{"id":1983512,"date":"2023-07-26T18:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T22:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ken-buck-slams-mccarthy-for-floating-possible-biden-impeachment-inquiry-shiny-object\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T18:30:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T22:30:54","slug":"ken-buck-slams-mccarthy-for-floating-possible-biden-impeachment-inquiry-shiny-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ken-buck-slams-mccarthy-for-floating-possible-biden-impeachment-inquiry-shiny-object\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Buck criticizes McCarthy for suggesting a potential Biden impeachment inquiry as a distraction tactic."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fken-buck-slams-mccarthy-for-floating-possible-biden-impeachment-inquiry-shiny-object%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1983512&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Rep. Ken Buck Criticizes McCarthy&#8217;s Comments on Possible Impeachment<\/h2>\n<p>Rep. Ken \u2062Buck (R-CO) \u2062has called out House Speaker Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s\u200c (R-CA)\u2064 recent remarks\u200d regarding a potential impeachment of President Joe Biden. Buck argues that McCarthy&#8217;s comments are \u200bmerely a distraction from more pressing\u2062 matters, such as the debt ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>Buck expressed his support for an investigation into the president but dismissed calls for impeachment as nothing more than &#8220;impeachment theater.&#8221; \u2063He believes that focusing on impeachment detracts from the important tasks at hand and sets unrealistic \u200dexpectations for the public.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;What he\u2019s doing is saying there\u2019s a shiny object over there, \u2062and we\u2019re going \u2063to focus on\u200b that. We just \u2062need to get all these things done so we\u2063 can focus on the shiny object,&#8221; Buck\u200c told CNN on Wednesday. &#8220;This is impeachment theater. I \u2063don\u2019t \u2063think it\u2019s \u2063responsible\u200c for\u2064 us\u200c to\u2064 talk about impeachment. When you start raising the \u2018I-word,\u2019 \u2062it starts sending a \u2063message\u200c to the public,\u200d and it sets expectations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McCarthy&#8217;s comments came after he stated that potential misconduct by the president \u200bhad reached \u200da\u2064 level warranting an\u2062 impeachment inquiry. Such an inquiry is a preliminary step towards initiating\u200c articles of impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, House Speaker McCarthy\u200d is facing pressure from within his own party to backtrack on a previous agreement he made with President Biden \u2063to raise the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-responds-to-bidens-debt-ceiling-jab-ahead-of-meeting\/\" title=\"McCarthy Responds to Biden's Debt Ceiling Jab Ahead of Meeting\">debt ceiling earlier<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE\u200c TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON \u200bEXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We right now are starting the appropriations process, and there is\u2062 no consensus \u200don what the [budget] number should be,&#8221; Buck explained. &#8220;Kevin McCarthy promised when he was running\u2062 for speaker one set \u200bof \u200cnumbers, \u200band then he made an agreement with \u200cPresident Biden for\u2062 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-calls-on-congress-to-move-forward-on-raising-debt-ceiling\/\" title=\"Biden Calls On Congress To \u2018Move Forward\u2019 On Raising Debt Ceiling\">debt ceiling increase<\/a> on another set of numbers. The party itself is not in agreement, and \u200cwe\u2019re going \u2062to have some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ken-buck-slams-mccarthy-for-floating-possible-biden-impeachment-inquiry-shiny-object\/\" title=\"Ken Buck criticizes McCarthy for suggesting a potential Biden impeachment inquiry as a distraction tactic.\">real trouble passing<\/a> some appropriations bills.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for both \u200bchambers of Congress to reach a budget agreement with \u2063the White House is \u2064September 30. Failure to do so could result in a government shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) dismissed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s (R-CA) remarks on potentially impeaching President Joe Biden as a mere distraction from more pressing matters like the debt ceiling. While Buck supports investigating the president, he considers calls for impeachment to be nothing more than &#8220;impeachment theater.&#8221; HUNTER BIDEN PLEA: PRESIDENT&#8217;S SON.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1983513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}