Posted on 09/01/2021 11:08:16 AM PDT by RandFan
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Wednesday shot down calls from within his own party to try to impeach President Biden, pointing to next year's midterm election as a potential check on the administration.
"Well, look, the president is not going to be removed from office. There's a Democratic House, a narrowly Democratic Senate. That's not going to happen," McConnell said at an event in Kentucky, asked if Biden's handling of the drawdown in Afghanistan merits impeachment and if he would support it.
"There isn't going to be an impeachment," he added.
McConnell's comments come as some Republicans in the House and Senate call for Biden's impeachment or for him to resign or be involuntarily removed from office over the botched Afghanistan exit.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said last week that he thought Biden should be impeached. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who chairs the Senate GOP campaign arm, questioned if it was time to invoke the 25th Amendment, which allows the majority of the Cabinet or a body appointed by the Congress to remove a president.
Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) both called for Biden to resign and House conservatives, including some of former President Trump's biggest allies, have called for Biden to be impeached.
McConnell's comments aren't the first time he's pushed back on impeachment calls. Asked late last month if he agreed with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who filed three impeachment articles, that Biden should be impeached, McConnell told a Kentucky TV station: "No."
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has also stopped short of embracing impeachment calls, while predicting that a GOP-controlled House would probe Biden's Afghanistan exit and that there would be a "day of reckoning."
After Democrats twice impeached Trump, first in 2020 for abuse of power in his dealings with Ukraine and in 2021 for inciting an insurrection after a mob of his supporters breached the Capitol, GOP strategists have predicted that Biden is likely to face impeachment calls if Republicans take back the House next year.
If a GOP-controlled House were to impeach Biden, it could eat up precious floor time in the Senate where trials typically take weeks and grind all other business to a halt. No president has been formally found guilty at the end of a Senate trial.
McConnell, instead of looking ahead to 2023, pointed to the midterm elections, where Republicans are feeling increasingly bullish about the chances of winning back the House or Senate, as an opportunity to hold Biden accountable.
"The report card you get is every two years," McConnell said. "I think the way these behaviors get adjusted in this country is at the ballot box."
To win back the House, Republicans need to pick up a handful of seats and need a net gain of just one seat to flip the Senate.
"I do think we're likely to see a typical kind of midterm reaction to a new administration... Typically there is some buyer's remorse," he said.
Add Romney.
Lindsey knows he can vote to confirm those awful judges because his constituents don’t even know he has done so.
Now, Pelosi would not let an impeachment vote come to the floor.
You can either fight against all odds, or roll over and give in to the left. The GOP consistently caves to the left, no matter what. Even with GOP majorities, they still cave. I hope the GOP dies in 2022. Self induced. Screw them.
Almost certainly a “Moderate” Republican would be chosen as the Senate leader. Only about a third or even less of the Republican senators are conservatives.
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But we are not doing that anymore.
Our elected officials have been installed in office by massive fraud. Voting does not really matter. The Democrats have conclusively shown that cheating is what wins "elections". And they are better at cheating than anybody else.
The Democrats will win the mid-terms regardless of what happens to the country. Their "margin-of-fraud" will always be more than whatever legitimate votes the Republicans can muster.
McConnell is only trying to sound reasonable to quiet the mobs. The Democrats might let him and the other Republican grifters walk away with some retirement loot. But they won't really need Republicans hanging around after the mid-terms and claiming part of the swag. The show can go on without them.
The time for being “reasonable” is quickly coming to an end.
“And all the “He needs to go!” bluster said by politicians is not getting on the MSM news”
The MSM doesn’t have a fraction of the power it had before Trump. There are simply too many ways for the news to be spread.
Don’t you pre-emtive surrender monkeys in the GOP-E ever get tired of wavering the white flag?
This right here is why the GOP are a minority party. The GOP-E give their base nothing at all to support because they never fight for anything.
Hint GOP-E This strategy of running on “At least we not as bad as the Democrats’” is not going to win anything
No he's not. The right answer is that we elect the right number in the House and the Senate in 2022.
Yup, something like that.
That whole argument is complete nonsense
Impeachment is in the US Constitution exactly for situations like this. People arguing “He won an election so we cannot impeach” are political cowards looking for an excuse to justify their pre-emptive surrender
Well, Mitch. I guess you and the rest of your UniParty buddies will see to it that he doesn’t, huh?
FU McConnell
Biden is the worst thing to ever happen to this nation. He is destroying it bit by bit. You panty waist GOP members are as bad.
This is the simple truth at the moment. Need majority to vote for it in house. That MIGHT happen…
However 67 in Senate will not
Voilà
Shelby has announced retirement.
Wow! What negotiating skills!! Lmao.
Guess Trump didn’t rub off on him at all.
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