{"id":56619,"date":"2024-02-23T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56619"},"modified":"2024-02-23T00:01:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T00:01:33","slug":"biden-inquiry-waste-of-time-and-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56619","title":{"rendered":"Biden inquiry: waste of time … and money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Congressional Republicans approved the President Biden impeachment inquiry a few months ago.<\/p>\n

Their aim — and, yes, their desire<\/em> — is to find something on which to impeach the president. They have come up empty. There’s no “there<\/em>, there,” to borrow a phrase from the late Gertrude Stein.<\/p>\n

It just appears to me that there never will be evidence of a “high crime” or a “misdemeanor” on which to impeach the president.<\/p>\n

If ever we are witnessing a vendetta, this is it. Republicans still are steaming over the House’s impeachment — twice, in fact — of the president who most recently wore the GOP label. (Be advised that I won’t mention the moron’s name on this blog).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah, I know the Senate acquitted him but only because the GOP majority in the upper chamber lacked the guts to convict him of (a) soliciting a political favor from a foreign head of state and (b) inciting the mob to storm the Capitol Building on Jan. 6. I point out, too, that on the second impeachment, the Senate recorded 57 votes to convict the POTUS of inciting the mob, but the constitutional standard required the Senate to find 67 votes<\/em> to boot the president from office.<\/p>\n

In both cases, you had actual high crimes on which to convict, but it didn’t happen.<\/p>\n

Republicans are launching their own inquiry into whether to impeach Joe Biden. I am still scratching my noggin and wondering: What in the name of vengeance is the crime? What has Joe Biden done, specifically, to merit this phony inquiry?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Has anyone produced anything resembling a crime, or an allegation of a crime? No! They have not! Instead, we now hear that a key witness who was supposed to produce the goods has been indicted for lying to the FBI. Pretty damn credible, eh?<\/p>\n

This matter will produce the same result that the GOP witch hunt into “Benghazi” produced. Not a damn thing!<\/em><\/p>\n

It is a monumental waste of time. Indeed, it is a waste of money that Republicans keep telling us we cannot afford to spend on important issues that matter.<\/p>\n\n

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Congressional Republicans approved the President Biden impeachment inquiry a few months ago. Their aim — and, yes, their desire — is to find something on which to impeach the president. They have come up empty. There’s no “there, there,” to borrow a phrase from the late Gertrude Stein. It just appears to me that there … Continue reading Biden inquiry: waste of time … and money<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8688,13,14],"tags":[1941,8947,2280,2505,7419],"class_list":["post-56619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-gop","tag-impeachment-inquiry","tag-insurrection","tag-joe-biden","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56620,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56619\/revisions\/56620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}