Jay Weber Show transcript 12-4-23 7:10am
On Saturday...house speaker Mike Johnson said that -because the Biden White House is stonewalling congress- they’re going to have to start an official impeachment inquiry.
And don’t get too excited or confused here: an inquiry does not necessarily mean-and does not require-that an official vote of impeachment is taken at the end of the process.
This move is more of a procedural move- that gives congressional investigators more legal power- once they do- make it.
After they take and approve an impeachment inquiry- James Comer and Jim Jordan and the committees investigating the Biden family corruption schemes get broader -and more enforceable- subpoena powers. Can force documents to be turned over.... etc.
And so, this is what Mike Johnson is talking about: taking that step of launching an official...quote. Impeachment inquiry...to give themselves more power to pursue Biden’s corruption and criminality.
The official impeachment inquiry vote could come this week-but is expected before congress breaks for the Christmas recess, either way.
Meanwhile, folks, deadlines to get onto state ballots are passing....and democrats are losing their window to have a back-up candidate on the ballot if Joe Biden dies or drops out.
I don’t see this as a huge deal, because you know party leaders are just going to rig things anyway, they want to -at next summer’s convention-if they must...
But for the democrat insiders and other interested people who would like to be the nominee if Biden drops out- it’s a big deal.
At some point, folks, the democrat party can’t really have a primary- because nearly all the deadlines will have passed to get a candidate on each state’s ballot.
And so, If you’re Gavin Newsome or JB Pritzker or Gretchen Whitmer....and you want the chance to be the party’s nominee if Biden doesn't make to January or February, well the window is closing.
Primary deadlines in the earliest states are passing-and other states-like Florida-have rules that allow the state party leaders to simply skip the primary if there’s no other contender on the ballot. So, one wouldn’t even be scheduled.
Well, they could try to cobble together something that looked like a primary in the remaining states-but what would have to happen is that the party leaders and delegates would need to pick a different nominee-at convention-
And that would be -wild.
That’s what this senior democrat means when he or she says- Kammy scares no one- everyone would want to submit their name for the nomination and the fight among delegates on the floor would be nuts.
It's still best for republicans if Biden is the nominee because he is-such- a train wreck and so-unpopular that he’d be the easiest to beat-
Instead of some ‘breath of fresh air’ who voters don’t know about and would be seen as the way out of the ‘Biden/Trump’ doom loop that we’re in.
Especially if Biden was to die: can you imagine?
Biden drops dead at 81....and the democrats and their media accomplices promote a much younger candidate against a 78 old Donald Trump who is roughly as old as the president who just dropped dead?
Suddenly- on top of being an impossible a-hole that 2/3 of the country doesn’t like-Trump would be seen as ‘too old’ to do the job, too. Cuz Biden’s death just proved it.
So-for our purposes on the right- we’d rather face Biden, but an old-fashioned rumble and floor fight that would create all sorts of new animosities within the democrat party structure would also be fun to watch.
And more and more insiders seem to be getting nervous about the fact that the party has no ‘plan b’.
And no, i don’t think the Biden insider’s plan would be to try to engineer it for Kamala Harris.
Remember- the Biden’s hate Kamala Harris and her team because they tried to make her ‘co-president’ and have been pushy and difficult ever since.
Also- if you saw Kamala Harris at the global warming summit this weekend-you saw a woman who yet again proved that she’s a complete fraud.
Harris had a ‘deer in the headlights’ response to nearly every question that was asked of her-
And said several new idiotic things.
And so, no, I don’t see the Biden team doing anything behind the scenes to ensure Kamala Harris is the nominee if Biden doesn’t run.
If he dies-outright- well, she’d automatically be made president and would be the de facto nominee going into convention- given that she already had the job.... but if she’d only held it for a few months and other candidates were motivated to try to take it away from her-
It would get ugly.
Still having Kammy in the job is at least ‘kind of clarifying’ as a plan b.
If Biden simply decided that he was ‘done’ after all, once he’s served out his term, then Kamala has no claim on the seat and the party goes to war with itself.
And remember-the democrat’s convention isn’t until august: you look at Joe Biden and tell me that that man is guaranteed to live until august of next year...
As it is- the top descriptions that voters use for Biden-when asked in focus groups or in surveys are old, weak, and tired.
We’ve talked about how a full seven in ten democrats now say they think Joe Biden is too old to do this job and don’t want to see another term for him.
Having done this for as long as I have-I know that the likeliest scenario is the most obvious one in politics.
And what I mean is: politics is like sports-where you’ve got all sorts of interested parties, with their own perspectives and motivations, teasing out conspiracy theories and guessing at things that never come true.
Most often, the expected thing happens. Especially in politics.
Most likely- Joe Biden does live thru this time next year and he-is-the nominee-and we -do have- a normal 2024 election between him and Trump despite the many years of swirling drama and all of the theories or scenarios that never came true.
So-most likely it’s Biden ‘trying to get a second term’ all thru next year and fall.
That said- I’ve never seen any sitting president be so ‘discounted’ for a second term.
It’s as if at least half of democrats are secretly rooting for joe to die....so they have someone else atop the party....and next year’s ticket.
I’ve never seen anything quite like it. And – I’ve never seen so many people who are spinning out those ‘replacement’ scenarios also be-so right.
Folks...when it comes to the possible scenarios surrounding Biden either dying or dropping out-all of them seem plausible. All of them are logical.
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