Republicans Are Trying to Impeach President Biden in Bad Faith

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has formally announced impeachment proceedings against President Biden.

This, as with most things Republicans do, is being done entirely in bad faith.

Republicans and their sycophants in the conservative media ecosphere would have us simultaneously believe that Biden is a doddering old man with dementia while at the same time the head of the "Biden crime family". Sorry folks, but no. You can have one or you can have the other. But you cannot have both.

Of course, all of this is brought to you by the folks who decry the weaponization of the federal government who have launched a query to find something, anything to remove President Biden from office. Meanwhile, they look credulously at defeated, former President Trump's conduct while in office. 

It might have been Speaker McCarthy who made the announcement, but it was Marjorie Taylor Greene who was doing the talking. After all, it was Greene who first introduced articles of impeachment against President Biden the day after he was sworn into office. Back in May, Greene introduced articles of impeachment against President Biden concerning his administration's handling of migrant crossings across the U.S.-Mexico border. 

I hate to break it to the Marjorie Taylor Greene's of the world, but policy differences are not "high crimes and misdemeanors" are not grounds for impeachment. And while Biden's son Hunter might have broken the law, it does not mean his sins have been visited upon the President. This too is not grounds for impeachment. On the other hand, threatening to withdraw military aid from a foreign government unless they open an investigation against your political rivals or trying to unlawfully prevent the peaceful transfer of power are grounds for impeachment. 

I think most people recognize that President Biden, even if they are not very fond of him, hasn't done anything which rises (or more accurately sinks) to the level of defeated, former President Trump's conduct. But these inquiries might put in enough doubt that some voters to view Biden to be as morally, ethically and criminally deficient as Trump. 

When it comes right down to it, the whole objective of seeking to impeach President Biden has nothing to do with his actual conduct but to weaken him sufficiently for voters to see fit to return Donald Trump to the White House. Nothing more, nothing less.