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.
WHERE is the story about Bidens PHONE CALL to Ghani about LYING to say that the Afghan army was in CHARGE???? I think it was in the WSJ!
TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED for NOTHING And Biden committed a CRIME,,,
Both Gropy Dopy Joe and McDorkell should be removed from office.
Recommendations on ensuing treatment left to your imagination.
Not by political means.
Sad but TRUE. And I guess he doesn’t want his fellow CHINESE OWNED BUDEN TO BE EXPOSED. !!
McConnell hasn’t got 0.000000000001% of an ounce of fight
left in him.
He’s like the family pet. A Democrat walks into the room
with him, he wags his tail, and is on his back looking for
a belly rub in under five seconds.
A man with any vitality at all, would be talking about
getting a few Democrats to cross the isle for the rescue
of the nation. Some of them come from more Conservative
districts. Remind them they’re up for re-election.
No, it’s 08:30 in the morning, time for his first of five
naps in the day.
He is married to a Chinese womanIIRC
Just another example of not trying.
Time to move on and accept things will never be the same.
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The demographics, culture, morality and ethical standards have all changed dramatically in recent decades. When the fundamental nature of a country changes to that degree it will never return to any semblance of what it once was.
I no longer recognize the country I grew up in. Its an altogether difference place now.
The Traitor speaks
McConnell works for China, too.
When they talk about the “Uniparty” they are really talking about the RINOs and Commucrats having merged with the CCP.
release the kraken.
Well we can at least try to do something, you worthless POS.
So who here thinks sleepy Joe is up for a second round with Trump in 2024?
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Nope. I think he’ll be either dead or the equivalent of a mental vegetable. Having seen my uncle in the shape Bloody Biden is in now, at some point his brain will lose the ability to run his bodily functions & it will be curtains. Sadly, whenever he departs this earth for warmer climes, he’ll get the full pomp/circumstance of a presidential funeral despite being illegitimate, among other things like trying to destroy the country.
No, it’s 08:30 in the morning, time for his first of five
naps in the day.
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Republican voters keep people like him in office. At some point they have to look in the mirror. Just saying.
McConnell sucks even when he’s right.
Lol!
He doesn’t need to be blackmailed. Nothing that is happening goes against his core principles, or whatever passes for his core principles.
Neither was Trump.
Transcript that came out says biden knew the place was falling apart and lied to us about it. He knew. If that was Trump he would already be impeached.
We shall see.
I think the resolution of this, is not in McConnell’s hands.
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