There is a lot of talk on the news about the possibility that President Joe Biden might be impeached. Some members of the U.S. House of Representatives have, somewhat prematurely, called for articles of impeachment, and the House is actively investigating Mr. Biden’s conduct when he was vice president.
President Biden is entitled to the presumption of innocence, and it is not our job to convict him here. If they are able to gather sufficient evidence, the House can present articles of impeachment to the U.S. Senate. It will then fall to the Senate to convict or acquit him.
Although we should allow the duly constituted authorities to present charges and render judgement, as citizens we have the right to full disclosure of these proceedings. It is our duty to inform ourselves, and we should critically examine the grounds for impeachment to try to understand what is in the best interests of our country.
When he was vice president, I always thought of Joe Biden as Barack Obama’s insurance policy against impeachment. Although I also thought that the legislative branch might find it repulsive to go down in history for impeaching the nation’s first African American president, I genuinely believed that nobody … but nobody … would be dumb enough to want Joe Biden to become our chief executive if Mr. Obama were impeached.
Well, now I have the same reservations about impeaching President Biden. LOOK WHO IS ON DECK TO TAKE HIS PLACE. Do we really want Kamala Harris to become our next president – regardless of how short her term might be? Heaven forbid. We would have to look long and hard to find a worse president than Joe Biden. Or, we need only to look at Vice President Harris.
After President Andrew Johnson was impeached, and narrowly acquitted, in the spring of 1868, there were no further attempts at impeachment until President Bill Clinton was impeached in the winter of 1998. Perhaps the need did not present itself. I wonder, however, if it was because our elected leaders understood that the impeachment of a president is a destructive and divisive process that does the country more harm than good.
As much as the known evidence seems to indicate that there is reasonable cause to believe that President Biden may have committed such crimes as Influence Pedaling, Accepting Bribes, or even Treason, I hope that the legislative branch will take into consideration the harm that will be done to our country by impeaching him. I hope they will take a good, hard look at the dangers involved in making Vice President Kamala Harris our next president.
We only have a year until the next presidential election. Let’s hope the American voters have learned their lesson. I pray that the voters will decide they have had enough of Joe Biden, but let's leave it to the voters to decide.
