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.
No he might not be removed from office. But he will die in office.
Stroke will do it.
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
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You read my mind.
I want him fed slowly into a wood chipper, feet first. Klamydia Harris will cackle hysterically, until it's her turn. Pelousy will try to look superior, until SHE is grabbed and fed through as well. Save the gallows for Quicken, Austin, and Milley, and Gitmo for the Squat.
We could just reenact the movie Seven...
I'd love to see Trump as speaker, where he could ratchet up the new pelosi demand for messages from certain House republicans. A republican speaker should immediately require ALL emails and messages from Pelosi, Schiff, Swallowswell, Raskin, all the squad and Nadler, AND their family members to start. A review of ALL correspondence among them regarding former impeachments, but more importantly to ascertain if investment advice was communicated to family members who then made insider investments.
Folks don’t seem to understand the US Constitution. We would need 67 MAGA Senators. 14 Democratic seats are up in 2022 (20 Republican ).
I think it’s more about dirtying up the politicians like they did with Trump. Dems are continuously allowed to bleat how their administrations are completely scandal free and Trump was impeached twice! For president, impeachment is a political tool.
McConnell will be removed, or retire from office, then Biden will be impeached. All obstacles to peace and justice should become past tense now, the line has been crossed.
Yeah, he’s a real fighter, that McConnell. 🙄
Why should he fight? He’s on Biden’s side.
You're saying that since it's not realistic, it shouldn't be tried. Why shouldn't Joe's dirty laundry be aired in public, whether it results in an impeachment or not? The Democrats sure as hell did.
“No president has been formally found guilty at the end of a Senate trial.”
Maybe it wouldn’t be effective but I doubt turtle has the spine for it anyway. And just because something is unprecedented doesn’t mean it’s not doable. We’ve witnessed unprecedented political events every month for a year or more.
No, He is a somewhat willing participant in the #JihadJunta.
I agree.
Sadly the rest of us are left with poor leadership in the
Senate.
Did you mean to say “fights for”?
I believe he fights against them at times.
-PJ
“Why shouldn’t Joe’s dirty laundry be aired in public, whether it results in an impeachment or not? The Democrats sure as hell did.”
It should be aired in public as often and as loudly as possible. I believe I said that.
My point was to try and bring an impeachment which will fail in the House the Libs will claim Biden “innocent” of all charges and point to the failed attempt at impeachment as proof.
Many of the uninformed will buy into that bs. Better to just keep pounding away at these failures daily then to let them be marginalized by a failed impeachment attempt.
so you suggest impeachment of zhao biden so heels up harris can become president?
Because that's worked so well in the past, right?
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