The differences between Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and his predecessor Nancy Pelosi go far beyond Republican versus Democrat. Pelosi had nothing and rapidly moved to impeach President Trump twice. McCarthy has everything and is taking forever to impeach Joe Biden.
It’s telling that McCarthy’s latest statement about impeachment came late on a Friday. That’s the magic moment in politics when announcements are made or press releases are dropped to get them the least amount of attention from the media.
According to Breitbart, McCarthy is only going to launch an impeachment investigation into Biden once the House votes to do so. By comparison, Pelosi simply announced she was launching investigations and had an actual vote on it months later with the first impeachment of Trump.
Breitbart, which appears to support McCarthy’s strategy, posted:
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made clear to Breitbart News on Friday that if House Republicans move forward with an impeachment inquiry into Democrat President Joe Biden, the move would come not as an announcement from him or anyone else, but from a formal vote on the floor of the House.
“To open an impeachment inquiry is a serious matter, and House Republicans would not take it lightly or use it for political purposes. The American people deserve to be heard on this matter through their elected representatives,” McCarthy told Breitbart News. “That’s why, if we move forward with an impeachment inquiry, it would occur through a vote on the floor of the People’s House and not through a declaration by one person.”
Doing so would require a majority—at least 218 votes, assuming the House is at full attendance for such a vote—of members of the House to vote for such a move. While opening a formal impeachment inquiry is not a vote to impeach the president, it is a massive escalation by the lower chamber of Congress towards doing so—and it would also provide the House with extraordinary new investigative and law enforcement powers in terms of compelling testimony, enforcing subpoenas, and digging into Biden’s behavior and the culture of corruption surrounding the president.
Let’s be crystal clear so there’s no ambiguity. The House GOP has bank records, plus a massive number of damning emails, text messages, and whistleblowers to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that then-VP Biden and the entire Biden Crime Family participated in felonious crimes against America.
Pelosi had a single partisan whistleblower and a perfectly fine phone conversation when she launched her investigation.
As Bonchie at Red State noted, it seems like McCarthy is trying to run out the clock on the Biden presidency without launching an impeachment:
I hate to be the cynic here, but this is McCarthy taking an out on impeachment, likely ensuring it will never take place. By contrast, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the 2019 impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump from the floor.
All of this hemming and hawing by McCarthy and the House GOP is intentional. Whether to somehow enhance their own political careers or to defend the UniParty Swamp, they’re doing nothing but talking about impeachment. They’re pretending like they’re doing all of this talking as preludes to action when in reality they’re just talking in lieu of action.
And they’re probably going to get away with it. Why? Because far too few Republicans are demanding action now. Sure, we may hop on social media and whine about the feckless GOP, but there’s no real accountability. They’re on track to avoid impeaching Biden or at least delaying it until after the 2024 election. This is unacceptable.
IF there is an impeachment, it needs to be soon. The only way I see that happening is if the outcry from the people is loud enough. Even then, our representatives on Capitol Hill no longer listen to the will of the people. Perhaps they never really did, but at least they pretended in the past. Today, they constantly take actions that the people don’t want. They do this with no remorse. They do this with no fear of repercussions.
I’m hopeful that we can make our voices heard, not because I believe it’s true but because to accept that it’s not true is to acknowledge that our government is fatally flawed. Many already believe it is, but I’m not quite ready to accept that. Call me an optimist but I’m going to continue to scream at them until someone tells me to shut up.
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How can you impeach what never was? By impeaching your acknowledging he won. You can’t have it both ways! You need to prove the election was stolen and as such revoke all signed orders, addendums, understandings, treaty’s and decisions with one wave of the pen. But all you get is no standing, no standing, no standing and dismissal. At some point people will have to acknowledge there was fraud BUT Pence hit the ignore button and moved ahead with bad data. Thus they swore in the loser. Making him legit. McCarthy knows if you impeach it has to goto the Senate for it to hold any water. If that passes, you have President Kammy. #46..#47.. Then you impeach her and its #48 President McCarthy. He doesn’t want to be President.
I’m fed up with McCarthy and his moronic way of running the House. All he has done so far is to surrender to the democrats and Joe Biden.
myself and many others tried to tell them in congress NOT to make this POS the house speaker
Kevin has got to GO! That crook in the WH has got to be impeached!
The one chance of correcting this idiotic government gets blown by the installation of a coward or worse a closet commie, which I think he is
I was under the impression he was to be removed if he pulled stupid sh*t like this.
So it seems matt Gaetz and the other caucus members were full of crap when they said he will be a conservative and do the right thing, instead he helps o’biden
We better do something because if we don’t, there will not be a country left to do anything about.
The route cause of all that is wrong in the USA is election fraud by the democrats, cover up by the complicit media, and cooperation by RINO’s who are uni-party.
Our only hope of saving the USA is “TRUMP” in 2024
Let’s not delude ourselves; McSkiddish et al know the score, and they foolishly believe they can come to terms with the devil. He’s a bum, but he’s -their- bum, and he’s doing what -they- want him to do, throwing a bone to the masses now-and-again. How else could a closeted CALIFORNIAN with a never- Trumper- pollster for a roommate POSSIBLY become Speaker…..? He has supeona power and refuses to use it. He has no intention of rocking the boat and is just humoring those of us who seek justice.
They don’t have the senate, so the best thing is to keep the pressure on. A Biden resignation puts Harris at the head of the ticket, which is more damaging that 1/2 of an impeachment.
McCarthy is dignifying it.