If you thought Democratsâ efforts to impeach former President Donald Trump were excessive, you havenât seen anything yet.
During an episode of CNNâs âThe Axe Files with David Axelrod,â Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) suggested that President Joe Biden could face weekly calls for his Impeachment if Republicans retake the House.
âBack before we had all the crazies here â just some crazies â you know, every vote we took, we had to somehow defund ObamaCare,â Kinzinger said.
He continued, âThatâs going to look like childâs play in terms of what is going to demand of .â
âTheyâre going to demand an Impeachment vote on President Biden every week. Theyâre going to demand things like letâs make abortion illegal in all circumstances on this omnibus bill. I think it will be a very difficult majority for him to govern,â Kinzinger added.
Listen to his comments below:
Kinzinger, a member of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, has not been shy about calling out who he sees as the âcraziesâ of his party.
And he may have a point about weekly calls for Bidenâs Impeachment.
Already Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has filed articles of Impeachment against Biden twice. And Joe Kent, a Republican candidate for Washingtonâs 3rd Congressional District, said earlier this year that he believes it would be Republicansâ âjobâ to impeach Biden.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) also predicted that a Republican-controlled House would impeach Biden.
Weekly Impeachment votes against Biden would be a ridiculous game that would only weaken the significance of the move and make it less likely that senators would view Impeachment charges as serious enough to convict a president.
But this comes after Democrats spent years calling for former President Donald Trumpâs Impeachment. As early as 2017, Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) filed impeachment charges against the 45th president.
And in Jan. 2019, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) vowed, âWhen your son looks at you and said âMamma, look, you won â bullies donât win.â And I said, âBaby they donât, because weâre gonna go in there and weâre gonna impeach the motherf***er!ââ
Following the Jan. 6 riot, Congress had the opportunity to send a clear message to future presidents by swiftly impeaching Trump. However, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) delayed the process by trying to get then-Vice President Mike Pence to do the Democratsâ dirty work and invoke the 25th Amendment.
Instead, Democrats waited a week to impeach Trump in the House and the Senateâs Impeachment trial did not even begin until he had left office.
What has until recently been seen as an emergency valve to remove a president for high crimes, has now essentially begun to be viewed as just another political tool to bludgeon presidents of the opposite party.
During Trumpâs first Impeachment, Republicans warned Democrats that future Democratic presidents would face Impeachment proceedings. And it seems that those warnings could soon come to fruition.
