A few days ago Rep. Lauren Boebert introduced a resolution to impeach President Joe Biden. Because why not?
But that's not all. For months Republicans have also been threatening to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security, because they don't like his border policies.
Now it's Attorney General Merrick Garland's turn inside the house-of-mirrors fish bowl:
Speaker Kevin McCarthy is floating the possibility that the House could open an impeachment inquiry into Attorney General Merrick Garland over Internal Revenue Service whistleblower allegations that Justice Department leadership improperly interfered in the Hunter Biden probe, which Garland has denied.
“If it comes true what the IRS whistleblower is saying, we’re going to start impeachment inquiries on the attorney general,” McCarthy said Monday on Fox News.
Hunter Biden! Of course. This is all based on the testimony of an informant and a couple of whistleblowers who talked to the FBI a while back. Republicans finally browbeat the FBI into letting them see the interview transcripts and then, in usual style, immediately leaked everything to the press.
The informant's story is about a $5 million bribe from Ukraine, apparently based on documents shopped around by Rudy Giuliani before the election. Joe Biden shared in the bribe, of course.
One of the whistleblowers says that Hunter once tried to strongarm a client to complete a business deal by texting a threat that his father—who was sitting next to him!—was "waiting for the call."
Both whistleblowers also claim that at one point prosecutors had teed up serious felony charges against Hunter that eventually got watered down. Which might even be true. But it's old news that there were internal disagreements during the course of the investigation, hardly an uncommon affair. In any case, we don't know who wanted to "slow walk" things. It could be anyone. But maybe Merrick Garland himself was involved!
So we're off to the impeachment races again. Gotta maintain your street credit with the right-wing loons, after all.
Isn't it a crime to leak confidential FBI material? Wouldn't there be a House ethics rule about it?
You Lefties are such hopeless school monitor nerds.
It was leaked, et alors? Its sheer bollocks so laugh at them.
"You Lefties are such hopeless school monitor nerds."
Says the guy who goes on to use French in the very next sentence . . . Just sayin'
He's not even a Brit. I thought everyone knew that.
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Democrats might well indeed benefit fro m egging on the Freedom Caucus. As they are a clown-show having them hold a fiasco of a series of impeachments for Fox News crowd seems rather likely to end up being to Democrats benefit... They should of course only fight for open media coverage so the clown show is properly mediatised beyond merely Fox.
In my whole life (est. Truman administration), I've never once been impeached, and I'm starting to feel left out.
Via Media Mattters I saw that the "waiting for the call" message was said on Fox Business and Newsmax to be from when Joe was VP, even though it's from July 2017.
Yes, that's why this nonsense is rightly seen as nonsense by anyone with more than two working brain cells. Even if you pretend that the texts and/or calls actually took place, according to the "whistleblower" they took place in 2017, when Biden was a private citizen. Unless they want to argue that in private citizens business negotiations involved parties never try to play hardball to secure a payment, contract, or whatever, what crime was supposedly committed?
In their fantasy world Biden was President in 2017, and Jan 6 2021, the same way that they pretend Bush Jr wasn't President during 9/11, or that he was President when Bin Laden was killed.
I was reminded of some "conservative commentator" saying on Fox News that the Jeffrey Epstein plea deal in (as he noted) 2008 was "under a Democratic administration." "Right," said host Harris Faulkner.
Negotiated by a Florida prosecutor whom Trump later nominated to be Secretary of Labor. Right, indeed.
I hope Garland gets a little heartburn over this. His notion that being slow and light on Trump would get MAGA to respect institutions like the DOJ was completely out of touch with the realities of the Gingrich/FoxNews era we now live in.
It's as if Garland only watches the polite and well-mannered PBS News Hour and has no familiarity with the crudity and brutality of so many in the GOP (not to mention the alt-Right).
Garland's nonsense about starting at the bottom (Capitol rioters) and "going up the ladder" would resolve Trump's coup attempt was never going to work. There is no ladder from those hooligans to Trump. Too many gaps. He should have started at the bottom with the fake Electors and from there go up the ladder to Eastman et al - and the meetings about that scheme that Trump participated in.
"He should have started at the bottom with the fake Electors and from there go up the ladder to Eastman et al - and the meetings about that scheme that Trump participated in."
What makes you think Garland (Smith, actually) isn't doing that, too?
Expunge is the new impeach
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/26/trump-impeachment-expunge-greene-stefanik/
When the Democrats re-take the House, they should take it half a step further: impunge half the Supreme Court and expeach Bill Clinton.
Like +25.
So what article or amendment to the constitution supports expunging impeachment?
They're just making stuff up, and of course the media is just lapping it up unquestioningly.
Is there a special "expungement" eraser to get the impeachment off the record?
All these people should start an impeachment club. They could have dinner parties and press conferences. Soon everyone would want to be impeached!
“If it comes true”
McCarthy has learned to leave himself a Trumpian escape hatch almost as good as “People are saying”.
I have to say I’m convinced and I won’t vote for Hunter Biden.
If you're old enough you can also decide not to vote for Billy Carter.
I haven't seen any dicsussion of the fact that the supposed IRS whistleblowers' PR is being handled by a non-profit called 'Empower Oversight'. Who runs Empire Oversight? Let's go to the website:
It's obvious the whistleblowers are nothing but Republican stooges, but neither Democrats nor journalists seem willing to say so.
It was 10 years ago that Bobby Jindal warned that the Republicans were becoming "the stupid party". Seems like all the stupid people heard him and thought "boy, that sounds like the party for me".
+1!
Some Senate Republicans are freaking out that House Republicans are planning to clog up the calendar with actions which will focus the nation's attention on the lunacy of the Republican party rather than on the policy priorities they want.
Democrats should protest just enough to make House Republicans think they're going down the right path, don't you think?
Encapsulating our national dilemma,
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzkPS95WAAEvWAS?format=jpg&name=medium
The MAGA crowd could try tossing a bone towards the Congressional Progressive Caucus and offer to include impeaching Feinstein...
Reading right wing media and blogs, they are in a frenzy over all this. They have long been convinced that the FBI, DOJ, Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, etc. are all totally corrupt. They believe it just like they completely believed the 2020 elections were stolen by criminal operatives. Thing is, they get their info from wild rumors, and these rumors always get debunked. But now they think that they have the real deal for evidence of corruption. Nailing Joe Biden and other enemies is far more important to them than any issues in politics. So they are ecstatic for the moment.
I will say that David Weiss needs to explain why the IRS whistleblowers claimed that in a meeting he said he did not have final say over charges against Hunter. My guess is that it was some kind of misunderstanding of what Weiss meant.
David Weiss has already explained this to Gym Jordan:
"I want to make clear that, as the Attorney General has stated, I have been granted ultimate authority over this matter, including responsibility for deciding where, when, and whether to file charges and for making decisions necessary to preserve the integrity of the prosecution, consistent with federal law, the Principles of Federal Prosecution, and Departmental regulations."
https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1671242323445915651
Not sure what else good old Gym wants. Perhaps the entire prosecutor's files of the Hunter Biden case and both current cases against Orange Jesus would suffice.
Here's today's Fire and Smoke Map from the EPA,
https://fire.airnow.gov/
I'm not quite in the purple, but I am in the red.
Thanks a heap fossil fuel industry, Republicans and every idiot who votes for them, let's all choke to death together! It'll be great!
The repulsives are fortunate that Dems don't do pay back. On the other hand, maybe we should.....