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Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced that three committees will open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Republicans have been investigating Biden since they took control of the House but have not found concrete evidence of misconduct from the president.
According to Straight Arrow News contributor Dr. Rashad Richey, McCarthy is facing pressure from extremist House Republicans and needed to open the groundless inquiry to protect his position as Speaker of the House.
Now, I actually predicted he would make a move like this if his power was ever, well, let’s just say opposed by members of the GOP. Remember when he got elected? The extremist faction of the Republican Party — people like Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert and others — said “no” to giving him the votes that he needed in order to become Speaker of the House. They held on to that “no,” and then all of a sudden, they became a “yes.” I said then, you only get that “yes” if you have made an agreement that we don’t know about.
Well, part of that agreement that we do know about is the very weak leadership formation of his speakership. How is that? Well, according to the rules designed just for him, he can literally be called to defend his seat at any time, giving him really no room to make decisions without having to calculate the political outcome of his leadership capacity.
So, he announces the impeachment inquiry. This is red meat for the Republicans. And this is people like Matt Gaetz and others controlling the speaker which we already knew was happening. But look at what he’s citing. He’s literally citing things that happened pre-presidency. I mean, if we went pre-presidency for Donald Trump, this would be an entirely different conversation, if that happened during his tenure as the commander in chief.
