House Republicans know that their rapidly shrinking majority—and their lack of evidence—has put them in an impossible position.

House Republicans know that their rapidly shrinking majority—and their lack of evidence—has put them in an impossible position.

Despite drumbeating for more than a year to impeach Joe Biden, House Republicans have quietly begun looking for an off-ramp in the face of an overwhelming lack of evidence against the president—and a rapidly shrinking majority in the chamber.

Republicans have accused Biden and his son Hunter of corruption and influence peddling, but their lengthy investigation has failed to turn up any proof of the president’s wrongdoing. In fact, the biggest criminal act revealed during the course of the probe was committed by the GOP’s own star witness, Alexander Smirnov. The Department of Justice has accused him of making up the allegations against the Biden family that jump-started the whole impeachment effort.

As the investigation crumbles, Republicans are starting to sour on it entirely. “I don’t think we have the will to impeach Joe Biden,” Texas Representative Troy Nehls told Fox News on Tuesday. “We just don’t.”

    • Jesus@lemmy.world
      19·
      10 months ago

      President Harris is not even a possibility if the house votes to impeach Biden. The Dems have the senate majority, and the GOP would need a 2/3rds vote. Heck, they likely wouldn’t even get all of the GOP senators voting for it.

      The plan was never to actually kick the guy out of office. The plan was to have a media stunt.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        Their plan was to minimize the legitimacy of an impeachment. Because Trump was impeached twice. So if they can impeach Biden based on no substantial evidence, then Trump’s impeachments look much less serious. Their goal has always been to water down the idea of impeachments, so Trump’s impeachments can’t be used against him in the future.

        • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
          101·
          10 months ago

          For part of Obama’s time in office, he had a filibuster proof majority in the house and senate

          No he didn’t. This is just a blatant lie.

        • Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz
          5·
          10 months ago

          It was the self named “Blue Dog” democrats like Manchin that torpedoed the health care bill.

          They were more than happy to reach across the isle and bathe in the corpo dollars.

        • Jesus@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          A few corrections.

          • The house is a simple majority vote
          • Dodd Frank was passed in addition to the ACA
          • They only had the votes for a few short bubbles of time here and there. They had less than half the year if you added all the time up, and chunk of that was recess or with Kennedy on his deathbed.
    • Grass@sh.itjust.works
      211·
      10 months ago

      Really? From all I’ve seen of her talking I thought she was mentally challenged in some way and it’s a miracle she even made it to adulthood.