Posted on 07/18/2023 1:26:42 PM PDT by thegagline
House Republicans are debating whether to focus impeachment efforts on Attorney General Merrick Garland after Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) suggested an inquiry against him, taking some members by surprise after much of the GOP impeachment furor had been directed at other Biden officials.
In a year where the GOP has been most steadily focused on possible impeachments of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas or President Biden, McCarthy often has been the voice urging the conference to move patiently and deliberately.
But he has shown more vigor when eyeing Garland, an official leading an agency often derided by the GOP but a figure less frequently cited by the party’s members who are most keen on impeachment.> McCarthy first elevated the topic with a tweet late last month touting testimony of an IRS whistleblower who has alleged mismanagement of the investigation into Hunter Biden, saying it could serve as “a significant part of a larger impeachment inquiry.”
*** “I don’t know of a chargeable crime,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) told The Hill. Issa said it’s up to the president to remove those who aren’t following orders or properly carrying out their jobs, with Congress only stepping in if a president fails to remove those who have committed crimes.
“It’s very, very popular with people in the hinterlands,” Issa said when asked about members of the Freedom Caucus and others who have backed the rarely used move of impeaching a Cabinet official.
“But the reality is that if someone is faithfully executing the desires and the orders of the president of the United States, then they’re within the bounds of what Cabinet officers do,” he added. “If they’re not faithfully executing the request of the president, then we don’t have to impeach him because they serve at the pleasure of the president.”
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oh goodie the GOP is gonna have themselves a good long think about impeaching Garland..yeah they should do that, laughable pricks..they wont do anything
A citizens arrest, trial, and punishment would put their marxist push into the sewer.
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This is to burn up time and avoid having an Impeachment Inquiry on Joe Biden.
I believe McCarthy has made promises that he won’t impeach Joe - so he’s slowing down all the Committees and all the 3-4 week delays will get them into Election Season when they claim they must stop! We are bound by our fantastic Ethics - and no one wants to see an Impeachment in Election Season.
How much you want to Bet?
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Running out the Clock.
Simple
“But the reality is that if someone is faithfully executing the desires and the orders of the president of the United States, then they’re within the bounds of what Cabinet officers do,”
Not if the orders are unlawful.
Nay!… they’ll just send a strong worded letter to Garland. POS SOB’s yellow belly streak coward weasels! I have come to the conclusion that our gutless representatives at the hill are deathly afraid of the DCswamp demons …DOJ, FBI, and the CIA. They have been weaponized to be the most powerful UNELECTED department in our nation’s political history!
THEY ARE PURE EVIL....EVEN IF THEY ARE JEWS!
Maybe pull your head out of your overly cossetted backside and look.
The Democrats are fighting a war against the GOP, and so far all the Republicans do is complain about getting beat. And some of them don't even do that.
Kevin McCarthy distraction ploy.
Feckless Repukea debate while Rats try and have President Trump die in jail. If they don’t start acting like they are with the people a peaceful solution probably won’t be on the table
“But the reality is that if someone is faithfully executing the desires and the orders of the president of the United States, then they’re within the bounds of what Cabinet officers do,”
An interesting standard. The DOJ whould be independent but then “faithfully execute”? Do we put probes on Bidens skull to see what he wants? What BS, word games to flavor it in the direction they want. If cabinet officials are not doing the job they should do, impeach.
There was a hagiography for Sessions posted here yesterday. He deserves only contempt.
It’s not real. Republicans will do nothing but talk about doing something.
Squirrel
Fines, imprisonment or, at minimum, removal from his position is what is need to begin to save what remains of our Republic.
“There was a hagiography for Sessions posted here yesterday. He deserves only contempt.”
I don’t care about his bad breath! He’s a Piece of Crap!
Compromised
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