John Fetterman hilariously makes fun of Republicans when asked about impeachment inquiry (video)

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I’ve been thinking that those pushing for it merely hope an investigation will raise suspicions among voters about Biden, not that it’ll actually result in something actionable.

Ah, HCR thinks so too, and of course says it better than i could:

This inquiry is not actually about wrongdoing; it is a reiteration of the same plan Trump tried to execute in 2019 when he asked Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to smear Biden before the 2020 presidential election. By launching an inquiry, Republicans can count on their false accusations spreading through the media, tainting their opponents even without evidence of wrongdoing. See, for example, Clinton, Hillary: emails.

Source:

Heather Cox Richardson

September 12, 2023 (Tuesday) Members of the House of Representatives returned to work today after their summer break. They came back to a fierce fight over funding the government before the September 30 deadline, with only 12 days of legislative work on the calendar. That fight is also tangled up with Republican extremists’ demands to impeach President Joe Biden—although even members of their own caucus admit there are no grounds for such an impeachment—and threats to the continued position of …