The Nation has an article out today about GOP calls to impeach Hillary Clinton once she becomes President. The article singles out one particular U.S. Senator in a tough, tight re-election bid:
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, locked in a tight reelection race with Democrat Russ Feingold, does not just chirp about campaigning with Trump as “the Ronald and the Donald.” Johnson amplifies Trump talk. While the Republican presidential nominee predicts a “constitutional crisis” if he does not win, the senator from Wisconsin promises to stir that crisis up. If Trump is not the choice of the people, Johnson says that he is open to overturning the results by impeaching Hillary Clinton.
A millionaire Ayn Rand acolyte who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Johnson spoke at some length last week about his theory that Clinton committed impeachable offenses when she used a private e-mail server. And he left no doubt about his intentions. “I’m not a lawyer, but this is clearly written,” he claimed, after citing federal statutes in a rant about the Democratic nominee for president. “I would say yes, high crime or misdemeanor,” said Johnson. “I believe she is in violation of both laws.”
Johnson, whose vitriolic comments often go to extremes that even Trump avoids, will never be accused of being a heavy lifter in the Senate. But he wants to serve for six more years, and Ryan and McConnell are working hard to help him do that. If they succeed in keeping Johnson and others like him in chambers controlled by Republican majorities, Congress will become dramatically more obstructionist than it was during the Obama years.
Even President Obama took note of Johnson’s obstruction-on-steroids politics. “Right now, because a lot of them think that Trump will lose, they’re already promising even more unprecedented dysfunction in Washington, which is pretty hard to do,” Obama said while campaigning in North Carolina Wednesday. “You’ve got some Republicans in Congress who are already suggesting they will impeach Hillary. She hasn’t even been elected yet. And it doesn’t matter what evidence they just—they’ll find something. That’s what they’re saying already.”
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