I suppose this is hardly unexpected, but even so:
Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday directed top congressional Republicans to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, blowing past G.O.P. divisions as he worked to appease far-right lawmakers who have threatened to oust him amid a pitched fight over spending.
Mr. McCarthy said he would task three committees — Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means — with carrying out the inquiry into the president and his family as Republicans hunt for evidence of financial wrongdoing or corruption.
I love that final phrase: "as Republicans hunt for evidence." Needless to say, the reason they're hunting is that they don't actually have any right now. Nonetheless, the lunatics must be assuaged, so we have an impeachment inquiry even though there is no evidence of any wrongdoing.
Once again, note that word: evidence. This does not include suspicions or innuendo or "come on you know he must have......." Nor does it include testimony of bad behavior by Hunter Biden or other members of the Biden clan. Evidence includes: eyewitness testimony of corruption by Joe Biden entered under oath. It includes documents. Recorded conversations. Video. Email and text messages to and from the president. Bank account records. Tax returns. Indications of Biden living beyond his means.
There is none of that. I will award a cookie to the first person who produces any of the above. But my cookies are safe. There isn't any.
The interesting question is whether he can avoid a shutdown now.
I give him 20% chance.
Hey, it's worked before....
BENGHAZI!!!!
The Biden corruption scandal:
--Hunter something-something
--No evidence
The Trump corruption scandal:
--4 indictments after separate grand juries determined sufficient evidence of law-breaking leading to 91 felony charges
The media is prepping the country for a neck-and-neck race for the White House next year. Hold on to your hats.
I recall seeing a survey some years ago of the wealthiest members of Congress, and Biden was near the bottom. So if he suddenly came into a bunch of sweet dough-ray-mee during his time as VP and has been living it up down on the Delaware shore, that should be pretty easy to show.
You betcha. Biden's tax returns have been on his website, open to the public, for decades now. If there was any there there, it should have been spotted. Right?
Meanwhile, this whole dumbshow has been pushed through to try and distract from the four (and counting) felony indictments of the Republican head of party, aka "the Defendant." Count on it. Their "investigators" will churn out news copy daily, if not hourly, while the slow, slow, SLOW pace of the United States judicial system meanders its way towards maybe eventually having, ya know, actual TRIALS. Which will not be televised, unlike the antics of Gym Jordan and Jim Coma (er, Comer).
The Georgia trial will be televised.
It's not 'pointless'. Kevin McCarthy gets to continue as Speaker.
That's a kind of point, isn't it?
This does not include suspicions or innuendo or "come on you know he must have......." Nor does it include testimony of bad behavior by Hunter Biden or other members of the Biden clan.
Well, perhaps this "evidence" of which you and the librul Washington Post speak does not include these things, but you're the ones talking about it.
The Republican hearings, OTOH, will include plenty of suspicions, innuendo, and reports of bad behavior, which will be duly repeated ad nauseam by the right-wing media. And then they will be recycled into "reports of" and "allegations of" articles and segments by the rest of the media, and then eventually into "dark clouds" and "nervousness among Democrats," and carefully crafted or cherry-picked poll results that support the Narrative. And lots of "reporters" will have sweetened their beats in the process.
And, sorry, this thing you were talking about ... what was it again ...?
The foiur felony indictments of the Republican Presidential Nominee and Head of Party. But hey! Both sides, right? Time for Democrats to take their turn in the barrel. This PROVES none of the "lamestream" media is "librul"!
Sorry, that should be "four" as in "4", not "foiur." I got kind of crazy commenting on this one, as you may note...
So, as they say over at Talking points memo,
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mccarthy-caves-to-far-right-directs-house-committees-to-open-baseless-impeachment-inquiry-into-biden
it's been eleven days since Qevin McCarthy swore that any impeachment effort would, no question, need to be approved by a vote of the entire House of Representatives, aka "the People's House". One man could not, in Our Democracy, start such a momentous thing in motion.
So today, Qevin announces that the impeachment is underway. Because he, one man, has decreed it.
Yeah, and ol' Qevin signed onto the debt ceiling deal, and almost immediately the House Republicans started talking about appropriations far lower, and not a peep from him.
Republicans cannot be trusted. They do not bargain in good faith, and their word is worthless.
Hey, wonder how many know that a couple years back, McCarthy told the LA Times his wife is Cherokee? Conveniently, that covered for her brother, who’s got millions in military contracts set aside for Native Americans.
As I read it, that means he claims his kids are also Cherokee.
https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-na-pol-mccarthy-contracts-20181014-story.html
Is there any sense how a full impeachment vote would go even with NO evidence? Or is the gamble that they DO find something that the less-than-rabid GOP members will be OK with voting YES for? I mean, there's no way the Senate will convict so I would think the hope is to be able to claim "See, we can impeach with little to no evidence too!" Not that anyone bothers with Trump's impeachment(s) at this point.
I think repulsives love "one uppism". Sort of like my dad is bigger than yours. Such children sit in office.
They literally just opened a witch hunt. How perfectly hypocritical yet on brand for the Republican Party.
If “come on you know he must have” done something untoward was a valid argument George Bush II would have lost Ohio to John Kerry 19 years ago
I don’t mind the inquiry as much as I do the millions of idiots who think this is a good use of taxpayer money. This nonsense can be stopped at any time. But this is what those millions of people want. And then they want to blame everyone else for them getting the misery that voted to increase.