Posted on 10/24/2022 7:51:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
House Republicans have for months threatened to impeach Joe Biden and equally disastrous members of his administration for their intentional attempts to destroy America if — which is now pretty much when — the GOP retakes control of the House in the midterms, now just two weeks away.
Apparently, those threats weren’t serious. At least not in Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s case. McCarthy last Wednesday downplayed talk of impeaching Biden or officials of the disastrous administration if the GOP regains control.
Just one problem. Republican lawmakers have introduced more than a dozen impeachment resolutions targeting Biden, Kamala Harris, and controversial Cabinet members, including Attorney General Merrick Garland, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
As reported by the Washington Post, McCarthy told Punchbowl News: “I think the country doesn’t like impeachment used for political purposes at all,” and,
You watch what the Democrats. They all came out and said they would impeach before Trump was ever sworn in. There wasn’t a purpose for it. If you spent all that time arguing against using impeachment for political purposes, you gotta be able to sustain exactly what you said.
Even worse, when he was asked if anyone in the Biden administration has risen to a level that would prompt him to consider impeachment proceedings, McCarthy said: “I don’t see it before me right now.”
Wait. So stage 4 TDS-afflicted Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats impeached Donald Trump — twice — and McCarthy uses that as an excuse not to impeach Biden and any number of administration officials, beginning with Merrick Garland and Alejandro Mayorkas?
Just three weeks ago, Sens. Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz put Garland and Mayorkas on notice with a blistering “grounds for impeachment” letter. And Biden? His impeachment should be a foregone conclusion if the Republicans retake the House.
Speaking of the dozen impeachment resolutions, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote five of those articles of impeachment, including for “dereliction of duty in Afghanistan,” “causing a national security crisis on our Southern border,” and the administration’s extension of the eviction moratorium during the COVID pandemic.
None of Greene’s impeachment resolutions have advanced. But after what McCarthy just said, it wouldn’t seem to matter if they had.
As far as McCarthy’s “political purposes” reasoning, would he consider the impeachment of Biden for his Afghanistan debacle, including intentionally abandoning a still unknown number of American civilians behind Taliban lines, to be a “political” impeachment? Would Biden intentionally allowing more than two million illegal aliens and untold tons of shipments of deadly fentanyl to stream across the southern border be politically-motivated impeachment?
As I said at the top, Kevin McCarthy has already played his “no impeachment” card, and midterms haven’t even happened.
As noted by WaPo, Texas Senator Ted Cruz suggested during a January episode of his podcast that Republicans would impeach Biden “whether it’s justified or not.”
That’s not how impeachment is meant to work, but I think the Democrats crossed that line. I think there’ll be enormous pressure on a Republican House to begin impeachment proceedings.
Look, I love me some Cruz, but c’mon, Ted.
If the impeachment of Joe Biden isn’t beyond justifiable by now, what would it take to push the most inept president in history over the top? And Merrick Garland, of Mar-a-Lago raid “fame,” or Alejandro Mayorkas for his disastrous mismanagement of the U.S.-Mexico border; while he continues to lie that the border is “secure”? Ted, dude, again — c’mon.
As for McCarthy, the salient question is whether he will become Speaker if the Republicans retake the House in November. Trump loyalists favor Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz or Ohio’s Jim Jordan, both of whom remain card-carrying Trump loyalists. Other possibilities include Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise and New York’s Elise Stefanik. Regardless of who might emerge to challenge McCarthy, it’s likely to be pay-per-view-quality stuff to watch.
All of that said, while the much-ballyhooed “Red Wave” is far from certain, I expect the Repubs to pry the Speaker’s gavel from Nancy Pelosi’s bony death grip. Then there’s the Senate, which could be a toss-up, and finally, the biggest prize of all in 2024, which should pretty much be a sure thing — unless Republican voters manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with a boneheaded move.
Meanwhile, cluelessly destructive Joe Biden must be stopped.
McCarthy and McConnell have to GO!!!!!
That being said, who knows?...Plus, look who is on deck.
Americans don’t like impeachment for political purposes but you know what they hate more. Double standards and a two tiered justice system!
Who says McCarthy will be the Speaker when the new session begins?
VP Harris is Biden’s insurance policy. Nobody wants her as president.
Merrick Garland is first on the list to be impeached.
Why would we impeach imbecile Biden? To get to Kamala?
From Senate.gov:
“The Constitution requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate to convict, and the penalty for an impeached official upon conviction is removal from office.”
So any impeachment activity by the House is not intended to remove anyone from office. Getting a 2/3 majority vote to convict has the same probability as the Lakers winning the Super Bowl. (Freeper sports fans will get the joke).
So the whole exercise by either side is just Congressional PR. I really think it would be a mistake to make this a normal way business is done when the minority party has control of the House.
Let go. Get back to work cutting taxes, rules and regulations and defunding the bill they are going to see from the IRS for 87,000 new employees.
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“Why would we impeach imbecile Biden? To get to Kamala?”
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Plus, it’s time to stop the slap-fighting, and be the adults in the room. What purpose would an impeachment that didn’t result in removal serve?
Somewhere in Bakersfield, an insurance
office is missing a salesman. Go home and stay home, Kevin!
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You miss the big picture.
There is no s no resistance to the Biden Admin, and the Biden agenda.
They joined to vote in his nominations, then joined in on the Spending orgy.
One side fights, both sides support Swamp rule.
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GOP = Neo French Surrender Monkey Party
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Did you look up what it takes to overcome a Presidential Veto?
Shoots holes all in your plans.
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They need to be banned from leadership!
McCarthy thinks he has the speakers job all wrapped up. He could be counting his chickens before they hatch. My choice would be Jim Jordan for speaker.
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