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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and top Republicans have begun to strategize about how to move forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden this fall – the latest sign that the House GOP is seriously laying the groundwork to initiate rare proceedings against the current president.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and top Republicans have begun to strategize about how to move forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden this fall – the latest sign that the House GOP is seriously laying the groundwork to initiate rare proceedings against the current president.

In recent weeks, McCarthy has privately told Republicans he plans to pursue an impeachment inquiry into Biden and hopes to start the process by the end of September, according to multiple GOP sources familiar with the conversations. While McCarthy has already publicly threatened to launch an inquiry if allegations from IRS whistleblowers hold up or if the Biden administration does not cooperate with requests related to House Republicans’ Hunter Biden probe, sources say that McCarthy has sent even stronger signals about his intentions behind closed doors.

  • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org
    54·
    1 year ago

    Man they keep talking about impeaching Biden, but even if they are successful in both impeachment and conviction (which is nigh impossible in its own right) what will they do next? If the GOP is that unhappy with Biden they’re really gonna shit bricks if Harris is sworn in.

    • ATQ
      107·
      1 year ago

      They want to impeach Biden so Trumps two impeachments aren’t such a shit-stain. It’s not about Biden, it’s about normalizing their nonsense.

    • conditional_soup
      11·
      1 year ago

      They want a president Harris because they’ve already laid the narrative groundwork against her, while she doesn’t really have any kind of record to stand on. I didn’t care for Harris in the primary, because basically the only two things she brought to the primary debates were “As an African American woman…” And “Biden is a fossilized racist”. While both are true, there’s not really a lot of meat there. I don’t dislike her, mind, I just didn’t see anything there that appealed to me, since I’m a policy nerd.

      I’m not a big fan of Biden’s. I’ll still pick him over Trump every day of the week, but he’s not my preference by a long shot. That said, Biden has decades of experience navigating Washington DC, he’s got deep personal connections (and favors owed) on both sides of the isle, he’s a moderate who knows how to talk to both parties, and he knows how to play the game because he was there when it was written. Biden is a competent, albeit middling, statesman. Harris has none of that; she was a pretty aggressive AG in California, she’s relatively young and doesn’t have a ton of experience or connections in Washington, her debate style was loud and aggressive but lacking substance, and the republicans have already been programmed to hate her (though none of them can explain why they hate her). I think the only place I’m not sure of is about her record as VP, but VP isn’t all that powerful of a position in reality; there’s some things they get to do in the legislature, but they’re more of a spare president than anything. In short, the republicans would walk all over a president Harris, and I’m deeply concerned that the Democrats are angling to coronate her in 2028.

      • SoylentBlake
        103·
        1 year ago

        Obama handed off handling Putin to Biden after meeting him one time.

        So there’s no one on the planet who has more experience dealing with that fascist than who we got at the top. Credit where it’s due, I’m not ridin wit Biden, or any other Democrat, because I too am a policy nerd, and we got two neo-liberal, one one half neo-fuedalist, both corporatocracy at the cost of the average person’s agency and stability.

        Put simply, if propping up the top 10% actively hinders and hurts the rest of America, I consider that a hostile action of a traitor. Welfare, income redistribution, any and all social programs 1. Wouldn’t be necessary if the private market was competent enough, but they choose greed over stewardship 2. I would much, much, i-cannot-stress-how-much, prefer my taxes go towards lifting up my neighbors than policing the globe and militarizing our domestic police force into uber-gestapo. America wins thrice over then: A. Neighbor gets to better place, paid more in taxes. B. I eventually will be surrounded by neighbors not drowning in despair and hopelessness, and the crime that that brings. C. Stimulus to economy.

        Democrats and Republicans are both parties full of traitors, in my eyes. One side just does it reluctantly and then can’t fathom why I think they should hang.

    • TechyDad@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      Around mid-2022 my father wanted to bet me that the new Congress would, on a bipartisan basis, vote to remove Biden and Harris and appoint Trump as President instead. Yes, I said bipartisan. My father was convinced that Democrats would say “let’s get rid of Biden and Harris because it would be much better to have Trump in the Oval Office.”

      The only reason I didn’t take him up on his bet was because I knew he’d either deny making the bet, alter what the bet was after the fact, or claim victory where there was none. (Something like “well, the Democrats ACTUALLY want to replace Biden with Trump, but Biden is stopping them somehow.”)