There’s been a lot of talk about the possibility, even before Biden took office. In fact, Marjorie “That Idiot” Taylor Greene promised that she would introduce articles of impeachment against Biden on day one of the 2021 congressional session.
I know that Republicans want to take back the White House as soon as possible. Do you see them writing up articles of impeachment for Biden if they retake Congress in the '22 elections? And if so, for what?
Could such an impeachment effort succeed? And if it does, would they impeach Kamala Harris too? And if so, would they have put Trump, who NO ONE ELECTED into Congress, as Speaker of the House so he can retake the presidency? (You want to talk about a coup? That would be the worst coup in American history.)
Why would they impeach random citizen Joe Biden when their genius brains inform them that a fella by the name of Trump won the last election, and is still president?
To “take back the White House” in this fashion they would have to impeach both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris (assuming of course that the GOP takes back the House so there is a Republican Speaker) and while it isn’t that I would put it past them to try—it isn’t as if they are going to overcome their own now-ingrained obstructionism to achieve anything else in the legislative session—but they are mathematically not going to be able to get the Senate votes to convict and remove. So any hypotheticals about electing Trump as Speaker and elevating him into the Presidency in a Hitler-as-Chancellor-style silent coup are essentially impossible, but just the attempt would further erode confidence in government and perhaps inspire his followers to elect him in 2024.
In any case, the GOP would certainly constipate all legislative agendas and otherwise bringing the functioning of the federal government to an effective halt, and then blame the administration for not accomplishing anything because that’s just business as usual for the Republican Party in the 21st Century.
What’s the mathematically highest number of Senators the Republicans could have after the 2022 elections? And what is the likely number that they will have?
You think that all five states (NV, AZ, WI, PA, GA) identified on that maps as “Toss-Up” are going to go Democratic? Unlikely; not only will the 2022 elections play out conventionally, there is a better than even chance that the GOP will pick up at least two seats, and potentially four. Of the six senators up for reelection who won their prior election by less than five percentage points, only one is a Republican (Ron Johnson (WI)) who is virtually a lock despite narrow margins. The announcement by Roy Blunt (MO) that he wouldn’t run in 2022 opens up that seat to competition between Eric Schmitt and disgraced former governor Eric Greitens, who ironically can probably use his ethics problems and being forced out of office to plus up his support among Trumpy anti-government voters (never mind the paradox of anti-government skeptics voting authoritarian leaders to office); either candidate can probably better their margins over Blunt if they can get the vote out in the largely rural electorate outside of St. Louis and Kansas City.
I haven’t followed House elections because there are just too many but in sixteen out of twenty-two mid-term elections since FDR the party of the President occupying the White House has suffered double-digit losses in the the House of Representatives in mid-term elections and there is currently only a margin of twelve Democrats with five vacancies. While I think that Biden had done an objectively decent job in the first two years of his presidency given the circumstances, his legislative agenda has effectively stalled even with a Democratic majority (albeit one with the slightest of margins) and he is facing a potentially ruinous economy on top of the employment and debt undertaken during the pandemic on top of all of the culture war nonsense that Fox News can churn out. At least historically, the odds favor a party flip of the House, and I don’t see the kind of conditions (good economy, popular war, national public works program to reduce unemployment) to subvert that expectation.
OK, I think we’re missing each other here. There are Republicans who think that Trump is president. They aren’t kidding, they believe that.
So then how could they impeach Biden, nevermind.
In @BobLibDem 's defense, the trend of the President’s party performing poorly in the midterm is less pronounced in the Senate than it is in the House. Most recently, in 2018, as Democrats were picking up 41 seats in the House, Republicans netted 2 seats in the Senate. I wouldn’t really be surprised by any outcome within the +2R to +2D range.
Not “Giggles.” More like “Kackles.” At least, according to the RWNJ message board that I look in on from time to time. They seem to have a third-grade mentality about name-calling: Shrillary, Hitlery, Obummer, Xoe Brandon, Kackles, and so on. Oh, and Justin “Blackface” Trudeau comes up a lot in discussions about Canada, even though that event occurred years ago, Trudeau has owned up to and apologized for it, and as a result, most Canadians have forgotten about it. But the American RWNJs have long memories, and never miss a dig if they can get one in. As a result, it’s third-grade name-calling at its best.
What I also see at that board, in relation to the OP’s question, is a wish for Republicans to retake Congress, so they can impeach Mr. Biden. Why? No real reason, except “it’s payback time, for what you did to Trump.” When pressed for a reason, they respond with “Well, Xoe Brandon (i.e. Joe Biden) raised gas prices” (which he did not, as he had no control over them) or “He’s thrown the southern border wide open, and a hundred thousand Mexicans a day are pouring in.” And other such made-up reasons.
Eventually, no matter the reasons and rebuttals, it always comes back to, “it’s payback time, for what the Democrats did to Trump.” So yes, I believe that if the Republicans retake Congress, and obey their base, they’ll impeach Mr. Biden. For no real reason, except “it’s payback time.”
Yes, it’s mainly just about fucking things up and pwning the libtards.
Removing Brandon would be a win on these counts. And installing Giggles would give them something to scream about, then they could remove her too, which would be another win.