GOP leaders launched an impeachment inquiry in part so people wouldn't assume Biden is innocent. Those same pressures are likely to lead to floor votes.
House Republicans did not need to launch an impeachment inquiry targeting President Joe Biden. In fact, propriety and common sense suggest the endeavor is ridiculous: GOP officials spent months trying to uncover incriminating evidence, and they failed spectacularly. Escalating matters, rather than finding a new hobby, is indefensible.
But as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced the inquiry this week, I was reminded of recent reporting that suggested GOP leaders had effectively boxed themselves in, to the point that they no longer felt they had a choice. in early August that House Republicans had said privately that “if they don’t move forward with an impeachment inquiry now, it will create the impression that House Republicans have essentially cleared Biden of any wrongdoing.”launch an impeachment inquiry, not because of the facts, but because of perceptions. To follow the evidence might make the president look better, so the absence of evidence had to be ignored.
That, is of course, a possible outcome. Maybe Republicans will proceed with their inquiry, struggle once again to find anything useful, realize that they lack the votes to pass articles of impeachment, and conclude the smart move is to simply let this whole fiasco quietly fade away.The reality for the 58-year-old, nine-term McCarthy is that once he opens an impeachment inquiry, it’s almost guaranteed that House Republicans will impeach Biden.
In other words, Republicans felt pressured to launch an impeachment inquiry because they didn’t want the public to believe the president is innocent, and they’re now likely to move forward with actual impeachment votes because they still don’t want the public to believe the president is innocent.is a nagging detail that GOP officials are prepared to treat as entirely irrelevant.
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