Posted on 09/24/2026 10:41:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
After spending months harping on the nation’s affordability “crisis,” Democrats have recently let slip that their real goal, if they get a majority in Congress, will be to impeach as many Trump administration officials as time allows over the next two years.
They will market it as “holding the administration accountable,” but the goal is far more sinister – to purposefully cripple the administration, regardless of the danger it poses to the nation.
In the past few days, articles in the Atlantic and MS NOW – two eminently reliable mouthpieces of the Democratic Party – said the party is considering a raft of impeachments of Trump Cabinet officials, if not Donald Trump himself.
The latter, they point out, is politically difficult. No matter how much Trump haters would love to see him impeached for a third time, it almost certainly won’t lead to his conviction and removal, and could serve only to reenergize Republicans just before a presidential election. (Rep. Al Green, for one, doesn’t care, and has already introduced another impeachment resolution.)
But why not go after Cabinet officials? Among those already on the list are War Secretary Pete Hegseth (Republican Rep. Thomas Massie decided to help Democrats on his way out by filing articles of impeachment against Hegseth), Education Secretary Linda McMahon, and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The left has also been calling to impeach Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for more than a year.
In other words, Democrats are going to target any Cabinet official who has been effectively defying the left’s policy agenda. And they intend to weaponize impeachment to settle policy differences.
The thinking is that, at the very least, these impeachments will effectively stop work at those agencies. Or they will lead to the departures of these officials. (Democrats point to the fact that the mere threat of impeachment – which would have gone nowhere in the Republican-controlled House – pushed Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi out of their roles.)
But if Democrats gain control of the House, which looks likely, they can – and likely will – proceed full bore to start a raft of impeachment proceedings.
“Some Democrats are open to the idea, as they figure out how to signal to their base that they’re resisting Trump while not inspiring a voter backlash,” is how MS NOW put it.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says only that “We haven’t ruled anything out when it comes to all of the tools available to us to hold people accountable. And we haven’t ruled anything in.”
Only two Cabinet secretaries have been impeached in U.S. history. One was Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876 – after Democrats regained control of the House for the first time since the Civil War. The other was Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, who was (rightly) impeached by House Republicans in 2024 for dereliction of duty in leaving the border wide open while repeatedly lying to Congress that it was secure. Neither resulted in a conviction.
Sen. Peter Welch, a Vermont Democrat, is on record opposing using impeachments for Democrats to show how tough they are against Trump. “We should be focused on affordability, not impeachment,” he said.
But the pent-up desire among the radicals who control the Democratic Party to exact revenge on Trump and destroy his administration is so all-consuming that affordability will be the last thing on their minds.
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No one is surprised. The favor should be returned.
But But, I thought they were going to fix the AFFORDABILITY issues that are plaguing our country..wait, they dont give two sh*ts about lowering anything..and morons who are going to vote for them should know that the Dems are NOT going to do a damn thing about anything except trying to destroy this Administration because they are communist pieces of sh*t..notice Republicans NEVER do this because they are cowards
As long as they don’t mind when we do it to them.
Color me stunned!
Scraps of rotten red meat for their increasingly narrow group of radical supporters. Let them keep blustering about that through the election. Every day Americans have real problems to deal with.
I wonder if they might do after Vance and Rubio first. It’s easy to see the Rats doing exactly that.
“hold people accountable”
My version to do that isn’t paperwork...but we don’t have enough gallows.
All because there hasn’t been a single, solitary, perp walk for ANY the the libtard filth’s illegalities in two and a half years... In contrast, the libtards will have an unlimited number of impeachment and harrassing investigation lined up against every department in the current adminitsration on Day 1 of the Congressional takeover. Repuklican party is useless.
... cuz they really don’t know to govern without stealing boatloads of cash, votes, & freedom.
... cuz they really don’t know to govern without stealing boatloads of cash, votes, & freedom.
That's what the voters are doing, holding the party that created the "affordability" crisis with 24% cumulative inflation accountable.
-PJ
At some point, their TDS becomes comical and reflects only on their unseriousness as a political party.
Upon every impeachment, Trump should just post “Isn’t that cute.” Ignore it and go back to work saving America.
Modern dictatorships. King Barack I puts Hakim Jeffries as President in a coup.
Don’t tell the TDS crowd
who want it to happen 🤦
If the commies win, they will turn Washington, DC into Moscow West. Stupid people who do not understand what is coming are voting in the worst tyrants on the planet. My entire military career was spent defending against these thugs and murderers, and now Amerika is preparing to vote them into power. Jesus said from the Cross, LORD, forgive them, for they know not what they do. Pretty much sums up the unwashed, illiterate, boneheads of the communist, liberal, homo-trans muslim murderers, idiot People Socialist Dimocratic Party of Moscow West.
“ (Democrats point to the fact that the mere threat of impeachment – which would have gone nowhere in the Republican-controlled House – pushed Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi out of their roles.)”
Huh? I follow the news as compulsively as anyone here, and that’s the first time I heard that
The President will ignore them. Just like Clinton did when the GOP tried to impeach him.
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