For those not living under rocks, or dodging all major news coming off
the transom, the U.S. House of Representatives
voted Wednesday to formally open an
impeachment inquiry into president Joe Biden, moving forward a process that has
been promised by Republican leaders since they regained control of the lower
chamber in midterm elections in 2022.
Let’s be
clear that no evidence has been produced, yet Republicans have
accused Biden and his family of personally profiting from his position while
vice-president under Barack Obama. Is this anything more than a dog and pony
show brought to you by Trump bought traitors? No it isn’t. The whole point of this vacuous exercise- which
also sullies a serious constitutional remedy – is to try to ‘equalize’ impropriety on Biden. Recall Donald
Trump was the first president in US history to be impeached twice and is
currently preparing for four criminal trials. It serves Trump’s disgusting purpose (to regain
power as a dictator) to tar Biden with
the impeachment brush as well, the better to fool low information voters that decency doesn't reside in either.
In the words of Colorado Republican, Ken Buck his party was engaging in “retribution impeachments”. The president responded to the vote by saying his opponents were attacking him “with lies”. But Wednesday’s events set in train a process which - while unlikely to lead to anything more than flatulence - is still a potential drag on Biden's poll numbers. And another reason he needs to bring Rahm Emmanuel back as an attack dog for his campaign. No more Mr. Nice Guy!
In the short term, the House’s action gives the three Republican controlled House committees leading the inquiry more power to subpoena documents and testimony – and for judges to enforce those requests. Congressional investigators have already obtained nearly 40,000 pages of subpoenaed bank records and dozens of hours of testimony from key witnesses, and no hard evidence has emerged that Biden acted corruptly or accepted bribes in his current or previous role.
Indeed, at a high-profile impeachment hearing in September, all three Republican expert witnesses who testified conceded they did not have first-hand knowledge of any criminal activity by Biden. Two of those witnesses acknowledged that the information put forward so far by the committee did not amount to corruption.
Colorado Sun columnist Mike Littwin (back in July) concisely described the warp and woof of this fraud, noting a primary push to "write articles of impeachment" was from Lauren Boebert:
"Boebert's stunt is absurd given it would mean an impeachment without any committee hearings, without any testimony, without any evidence, without any smoking gun. It would basically be an admission that Republicans didn't believe they had to have an actual case against Biden - much less one involving high crimes and misdemeanors - to impeach him."
As Mr. Littwin also pointed out:
"We all knew that once Republicans took control of the House they would attempt to exact revenge for Donald Trump's two impeachments by impeaching anyone in sight - especially Biden."
Anyone want to bet a major shitstorm is coming? Especially if these deranged asswipes in Mikey Johnson's goon squad also succeed in shutting down the government next month.
Host Chris Hayes, on ALL In segment two nights ago, correctly pointed out this whole charade is merely about extending Trump's coup attempt from January 6th. Now with a bogus series of bogus hearings to make the public (at least the lower IQ demographic) believe Joe Biden is guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanors." And 18 of the current House REEP members that'll have to vote for a valid inquiry are in districts Biden won handily in 2020. Make no mistake all of these GOP occupants of swing districts have to know their own necks are in McCarthy's MAGA-incited noose, e.g.
Pragmatic, swing district House Republicans push back on agenda - The Washington Post
Both the January 6th insurrection and the current bogus impeachment effort are designed as a slow rolling coup to finish off what's left of this government before Trump is even rendered the tainted GOP nominee. All that in pursuit of the goal of raw power that this Trump cult cannot achieve democratically.
Btw, let's note Kentucky GOOp James Comer - heading the impeachment inquiry - has 'skeletons' in his own closet. See e.g.
by Heather Digby Parton | December 17, 2023 - 8:04am | permalink
As noted in today's LA Times (p. A4) the imp bought 6 acres in 2015, co-owned with a campaign contributor. He then transferred his ownership to a shell company ('Farm Team Properties') co-owned with his wife. This is critical given the mutt has accused Hunter Biden (Joe's son) of using shell companies to hid earnings. One hopes the whole thing will soon escape the LA Times' columns and blow up in Comer's face.
Fortunately, when the dust settles, Comer, Jim Jordan and their Gooper clown car of traitor sympathizers will then surely pay the piper - in a spate of lost 2024 House elections and the landslide re-election of Joe Biden. That will coincide with voters finally having the scales removed from their eyes on the real enemies of this Republic.
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by Joan McCarter | December 10, 2023 - 7:28am | permalink
House Republicans released the text of their resolution authorizing their impeachment probe on Thursday, then left for the weekend. Note that the resolution doesn’t state why they intend to impeach President Joe Biden. Because there is no reason. This just formalizes the circus in the Judiciary, Oversight, and Ways and Means committees.
Speaker Mike Johnson gave the green light to this, justifying it by saying that the White House is “stonewalling” the committee’s efforts to concoct high crimes and misdemeanors out of thin air, making this “a necessary constitutional step.” The House Rules Committee is taking the resolution up next Tuesday, and the House as a whole will probably vote on it before leaving that Thursday or Friday for the rest of the year.
Remarkably, the resolution will probably pass. Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado told NBC News that he’s the only Republican he knows of who plans to vote against it. He’s probably right. The supposed “moderate” Republicans, including the “Biden 18,” signed off on impeachment a few months ago, back when former Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched the inquiry in a failed bid to appease the maniacs and save his job. That didn’t work.
And:
by Maya Boddie | December 11, 2023 - 7:20am | permalink
As House GOPers aim to move towards a President Joe Biden impeachment this week, MSNBC's Katie Phang spoke with 2020 Republican presidential candidate Joe Walsh's former campaign manager Lucy Caldwell about how the outcome of the effort could impact the party.
"House Republicans introduced a resolution on Thursday to authorize an inquiry into President Joe Biden," Phang said. "The House Rules committee is to take it up on Tuesday in a couple of days. So the earliest that any vote could happen is Wednesday. Do you think this move will backfire for Republicans going into 2024?"
Caldwell replied, "I think it will backfire. Frankly, this is just a political reality of an impeachment inquiry in an election year. Impeachment inquiries into an incumbent president tend to cause base voters to rally around the incumbent president. This is obviously a ridiculous impeachment inquiry that is baseless from we can tell. But we do have a recent history for this."
And:
Here’s how dishonest James Comer’s Biden allegations are - The Washington Post
And:
by Robert Reich | December 12, 2023 - 7:57am | permalink
— from Robert Reich's Substack
Excerpt:
Republicans hailed the indictment handed down by Special Counsel David C. Weiss last Thursday against Hunter Biden on tax evasion as a validation of their impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
But Republicans have still failed to link Joe Biden to any impeachable offense — or to any offenses at all. The 56-page indictment never mentions President Biden and provides zero evidence linking the misdeeds of the son to the father.
Nevertheless, House Republicans are pushing ahead this week with their plans for a vote to authorize the impeachment inquiry.
Isn’t it clear that the Republicans’ impeachment inquiry is retribution for the impeachments and indictments of former President Trump?
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by Thom Hartmann | December 8, 2023 - 7:49am | permalink
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