Senate Republicans are voicing their concerns about House Republicans pursuing impeachment against Joe Biden, despite all the evidence against him.
But that’s just it. They claim that there isn’t enough evidence to pursue an impeachment and that it will be a ‘distraction’ going into 2024:
THE HILL – Senate Republicans say the House GOP doesn’t appear to have enough evidence to pursue impeachment proceedings against President Biden and are skeptical about the prospect of setting up an inquiry with multiple committees already investigating the president and his son, Hunter Biden.
Republican senators are highly skeptical that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) could even muster enough votes in the House to pass an article of impeachment and warn it would be quickly dismissed if it ever got to the Senate, possibly without going to a full trial.
Their message to House conservatives is simple: Don’t distract from the issues where Republicans will have the upper hand in the 2024 election — the economy and border security — to pursue a fruitless impeachment effort.
John Cornyn wants more investigation but no impeachment…
“It really comes to how do you prioritize your time? I don’t know of anybody who believes [Senate Majority Leader] Chuck Schumer [D-N.Y.] will take it up and actually have a trial and convict a sitting president,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a member of the Senate GOP leadership team.
Cornyn noted that House Republicans could investigate the Bidens without launching a formal impeachment inquiry because they control the lower chamber.
“Since they got the majority, they got the chairmen of the various committees, they could do all of that now without going to a formal inquiry,” he said. “Members of the House don’t really care what I think. All I can tell you, it’s unlikely to be successful in the Senate.
“Rather than doing something they know is unlikely to end the way they would like, maybe they want to emphasize other things.”
Cornyn is far from alone in his assessment.
John Thune says he doesn’t believe there’s enough evidence for impeachment…
Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.) on Monday expressed reservation about linking a bill to avoid a government shutdown to a vote on launching impeachment proceedings.
“Well, obviously they can launch [a formal inquiry] there without tying it to government funding. Hopefully they can work all that out, how they want to handle those issues in the House,” he said.
Asked if there’s enough evidence to impeach Biden, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), another member of the Senate GOP leadership team, replied: “I do not.”
Marco Rubio doesn’t believe impeachment is in the best interest of the country…
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), for his part, said attempting to impeach a sitting president “should generally be avoided for the interest of the country.”
“It can’t become routine,” he warned.
Rubio also criticized Democrats for pushing highly partisan articles of impeachment against then-President Trump in late 2019 and early 2020 and then for holding a second impeachment trial after Trump left office in 2021.
Rubio and other Republicans warned at the time that Democrats would lower the bar for impeaching a president.
Fast-forward more than two years, and they say it doesn’t mean House Republicans should get a green light to launch an impeachment inquiry against Biden without compelling evidence of a “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
“There are countries like Peru that routinely now impeach whoever the president is, and it’s become almost a national sport,” Rubio said.
It’s no wonder Republicans continually lose. They turn into milktoast at the drop of the hat when it’s time to pursue something serious like impeachment.
Mark Levin blasted them today saying “Majority of Senate GOP consists of the laziest, dumbest, most useless politicians to ever serve in Washington. Schumer walks all over them, and they seem to like it. They’ve no interest in cutting spending, the deficit, securing the border, upholding the rule of law and the Constitution, etc. A complete disaster. They’re so pathetic they can’t even muster a majority to remove McConnell as “their leader” despite the fact he is mentally incapacitated and a quisling. Then they whine and complain that the activist conservative base is to blame for their electoral and legislative failures, supported by the entrenched so-called conservative DC media and their think-tank stooges.”