They voted for an inquiry based on zero evidence but now balk at moving forward due to no evidence? OR! Maybe the fact it’s no longer distracting their base from all the other problems they have no solutions for. We may never know.
They want the impeachment vote as an October surprise
The trick is to scream loudly over and over that youre the victim of a witch hunt while you are conducting an actual witch hunt. The police know this trick well. When 7 of you are stomping the brain matter out of an unconscious citizens head just scream “stop resisting” over, and over, and over. Voila! This way people know youre the actual victim while you perpetrate a crime.
They want to drag it out to the election as long as possible.
Of course. The more they drag it out the more they can milk it for their gullible supporters.
I feel like this is a good time for Dems to gamble and try to push through a quick impeachment vote. Gets it out of the way and allows the focus to be on the Trump trials and spotlight the vulnerable GOP house members.
I’m not as sure.
I have a feeling that impeachment isn’t the endgame for Republicans.
Don’t get me wrong: Republicans are duplicitous AF but they are trying to push a narrative that Trump and Biden are tHe SaMe! because they both got impeached.
I suspect that Republicans are trying to get Biden disqualified under the 14th amendment just like many states are doing with Trump. Sure, it doesn’t hold a lick of water but that doesn’t matter to the Republican base or the moderates. If they can keep clambering that Biden was impeached and that he shouldn’t be on the ballot, it will be enough to distract people from trying to steal the election in other ways.
If they want to use impeachment as a reason to block ballot access, then they have to explain why Trump’s double impeachment somehow still qualifies him…
why would they be bound by logic now?
Is not even a gamble. Impeachment is totally toothless and would never be enforced by the senate. After Trump was impeached twice without any repercussions, why do we even pretend they matter?
Because Republicans are the equivalent of a child who doesn’t understand the words being used and thinks it’s a playground argument. “No, you’re a racist! No, you were impeached! No, you betrayed our country! Haw-haw!”
That would honestly be an outstanding tactic, I think. Get the entire Democratic caucus to vote “present”, and then let the Senate take it. There is precisely zero chance they’ll get 2/3 to vote to convict.
Republicans demonstrated precisely how meaningless the institution of Impeachment is. Let’s bring the lesson home.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are charging ahead with their investigation into President Joe Biden’s family business dealings, with some in the GOP predicting a formal impeachment vote in the opening months of 2024.
“I haven’t seen any yet, to date, that shows me that the president did anything wrong,” Rep. Dave Joyce of Ohio, a former longtime county prosecutor and the leader of the centrist Republican Governance Group, said in an interview.
Since the Dec. 13 unanimous GOP inquiry vote, the Democratic campaign arm has blasted out stories and statements attacking the 17 Republicans who represent swing districts that Biden won in 2020 for “caving to MAGA extremists and Donald Trump.”
Rep. Ted Lieu of California, a member of the Democratic leadership team who served as an impeachment manager in Trump’s second Senate trial, argued that the GOP’s Benghazi probe was the wrong comparison.
“I believe Joe Biden’s numbers will rise as a result of this impeachment because it continues to show that Republicans are focused on priorities very few Americans care about,” Lieu said in an interview outside the Capitol.
It means that Johnson can only afford to lose three GOP votes to pass anything on the floor, including a resolution to impeach Biden which would force a Senate trial that is almost certain to end in acquittal, given the Democratic majority.
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It’d be nice if they slow-walked breathing.
But I would welcome a swift walk off a tall ledge.
Oh look, the “oh yeah I’ll take my ball and go home” or “if I can’t have it no one can” party wants to bully everyone and then cry to their mommas when they get popped in the mouth for running it.
LOL! Okay. Sure.
