“There’s going to be some consequences for what they’ve done,” Biden threatened Saudi Arabia on CNN.
The widely unpopular president wasn’t upset at the Kingdom over what it had done to America, but to his party’s prospects for retaining control of Congress.
In response, the Saudis revealed that the Biden administration had actually asked them to postpone the production cut for a month. Why a month? A month wouldn’t have changed anything meaningfully for Americans, but would have gotten the midterms out of the way.
As the Wall Street Journal noted, “The one-month delay requested by Washington would have meant a production cut made in the days before the election, too late to have much effect on consumers’ wallets ahead of the vote.”
Perfect timing. Too perfect to be a coincidence.
Adrienne Watson, Biden’s NSC assistant, denied Biden had been asking for an election boost. “It’s categorically false to connect this to U.S. elections,” the former Hillary Clinton spokeswoman insisted. “It’s about the impact of this shortsighted decision to the global economy.”
But the story became even more damning when it was revealed that the Biden administration had tried to bribe the Saudis to delay the production cut until the midterms by promising to “buy oil on the market to replenish Washington’s strategic stockpiles if the price of Brent, the main international benchmark, fell to $75 a barrel”.
Biden was bribing the Saudis with a potential fortune in taxpayer money as a hedge against a decline in the price of oil. The strategic reserves had already been badly depleted by Biden in an effort to lower oil prices. This was not done to help consumers, but to politically prop up Biden’s own prospects for a second term. Biden plans to end the strategic releases from the reserve at the end of October. This is obviously aimed at influencing the midterm elections.
With the release of 180 million barrels of oil, Biden was trying to buy the midterms in a way that was corrupt, but technically legal. With crude currently priced in the high 80s, refilling the reserve would be quite expensive and Biden officials had told the finance media they would not be refilling the reserve anytime soon. But they were telling the Saudis something very different.
Biden’s already legendary corruption has worsened dramatically when given full access to the White House, but trying to bribe a foreign power to rig oil prices to keep control of Congress is outrageous even in the litany of White House scandals.
The quid pro quo here is potentially massive.
Biden’s NSC spokesman, John Kirby, warned that his boss would “take a look to see if that relationship is where it needs to be and that it is serving our national security interests.”
It’s not the national security interests at issue here, but Biden’s own political interests.
The Biden administration has already begun pulling out of regional security sessions in revenge for the Saudi refusal to prop up energy prices to help the Democrats retain control of Congress.
The carrot and the stick here involve foreign policy and billions in spending for a quid pro quo.
The Biden administration was using oil purchases and security cooperation as leverage to secure a foreign government’s help in the midterm elections. Senate Democrats are rushing to make the quid pro quo even more explicit by threatening to pull out anti-Iran defenses.
Rep. Tom Malinowski, Rep. Sean Casten and Rep. Susan Wild, all of whom are running for reelection, introduced a bill calling for the removal of missile defense systems and troops from Saudi Arabia, to punish it for the pre-midterm production cut.
“Saudi Arabia and the UAE’s drastic cut in oil production, despite President Biden’s overtures to both countries in recent months, is a hostile act,” the press release by the candidates stated.
As Biden said, “There’s going to be some consequences”.
Rep. Malinowski is running a tight race in a time when, as the New York Times described, “gas prices were soaring”. Susan Wild is running in another “bellwether” seat. It’s unlikely to be a coincidence that House Democrats who would have benefited the most from Biden’s Saudi quid pro quo are also the ones trying to punish the Saudis, not for Americans, but for themselves.
Rep. Malinowski voted to impeach Trump because, in his words, “by pressuring a foreign country”, he “used the powers of his office not for America but for himself”, “signaled that America’s foreign policy can be bought by anyone willing to interfere in our politics on his behalf” and “endangered our national security, and violated his oath of office.” All of these things are true of Biden and of his political accomplices inside and outside the administration.
