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GOP Lawmakers Clue Biden Into His Future, Post Midterms, as They File Articles of Impeachment

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President Joe Biden and the Democrats are being made very aware that after the midterms, the same treatment the left gave President Donald Trump is going to be given to them, only this time the reasons for the treatment won’t be made up.

According to The Hill, four GOP congressmen have filed articles of impeachment aimed at Biden over his conduct and decisions over the last nine months. These lawmakers include GOP Reps. Bob Gibbs (R), Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Brian Babin (Texas) and Randy Weber (Texas).

“It’s clear the President is not up to the job, that his entire administration is willing to thumb its nose at the Constitution. Though Pelosi’s House will not hold [Biden] accountable, it’s incumbent upon House Republicans to call out his egregious violations of his oath of office,” tweeted Gibbs.

This will mark the second time impeachment articles have been submitted against Biden, with Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green having led the first effort the day after Biden was in office. Like the previous effort, it’s highly unlikely that this impeachment attempt will find any traction in a House and Senate still dominated by Democrats, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that the midterms aren’t going to be kind to the Democrats.

Biden’s horrendous polling indicates Democrats are in for a rough time with 41 seats predicted to be pried from Democrat’s hands. According to the Washington Examiner, one strategist said you can predict election outcomes based on presidential popularity:

Public Opinion Strategies pollster Glen Bolger said it’s easy to track election outcomes to presidential polling, and with Biden’s sinking approval, Democrats are likely to lose about the 41 seats Trump lost, 34 more than the GOP needs to take control. And that’s before House district lines are redrawn to conform to new Census Bureau data.

“As baseball great Yogi Berra famously said, it’s deja vu all over again,” Bolger said in unveiling his cache of new polling data.

The congressmen are likely under full knowledge their impeachment attempt will fail but this seems to be more about firing shots over the bow of Democrats than it is about attempting to accomplish a result, at least for now, and Republicans want voters to see them doing it.

In the minds of voters who have watched their economy tank, Americans abandoned in Afghanistan, their cities and neighborhoods invaded by illegal migrants, rising crime rates, COVID-19 hysteria, an impeachment of the man at the center of it all seems more and more like a fun and fulfilling prospect. The GOP would love nothing more than to give voters something to look forward to if they’re allowed to retake power in the House and Senate.

This isn’t just a warning to Biden and the Democrats, it’s a promise to voters.

Democrats are Watching Helplessly As Their Influence Over Florida Is Destroyed

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Florida was once considered a battleground state, but whatever influence the Democrats had over the Sunshine State is swiftly disappearing as issue after issue plague their efforts to gain momentum and their footholds are disappearing for the first time ever.

According to The Hill, Democrats are facing a myriad of issues such as a fundraising gap a mile wide when compared to the Florida GOP. This is on top of the fact that the voter registration advantage that they’ve held for years has effectively been destroyed, going from 700,000 more registered voters in the state to just 23,551 over the course of 2008 to today.

It’s clear that the Democrats just don’t have the morale to fight a motivated Republican party in the state led by the right’s most popular governor, Ron DeSantis.

Speaking of Ron DeSantis, it’s some of his actions that have further made the Democrat’s prospects of victory even smaller thanks to rule changes in the state’s voting laws. With voting now more secure and less prone to confusion or fraud, Democrats are feeling less and less hopeful:

At the same time, Democrats are facing daunting structural challenges, including Republican-led redistricting and a controversial new election law pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) that puts new restrictions on the collection of mail-in ballots and the use of drop boxes.

“It feels a little bit like we’re kind of set up to fail,” one Florida Democratic official said. “It’s not any one person’s fault. A lot of these problems have existed for years. But for a party that has been decimated in the last few elections and especially the last one, I’m not seeing a sense of urgency yet.”

The eyes of strategists are now on the upcoming midterms, and Democrat strategists believe that it’s going to take the entire bulk of the Democrat party’s strength to turn Florida around, but as it stands, one is predicting they’ll lose their voter registration advantage completely by the end of the year, something that has never happened before.

