This week, Don Bacon played insider politics in full force, wasting time and taxpayer dollars on an illegitimate impeachment inquiry into President Biden despite admitting it was a political stunt for the 2024 election and likely won’t provide evidence of wrongdoing.
Check out the local and national press coverage of Bacon’s political games at the expense of Nebraskans.
Nebraska Examiner: Vargas said Bacon and the House GOP are busy playing political games while Democrats are trying to focus on the needs of “parents and people who are struggling.”
“Bacon admitted that this inquiry is for the 2024 election,” Vargas said. “He did this for partisan politics. He’s no problem solver … he’s doing the bidding of the D.C. Republican Party.
USA Today: Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., one of 17 vulnerable Republicans hailing from districts Biden won in 2020, said Tuesday the president has “probably not” committed high crimes or misdemeanors, considered impeachable offenses.
Bacon, who noted he may be an “outlier,” also said “it was more likely than not” Republicans wouldn’t draft articles of impeachment against the president. Instead, he argued, the inquiry will provide information for undecided voters ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
MSNBC, The ReidOut Blog: The statement is a good reminder that, aside from the facts themselves, there’s another element that should work in Democrats’ favor as they push back against this circus: chatty Republicans. In particular, Republicans’ public statements that have and will help to expose the blatantly political motivations driving the inquiry.
Take Sen. Chuck Grassley, for example, who said Wednesday that he’d seen “no evidence” of wrongdoing by Biden. Or Rep. Don Bacon, who admitted Tuesday that he hasn’t seen evidence of high crimes or misdemeanors by Biden and that the president “probably” hasn’t committed any (a rather stark admission) — yet Bacon still believes the inquiry is needed to extract “information for the [2024] elections.”
Omaha World-Herald: State Sen. Tony Vargas of Omaha, the current favorite challenger to Bacon in his re-election bid in 2024, said regardless of the motivation, an impeachment inquiry is a waste of time and money by Congress.
Dysfunction has stalled the House’s work on important issues, Vargas said, and Bacon’s support for an impeachment inquiry shows he is catering to hard-right Republicans against the best interests of his constituents.
“Nebraskans deserve to know that he is wasting their time,” Vargas said.
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