The Joe Biden insurance policy:
'Obama's insurance policy': DC chuckles after GOP congressman rules out impeaching Obama because – 'Have you met Joe Biden?'
'Have you met Joe Biden?' South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy asked during a Fox News Channel interview.
Impeachment talk has swirled around Washington since the president announced that an executive order overhauling America's immigration system is imminent.
But some in the GOP see Biden as Obama's hedge against removal from office, since much of his public exposure has come in conjunction with a series of embarrassing gaffes.
A senior aide to a House Republican told MailOnline on Friday that 'Avoiding the "I" word' is a case of 'better the devil you know than the devil you don't.'
'Only in this case, we're pretty sure we know both devils. And Biden – he's two floppy shoes short of a complete clown outfit. Let's be honest: He's Obama's insurance policy.'
Impeachment is a process that begins in the House of Representatives with a list of charges that must fit what the U.S. Constitution calls 'high crimes and misdemeanors' – with 'high' referring to the level of the president's office, not the seriousness of the offenses.
A supermajority of two-thirds of U.S. senators are required to convict America's chief executive after a trial.
President Bill Clinton survived an impeachment after Senate Democrats remained unanimous in acquitting him. Richard Nixon resigned his office as a groundswell of support formed in Congress for impeachment proceedings following the Watergate scandal.
Obama appears safe, even with Republicans holding 54 or 55 of the upper chamber's 100 seats next year.
And besides, there's the Biden factor.
In a speech this year, this vice president told a gathering of African leaders that Africa was a country, not a continent.
It brought back memories of a 2008 photo-op outside Biden's home where he told journalists that he had just returned from 'a successful dump,' which turned out to be a trip to a nearby landfill.
In 2010 he had a diplomatic face-palm moment by consoling Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen on the loss of his mother – who was very much alive.
In 2012 he made the sign of the cross while on stage to address a group of more than 1,600 Jewish rabbis.
Reporters guffawed later that year when he tried to capture the spirit of President Theodore Roosevelt's famous 'Speak softly' philosophy, by noting that 'the president has a big stick. I promise you.'
During a campaign speech during his first vice presidential run, he criticized then-GOP candidate Sen. John McCain for what he called a 'last-minute economic plan' that did 'nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class.'
'It happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs.'
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'Obama's insurance policy': DC chuckles after GOP congressman rules out impeaching Obama because – 'Have you met Joe Biden?'
- Trey Gowdy said his party can't impeach the president over his threatened immigration overhaul – but only because Biden would become president
- The folksy Biden wants the top job for himself but Republicans see him as a potentially embarrassing one-man gaffe factory
- One senior House GOP aide said Biden is 'two floppy shoes short of a complete clown outfit' and Obama's 'insurance policy'
- Gowdy hinted that impeachment is being dangled by the White House as bait in the hope that the GOP will destroy its own credibility by trying it
- A Texas Republican congressman and a judge-turned-news-analyst floated the idea this week
'Have you met Joe Biden?' South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy asked during a Fox News Channel interview.
Impeachment talk has swirled around Washington since the president announced that an executive order overhauling America's immigration system is imminent.
But some in the GOP see Biden as Obama's hedge against removal from office, since much of his public exposure has come in conjunction with a series of embarrassing gaffes.
A senior aide to a House Republican told MailOnline on Friday that 'Avoiding the "I" word' is a case of 'better the devil you know than the devil you don't.'
'Only in this case, we're pretty sure we know both devils. And Biden – he's two floppy shoes short of a complete clown outfit. Let's be honest: He's Obama's insurance policy.'
Impeachment is a process that begins in the House of Representatives with a list of charges that must fit what the U.S. Constitution calls 'high crimes and misdemeanors' – with 'high' referring to the level of the president's office, not the seriousness of the offenses.
A supermajority of two-thirds of U.S. senators are required to convict America's chief executive after a trial.
President Bill Clinton survived an impeachment after Senate Democrats remained unanimous in acquitting him. Richard Nixon resigned his office as a groundswell of support formed in Congress for impeachment proceedings following the Watergate scandal.
Obama appears safe, even with Republicans holding 54 or 55 of the upper chamber's 100 seats next year.
And besides, there's the Biden factor.
In a speech this year, this vice president told a gathering of African leaders that Africa was a country, not a continent.
It brought back memories of a 2008 photo-op outside Biden's home where he told journalists that he had just returned from 'a successful dump,' which turned out to be a trip to a nearby landfill.
In 2010 he had a diplomatic face-palm moment by consoling Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen on the loss of his mother – who was very much alive.
In 2012 he made the sign of the cross while on stage to address a group of more than 1,600 Jewish rabbis.
Reporters guffawed later that year when he tried to capture the spirit of President Theodore Roosevelt's famous 'Speak softly' philosophy, by noting that 'the president has a big stick. I promise you.'
During a campaign speech during his first vice presidential run, he criticized then-GOP candidate Sen. John McCain for what he called a 'last-minute economic plan' that did 'nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class.'
'It happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs.'
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