Characteristic of the teenage mentality permeating his caucus, Speaker pro tem Kevin McCarthy gets snide with a reporter who questions him about his support for an impeachment investigation.
“Okay, let me first correct you. Were you there when I said that?” McCarthy asks the reporter like he’s an adolescent boy trying to use Super Logic on a teacher. “Okay, so yer– you’re claiming that I said we’re going to impeach the President.” The reporter responds that McCarthy floated the idea, to which an indignant McCarthy snaps back, “I floated the idea of impeachment? Okay, so you’re wrong. So if you record, go back and watch. I said ‘impeachment inquiry.’ There is a big difference.”
Here’s what Kev doesn’t want to admit: at the end of said “inquiry,” articles of impeachment will be voted on because McCarthy has already promised the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene and her “little bitch” LB² Lauren Boebert vote on impeachment on the House floor. How do we know this will happen? Because if it wasn’t meant to lead to an impeachment, the investigation could have been pushed off onto a standing committee which already have investigatory powers, not one specifically about impeachment.