Biden was caught trying to pressure a foreign country for his own political benefit. Had he just asked the Saudis to suspend the price cut without a specific timetable, he might have gotten away with it, but by timing it for a month, enough to clear the midterms, he indicted himself.
The Saudis revealed what Biden was up to and administration flunkies like Watson have denied the motive, but not the act. The next step is for Congress to investigate the quid pro quo.
Considering how many members of the current Congress were heavily invested in preventing a production cut before the midterms, it is unrealistic to presume that a corrupt and self-interested body can credibly investigate itself. Only after the midterms have cleaned house a little bit will it be possible to turn over some rocks and discover who knew what and what the exact deal was.
Biden’s strategic oil reserve releases timed to the midterms were bad enough. There was a time when such nakedly calculated abuses of government assets and taxpayer money might have even been impeachable, but we live in times when politicians routinely engage in such plunder.
Trying to bribe a foreign government to interfere in our election is a whole other matter.
The Democrats were the ones who set the precedent with the first Trump impeachment. And that should be Biden’s first impeachment too. Whether it will be his last is up to Congress.
And what will Republicans do?
Zip
Nada Zilch
That is the true travesty. There are some really dirty nasty thumbs “our” side continues to sit on.
Fortunately, Paul Ryan is no longer in a position to sit on his . . . at least not in the House of Reps.
He’s sitting on the thumb of whoever pays him to betray his country. It probably isn’t a thumb, though.
The election isn’t everything. It’s the only thing 🙂
THIS IS NOTHING NEW: Hey, I got it – let’s figure out how to get smart foreigners involved in really serious stuff . . . .
like the USA trying to get out of an unwinnable war in Southeast Asia:
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/anna-chennault-affair-south-vietnamese-side-wars-greatest-conspiracy-theory
Anna Chennault was responsible for over 10,000 American deaths – and the deaths of a great many Asians, most of whom were civilians.
We have corruption like Vince Lombardi had colon cancer.
The only thing keeping us from martial law is their familiarity with their own incompetence. The lying and deceit part they have down pat. Courage in convictions is, however, completely absent. If these people suspected they harbored a scrupple, they’d seek medical advise for its removal.
That includes smug Leslie Stahl who quipped that she had her bias “surgically removed”.
She proved otherwise on several occasions, but most arrogantly when she towed the DNC line by shamelessly covering up for Hunter Biden’s laptop.
What kind of colossal idiot abandons damning evidence at a tech store? [Answer] One who knows (during his few lucid moments) that the FBI and Leslie Stahl will clean up after him. (I wonder if these corrupted organizations ever invoice for these unending cover-ups.)
When Sleazy *Biden withhold a billion from Ukraine, it ironically became projected onto Trump for the excuse to impeach him;. i.e. to accuse Trump of what “Plugs” Biden actually did. (Leftists have limited imagination.)
This recent quid-pro-Joe only proves, once again, that it was never about what Trump did. It was about removing Trump for what he was accomplishing.
Also; the only reason *Biden hasn’t set up a bribe “charity” foundation like the Clintons did is because the Chinese communists already have him well taken care of.
Be that as it may, Hunter does have some color-by-number paintings for sale if you’re wanting access to “The Big Guy”. (Just don’t expect much, as Xi already purchased Joe a long time ago. All sales final.)
It point to courts, justice deportment and media and as already 100% corrupted or they couke not behave in the blatant way they do.
Stick a fork in us, because we are done.
The only thing big about Biden are his plugs.
There are no aplaymates or supermodels in his resume. Just little girls he’s sniffed, his own daughter and fake Dr Skank Jill.
It’s reached the point where anything about Joek Biden makes me nauseous.
No kidding.
Surely the Saudi decision is saving the planet, why would the leftist elites wish to delay that, they told us we are all going to die with climate change convid.
