{"id":601665,"date":"2023-12-19T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/press-impeach-me-now-tell-me-why-later\/"},"modified":"2023-12-19T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T13:00:00","slug":"press-impeach-me-now-tell-me-why-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/press-impeach-me-now-tell-me-why-later\/","title":{"rendered":"#Press: Impeach me now, tell me why later\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/comerjames_121323gn03_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>            <iframe title=\"Audio Article\" id=\"instaread_iframe\" name=\"instaread_playlist\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" style=\"display:block\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For Republican members of the 118th Congress, it\u2019s a good thing they can\u2019t be expelled for legislative malpractice. If so, they\u2019d all be out of a job. And rightfully so.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last week\u2019s\u00a0vote to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden\u00a0is one of the most irresponsible actions taken in the history of Congress. It is breathtakingly baseless, cynical and malicious.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>As written, the impeachment clause has always been problematic. Although the Founding Fathers gave Congress the power to impeach a president, they never spelled out exactly what he could be impeached for, other than the vaguely-defined \u201ctreason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Then-Rep. Gerald Ford (R-Mich.) famously remarked that \u201can impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But nobody ever thought Congress would impeach a president for no reason at all \u2014 until now. And it\u2019s important to understand why House Republicans are doing so. Not because they have any proof that Biden has committed \u201chigh crime or misdemeanors\u201d as president. In fact, everything they accuse him of \u2014 again, without evidence \u2014 occurred when he was vice president.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are on the impeachment warpath against Biden for only two reasons, both driven by Donald Trump. The first reason is pure revenge. Their first rationale for impeachment goes no deeper than this: Democrats impeached Donald Trump twice (for good reason), so now that they\u2019re in power they\u2019re going to impeach Joe Biden, whether he did anything wrong on not \u2014 just to make Donald Trump h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y and give Democrats a taste of their own medicine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The second reason is to create a diversion. With\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/trump-cases-georgia-washington-florida-nyc-charges-key-dates-213951743.html\">Trump facing 91 felony charges<\/a>\u00a0in four courts, his legal battles are bound to dominate political <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> coverage in 2024 \u2014 unless Republicans can successfully put up a smoke screen. Their second rationale for impeachment is just as shallow. Look, they can now cry, Donald Trump\u2019s not the only one charged with wrongdoing. So is Joe Biden. It goes with the job.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the only problem is that after spending a whole year bloviating, Republicans still don\u2019t have a case. Yes, Biden\u2019s son, Hunter, traded on his father\u2019s name and made millions doing so, but despite several \u201cblockbuster\u201d hearings, neither Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) nor Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) have produced one shred of evidence that even one dollar made it into Joe Biden\u2019s pocket.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>As the Washington Post\u2019s Philip Bump has conclusively shown, while Comer and Jordan say they \u201cthink\u201d and \u201cfear\u201d that Biden\u2019s somehow linked to his son\u2019s seedy business dealings, they\u2019ve produced no evidence to date, only \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/12\/14\/biden-impeachment-inquiry-comer-evidence\/\">a link and a universe they\u2019re still struggling to manifest<\/a>.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Surely, it\u2019s not too much to expect Congress to find evidence of wrongdoing before launching an impeachment inquiry, and not begin an inquiry in the hope of finding some evidence. Yet that\u2019s what every Republican member of Congress voted to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If only they\u2019d heeded the advice a member of their\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/177517\/mike-johnson-impeachment-warning-2019\">conference issued back in 2019<\/a>: \u201cThe Founding Fathers, the founders of this county, warned us against single-party impeachment. You know why? Because they feared it would bitterly and perhaps irreparably divide our nation\u2026If you don\u2019t like the president, he goes on the ballot again after four years. We have an election again in eleven months. Let the people decide this.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>That was Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), four years before he became Speaker and, like Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) before him, surrendered to the demands of the Freedom Caucus. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Press\u00a0hosts \u201cThe\u00a0Bill\u00a0Press\u00a0Pod.\u201d He is the author of \u201cFrom the Left: A Life in the Crossfire.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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