In December 2023, House Republicans voted to open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden to determine if he “improperly benefited” from his son’s alleged business deals. President Biden quickly fired back, stating that House Republicans were “choosing to waste time on this baseless political stunt” instead of doing their jobs.

Straight Arrow News contributor David Pakman agrees with President Biden, and reminds readers that the GOP House inquiries have failed to produce any evidence or even to make any real criminal accusation in the first place. Pakman asks Americans whether or not they will hold the GOP accountable for what he says is a tremendous waste of public resources.

On the other hand, there are some who have completely accepted, hook, line and sinker, that Biden committed crimes, period, and that the Republicans have evidence, who will be surprised to hear that they still haven’t found any evidence. And when they are asked, as they were for example by Democratic Congressman Neguse, ‘What crime do you even think might have happened?’ Not do you have evidence for it, just what’s the crime you’re investigating? They don’t have anything. That might be surprising to you, because that’s not the story that we have seen on many right-wing media outlets.

So the truth of the matter, where we are now, is that if you look for the evidence, if you look for the smoke for years and you don’t find it, maybe it’s because the person didn’t fire or doesn’t have a gun. And I know that this is going to be a really difficult pill to swallow for many on the Right, but Joe Biden has been in public office for decades. He gets criticized for having been in public office for decades. If you’re in public office for decades, and you simply are unable to uncover the evidence about this individual, maybe it’s because they didn’t do the stuff you think they did. Maybe it’s because the evidence doesn’t exist.

And what Republicans now have to figure out is what is their escape pod? What is their eject button that gets them credibly to be able to not pursue this Biden nonsense without hurting themselves with voters in November — who may punish them for going on this expensive wild goose chase for which there was never evidence? That’s the question that remains. Will voters punish Republicans for this?