If I recall correctly, Biden wanted the Saudis to put off the announcement of the production cut until after the mid-term election. The cut in actual production wouldn’t be felt in the market or at the pump until well after the election. But putting off the announcement of it would have immediate psychological and political effects. That’s a tell that it was all about the upcoming election and that the Biden maladministration is simply lying when it says otherwise. Well, that and the fact it’s speaking.
Biden leans over backwards to appease the Eco-Freaks opposed to the ANWR and kiss the Rings of OPEC as inflation grows out of control thanks to his bumbling
CommentaryGovernment
In what appears to be the latest example of Biden family members using the government as a personal cash machine, President Joe Biden’s brother James got $600,000 in loans from the now-defunct healthcare startup Americore by promising his family name would secure funding from Middle Eastern countries.
“According to new information obtained by Committee Republicans and confirmed by court filings, during 2017, James Biden—the President’s brother—promised funding from ‘the Middle East’ for a business deal ‘based on his political connections’ because his last name ‘Biden’ could ‘open doors,’” writes House Oversight Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-KY) in a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demanding banking reports showing the cash transactions were flagged as “suspicious activity.”
The one and only negative thing about Joe Biden impeached and then removed from Office is that he would be replaced by that rude, obnoxiously abrasive, narcissistic, self-serving sinister and insidious Marxist, Kamala Harris, as President.
If Harris actually becomes the next President of the United States the result of that total catastrophic for America.
So much so that the damage and harm would be so severe that it would most probably be irreversible. As Abraham Lincoln had said “You can’t unscramble eggs.”
Joe Biden is definitely not “good President” in any sense of the in fact, Biden is terrible Nevertheless If Biden is impeached and removed from Office then VP Kamala Harris would take his place in the Office of the United States Presidency. If that subversive tyrannous Marxist will would become the nest President, she would tear down America down even faster and harder than that horrible man, Joe Baden has.
To explain this in another way, with Biden things in the United States of America is very bad. With Harris in the White House as President, things in the USA would not go from “bad to worse” but skip the word “worse’ and go from “Bad to the very worst possible.
Harris would be complete catastrophe for America and a total disaster for the American people.
The only “good” thing that can be said about Joe Biden is that when compared to Kamala Harris he is the lesser of the two evils. Nevertheless, the lesser of two evils is still evil.
Considering everything about that horrible Biden/Harris team the only semi-“good” thing about Joe Biden is that he might not be as horrendously dangerous as Kamala Harris.
As to compare Joe Biden with and to Vladimir Lenin and then compare Kamala Harris with and to Joseph Stalin.
Of course, Lenin was much more intelligent than nevertheless, it’s not as terrible to have the feeble-minded socialist, Lenin type character, Biden sitting in the powerful Office of Presidency in Washington DC than have that rude, obnoxious abrasive callous Communist, Stalin type character, Kamala Harris sitting in the powerful Office of the Presidency in Washington DC.
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Still, it’s wise to remember that “The lesser of two evils is still evil.”
The ancient Greek Philosopher, Plato, did have a good valid point when he had written, “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
When applying that wise statement to Joe Biden, his “measure” is more than lacking, it’s outright terrible.
As seen in his shutting down the much needs oil pipeline and at the same time causing many American workers to lose their much needed jobs and likewise creating a drastic rise in the price of gas and likewise making America and the American people dependent on foreign oil
The true “measure” of Biden on America regarding fuel costs as well as on many other important subjects is nothing less than a horrendous economic catastrophe.
Treason and Bribery are the two examples explicitly identified in the Constitution as among the “high crimes and misdemeanors” justifying impeachment of a President.
There is no doubt at all–literally zero doubt–that Biden has committed both, along with his many other Federal felonies.
Impeach in the House, Convict in the Senate, remove from office, then indict, arraign, prosecute, convict, and sentence him to prison.
Any questions?
Impeachment take time. They dominate legislative resources.
Resignations are immediate.
Biden is trying to get OPEC and the Middle East to interfer in the election in favor of Globalists/Democrats
“Impeach”? What a joke. Does nothing. Waste of time and money.