Speaker Kevin McCarthy is for the first time publicly warming to the possibility of an impeachment probe against the president at a moment when Washington is bracing for a potential third criminal indictment of his predecessor . McCarthy floated the idea on Fox News Monday then doubled down on Capitol Hill a day later . The speakers comments were just the latest sign that the House GOP majority is seeking to create a counternarrative of corruption focusing on Biden to take the heat off the twiceimpeached Trump . The prospect of a divisive impeachment battle in the middle of an election season already reeling from Trumps two indictments would surely deepen political divides . A Biden impeachment drama could fire up GOP base voters please conservative media backers and create a false sense of equivalence over the conduct of Trump and Biden among some voters already exhausted by years of bitter polarized politics . Such a scenario would fuel fears among some historians that the process is no longer a rare constitutional remedy of last resort but is becoming a more regular partisan reflex . After only one presidential impeachment in the first two centuries of U.S. history, it could fuel fears about the process . The White House has repeatedly debunked GOP accusations Biden has denied any wrongdoing . But even if they fail to produce any evidence Republicans may still see an advantage in moving toward impeachment . The House Republicans may not be able to produce such evidence . The idea of an impeachments would certainly deepen political . It could also be to . ignore the fact that the impeachment of an indictment of the president. The House of Representatives is not to be impeached. It would not be to impeach itself. It could be to expunge Trumps or to expundate Trumps’s two impeachencies. It is to expune itself .
McCarthy again marches to Trump’s tune by invoking Biden impeachment inquiry . McCarthy again marched to
