Biden Derides GOP Impeachment Efforts; “They Want To Shut Down The Government”

deadline.com:

If Joe Biden is breaking a sweat about GOP efforts to impeach him, he certainly didn’t show it today. “First they just wanted to impeach me,” the president told doners and supporters at a reelection fundraiser in Virginia tonight. ‘Now best as I can tell, they want to impeach me because they want to shut down the government,” he added of the green light Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave yesterday to an inquiry by House Republicans into “serious and credible allegations into President Biden’s conduct.” Instantly mocked by most Beltway pundits and surely linked to business deals by Hunter Biden over his father’s long political career, this impeachment is widely seen as a hope to distract the public from the potential shutdown of the government on September 30 if a dozen of appropriations bills aren’t passed and signed by Biden in the new two weeks.

On a realpolitik level, the long threatened Biden impeachment seems to be partly a move by McCarthy to save his Speakership from dissenting hardcore members of his caucus and a flex by Donald Trump to show his control over the GOP and to hobble the man who beat him in 2020.

In his first remarks on the impeachment subject, Biden was dismissive of the long time efforts of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and others to start up efforts to remove him from office.

Stating he “has a job to do,” Biden quickly moved on to other topics and familiar tropes Wednesday with the deep-pocket crowd under a tent at the McLean, VA residence of David Frederick and Sophie Lynn, according to pool reports.