House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Tuesday said he is directing three House committees to open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden in an effort to seek bank records and other documents from the president and his son Hunter Biden.
lol. lmao, even
nah, this is doa and everyone will re-learn the lesson that impeachment for piddly shit is a self-own.
Any impeachment proceeding is almost sure to pass the House and fail in the Senate.
Impeachment needs a simple majority in the House, but a super-majority to convict in the Senate. So, it trivial for the House to vote on articles of impeachment but current partisan divides (and the off-set electoral cycle of the senate) impede any faction from achieving a senatorial super-majority.
So the right wing media will make a big deal out of any findings, which will probably have some corruption uncovered but of the vanilla, boilerplate variety everyone does in DC, the conservative base will get frothy over it, the libs will Nothingburger it, everyone else will see it as more “both parties are corrupt” background noise, impeached in the house, senate acquits.
Every president from here on out is gonna get impeached the instant the opposition has the House
I wouldn’t want a lefty house to hold any punches against a party that represents capital. If it’s something they can do, why not?
Sure, but neither of these are lefty parties, they’re both just slightly different flavors of the ‘pro-capital’ sludge
I’m not against this all, mind you; it’s less time spent proposing legislation for murdering innocent people, and is at least amusingly stupid
So the right wing media will make a big deal out of any findings, which will probably have some corruption uncovered but of the vanilla, boilerplate variety everyone does in DC
If this happens he should be impeached and convicted. I am SO fucking over poo-pooing fucking federal corruption scandals. I don’t care if they’re all doing it. Even more reason. Kushner should’ve been put on trial.
hes fired
I don’t have anything substantive to add but I just wanted it on the record that I think this is incredibly funny.
I predict this exchange between a reporter and McCarthy…
“What evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors do you have to go forward with impeachment?”
“In two words - Hunter Biden.”
The right-wing doesn’t need a real reason or even a reason that makes sense. They just need something that can fit on bumper sticker. Plus - there’s the added benefit that mocking norms and not even pretending about the way things should work drives libs insane.
