation, the corporatist Democrats will convince a small portion of the electorate that it was actually the fault of Nader or some similar boogeyman, or "the radical left" which apparently consists of everyone to the left of Zell Miller.

And this isn't much of a prediction, really, since this is exactly how it played out last time the stars were aligned as they are today.


God, I'm getting cynical........

[DonCoquixote]

18. will all dues respect

Make it so! PLEASE DO THIS.

If the American people are stupid enough to give you the House and senate, the best thign to do would be to remind them why they are stupid, whcih an impeachment will do. It will also help the Democrats, as it will remind the centruists that Obama spent years trying to be nice to the GOP, only to get what Justice Thomas would call "the high-tech lynching of an uppity black." It would also remind Clinton that she had better not stray to far to the right, because they will have a noose out for her as well, no matter how many articles they print about her in the Huffington Post.

MAKE IT SO, MAKE OUR DAY!

[Hugabear]

20. They can impeach all they want.

They might be able to impeach, but there's no way in hell they'll be able to get enough votes in the Senate to convict and remove from office. Impeachment would likely backfire on them as well, demonstrating to everyone that they're just a bunch of whining crybabies who are upset they didn't get their way.

[Cha]

22. This is bringing in the buck$ for the Dems.. Be very careful what you start, goTeaP.

[24601]

25. Pure BS. They are going to keep the House (and likely will pick up the Senate). They will not

impeach President Obama.

If it was really going to happen in other than Fantasyland, the WH would lock down all talk of it.

Because they are pushing the idea, it's not even remotely in the cards.

Politics 101. Impeachment went a long way rehabilitating Bill Clinton.

I just expected Rep Clyburn to have a higher standard than to hype what he knows is untrue.

[muntrv]

26. Please proceed, repukes!

[jaysunb]

27. They know they can't oust him, but the stain

of impeachment will go down in history, but with the ever growing changes in the country's demographics, it will certainly taint those that do it as much as Obama.
LBJ correctly said that the VRA would lose the Democratic south for a generation and should the Republican House do the impeachment dance, they will lose their status as a major party.

[Chasstev365]

29. Where to Begin

Other than their unspoken hatred of having an African American as President of the USA , impeach him on what? Seriously after the Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rove crimes, they will with a straight face proceed with this? I'm sorry, how many times did Bush use a bogus signing statement and take unilateral executive action? The GOP blocks everything the president tries to do, complains that the President doesn't do anything, and now they want to impeachment him for using too much power????

There are some who hate President Obama and will support this no matter what, but many more will hate having their tax dollars wasted on a second BS attempt to impeach a Democratic President over non-charges while they struggle economically. What they are really saying is that having any Democrat in the White House is invalid. That is absurd and it smacks of pathetic children who can't ever lose a game. By the way; this will go along way with their minority and woman outreach program, don't you think?

[blkmusclmachine]

30. BRING. IT. ON. (mofo's)

[demwing]

31. Is this Clyburn's GOTV effort?

I don't think the House is stupid enough to raise the President's support so broadly...

Wait...

aw fuck, never mind...