Mirroring, Mirroring

that is painfully credulous of you

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 26, 2022

I saw this interview and actually agree with Inskeep. More interesting to me is the credulous nature of Twitter, where everyone is convinced (or so it seems)

Trump was impeached for:
*illegally withholding military aid to Ukraine in a botched blackmail effort
*inciting an insurrection that attempted to overthrow the election

The de facto reason for impeaching Biden?
*Trump was impeached. https://t.co/WCBW2jgFGg

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) September 25, 2022

that Republicans will impeach Trump because MTG promised to do so and Nancy Mace says "Republicans" are "under pressure." Seems a little less than definitive, to me.

Matt Gaetz pouts as he reveals 'many' Republicans 'argue very fervently' against impeachment https://t.co/Fz0X8y5jbM

— Raw Story (@RawStory) September 26, 2022

During an interview with conservative podcaster Steve Bannon, Gaetz said that "many" Republican lawmakers do not want to impeach Biden.

"Recently, there was a gathering of the top Republican committee chairs, ranking members incoming, and when they did Q&A with the donors and the lobbyists that were gathered to support the Republican majority, the questions were things like, 'Well, are we going to pass a farm bill again? Are we going to work with the Democrats so that we don't have to go through the pains of any government shutdowns?'" Gaetz said. "They want to go back to those days."

He continued: "Even when I talk to my current Republican colleagues, there are many that not only oppose any impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden but who even believe that an impeachment inquiry into [DHS Secretary] Alejandro Mayorkas, who is purposefully turning our border into a turnstile, that even that wouldn't be something that they would support."

Gaetz reiterated that there "are current members of the Republican majority, people who will be in the next Congress, who are arguing very, very fervently that they will oppose the use of the 'I' word — impeachment — in any context for any official in the Biden administration."

The congressman argued that Republicans were being given a "mandate" to impeach the president.

"If we don't use the same tools, if we don't engage in impeachment inquiries to get the documents and the testimony and the information we need, then I believe that our voters will feel betrayed," he warned. "That could be the biggest win that Democrats could hope for in 2024."

"We are in a battle," he added. "And we have to open up every vector of attack on a corrupt administration that is punishing the American people out of these virtue signals to wokeism."

Same language as Mace on impeachment; "current members", whoever they are, oppose the idea of impeachment.  A little more telling here, because they oppose it so they can "pass a farm bill" and not "have to go through the pains of any government shutdowns."  Sounds more like "Republicans in disarray" to me.  Also sounds like Republicans wanting to return to regular order. Not unlike an article I read this morning (lost to me, now, curse the luck!) that described meeting people across the country, and coming away with a common thread:  people are tired of the Trump "drama." By which I mean not just Trump personally, but mini-me Trumps like Matt Gaetz.  Seems like Gaetz is getting that word from the committee chairs of which he is definitely not one.  MTG isn't even ON a committee.

Yet these are the voices of power in the GOP?  Or do they just always make sure to talk through a megaphone?