Republicans' plot to impeach Joe Biden is not about Afghanistan -- it's payback for Trump - Salon

[Rhiannon12866]

If Republicans win the midterms, they'll impeach Biden to make a mockery of accountability

The wheels of the last U.S. military plane were barely off the ground in Afghanistan when Republicans trotted out their plot to impeach President Joe Biden over ending the war.

Using Politico, ground zero for the media pressure campaign to bully Biden into occupying that nation forever, the GOP rushed to concept test the idea of impeaching Biden in 2023. "The I-word looms: McCarthy faces internal pressure to go harder at Biden on Afghanistan," reads Politico's headline the morning after the withdrawal. "Republicans want to make a high-stakes call for impeaching Biden over his handling of Afghanistan — a vow that would come due should the GOP take back the chamber next November."

Yep, they want to impeach Biden over Afghanistan. Or impeach him for something, anyway. Not because Biden committed any high crimes or misdemeanors, mind you. Nor even really because of "incompetence," which is a word that is thrown around mainly by people who haven't explained how one is supposed to make losing a 20-year war to the Taliban look prettier on the TV box.

No, it's all about pandering to Donald Trump's rabidly bitter, trollish base, the same people who are so furious about losing the 2020 election they're committing biowar on their own bodies just to hurt the rest of the country for not wanting Dr. Drink Bleach as their president. As Politico's Olivia Beavers writes of congressional Republicans, "their offices were being bombarded with calls from base voters for a future Biden impeachment" even before the full military withdrawal from Afghanistan this week.

What's going on here is not mysterious and, critically, is not about the lost war in Afghanistan, which was lost long before Biden set up camp in the Oval Office. Nope, this is about Trump. When it comes to Republicans, it's always about Trump.


More: https://www.salon.com/2021/08/31/republicans-plot-to-impeach-joe-biden-is-not-about-afghanistan--its-payback-for-trump/

[Walleye]

1. They didn't even have an excuse when they impeached Clinton

[dsc]

2. yes they did

it wasn't a great excuse but it was an excuse.

[NYC Liberal]

16. They impeached Clinton as revenge for Nixon. Henry Hyde openly said so.

Shaw had asked Hyde, a DuPage County Republican, if the impeachment of President Clinton was "payback" for the proceedings against President Nixon.

"I can't say it wasn't," Hyde told him in the interview.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-04-24-0504240009-story.html

[Walleye]

19. That's right. 25 years had passed and they knew Nixon was guilty. The elephant party

[liberal N proud]

3. That's all it's about

They started shouting impeachment long before Afghanistan withdrawal. They just are using the trap set by trump as an opportunity

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Exactly. Boebert started calling for impeachment right after the inauguration

They were desperate for any excuse, however inappropriate and ridiculous.

[JHB]

12. Is it really a trap?

A trap usually has some basis in reality, like the perjury trap laid for Clinton by getting him to lie under oath about Lewinsky, something that had no bearing on supposed reason for his deposition.

What they have in mind is "because the rules let us."

[Crunchy Frog]

4. I fully expect them to impeach him multiple times, and Harris as well.

Out of vindictiveness, political calculation, revenge, and simply because they can.

Best to start steeling ourselves for it now, instead of being shocked by it later.

[Deuxcents]

6. I think so, too

It’s a gotcha high school game/tactic at the expense of taxpayers and time getting the infrastructure n other bills meant for the betterment of our country.

[littlemissmartypants]

9. Very childish tit for tat. So predictable and churlish.

[Celerity]

20. agreed

[Hoyt]

7. Of course it is, never any doubt. It was predictable in early Nov 2020.

[NoMoreRepugs]

8. The toilet has been flushed and the water has started swirling -

America is NEVER going to be the same.

[Texaswitchy]

10. Yes.

Trump being in the White House.

I knew things would never be normal in my lifetime.

[monkeyman1]

11. give me a break !

the house would have to do it it first & if ya think Nancy would fly this , shit it's not even worth discussing .

[JHB]

13. The scenario here is if the Republicans get (not win: get) a House majority in the 2022 elections

[monkeyman1]

14. they will be lucky !

they will be lucky if 60% of their base is not dead by then ! the media playing up that there going to do this & that is quite stupid ! crunch the the # & you'll figure out mathematicaly impossible ! the one's that have left the republican party , the one that are incarcerate'd + the image the republican party has right now, all donations going to TFG instead of the rnc , TFG has killed the RNC ! not including the American people want chunck of ass ! so no the republican's are not taking nothing back ! get over it !

[JHB]

15. I'm not "getting over" anything until voter suppression measures are turned back.

[monkeyman1]

17. agreed 100 % ! need to keep these ass holes in court forever !

2 yrs yrs ago their main man kicked the bucket & been haveing a shit pot full of trouble doing there rigging of district's . especially since the the court's got hold of all his record's compliment of his wife ! republican's fought to get them & lost big time !

[hadEnuf]

18. And this is why the Democrats should beat the living shit out of the GOP at every given chance.

Any way, any how, and every time. And if there are no opportunities to do so then we create some.

They will continue to do the same to us until they are rendered unable to do so effectively or we surrender to them.


1/6/21 showed us that this is not a game any more. We really need to understand this.

[Champp]

21. Hey Republicans, What Would Jesus Do? WWJD?

Free clues: He would act with honor, integrity, dignity, truth, love, and with the best interests of the USA and the rest of the world at heart.

I have been to the mountain, sisters and brothers, and so let me testify. It turns out that cheating, lying, blindly seeking vengeance, pissing on the poor, and generally being unjust, grifty a-holes guarantees A ONE-WAY TICKET TO HELL. Kinda interesting, don't you think?