The Biden Administration had been prepared for House MAGA Republicans to come up with a bullshit impeachment inquiry for more than a year, with only really the timing taking them slightly by surprise on Tuesday – two days earlier than they had expected – sources tell Politico Playbook of a White House otherwise fully armed and operational to take on a disorganized, half-assed effort.
Biden’s campaign is readying a PR offensive a source says is centered on “hammering Republicans for… trying to use this impeachment as a way to to help Donald Trump’s political prospects. And telling the American people, ‘This is an effort to damage President Biden. It is all about getting revenge and vengeance,'” for the two times Trump was impeached for trying to derail Biden.
Meanwhile, Colorado Freedom Caucasian Ken Buck still does not appear anywhere near on-board with the effort, telling the Daily Beast it’s a major “self-inflicted wound” for low-testosterone House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. “He’s the one that raised the issue of impeachment. Everybody on the outside wants to talk about it, let them talk about it – we have an institution and we have to keep it moving. How do you go to Democrats and say, ‘I need your vote on the [continuing government funding resolution],’ right after I’ve said, ‘I’m going to beat your president?’ It’s crazy,” Buck added.
Two other House Republicans went on record with Beast to express similar wariness of McCarthy’s feckless, ill-advised move. “I wouldn’t be pre-committed to a course of action,” said North Carolinian Dan Bishop. “If there’s no there there, then there’s no there there. Then we say ‘Hey, you were right, we were wrong, let’s move on down the road,’” Oklahoman Kevin Hern said. Of course they are Republicans and this could all very easily change. After all it took McCarthy just 11 days to change his mind about whether an impeachment inquiry required a full floor vote from the House.