“Without a full-frontal, professional and accountable partisan effort to turn it around, sometime before the end of this year, there will be more Republicans registered in Florida than Democrats — that has NEVER happened before,” wrote long-time Democrat strategist Steve Schale in a blog post. “And, given their voters have higher turnout scores — this isn’t a great place to start.”

With all this, and the fact that Democrats aren’t liking the prospects of their candidates removing DeSantis or Senator Marco Rubio, it would seem that the time of Florida being a battleground state may be over.

“Democrats just either get wiped out or come agonizingly close and lose,” said Aubrey Jewett, a political science professor at the University of Central Florida, according to The Hill.

“Florida is still a battleground, just based on our recent election history and statistics. We have had a lot of close statewide elections. But that label might have to be withdrawn if Republicans sweep up another time or two.”

The Buzzsaw Awaits Joe Biden and His Cohorts

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Much of the analysis surrounding Joe Biden’s downfall has centered on national approval ratings. RedState has covered that issue extensively, noting that the president appears to have no support floor. That makes him much more like George W. Bush and less like Donald Trump.

But underneath the national discussion lies the environment that truly matters as we head into 2022, and it’s not looking good for Biden and his cohorts.

Biden faces dismal job approval ratings in several battleground states, including Michigan, Virginia, and Iowa, where the president garnered the lowest score since George W. Bush in 2008 in a survey this week.

Fewer than one-third of Iowans approve of Biden’s job as president at 31%, compared to 62% who disapprove, according to a Sept. 12-15 poll for the Des Moines Register/Mediacom by Selzer & Co. Seven percent said they were unsure.

The Des Moines Register poll is a “gold standard” poll. It’s the one everyone watches during the presidential primaries because it’s always so accurate, and they have Biden down at 31%. Things aren’t any better in Michigan, a state that has a Democrat governor and two Democrat senators. A recent poll has the president at 39% approval there, with those who “feel strongly” about their disapproval doubling those who strongly approve.

Then there’s Virginia, where Glenn Youngkin is making an unexpected comeback in the upcoming race for the governorship against Terry McAullife. As the Examiner points out, Biden won that state by 19 points in 2020. Now, Youngkin, who was left for dead a month ago, has closed to within six points and leads with independents.

That race will be a major barometer for 2022. If Youngkin loses by less than 10 points, that’s a major shift away from Democrats compared to just a year ago. And if the Republican somehow pulls off the upset, it’ll be a ground-shaking victory that sets the stage for an absolute Democrat wipeout next year.

Regardless, all of these state-level data points show an upcoming buzzsaw for leftist dreams. While Biden isn’t personally up for re-election in 2022, if the GOP retakes just the House, it effectively ends his presidency. Further, if they retake the Senate, it ends his ability to add radicals to the judiciary. That would complete the collapse of power.

If I’m making predictions, I think Democrats have passed the point of no return. I can not fathom what event could happen that would turn around the current trajectory. Republicans just have to shut up and let the left continue to implode and they will win the House by default next year. If they show some spine in opposing the Biden agenda, including during this upcoming shutdown and reconciliation fight, I think the Senate will be in play as well. GOP voters are out there. They are just looking for some motivation to really blow things out of the water.

The Biden presidency is in a total freefall, and all of it is completely self-inflicted. History says the first mid-term is almost always a political graveyard for the party in power. Couple that with redistricting and these terrible state-level numbers and things are looking bleak for the Democrats. But I believe the final nail in the coffin is what’s happening at the border. Normal Americans are seeing scenes they’ve never seen before while the White House spends its time lying about CBP agents and whips. The disconnect is too stark, and it will matter.

All of This Is Just a Series of Media Distractions

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Somewhere along the way, we all lost the plot.

We focused on Biden’s plan to enable OSHA to mandate vaccines in private businesses, but when you actually look around… you don’t see that story advancing at all. Meanwhile, the Biden administration killed an innocent man and a handful of children. A week later, we are still talking about the former and not really discussing the latter.

We focused on a blown-up submarine deal involving Australia and France, but while that dominated headlines we continued to get no answers on Americans and allies still trapped in Afghanistan.

