Democrats have officially run out of ideas. So now they’re impeaching the guy who wants you to eat less seed oil.
Rep. Haley Stevens — a Michigan Democrat who, not coincidentally, is running for Senate — just filed articles of impeachment against HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Her crime? He “turned his back on science.”
That’s the charge. Not bribery. Not treason. Not high crimes and misdemeanors.
Science feelings.
The Second Impeachment Stunt This Week — And It’s Only Wednesday
Stevens isn’t even the first Democrat to file impeachment articles against a Trump cabinet official this week. Rep. Shri Thanedar, also from Michigan, just filed against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for the drug boat strikes in the Caribbean.
Two Michigan Democrats. Two impeachment stunts. One very obvious pattern.
These aren’t serious legislative efforts. These are press releases with delusions of grandeur. They’re designed to generate headlines, fire up the base, and give candidates something to put in their fundraising emails.
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Haley Stevens Is Running for Senate — And That Explains Everything
Let’s be clear about what’s happening here.
Stevens isn’t filing impeachment articles because she genuinely believes RFK Jr. has committed impeachable offenses. She’s filing them because she’s running for Senate in Michigan and needs to prove her progressive bona fides.
Nothing says “vote for me in the primary” like attacking the guy who questions whether kids need 72 vaccines before kindergarten.
The base wants red meat. Stevens is serving it up. The fact that it’ll go absolutely nowhere — that it has zero chance of passing the House, let alone the Senate — doesn’t matter. The performance is the point.
“Turned His Back on Science” Is Doing a Lot of Heavy Lifting
Let’s examine this devastating charge.
RFK Jr. has spent his career asking uncomfortable questions about pharmaceutical companies, regulatory capture, and whether every single thing the FDA approves is actually good for you. He’s questioned vaccine schedules. He’s questioned food additives. He’s questioned why Americans are fatter and sicker than ever despite spending more on healthcare than any nation on earth.
For this, he must be impeached.
Not for corruption. Not for abuse of power. For wrongthink. For suggesting that maybe — just maybe — the experts who told us to eat margarine instead of butter and that Oxycontin wasn’t addictive might not always have our best interests at heart.
“Turned his back on science” is the new “misinformation.” It means “said something the establishment doesn’t like.”
HHS Had the Perfect Response
Kennedy’s spokesman, Andrew Nixon, didn’t even bother getting worked up:
“Secretary Kennedy remains focused on the work of improving Americans’ health and lowering costs, not on partisan political stunts.”
That’s it. That’s the whole response. Because that’s all this deserves.
RFK Jr. is busy trying to figure out why American children have skyrocketing rates of autism, obesity, allergies, and chronic illness. Haley Stevens is busy trying to get on MSNBC.
One of these people is doing their job. The other is running for Senate.
The Hegseth Impeachment Is Even Dumber
Thanedar’s impeachment articles against Hegseth are somehow worse.
His argument: Hegseth is “extrajudicially assassinating people without evidence of any crime” by blowing up drug boats in the Caribbean.
You mean the boats stuffed with cocaine and fentanyl heading toward American shores? The ones operated by cartels that have killed more Americans than Al-Qaeda? Those boats?
Thanedar says “former military attorneys” have called it war crimes. Cool. You know what actual Americans call it? About time.
Eighty-seven dead narco-traffickers isn’t a scandal. It’s a start.
Democrats Have Nothing Left But Performance Art
This is what happens when a party has no agenda, no ideas, and no path to power.
They can’t stop Trump’s policies. They can’t win votes in Congress. They can’t even agree on what they stand for anymore. So they file impeachment articles that’ll never go anywhere, hold press conferences, and pretend they’re “fighting back.”
It’s not governance. It’s theater for people who mistake tweets for action.
RFK Jr. will keep doing his job. Hegseth will keep blowing up drug boats. And Haley Stevens will keep fundraising off her Very Brave Stand against the guy who thinks you should eat real food.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Michigan, an actual voter is wondering why their representative is wasting time on this instead of, you know, representing them.
But hey — at least she’ll have a great campaign ad.