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The White House blasted Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) Tuesday move to direct House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden, calling it “extreme politics” of the worst kind. “House Republicans have been investigating the President for 9 months, and they’ve turned up no evidence of wrongdoing,” Ian Sams, White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, said on X. “His own GOP members have said so. He vowed to hold a vote to open impeachment, now he flip flopped because he doesn’t have support,” Sams said, referring to McCarthy. “Extreme politics at its worst.” McCarthy said that the...

Cheney had been criticized for crossing party lines and voting in favor of Trump's second impeachment House Republicans voted on Wednesday night that Rep. Liz Cheney should keep her post in House GOP leadership after she recently supported the impeachment of former US President Donald Trump...

Friday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) sounded off on the House sending over the article of impeachment citing President Donald Trump with inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month. Blumenthal said on “CNN Newsroom” that the evidence of Trump inciting the riot is “pretty open and shut” given his speech and tweets leading up to and following the chaos that ultimately left five dead and others injured. With House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) set to send over the article of impeachment on Monday, Blumenthal said the trial “can happen in days, not weeks.”

1. Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington On Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., came out in favor of impeaching President Trump. (House Television via AP, File) 2. Rep. John Katko of New York State level Republican parties are blasting GOP members such as Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., for voting in favor of impeaching President Trump on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla / AP Photo) 3. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington On Tuesday, Jan. 12 Herrera Beutler came out in favor of impeaching President Trump over unrest at the Capitol. (House Television via AP) 4. Rep. Adam...

Sen. Joe Manchin is denouncing the House Democrat-led effort to impeach President Trump in the days before he leaves office, calling it “so ill-advised.” Speaking to Fox News’ “Special Report” Monday evening, Manchin (D-W.Va.) made the comments after being asked if he saw any scenario in which the Senate, still currently in GOP control, would try and convict the outgoing president in his final days.

... found this movie wrenching... Now dead from a heart attack at age 44, Richard Jewell was a simple, honest, kind and hard-working man. The kind of American nobody notices, but each of us counts on. And the System all but destroyed him. Director Clint Eastwood and an excellent cast make his (literal) tragedy come to life. When the FBI tricked him into falsely incriminating himself, I couldn’t help but think of General Flynn. When it raided Jewell’s home and confiscated his weeping mother’s panties, I remembered the dawn SWAT raid on Paul Manafort’s home. And the spies, spooks, and...

Wednesday morning on The View, Whoopi Goldberg was out and Chris Christie was in. “Did you like that applause? All that adoration?” Joy Behar asked the former New Jersey governor after introducing him. “It beats booing, you know,” he replied. “That’s good. I’ll take it.” Abby Huntsman warned that it was “just the beginning of the show,” and she was right to be concerned because things got heated very fast when Behar asked Christie to weigh in on the impeachment of his one-time political ally Donald Trump.

Among other not-so-flattering distinctions, Hillary Clinton is the queen of epic self awareness fails and today was no exception. As Red State’s Streiff wrote earlier, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced this morning that she was going to proceed with asking House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler and other committee chairs to begin drafting articles of impeachment against President Trump. Predictably, the Usual Suspects™ lined up to fawn over and praise Pelosi’s move, including Clinton – who can never resist the opportunity to take swipes at the man she couldn’t defeat in 2016. The twice-failed presidential candidate took to the Twitter...

Impeachment isn’t really a solution to America’s woes under President Obama, as Vice President Joe Biden and Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett are waiting in the shadows, according to a prominent critic of Washington. No one really wants to consider a revolution, either. So what is the nation to do to save itself from the “tyrannical centralized rule” developing under Obama? A vote of no confidence, according to the founder of Stand Up America, an organization that provides education resources for leaders and activists based on the values of the Founding Fathers. “Clearly America has lost confidence and no longer trusts...

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Call it the un-impeachment hearing. The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Friday it insisted was not about removing President Bush from office. But critics of Bush's policies couldn't pass up the chance to charge the president with a long list of impeachable "high crimes and misdemeanors." Leading the way was Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, the former Democratic presidential candidate who has brought repeated impeachment resolutions on the House floor against Bush and Vice President Cheney. Kucinich got a rock star welcome of whistles, hoots and clapping as he walked into the hearing room, holding hands...

Five years to the day that President Bush appointed him press secretary, Scott McClellan testified at a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee to tell what he knew about the Bush administration's efforts to go to war in Iraq and about the leaking of the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to the news media - all of which he revealed in his recently published book. However, what this hearing actually revealed were two things unintended by the committee's chairman, John Conyers (D-Mich.). First, it revealed more about what Mr. McClellan does not know than what he does know. Mr....

Sounding like an impeachment obsessed left-wing blogger Jack Cafferty asked on CNN.com "Why won’t Congress consider impeaching Pres. Bush?" Cafferty is not the only cable news personality talking about impeachment. On Tuesday's episode of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann, " the host theorized that perhaps the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton were in some way done to immunize George W. Bush. Here's a partial transcript:

House Speaker Michael Madigan is circulating a memo to legislative candidates spelling out how they can discuss whether Gov. Rod Blagojevich should be impeached - with talking points that compare corruption under the governor to a tumor that must be removed. The 14-page rundown of Blagojevich's alleged "misdeeds and malfeasance" is sure to deepen the feud between the two Democrats and lend substance to talk of impeachment. A memo sent to some House Democratic candidates, obtained Tuesday by the Associated Press, offers detailed talking points on the merits of impeachment. "One thing we learned from the (imprisoned former Republican Gov.)...

With less than two weeks to go until the kickoff of the Presidential nominating contests in Iowa, now seems to be a good time to raise an issue that has for the most part, been permitted to slip under the radar of our mainstream media. I would not even dare venturing a guess as to why this is so, but it's a nagging issue for me as an American citizen, and I would definitely appreciate an answer to this quite relevant, perhaps even crucial, question for Mrs. Clinton. Exactly, precisely, specifically, down-to-a-t, what would define your husband's access and duties...

N A T I O N How Dean Is Winning The Web The Democrat's ability to win fans and raise cash online has taken his party by surprise By CHRIS TAYLOR/SAN RAFAEL Monday, Jul. 14, 2003 Howard Dean is hardly what you would call a high-tech guru. The former Vermont Governor, whose trademark look is a blue shirt with rolled-up sleeves, is a mostly gadget-free zone. He does not carry a BlackBerry email pager or tablet PC (he leaves those to his aides). And don't expect to find Dean, 54, surfing the Web for hours at home. "I kind of...

Flipping through channels at lunch and ran accross Leon Harris interviewing McCain. Harris proposed that if Bush has lied to get us to attack Iraq it would be worse than either Iran-Contra or Watergate in his opinion. Funny, he neglected to mention Viet Nam where that was actually the case.

Christopher Hitchens           I have written a long review of Sidney Blumenthal’s book, “The Clinton Wars”, which will appear in the July issue of the Atlantic Monthly. It is a political review, and if you care enough you will just have to wait for it. I am not willing, and nor was I commissioned, to burden the readers of the Atlantic with a detailed rebuttal of everything in the book that concerns me personally. Even a brief accusation or suggestion against oneself, when made in print, often necessitates a long reply. And Blumenthal’s book is a protracted mood-swing between...