The House voted on Wednesday to formally open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, pushing forward with a yearlong G.O.P. investigation that has failed to produce evidence of anything approaching high crimes or misdemeanors.
Republicans said the vote was needed to give them full authority to continue carrying out their investigation amid anticipated legal challenges from the White House. Democrats have denounced the inquiry as a fishing expedition and a political stunt.
G.O.P. leaders refrained for months from calling a vote to open an impeachment inquiry, given the reservations of mainstream Republicans, many of them from politically competitive districts, about moving forward without proof that Mr. Biden had done anything wrong. Instead, Kevin McCarthy, the speaker at the time, unilaterally announced one in September as he was facing pressure from the far right to deliver on its priorities, including impeaching the president.
But Wednesday’s vote underscored how the political ground has shifted, with Republicans willing to endorse an inquiry even as some emphasized that they were not yet ready to charge the president. The vote was along party lines with all Republicans voting to approve the inquiry and all Democrats opposed.
I love how the GOP is constantly whining about things like inflation, but do they ever actually try to address those issues? No, they just focus on trying to get university presidents fired and other kinds of purely performative theater.
Hell, with a Democratic president, they want the inflation.
Rafael ‘Ted’ Cruz is still on his crusade against preferred names. Unironically, it seems.
Oh look, it is Bill Clinton all over again.
It’s even worse, because there’s not even a blowjob here. Clinton ultimately got into trouble for lying about the affair - unless Biden is getting something on the side and plans on lying about it this impeachment is even more of a fishing expedition.
Bruh he’s 81; that shit is broke AF.
There were accusations of sexual assault in his past but those were way before he became president. This impeachment is just bullshit.
I just watched some congressional turd [it was Grassley] actually say that there’s an indication of wrong doing, but “I don’t have any evidence.” Okay, fine - that’s not what an impeachment inquiry is for.
You mean it’s not to, like, find- and maybe fabricate- evidence?
Republicans continue their government of the trolls, by the trolls, for the trolls
Which all the reason needed to know, by the principle of don’t feed the trolls, to never support, in anyway, the GOP.
Like shooting fish in a barrel
I’m confident it’ll come out to be nothing but a ploy to drive Biden s polls down. But I can’t say I feel bad for him. It’s how the entirety of our government treats its citizens while they invade our privacy continuously: “If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.”
Doesn’t their base ever get tired of this? Always being strung along, waiting for the day that never comes.
From what they see, this is the party of justice trying to finally nail those other guys for getting away with breaking the law non stop.
Every failure to do so, for either side to be honest, only pushes the extreme side further. The rhetoric and propaganda are set up to see failures as unjust defeats and not what they actually are, fundamental failures.
@MicroWave fuck the GOP
Look at that child molester enabler Gym Jordan over there, what a piece of shit!
It’s… gonna be hard to justify the second and third impeachments if there’s not enough evidence for the first.
Correction: there is zero evidence for the first.
Nothing you can’t do if you throw enough money on it either over or under the table.
Everytime I hear about this the first thing that pops into my head is the little old lady in airplane that was stopped by security for nothing while people with bigger and bigger guns got by.
There’s nothing to find, the top witnesses said as much but you have plenty out there that’s done far worse and nothing happened. The GOP will destroy us all. Vote the GOP out of every office you can local state and federal.
Republicans told us that they view impeachment as nothing more than a political weapon.
Good to see that the Republicans are focusing on the truly big issues facing our nation…
I’m glad I’m not the only one with their mind’s eye trained firmly on Biden’s dong.
@gullible @MicroWave @GiddyGap sure what you got? Nothing.
I’m not sure whether you’ve followed my pun with another joke that I’m too dim to understand. Explain yourself, buddy.
Biden Jr big pp joke for those who are lost.
wondering what sort of kompromat the Kremlin has on these GOP members 🤔🤔🤔
Are these the ones the Kremlin ordered to spend 4th of July in Moscow?
That event was a public reminder to the Democrats that Moscow runs the Republicans.
That’s literally all that crosses my mind at this point. Who else besides China and Russia could have such vested interest in destabilizing the US from the inside like this.
Performance art for an audience of one. Trump the Puppeteer of the Republican Party.
Lol, you give that brain dead moron way too much credit. Putin is pulling the strings.
I agree but this is obviously just childish vindictiveness that is signature Trump.
naaah i think the Powers That Be have some sort of massive dirt on looooots o’ GOP members, which is how they got into politics to begin with.
Remember when the NRA got caught funneling massive amounts of Russian money to these assholes?
That is just one opportunity
Remember when Trump’s campaign manager went to jail for being a Russian agent and was pardoned by Trump?
The list goes on
Remember when the DNC got hacked into by two different hacking groups that released all the dirt on the Dems before the election of Trump.
And remember when the RNC was hacked into in the same ways, except absolutely no dirt was leaked into public?
Ruzzia (and therefore Trump) has all the dirt and Kompromat on the GOP. They’re all his puppets.
That “dirt on the dems” was so tame but the news blew up anyway. And Hillary got the worst of it with that fruitless trial anyway. It was so stupid.
