Shorter Johnson: Whitewater Benghazi Solyndra Eat Your Heart Out

By Frances Langum — October 27, 2023

Shorter Johnson (yes, I will stoop to that): Whitewater Benghazi Solyndra Eat Your Heart Out.

They never learn, do they? Mike Johnson told Hannity (yeah) that OF COURSE the Republican House, with a minuscule margin of power, will impeach Joe Biden in 2024. I mean, it's not like they have anything else to do, amirite?

And don't forget that they have no evidence, and Mike here doesn't actually get how to bring a bill to the floor yet.

By the way, has he MET experienced-in-impeachments Dan Goldman and Jaime Raskin?

Go for it! Hey, Mike, do you know what Dan Goldman and Jamie Raskin know to do with insulated neophytes like yourself? pic.twitter.com/k1DFxo3IZk

— Frances Langum (@bluegal) October 27, 2023

Never forget that the Republican impeachment of Democratic presidents is done to provide election-year content to Fox News and right-wing hate media. "Evidence" be damned. Emptywheel has it exactly right:

We're back to being tools of process stories treating a no-evidence impeachment as a thing.

¶14 before there's any mention that GOPers are pursuing impeachment with absolutely no evidence ot justify it. https://t.co/0UNkrFpABB pic.twitter.com/lvwYDD8KSP

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) October 26, 2023

At some point--maybe after @jamescomer gets caught in his 50th lie--you stop calling this an investigation and instead call it revenge porn?

I mean, holy hell, Gary Shapley has been totally discredited. The only thing left are Grassley's fever dreams. pic.twitter.com/IejZ4aHKWM

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) October 26, 2023

The mainstream press, however, so desperately wants a 2024 horserace that they'll ignore the evidence and focus on the "politics" of it all. But it looks like some nervous House Republicans may have second thoughts.

BREAKING: Rep. Mike Garcia (R-Calif.) contradicts Speaker Johnson's lies that there is "evidence" to justify a Biden impeachment: There's no "smoking gun" and @GOP needs to have "at least some evidence,” says Garcia. https://t.co/93xDJpwpk7 #GOPTraitors #GOPLies

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) October 27, 2023

My take is the Republican House caucus has a deeply buried desire to be in the minority again, and their Freudian ids are going to get their wish.

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