Buckle up, America. The move to impeach Joe Biden is officially a go!
Politics :
Last week, Republicans in the US House of Representatives formally and unanimously authorized the impeachment of President Joe Biden. Their decision was due to Mr. Biden’s blatant acts of high crimes and misdemeanors, including… um…, ________________ (fill in the blank).
The truth is that Mr. Biden has not engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors — and the only reason Republicans decided to impeach Joe Biden is because Donald Trump ordered them to do it out of revenge.
Trump was impeached twice by a Democratically-controlled House and Senate. So, he has now ordered the same punishment for Mr. Biden even though there’s zero proof of any wrongdoing by the current president.
News of the decision to impeach Joe Biden has left lawmakers and political watchers — particularly Republican ones — scratching their heads in disbelief.
GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa admitted there is no evidence, at least yet, that “the president is guilty of anything” that would warrant an impeachment.
“All I can say is there’s some indication of maybe some compromise with China particularly, but I have no evidence of it. I’m going to just follow the facts where they are, and the facts haven’t taken me to that point where I can say that the president is guilty of anything” he added.
In a surprise rebuke of the decision to impeach Joe Biden, Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy called the Republican rollout “botched” and riddled with mistakes.
Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett told Sean Hannity that he “advised against” using impeachment as a political weapon against Mr. Biden because he believes it will eventually backfire.
Fox News father and son duo Steve Doocy and Peter Doocy reminded viewers that although Republicans have been investigating President Biden for more than a year, they’ve still come up with no evidence to impeach him.
“The House Oversight Committee has been at this for years,” the younger Doocy said Friday, “and they have so far not been able to provide any concrete evidence that Joe Biden personally profited from his son Hunter’s overseas business.”
On Monday, Steve Doocy told the Fox & Friends audience that “at this point…[Republicans] have not connected the dots” between Hunter’s alleged crimes and Joe Biden. “They’ve connected the dots—the Department of Justice did on Hunter. But they have not shown where Joe Biden did anything illegally.”
However, a collective mindset among members of both political parties has concluded that nothing will assure a 2nd Biden term more than the GOP’s baseless decision to proceed with impeachment.
Columnist and author Michael Tomasky had this to say in an Op-Ed published by The New Republic:
“The 118th Congress will impeach Joe Biden, a completely blameless Joe Biden; a Joe Biden whose only known crime has been to make the occasional bad judgment in defense of his deeply troubled son, but who in 50 years of public life has never once been credibly accused of pocketing a dirty dollar. The historical record, polluted as it now is, will include this asterisk next to President Biden’s name.
But here’s the good news. The good news is that this will backfire like a badly tuned 1975 Pontiac Grand Am. No matter what the House does under its new management, the Senate will never convict and remove Biden from office. They need 67 votes to do that, and I’d be surprised if they have more than 40. Every Senate Democrat will vote against conviction—and because the evidence will demand no other conclusion, that will seal the deal right there. And it seems likely that a certain, not insignificant number of Senate Republicans will decide that their fates are not as tightly entwined with Trump’s that they can vote their actual conscience and get away with it.
At the end of the day, this will fail. Every Republican on Capitol Hill—even Mike Johnson (do I still need to remind people that this anodyne person with this anodyne name is the speaker of the House of Representatives?), Jim Jordan, and James Comer—know this. And yet, they will proceed.
Tomasky went on to say that Republicans know they don’t have the votes to remove President Biden from office and that the entire exercise in futility will fail. Still, GOP lawmakers have opted to proceed because Trump and his MAGA fanatics have ordered it done as vindication for ‘The Donald.’
“They know very well what a morally filthy reprobate Trump is. They know he’s a crook. They know he bilked contractors at his hotels. They know he lies as regularly as he breathes. They know he tried to steal the 2020 election. They know he took classified documents. They know that he’s committed sexual assault more often than they’ve had sex,” Tomasky added.
“That they possess this knowledge is precisely why they have to dirty up Biden. They have to confuse the country’s swing voters into not being sure which candidate is the more corrupt. They have to get low-information voters to think, “Well, you know, they both seem pretty skuzzy to me.” But they are, at all times, telling on themselves.”
And so, with this Republican vote, impeachment has become a political tool to punish the opposition and is no longer a last-ditch method to remove someone from office who has committed legitimate high crimes and misdemeanors.
Republicans know what they’re doing is wrong. They know their efforts will fail. However, what they don’t yet know is how much the move to impeach Joe Biden will cost them at the ballot box in 2024.
OK WASSUP! discusses Politics:
Republicans authorize the move to impeach Joe Biden.
The Hill: For Republican members of the 118th Congress, it’s a good thing they can’t be expelled for legislative malpractice. If so, they’d all be out of a job. And rightfully so. Last week’s vote to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden is one of the most irresponsible actions taken in the history of Congress. It is breathtakingly baseless, cynical and malicious. As written, the impeachment clause has always been problematic. Although the Founding Fathers gave Congress the power to impeach a president, they never spelled out exactly what he could be impeached for, other than the vaguely-defined “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Then-Rep. Gerald Ford (R-Mich.) famously remarked that “an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.” But nobody ever thought Congress would impeach a president for no reason at… Read more »