Los Angeles Times Article RatingOpinion: Hapless House Republicans weaponized impeachment. It backfired
Apr 21, 2024 View Original Article
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| "The Senate found that the two charges -- that he willfully and systemically refused to comply with Federal immigration laws and breached the public trust -- didn't clear the Constitution's high bar." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "(And by the way, back then 45 Republican senators also voted to dismiss the Jan. 6 counts against Trump without a Senate trial.)" | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Take, for example, Democrats' most recent impeachment resolution, the one against Trump after Jan. 6, 2021, for inciting violence against the Government of the United States." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
| "If tit-for-tatting Republicans opt in the future to trash impeachment articles covering actions as grave as that, they can answer to history, as those who voted to acquit Trump back then already are." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "Republicans rely on a false premise when they allege, as Comer has, that Democrats cheapened impeachment when they impeached Donald Trump twice." | Negative | -88% Liberal |
| "The clownish lead investigator, House Oversight Committee chair and Fox News regular Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, last month told donors in a fundraising letter -- notice a pattern here, Republican leaders playing to monied interests?" | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Back then, some chest-beaters were vowing to impeach President Biden as well as members of his Cabinet, starting with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the administration's border security czar, and sweeping up Atty." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "So much for the buildup from the House Republicans' chief impeachment manager, Rep. Mark Green." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "With Mayorkas, at least they gave dear leader Trump and the party's MAGA base something." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Gen. Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray (a Donald Trump holdover, by the way), Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Lord knows who else." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "The case was designed to put President Biden's immigration policies on trial, he added." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "What makes the collapse of the Mayorkas prosecution all the more deflating for House Republicans is the fact that they'd pressed the matter as it became clear that the air was sputtering out of their main effort, impeaching Biden." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "The hope is that the department is about to come under new management -- by a reelected Trump, Mr. I am your retribution himself -- that will welcome the allegations." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Just more evidence that the Biden and Mayorkas impeachment crusades have been purely political exercises." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Schumer and Co. set a precedent all right, but a good one: The Senate need not take seriously any articles of impeachment based on policy spats and politics rather than high crimes or misdemeanors." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The hard-liners said the quiet part out loud: They wanted to deprive Biden of a win and keep the border debate alive as a campaign issue." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "But now they're essentially 0 for 2.House Republicans have all but folded the Big Top on the Biden impeachment circus." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "As the Biden impeachment effort foundered, the Mayorkas impeachment took center stage, doubling as Republicans' platform to stoke voters' anger about migrant surges at the border." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "But MAGA Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio said Democrats will come to regret dismissing the Mayorkas impeachment articles, when a Republican-run Senate someday does the same to impeachment articles from a Democratic-majority House." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Both Trump impeachments, including the first one for pressuring Ukraine to investigate Biden before the 2020 election, easily cover the sort of misconduct the Founders had in mind, I'm confident." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Both Trump impeachments, including the first one for pressuring Ukraine to investigate Biden before the 2020 election, easily cover the sort of misconduct the Founders had in mind, I'm confident." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Both Senate and House Republicans are harrumphing that Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York, and his fellow Senate Democrats, set a terrible precedent by dumping the impeachment case against Mayorkas without a full trial." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "-- that instead of seeking Biden's impeachment, he'll send a criminal referral (again, crimes TBD) to the Justice Department." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "The two well-deserved Trump impeachments are so different from Mayorkas' and the Biden attempt they shouldn't even be called tit for tat." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "The two well-deserved Trump impeachments are so different from Mayorkas' and the Biden attempt they shouldn't even be called tit for tat." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Take, for example, Democrats' most recent impeachment resolution, the one against Trump after Jan. 6, 2021, for inciting violence against the Government of the United States." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "If tit-for-tatting Republicans opt in the future to trash impeachment articles covering actions as grave as that, they can answer to history, as those who voted to acquit Trump back then already are." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Republicans rely on a false premise when they allege, as Comer has, that Democrats cheapened impeachment when they impeached Donald Trump twice." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
| "Republicans rely on a false premise when they allege, as Comer has, that Democrats cheapened impeachment when they impeached Donald Trump twice." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
62% : The Senate found that the two charges -- that he "willfully and systemically refused to comply with Federal immigration laws" and breached the public trust -- didn't clear the Constitution's high bar.37% : (And by the way, back then 45 Republican senators also voted to dismiss the Jan. 6 counts against Trump without a Senate trial.)
23% : Take, for example, Democrats' most recent impeachment resolution, the one against Trump after Jan. 6, 2021, for "inciting violence against the Government of the United States."
21% : If tit-for-tatting Republicans opt in the future to trash impeachment articles covering actions as grave as that, they can answer to history, as those who voted to acquit Trump back then already are.
6% : Republicans rely on a false premise when they allege, as Comer has, that Democrats "cheapened impeachment when they impeached Donald Trump twice."
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