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McConnell: Biden 'is not going to be removed from office'
The Hill ^ | 09/01/21 01:58 | BY JORDAIN CARNEY

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.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky; War on Terror
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1 posted on 09/01/2021 11:08:16 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Well, McConnell is an ahole but he happens to be right.


2 posted on 09/01/2021 11:10:05 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: RandFan

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This post sanitized for your protection.


3 posted on 09/01/2021 11:10:29 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (On the backs of Joseph Stolen and future Lessident Harris, the Democrat party should evaporate.)
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To: RandFan

Do these impeach-and-remove fantasies ever stop? It’s not going to happen. It’s never happened in U.S. history.


4 posted on 09/01/2021 11:11:08 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: RandFan

So who here thinks sleepy Joe is up for a second round with Trump in 2024?


5 posted on 09/01/2021 11:11:12 AM PDT by packagingguy (Kit)
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To: billyboy15

He should have said:

“There isn’t going to be an impeachment as long as Democrats control Congress.”


6 posted on 09/01/2021 11:11:24 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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7 posted on 09/01/2021 11:11:24 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: RandFan

Mitch McConnell is a big part of the problem. He’s nothing but an establishment insider.


8 posted on 09/01/2021 11:11:37 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: RandFan

WEAK SISTER, MCCONNELL..he has NO IDEA HOW To fight.


9 posted on 09/01/2021 11:11:52 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: RandFan

I hope the GOP Senate conference has the votes to elect a new leader, these guy is worthless.


10 posted on 09/01/2021 11:12:06 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: RandFan

Oh come on- Trust The Plan!
Q is right, the pillow guy is right- the election will be overturned and Trump will be reinstatedT Biden and Harris will be arrested! Oh ye of little faith!


11 posted on 09/01/2021 11:12:14 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (NUKE MECCA. ABOLISH THE DEA, IRS, AND ATF)
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To: Trump20162020

I don’t want him impeached. I want a stroke on live tv where his head bounces on a marble floor.


12 posted on 09/01/2021 11:12:15 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: RandFan

Is Mitch the Bitch being BLACKMAILED????


13 posted on 09/01/2021 11:12:30 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: RandFan

The answer to midterms not to put Mitch McConnell back in charge. He’s the SOB who got us here in the first place.


14 posted on 09/01/2021 11:12:51 AM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: RandFan

Turtle, It’s fine to say that behind closed doors but the point is to get Democrats to YOUR SIDE - not tacitly support Biden’s Treason!

This is AMERICA and the government follows the CONSTITUTION - not the DNC.

DOOFUS.


15 posted on 09/01/2021 11:12:58 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: RandFan

Someday people are going to realize McConnell was always a worse traitor
than Biden. (With Graham not for behind.)


16 posted on 09/01/2021 11:13:19 AM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG.)
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To: RandFan
My dream is Trump runs for the House in his district, is elected. Is nominated for Speaker, elected, and leads the impeachment of Biden and then Harris....and viola.....POTUS returns AND can still run again for the office.

But alas....as long as the Turtle is there, impeachment would never happen.

17 posted on 09/01/2021 11:13:42 AM PDT by Wizdum (Tyranny always ends badly for the tyrannical. Ask Ceaușescu, Gaddafi or Saddam.)
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pointing to next year's midterm election as a potential check on the administration.

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BS...Repukes won't check anything. The only thing they care about is their check books.

18 posted on 09/01/2021 11:14:10 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: RandFan

And the military is not in charge, Trump is not coming back, and Santa is make believe. Time to move on and accept things will never be the same.


19 posted on 09/01/2021 11:14:14 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Trump20162020

Remember when conservatives used to be grounded in reality?
I swear the whiners here would have tried to reverse 1960 and/or delegitimize JFK had some of them been around then. The same ding-dong retards who still can’t get it through their heads that once the EC sends the electors it’s over for the next 4 years.


20 posted on 09/01/2021 11:14:30 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (NUKE MECCA. ABOLISH THE DEA, IRS, AND ATF)
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