{"id":2025979,"date":"2023-09-08T14:53:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T18:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-fetterman-tries-to-play-enforcer-issues-republicans-a-biden-impeachment-challenge\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T14:55:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T18:55:26","slug":"john-fetterman-tries-to-play-enforcer-issues-republicans-a-biden-impeachment-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-fetterman-tries-to-play-enforcer-issues-republicans-a-biden-impeachment-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"John Fetterman takes on enforcer role, challenges Republicans with Biden impeachment."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fjohn-fetterman-tries-to-play-enforcer-issues-republicans-a-biden-impeachment-challenge%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=2025979&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>John Fetterman Tries to\u2063 Play Enforcer, Issues Republicans a Biden Impeachment Challenge<\/h2>\n<p>One of the saddest spectacles in Congress became sadder on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Sen.\u2064 John Fetterman \u2063of Pennsylvania \u2014 who is still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ufo-whistleblower-alleges-pentagon-smear-campaign\/\" title=\"UFO Whistleblower Alleges Pentagon Smear Campaign\">mentally impaired<\/a> as \u200che recovers from a 2022 stroke \u2014 puffed out his \u2062chest, played the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/happy-anniversary-lincoln-project-founder-rick-wilson-celebrates-7-years-since-390k-tax-lien\/\" title=\"Happy Anniversary! Lincoln Project Founder Rick Wilson Celebrates 7 Years Since 0K Tax Lien\">tough guy<\/a> and taunted Republicans over their plans \u2063to \u2064launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cGo \u2064ahead, do it. I dare you,\u201d Fetterman said, according\u200c to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/sen-john-fetterman-dares-house-republicans-impeach-biden-rcna103787?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&#038;_branch_match_id=931210402654213749&#038;utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_campaign=NBC%20News&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXz0tKzkstL9ZLLCjQy8nMy9a3TM4LTPdycQ5xTgIAH%2BcPgiQAAAA%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The first-term senator relied on an iPad to communicate with reporters.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSometimes you just gotta \u2064call their bulls***,\u201d Fetterman said of House Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just \u2063tired of a couple of\u2063 them over there, \u200dtalking like they\u2019re hard-a**es,\u201d he added. \u201cThey just keep pushing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Over the years,\u2062 the U.S. Congress has seen its share of theatrics \u2063and false bravado. In the early\u2062 19th century, for instance, the slight-in-stature Virginia \u2063slaveholder John Randolph stalked the House floor with a whip in\u200b hand.<\/p>\n<p>That sort of behavior, calculated to project authority and \u200bintimidate opponents, did not\u2062 end well for Randolph and his allies.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman\u2019s condition,\u2063 of course, makes it impossible to take seriously his impeachment challenge or anything else he says.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of his rant, however, Fetterman stumbled onto two substantive points, one of \u2064which\u200c contradicts the other.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>First, \u200che \u200dcoarsely predicted that impeachment \u2062\u201cwould just be like a big circle jerk\u200d on \u200dthe fringe right\u201d and would\u2062 saddle Republicans \u2063with a political \u201closer.\u201d\u200b Hence the dare.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Second, he used the\u200d talk of impeachment to point out\u200b former President Donald Trump\u2019s legal troubles.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u201cYour man has what, three or four\u2062 indictments now?\u201d Fetterman said. \u201cTrump has a mug shot, and he\u2019s been impeached twice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surely it does not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-fetterman-tries-to-play-enforcer-issues-republicans-a-biden-impeachment-challenge\/\" title=\"John Fetterman takes on enforcer role, challenges Republicans with Biden impeachment.\">require great mental fitness<\/a> to see\u2063 the contradiction in these two statements.<\/p>\n<p>Impeachment will\u200c cost you at the polls, Fetterman said, so only a fool would consider it. In fact, we did it twice.<\/p>\n<p>One scratches one\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<p>Then there are the politically driven indictments brought by a \u2064desperate establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Trump has a mug shot. \u200dSo did Martin Luther\u200d King Jr. People have noticed.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, time will soon\u2063 tell whether\u2063 House Republicans have the good sense to call Fetterman\u2019s pathetic bluff.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/john-fetterman-tries-play-enforcer-issues-republicans-biden-impeachment-challenge\/\">John Fetterman Tries to Play Enforcer, Issues Republicans a Biden\u200d Impeachment Challenge<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Congress&#8217; saddest sights worsened as Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, still mentally impaired from a 2022 stroke, bravely confronted Republicans and mocked their impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden. He challenged them, saying, &#8220;Go ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":2025980,"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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/2025979","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\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}