"Smell of blood" and "thirst for revenge" are the most repeated phrases in local reports in recent weeks about the plans of US Republicans for when, if the forecasts come true, they take control of the House of Representatives in the legislative elections on November 8. The impeachment or accusation for the purpose of dismissal of President Joe Biden, as well as the Secretary of National Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, head the agenda of the revenge of the candidates for election or re-election closest to Donald Trump and the extreme right. But there is internal debate.
“They will call for the impeachment of Biden every week. And they will propose things like a law to ban abortion under any circumstances.” This is not said by a Democratic leader, but by Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger, who knows the percale well, although he is almost out of the organization due to his active role within the investigative committee of the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and for being one of the ten members of his party who voted in favor of the impeachment of Donald Trump, in the Lower House, for his responsibility in the insurrection.
The movement to launch and vote on an impeachment against Biden in Congress is led by far-right representative Marjorie Taylor Green, who in fact has already presented five of the new and symbolic proposals for resolutions formulated by the Republicans so far in the legislature, knowing that that the Democratic majority would make them unworkable already at first reading.
The impeachments that in his case were formalized against Biden after a Republican victory in the House of Representatives could prosper in that instance, by a simple majority, but it would be almost impossible for them to go ahead in their entirety, as they require the approval of two-thirds of the Senate (67 out of 100). And it is not easy even for the Conservatives to win a minimal majority in the Upper House in the midterm or midterm elections in November. Still, the noise of an affirmative vote to impeach the president would be enormous.
Among the reasons that are alleged to politically judge the Democratic leader, the most extreme wing of the Republican caucus cites his alleged knowledge of the alleged financial irregularities of his son, Hunter Biden; the coercive policies to combat covid, the withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 or the management of the migratory flow on the border with Mexico: an argument that they also mention to vote for the dismissal of the Secretary of the Interior, Alejandro Mayorkas.
Taylor Greene, known for her insults to undocumented immigrants (“rapists”), Black Lives Matter protesters (“terrorists”) or doctors who perform abortions (“murderers”), will not be alone when asking for blood against Biden and his team. To get an idea of the strength that the extreme right and Trumpism will have in the new chamber, it is enough to take into account that more than half of the candidates for that body, for the Senate and for the position of governor of the states support Trump's false statement that Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election was "a fraud."
Already in January of this year, the influential senator from Texas Ted Cruz advanced that the Republicans would politically accuse Biden “whether justified or not”, as according to him the Democrats did with Trump. More recently and repeatedly, Washington representative candidate Joe Kent has promised to present impeachment proposals against Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris “from day one” of the new legislative period.
The Republican leader of the Lower House, Kevin McCarthy, has been reluctant to impeach Biden "for political reasons." But the pressure to give it course will be high. McCarthy does defend many other measures to disarm Democratic policies from that body, and has suggested the possibility of using the necessary increase in the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip to force cuts in items such as Social Security and medical aid. of the less affluent (Medicare).
Other actions of deactivation or retaliation that are being considered in the Republican ranks with the horizon of a probable victory in the House of Representatives are those that nullify or turn around the investigations into the assault on the Capitol.
The highly polarized political struggle in the United States, already fierce enough today, may become more and more bitter.
