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Very interesting that they'd try to start this before the new Dems even take office. Rats and sinking ships indeed.
Or is this a roundabout way to protect Kegsbreath, by first starting an intentionally flawed impeachment proceeding in order to poison any later attempt?
Or Massie is motivated by revenge/principal/spite and wants to start the fire that burns it all down before he’s done.
Doesn’t really matter, this is the appropriate action and needs to happen.
Yeah but let's shut the fuck up until January. Don't start threatening investigations until after they're sworn in, so they don't try to block them from being sworn in. Then let it rip.
They'll do that regardless.
But, fun fact, it doesn't matter if the new batch of congresscritters is sworn in or not -- the ones who were voted out stop being congressmen on January 3rd, whether they have a replacement sworn in or not. No matter if their replacements get sworn in or not, they have to go. (Although I'm unclear on the subject of successful incumbents. They certainly don't have to leave, since they won reelection ... but do they need to be sworn in again after every election, or do they just keep going on like before?)
But if they try to play too many games with the 'swearing in' nonesense, the incoming congressmen can play hardball right back. There's no constitutional requirement for being sworn in, not even a rule of Senate/House procedure. It's just traditional that new congressmen get sworn in before participating. But if they're playing games with not letting the new ones get sworn in, they could also just show up and start participating/voting anyway. Maybe swear themselves in first, and dare the rest to stop them. The current batch of Republicans have violated plenty of norms and traditions already, and if they try to use this norm/tradition as a stumbling block, then let's violate this one too.