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.
Turtles gotta turtle.
Now he’s playing Eeyores part as the fatalist downer.
Hey, Mitch... why not be on our side for a change? Because, Mitchie, I can tell you that the asses you’ve been kissing are attached to people who hate you.
The unsaid part: "As long as I have any say in the matter..."
Mitch, just shut up.
Not before the midterms. SanFranNan will see to that. Afterwards will be a different story.
Tell that to Kamala and the cabinet. I’m sure they’re already talking.
No need to impeach Biden. Just leave him unattended and he’ll wander away all on his own.
Mitch is perhaps the BIGGEST part of the problem. Not only did he succesfully block Trump from getting any of the agenda that the GOP ran on for 25 years, he has systematically used his PAC to fund RINO candidates whose only purpose is to block actual conservatives from winning elections for the GOP. He is the ultimate uniparty asset: a pretend conservative who makes you think the GOP is a real opposition party but who works tirelessly behind the scenes to oppose only the conservative base.
yep, wave the white flag before anything is done. GOP to the rescue yet again. F’ing losers. Why not put the pressure on them Mitch??, oh forget it, we know why
There’s absolutely no need to blackmail Mitch. He’s perfectly willing to do and say what his Chinese handlers tell him to.
“I hope the GOP Senate conference has the votes to elect a new leader...”
Coming from where? To be a difference there has to be someone that shows they are not part of the problem by going out against the problems and taking action. These guy don’t sit on their hands, they sit on their heads.
wy69
I hope the GOP Senate conference has the votes to elect a new leader, these guy is worthless.
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He would just be replaced by another clueless loser. The party as a whole is infested with weak and unprincipled people. Its worthless.
Then maybe we should concentrate on removing McConnell from office.
Biden will go when his handlers tell him to.
Not what he was saying about Trump
We don’t have to like it, but he’s right.
He’s right unless the Dems want him gone.
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