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.
That being said, dont have a problem with impeaching at all. Start with some officials. But still have to work at fixing this stuff first.
Shoots holes all in your plans.
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I’m game. Explain it to me. I never saw a connection between a Presidential Veto and a Senate Vote in an Impeachment.
As to my plans. I think bills can die in either House or Senate and so Congress does have financial control. Are there things a GOP House would pass that would be vetoed? Of course. You need to wheel and deal. That’s just politics.
Will they? Who knows? You may be right.
Knowing Republican’s timidity, in the long run The GOP will lose every time.
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Overriding a presidential veto requires a two-thirds majority in both the House and the Senate, as specified in Article 1, Section 7.
Biden said today, he’ll Veto everything the GOP tries to do.
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‘The Young Guns’: Ten Years Later
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-young-guns-ten-years-later/
“By self-acclamation, Cantor was “the leader,” Ryan was “the thinker” and McCarthy was “the strategist.” McCarthy was quietly derided as the weak link...”
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My point, the things you said to focus on have the same hurdle as Impeachment.
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I used to agree with that, but I am beginning to wonder if its time to impeach any Democrat for anything until the act has become utterly meaningless and trivial, in order to prevent the left from using it as a tool in 25.
Your payback strategy is based on the Payback is a Bitch Principle. I take it you think that would convince the Dems to “never do that again”.
You might be right. But I don’t think so. I would expect future GOP Presidents to be impeached by any future Dem controlled House as matter of course. They would be more motivated to do so than even the first time with Trump.
The people will tire of it. It will affect their vote. It maybe already has.
Not to dismiss the Joe Biden and Son Inc. crime family as a suitable target for impeachment. You could justify it but it would be a total waste of time.
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Precisely.
If they fought in the first Impeachment, there would’ve been no second Impeachment and no Special Committee.
Notice, Republicans have been pretty much hands off with declarations from that Committee.
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1. The Republicans are not going to be cutting any taxes or regulations without the President.
2. They might be able to deal with the 87k IRS agents, but the Democrats will hold up any bill, shut down the government and the media will hold the Republicans accountable for it and they’ll cave.
3. If nothing else, an impeachment of Mayorkas will expose everything he’s done, for all the world to see. Will he be convicted in the Senate? No. But it just might be enough to have the admin tell him to resign. Maybe.
And build the wall. And get the current immigration laws enforced.
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Biden Vetoes
Then 66% of the House and Senate is required to overcome a Presidential Veto.
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True.
Yup!
McCarthy is playing a game which throws the Dems off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind his actions. If they have no clue of what he is up to, they cannot prepare a defense.
Vetos what?
Constitutional amendments proposed by Congress do not require a Presidential signature. They go straight to the states for ratification.
-PJ
My advice. Go scorched earth. there’s nothing left to lose.
Leftists are totalitarian bullies. The only way to stop a bully from harassing you and others is to punch them in the face. Hard.
Unfortunately, our leaders are McConnell and McCarthy. They’re too busy attacking Trump and conservatives.
Then the GOP must do what the Democrats do... load up "must pass" spending bills with their "please the base" laws and dare Biden to veto it and cause a government shutdown.
President Trump was forced to sign a Democrat bill that contained huge spending increases because it was tied to necessary military spending.
Trump signed it, and now the Democrats are campaigning saying that President Trump spent more money than any other President, even though they forced him into it.
-PJ
McCarthy doesn’t want to scare away votes by sounding radical. Too thin rooster. He has to go. I want revenge.
McCarthy: You can commit treason, sell out your country, try to start a nuclear war, destroy the economy by blocking oil and gas pipelines and exploration and take bribes from everyone plus be a pedophile and we will not impeach Biden....
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