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.
Paging Captain Obvious...
Loser Traitor, McYertle.
HE is what is terribly wrong with this country.
Impeachment occurs in the House; conviction and ouster happens in the Senate.
Slo Joe will not be in he White House when this year ends.
Even democrats are seeing their utterly pathetic president is doomed. Mitch is right as for now, but things are going to get a lot worse for this demented fool.
And here we see the difference between actual Democrats and the Assistant Democrat party. One plays for keeps. The other plays tiddly-winks.
And sadly there are no good options here.
Impeach the sonofabitch!
I think swamp rat is a more apt description.
Pro tip: There isn't going to be one if the Republicans control Congress, either.
Over your dead body Mitch.
Unless he dies or otherwise becomes physically unable, he will.
There is only one purpose in McConnel making that statement at this point in time, instead of letting the course of events make it, or fail to make it all the way to impeachment.
What can McConnell’s purpose be? He, McConnell does not want to impeach Biden, so he is making his own push against it prematurely. He is not observing and predicting, he is laying down his own marker against impeachment.
because he’s a RINO
biden and crew shouldn’t be impeached...
they should be CHARGED with election fraud and TREASON
“Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said last week that he thought Biden should be impeached.”
So says the “conservative” GOP Senator who has supported every Biden appointment to the federal courts, including far left activists.
In asymmetrical warfare you find ways to attack a enemies weak points.
Keeping the talk going about 25th Amendment and Impeachment forces the enemy to respond and weakens the Biden Administration. That why the Democrats used it against Trump. They knew they were going to lose but they used it as another front to attack on.
We need people in the GOP-E to learn how to fight, even if they are going to lose, rather then thee habitual knee jerk pre-emtive surrenders.
It is a political form of the water drop torture.
Drip....drip....drip and eventually even the hardest stone fractures
Ye..Elaine CHAO and her family is high up in Chinese POWERs.
Strategery (sic) thoughts:
Impeachment would galvanize the democrat base.
“Those “eeeevil” republicans, ad nauseum, is all we’d hear. The Twitverse would be all a flutter.
Don’t expect self-awareness and critical thinking to compare and contrast with DJT impeachment.
On the other hand, see if there continues to be unforced errors. I suspect the public opinion of his probity, and worthiness will continue to sink. All of it’s own.
And without the red meat of fighting back an impeachment show to inflame their base.
Just my $0.02.
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