Republicans have nothing better to do with our time than trying to censure Adam Schiff and impeaching Joe Biden. That’s on the agenda for tomorrow or the next day. Florida MAGAt psychopath Anna Paulina Luna tried censuring Schiff last week and failed so she’s trying again with a slightly different approach (no $16 million fine). Many of the cowardly Republicans who opposed her last week say they’ll go along with it this time— after Trump denounced each of them by name as “RINO pieces of garbage.” Why do Republicans hate Adam so intensely? As Noah pointed out last night, Schiff summed up the first impeachment of the man whose boots Barr licked all that time, with this too close to the bone sentence: "We must say enough— enough! He has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again." As for the crazy, frothing-at-the-mouth Luna, she would probably like to censure Chris Christie too— but someone likely told her she can’t.
Meanwhile, the twin lunatics, Boebert and Traitor Greene, are forcing impeachment resolutions onto the floor of the House. The handful of vaguely serious Republicans in Congress are furious with the two MAGAt asswipes. Boebert’s— which will be voted on this week— charges Biden with abuse of power and dereliction of duty over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border. Axios reported that “Some centrist and swing-district Republicans have balked at the idea of impeaching Biden's cabinet secretaries, let alone Biden himself, without clear evidence of wrongdoing. ‘I don’t think that impeachment is something that should be taken lightly,’ Biden-district Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) told Axios last week. ‘I think the House should only impeach when it is likely... to have the votes in the House and the Senate.’”
A couple of hours later, in a closed door GOP conference meeting today, McCarthy urged members to vote against Boebert’s crazy resolution, warning that this kind of childishness could result in the GOP losing the House in November. “What majority do we want to be. Give it right back in two years or hold it for a decade and make real change?” Too many Republicans in swing districts have complained to McCarthy that Boebert's and Traitor Greene's crackpot wasting time is making the party look bad to independent and moderate voters and that they could lose their seats since if they vote against this stuff, the MAGAts in their districts get all inflamed.
Boebert didn't bother to attend the conference meeting. Instead she frittered away her time chit chattering with Steve Bannon on his whackadoodle podcast, bad-mouthing about her colleagues in Congress. She complained that the House Republicans aren't doing what she wants so... “This, I’m hoping, generates enthusiasm with the base to contact their members of Congress and say, ‘We want something done while you have the majority.’” On GOP Hill staffer who I spoke with told me that the Republicans intend to keep the majority by "ignoring idiots like her... She's going to lose her seat next year. Most of the rest of us are still going to be here. No one wants to follow that [misogynistic expletive deleted] down a rabbit hole. Maybe she can go back to being an escort." And then Marjorie Traitor Greene got up on the House floor and called Boebert a "little bitch" over whose impeachment resolution should get voted on first. The actual put-down from Traitor Greene was "I’ve donated to you, I’ve defended you. But you’ve been nothing but a little bitch to me. And you copied my articles of impeachment after I asked you to cosponsor them." Boebert responded, "OK, Marjorie, we’re through."
Earlier today, Andrew Solender wrote that the messaging bills that appeal to no one but the MAGAt base— and turn off swing voters— are also turning off some GOP members. “Those ‘messaging bills’ constitute much of what the House Republican majority has focused on over the last six months— and there's no sign GOP leaders intend to change course… ‘At some point, if all we can do is pass messaging bills through our caucus that have no chance of light of day, of actually becoming law, then there will be some, you know, bipartisan immigration efforts,’ said Rep. John Duarte (R-CA). ‘We should be working more on the House side to build legislation that can actually pass the Senate too,’ said Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT), vice chair of the Republican Governance Group… Rep Nancy Mace (R-SC) told Axios: ‘I know that for folks on both sides of the aisle, in those 30-35 seats that are swing districts, those lawmakers, myself included, we want to be effective.’”
As for impeaching Biden, this morning Politico reported that “Privately, many Republicans are cringing, worrying that the snap impeachment votes are waaay premature and could easily turn the national focus away from allegations of a ‘weaponized’ Justice Department to a divided Republican Party at odds over ousting Biden… What’s certain is that the vote will subject rank-and-file Republicans to an uncomfortable choice: supporting a threadbare impeachment or exposing themselves to attacks from the right— and potential primary threats.”