Home Republicans’ fevered effort of prosecute first and hope you discover proof later led to Monday’s ever worsening clown-car-over-the-cliff really feel as Republican Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) pressed on to say that the actual scandal was President Biden’s son repaying a $4140.00 automotive mortgage. Sure, I’m afraid that is what Republicans supply to buttress their unsupported claims after they began their impeachment effort in September that Biden was responsible of taking $5 million in bribes from international entities.
Except each dad or mum who buys their grownup child a automotive and is repaid for it’s responsible of taking a bribe from a international entity, this isn’t solely weak sauce, however is so nakedly pathetic it has develop into the butt of limitless jokes with mother and father responding with feedback like, ‘We bought our kid a car in 2018! See you in the slammer!’
The White Home responded Tuesday morning with what reads like a weary surprise over the willingness of Home Republicans to proceed making absolute fools of themselves of their makes an attempt to appease former president Donald Trump by manufacturing “evidence” to justify impeaching President Biden.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene may be clamoring for the House to proceed to impeachment, but numerous House Republicans have already gone on record that the evidence just doesn’t back it up. Americans already overwhelmingly believe House Republicans are prioritizing the wrong things, and any vote to move ahead with MTG’s favorite pastime would reveal that she is truly calling the shots in this extreme House Republican conference,” White Home Spokesperson for Oversight and Investigations Ian Sams mentioned in a press release despatched to us.
He continued, stating that Home Republicans are ignoring the problems that almost all People need them to be addressing: “All these House Republicans and their colleagues should answer for why they would change tune now and go along with her baseless exercise to smear President Biden when their allegations have already been thoroughly fact-checked and debunked, instead of focusing on the issues they claimed they would prioritize when they ran for office, like lowering inflation, growing the economy, and strengthening national security.”
Rep. Greene (R-GA) goes so laborious on impeachment as a result of she is Donald Trump’s wingman within the Home. She’s there to verify his petty retributions are carried out and to amplify Q-Anon conspiracies that preserve the bottom engaged and enthralled to the 4 instances indicted for 91 felony counts former president. To be truthful, that’s a number of work. However it isn’t the work for which she is paid by the individuals. It’s marketing campaign work that needs to be funded by the Trump marketing campaign.
It’s exhausting chasing after every accusation made by Home Republicans, which have thus far all been debunked after thorough reality checks. This can be a good place to remind readers that the impeachment course of isn’t presupposed to be ‘Toss crap at the wall to see what sticks’ — however fairly, impeachment is a treatment provided primarily based on strong proof {that a} president has dedicated “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Shopping for an grownup son a truck and mentioned son paying it again in 2018 doesn’t qualify. This large scandal of a son repaying a mortgage additionally occurred throughout a time when Joe Biden was neither Vice President nor President. He wasn’t even working for workplace. And truly, what’s being highlighted right here inadvertently is what a very good father Joe Biden is and likewise that Hunter Biden was attempting to get his life straight by repaying a mortgage.
The White Home is at present run by a person who has been in public service virtually his total grownup profession. He has a status for working laborious, which is smart as a result of he comes from a center class background, the place individuals know they aren’t going to be handed something without cost.
You’ll be able to think about that this man, our President, is none too amused to see the Home of Representatives run round like slavish devotees of the Marjorie Taylor Greene conspiracy-laden model of do-nothing-but-set-fires-and-then-use-fire-to-extort-entire-government-into-wasting-money-and-time “conservatism.”
Add to this degree of frustration the truth that Home Republicans aren’t solely refusing to do the work for which they’re paid by you, however the one work they keen to do is making up tales to appease the MTG faction.
Simply weeks in the past, Home Republicans needed to be rescued by Democrats in an effort to move a spending invoice to keep away from one more self-inflicted authorities shutdown menace. Then they had been pressured to cope with now former Consultant George Santos due to the growing list of alleged crimes (Conspiracy, Wire Fraud, False Statements, Falsification of Data, Aggravated Id Theft, and Credit score Card Fraud) and ethics violations of which he’s accused. In the meantime, they’ve been combating amongst themselves a lot they’re already sad with newly elected Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
Beware, mother and father of america. It’s possible you’ll mortgage your grownup kids cash, however they have to not pay you again. Don’t increase accountable kids and don’t count on grown adults to repay loans, or else Home Republicans would possibly impeach you.
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