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EVEN IF HE STILL HAS A MIND, IT WAS NEVER ANY GREAT SHAKES:  What’s going on in Joe Biden’s mind?

Additional note: I believe the consequences to them will be far more horrifying than they can picture.

IT’S VIRTUE SIGNALING ALL THE WAY DOWN:   Wrong Targets.

BEN RHODES SMILES: Negotiator Says Two Countries Will Benefit From Biden’s New Nuke Deal with Iran — Neither of Them Are the U.S.

As I pointed out on Friday, Old Joe Biden’s handlers, in yet another of their endless series of decisions that could easily have catastrophic consequences for ordinary Americans, has turned over the leadership of the Iran nuke deal negotiations in Vienna to a Russian diplomat, Mikhail Ulyanov. What assurance do the blinkered Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his hopelessly America-Last subordinates have that Ulyanov (who, incidentally, shares a name with none other than Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, whose original surname was Ulyanov) will fight for the best interests of the United States? None, of course. And now Mikhail Ulyanov has explained, in a video that surfaced on Twitter Sunday, that the deal is shaping up to be terrific — for the Islamic Republic of Iran and the People’s Republic of China.

China and Iran, you say? What would the blustering Joe Biden of 1997 say to the sclerotic old “Trunalimunumaprzure!” Biden of 2022?

(Updated and bumped.)

YEAH, PRETTY MUCH:

IMPEACH BIDEN:

So the precedent is firmly established, thanks to Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, et al. But the Republicans don’t need to ground an impeachment effort in petty allegations that amount to little more than policy differences. The Republicans could justify an impeachment based on a host of Biden policies that violate the Constitution and are clearly impeachable offenses. The GOP has a duty and an obligation to hold Biden accountable.

But there is no rush. Impeachment hearings should last as long as necessary—say, six months or so—so that every American will know about Biden Administration’s unprecedented assault on our constitutional rights in time for 2024. Impeachment needs to be used as an educational tool to inform undecided and low-information voters about the real criminal nature of the Biden regime.

Under the Constitution, impeachable offenses include treason, bribery, and “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The last phrase is generally thought to mean “an abuse of public trust” such as violating the Constitution and endangering our national security. As Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) points out, there are “multiple grounds” to impeach Biden. Here are a few:

Flashback: The Democrats damned Biden by impeaching Trump. “These are the consequences Joe Biden’s party has reaped — the eventual impeachment of every president going forward should the opposing party control the House. The Democrats are going to have to live with their actions, norms be damned, as they were warned. Joe Biden really shouldn’t be impeached for the conditions he set on that phone call, but that no longer matters. The game has new rules, and he is going to be made to play by them. Should Biden be impeached over that phone call, or more appropriately for the avoidable deaths of 13 Americans, the most in a single day in Afghanistan since 2011, his party and their media allies will surely call it a sham and a political stunt. However, they won’t be able to say they weren’t warned.”

BIGLAW, BIG BUCKS: Cravath Fires Latest Shot In Salary War: $400,000 For 7th Year Associates. The year my dad got his PhD, Cravath salaries were $9000 a year, though they were boosted shortly thereafter. My dad had already accepted a job as an assistant professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, at a salary of $12,000 a year. He knew about the difference because, though he was in the Divinity School, he had taken some classes at Harvard Law School (Harvard lawprof Lon Fuller was on his Thesis Committee, what would now be called a dissertation committee; so was John Rawls). Let’s just say that salaries of UT professors no longer exceed those at Cravath.