GOP plots onslaught of Biden probes in the run-up to 2024

[ificandream]

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Source: CNN

(CNN)Members of the far right are already agitating to launch impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden if the GOP is in power in Congress next year. Some leading Republicans want to spotlight former President Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud. And key House and Senate Republicans are vowing to probe the security failures surrounding last year's January 6 attack on the US Capitol -- and turn the attention to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

With Republicans on the cusp of taking back the House and Senate, the GOP is plotting an onslaught of investigations into the Biden administration and promising to make the final two years of Biden's first term in office as painful as possible for Democrats in the run-up to 2024. Those headaches could come in the form of subpoenas, the possible creation of select committees and high-profile hearings on issues ranging from the origins of the coronavirus pandemic to hearing from the President's son, Hunter.
Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, said he fully anticipates that Hunter Biden will testify before the committee if Republicans are in charge.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/republican-majority-investigation-plans-midterms/index.html

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Not a good election strategy, Republicans. This is dead news no matter how many times you flog it.

[dem4decades]

1. Why are they so good at fucking with us and we're so bad at it?

[ificandream]

2. But is it a smart move?

I don't think so. Hunter Biden is not an outrage anymore to anyone outside of the idiots that watch Fox. It's all cry baby whiney stuff.

[Gore1FL]

6. Are they?

They simply do stupid things in lockstep. We fail to do smart things because of disunity. I'd rather fail to do good things, than effectively do bad things.

[msongs]

7. because we have sinemanchin nt

[CBHagman]

9. Because we're not operating on rage and resentment but the rule of law.

Jim Jordan, ranting away with his mask at half-mast, isn't in Congress for the same reasons AOC is.

[NYC Liberal]

14. They're not good at it though.

Their "investigations" go nowhere and do nothing.

[NJCher]

19. They prove us righter

More votes for Biden was the outcome of their state voting “audits.”

[kairos12]

3. Chump set the precedent. The MAGA

rethugs can shove those subpoenas and hearings. No Dem should ever answer or show.

[PortTack]

4. So what's new...they did the same during the Obama years...minus the impeachment

The impeachment nonsense is to appease the orange mass. With a narrow victory in the house, cause that’s all it’s going to be they may not be able to do it. And of course the senate it will never happen

I’m sure President Biden is well aware of all this nonsense and does what he does best, give it no mind

[bucolic_frolic]

5. The insurrection advanced while security was paralyzed by one of their own

I think this insurrection will resonate for years if not decades. Returning to normal times will not happen so fast, and it won't be the same as the Great Benghazi Days Echo Chamber. Americans won't stand for it.

[monkeyman1]

8. I'm guessing a lot of them are right now figuring how to stay out of prison !

[Mad_Machine76]

10. Please proceed (if they win)

All they will succeed in doing is piss off and/or disgust a lot of people so that by 2024 people will be so disgusted, they'll throw them out and re-elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in a landslide

[Jon King]

11. Any plans on health care, climate change, educating kids to compete for future high tech jobs?

Nope, but they have plenty of plans to investigate Hunter Biden's art deal.

[elleng]

12. 'painful as possible'

Every damned period of repug power + administration pretty damned painful, SOCIOPATHS, every damned one.

[JHB]

13. I'd rather not be in a position to find out, but I suspect it would go much as it did for Clinton...

Namely, it would be such blatant bullshit and partisan persecution that his popularity would go up.

[KS Toronado]

15. Is this their new "Benghazi" ?

[C Moon]

16. The GOP is cornered.

[orleans]

17. such crap! (not you ificandream, not cnn, just THEM)

they are so fucking full of crap.

i'm so tired of all their bullshit

[monkeyman1]

18. everybody is glued to j-6 committee !

doing everything they can to distract from it ! the more comes out, the more they lie ! republican's retiring, trump being dead weight is a anchor around the rnc's neck ! Abbott & death sentence ronny not helping much ! with all this going down on trump & it will be interesting to say the least !!

[scarletlib]

20. Subpoena? what's that?

Democrats can just refuse to honor them. Republicans set the precedent.

[Omaha Steve]

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