We focused on a false media narrative about Border Patrol and the whips they definitely didn’t use in pursuit of illegal immigrants at the border. Meanwhile, POLITICO just comes out and says “By the way, looks like the Hunter Biden laptop story was true!” and there are crickets from the media and the left.

We continue to focus on things like the Emmys, the Met Gala, and events like that while ignoring stories that have actual, real-world consequences. The Democrats stripped financial aid for Israel’s Iron Dome, a purely defensive system, because their far-left members oppose Israel’s right to defend itself from terrorists with black market missiles. The Biden team is cutting off all access to the media. Time and again, these issues go largely unquestioned by the media, who will instead focus on meaningless issues.

This is all intentional, though. They want you to be distracted by the nonsensical stuff because the real stuff is much more terrifying. Does not funding the Iron Dome move the political needle at all? No, but helping to fund it is the morally right thing to do for our allies.

It’s when all these little things get the coverage they should be getting that Americans start to see just how inept the Biden administration is. There are signs that they are noticing it – the Iowa poll from earlier this week has Biden way underwater, and the RealClearPolitics average has him a few points underwater. But the big issues are not getting the coverage they should be. We should be asking every day the exact number of people still trapped in Afghanistan. We should be asking about why Democrats would strip that Iron Dome funding. We should be asking why the media treated the Hunter Biden laptop story with such callous indifference.

Yes, you and I know the answers here, but the public needs to have it on the record. It needs to be out there every day. If the media’s job is to hold truth to power, then that’s what they should be doing.

…But they aren’t. They won’t. That is the sad, pathetic reality, and that is why we have to keep pressing these issues.

Nancy Pelosi Promises to Keep Beating Her Head Against a Brick Wall

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It seems that Rep. Nancy Pelosi has lodged her response to Sen. Joe Manchin’s threat to leave the table regarding the Democrat reconciliation play.

Manchin threw a brush-back pitch earlier today, putting it out there that he’s comfortable with pausing Biden’s entire agenda until 2022, Pelosi is apparently eager to keep ramming her head into a brick wall. That’s not exactly surprising given how overrated her political acumen is. I’m sure she’ll eventually win that battle, right?

Tonight, the House Majority Leader released a statement that can only be called delusional given the realities of the situation in front of her.

It’s hard to imagine that Pelosi could be so out of touch that she actually believes a $3.5 trillion package is going to still happen, but here we are. In fact, she signals in her statement that the real problem might be House Democrats thinking $3.5 trillion is too low, something I’ve mentioned being a problem given how dug-in the far-left appears to be. But when Manchin has already said he’s concerned about inflation (as he should be) and wants to keep the price tag closer to $1 trillion, how does any compromise get made here? Remember, there’s already a $1.2 trillion, separate bipartisan infrastructure deal waiting to be passed as well.

I mean, look at the list of giveaways Pelosi is demanding. Action on “climate,” free childcare, free college, universal pre-K, more ACA subsidies, an expansion of Medicaid and Medicare, and a partridge in a peartree. She then ends by saying that this bill is just the beginning of their spending spree. It’s like she wants to crash the economy and make a dollar worth less than a sheet of toilet paper. Perhaps collapsing the system is the point, though?

But again, what leverage does she actually have to do anything she’s pushing? I’m not seeing any. Pelosi can flail about all she wants, but if Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema (who also recently told Biden to stuff it) won’t go along with the big-spending plan, then it’s dead in the water. The phrase “cut your losses” comes to mind, but Democrats, including their leadership, seem content to keep celebrating while being down four touchdowns.

Far be it from me to give Pelosi advice, but I’ll do so for giggles…just this once. She should tell the radicals in her party to shut their mouths, get in a room with Manchin and Sinema, and pare down the reconciliation bill to around $2 trillion. Punt on the insane climate provisions, forget the immigration aspects and take the wins on childcare credits and more government healthcare spending. I suspect the moderates would go along with that in the end.

Pelosi has painted herself into a corner, though. Does she take the side of her left flank or throw a bone to the moderate faction of her party that’s staring at annihilation in 2022? As of now, it looks like she’s content to keep having her face meet that brick wall. And to be honest, that’s just fine with Republicans who are happy to sit back and watch it all burn.