A GOP Congress Should Impeach Biden on Five Counts

What China thinks of Biden's Taiwan gaffe and less than meets the eye on pointless trade moves in Asia Pacific

With gasoline and food prices hitting record highs, the economy likely entering recession, and the cratering of American power, an unpleasant reality is becoming more obvious: Joe Biden should be removed from the presidency. The next GOP Congress should make Biden’s impeachment its first order of business.

The RealClearPolitics generic poll average of whether voters prefer Republicans or Democrats currently gives the Republicans a two-percent edge. However, some of the more reliable polls in the average show a margin of up to nine percent. Historically, when the poll is merely tied, Republicans gain decisively in congressional elections.

In November, voters are likely to shift control of the House of Representatives to Republicans. The Senate is in play too, with even previously safe seats like that of Colorado Democrat Michael Bennett now giving the Democrats’ fanboys in the media heartburn.

When a hopefully Republican Congress gets to work in January, it should impeach Biden on five counts:

1. Economic Catastrophe. Inflation that was previously dismissed as a one-off shock from excessive government spending and dollar dilution has now set into the economy like a persistent fog. Grinding price increases at the gas pump and supermarket are leaving every American poorer. Biden refuses to call off the Left’s war on domestic energy. The stock market bubble is popping, perhaps to be followed by the housing market. While it has yet to dawn on most elite economists, the economy is probably already in recession.

2. Open Border Globalism. Biden and his friends in both parties spend a lot of time and money on the sovereignty of irrelevant Ukraine, which ought to be Europe’s problem, but how about the sovereignty of the USA? Biden has opened the southern border to just about anyone who wants to cut in line ahead of those waiting to immigrate here legally. Communities across the country are facing intense disruption and crime while our elite just sent $40 billion of borrowed money to Ukraine (except 11 Republicans brave enough to vote no).

3. Racism. Joe Biden has been a racist for his entire career—something his own vice president recognized and accused him of in a presidential debate. Victor Davis Hanson sums up Biden’s racialism, which goes beyond condescending outbursts accusing black skeptics of his politics that “You ain’t black” and stating that his opponents will “put y’all back in chains.” His recent comparison of pro-Trump protesters to a racist mass murderer in Buffalo was beyond the pale. Democrats are guilty of the racism and racial obsession of which they accuse others, and it is time to put an end to this divisive force in our politics.

4. Humiliating America. Biden humiliated America on a scale unseen since the Fall of Saigon through a collapse in Afghanistan he engineered through his trademark incompetence. Important leaders in the Middle East don’t even take Biden’s calls anymore. Biden is risking war with Russia to cover up his failures and recently signaled he might lift Trump-era tariffs on China, which lavished millions on his loser son, Hunter Biden.

5. Acute Senility. The presidency ages every man faster than other jobs, and Biden did not start off energetic and spritely. He is now shaking hands with thin air and making statements that his handlers are busy correcting before he even walks away from the microphones. He crapped his pants in an audience with the Pope. In our system of government, the unitary executive branch must be administered ultimately by one man, not a committee of woke staffers. We need a chief executive, not a chief dotard.

But golly, none of these are “high crimes and misdemeanors” that the Constitution stipulates may trigger impeachment. And won’t useless Beltway Republicans like Mitch McConnell prefer just to appreciate their new nicer offices and parking spots that come with being in the congressional majority to actually doing things?

Probably, but that would be a mistake.

First of all, history has made impeachment entirely political. The first impeachment was against Andrew Johnson, who succeeded the assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Ostensibly he violated a phony law that purported to prevent him from removing his own cabinet officers. In reality, congressional Republicans went after the Tennessee Unionist for not being venal enough against the defeated South. He survived by a single vote in the Senate.

Republicans impeached Bill Clinton for lying about sex. True, he lied under oath, technically a felony, but most Americans didn’t think that warranted firing. They saw it instead as an exercise in politics.

And then there was Trump, who had to be impeached not once but twice in our highly politicized times. The first had to do with Ukraine, a corrupt liability that has tampered with American politics to a degree the Russians could only imagine. The second was over a riot Trump explicitly discouraged. Pure politics.

But shouldn’t Republicans set an example instead of continuing to define down impeachment? Emphatically not. Democrats do in fact learn from the examples that Republicans set—they learn that Republicans are weak and gullible. Case and point: from the attempted high-tech lynching by Democrats of Clarence Thomas in 1991 to a similar star chamber proceeding by minority Democrats against Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, Republicans rolled out the red carpet in hearings for Democrat nominees to the Supreme Court presuming they were setting an example of collegiality and comity that Democrats would surely follow. They didn’t.

Impeachment has become the equivalent of a vote of no confidence. A new Republican Congress will get nothing past Joe Biden’s veto pen except maybe a budget full of unpalatable compromises, so it might as well weaken him through impeachment. A trial in the Senate will ultimately fail to remove Biden, but the proceedings will punctuate further for the public the demented state that Biden and the political movement and party he represents have achieved.

Simon & Whiton

In our latest video podcast episode, Mark and I discussed Biden accidentally stating the obvious about Taiwan before his aides walked it back, as well as recent trade moves in Asia Pacific, Bongbong Marcos, and what the Chicoms want in the Solomon Islands. Have a look or listen.

I also enclose a Fox Business hit on the topic of Taiwan and how it is different than Ukraine.

Fox Business: How helping Taiwan defend itself is a vital U.S. national interest unlike wasting money on Ukraine that Europe should be paying. Video: https://bit.ly/389OO0O