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The impeachment of President Biden and other American nightmares coming in 2023 | Will Bunch
With polls, gerrymandering making a GOP House all but inevitable in 2023, Americans need to ponder a year that could tear the nation apart.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/president-biden-inpeachment-2023-gop-house-20211118.html
Imagine this: Its a gray, chilly day in Washington, D.C., in March of 2023. A handful of protesters from left-leaning groups like Indivisible are huddled outside against the icy Potomac winds, but mostly theres a climate of disbelief in the nations capitol as the GOP-dominated House of Representatives wraps up debate over the impeachment of Josephy Robinette Biden Jr., 46th president of the United States.
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This is Americas immediate future, and yet with all the sometimes ridiculous inside-the-Beltway speculation about less urgent and less likely matters like whether Democrats ditch Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg its clear that neither the press, the public, nor the political classes are truly ready for the year that is going to shake American democracy to its core: 2023.
A couple of developments this week brought the collision course that looms a little more than a year from now into sharper focus. On Capitol Hill, the bitterly partisan fight over Wednesdays censure of Republican right-wing zealot Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona whod tweeted a cartoon video of him killing Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed the depths of the GOPs obsession with political revenge if and when the party retakes control of Congress. Said McCarthy, currently the minority leader: What they [Democrats] have started cannot be easily undone."
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If anything, what Republicans are willing to do with Trump out of power could ultimately prove an even greater threat to democracy than actually having the authoritarian-yet-inept Trump in the White House. Democrats need to begin sounding this alarm today that voters who turned out in near-record numbers in 2020 to defeat the culture of Trumpism need to defy history and show up next November, to prevent something even worse. Yes, todays electorate is tired of chaos, but they should wait until 2023 because they aint seen nothing yet.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)when there was still time. They quickly passed voting laws that would have blocked republicon cheating and stealing.
Biden said he would sign them.
If only we had 50 Democrats in the Senate, the filibuster could have been eliminated or bypassed and we could've gotten those bills sent to him to get signed into law.
As it is, we're facing permanent fascist republicon rule.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,582 posts)SunImp
(2,224 posts)MichMan
(11,910 posts)temporary311
(955 posts)they won't have the votes in the Senate, just like they never had the votes to repeal the ACA, yet how many times did the house vote to repeal it anyway? Expect two years of that.
inwiththenew
(972 posts)No serious person thought there would enough votes in the Senate when Clinton or Trump was impeached to actually remove the President.
rampartc
(5,403 posts)speaker of the house just long enough to impeach biden and harris
hamil
(8 posts)with regard to Trump as speaker of the house.