GOP Congressman Knocks 'Poison' Impeach Biden Plan: 'I Hope We Don't'

Oklahoma Representative Tom Cole said that he hopes his Republican colleagues don't move to impeach President Joe Biden if they retake the House majority next year.

"I would argue we all know, at the end of the day, there's not going to be a conviction in the Senate," Cole told Politico of impeaching the Democratic president. "It just injects poison into the system, causes a lot of turmoil."

Cole's comments come as Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, told the news outlet that she will "absolutely" be introducing articles of impeachment against Biden next year.

So far, House Republicans filed nine impeachment articles against Biden—five of which were sponsored by Greene. In September, she filed one article against the president for "endangering, compromising, and undermining the energy security of the United States by selling oil from the United States' Strategic Petroleum Reserve to foreign nations."

She also filed impeachment articles over the Biden administration's handling of the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, and the move to extend the moratorium on residential evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

If Republicans win the majority in the House after the November midterms, they would also gain the ability to investigate the Biden administration. House Republicans have signaled they would investigate the president's son Hunter Biden, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and the Department of Justice.

Should Republicans gain control of the House, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who would likely serve as House speaker, would be in a "tough position" when it came to his party's impeachment efforts, according to Michael Crespin, a professor of political science and director of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.

"If the Republicans gain the majority, it'll likely be slim. So he's got to keep everyone in the party happy," Crespin told Newsweek.

"It might just depend on reading the tea leaves a little bit by McCarthy on how many votes he thinks there are behind this...If it's a small part of his caucus that wants [impeachment], maybe he'll try to keep it off the agenda. If a lot of his caucus wants it, then he'll probably go forward with it," Crespin said. "I agree with what Cole says that it's not going to pass in the Senate. So why waste the time?"

In a post on the right-wing social media sit Gettr Friday morning, Steve Bannon, an ex-adviser to former President Donald Trump, included a Politico story on possible GOP impeachment efforts next year and wrote: "Memo to Politico: Joe Biden getting impeached on @ least 2 counts." He listed the counts as "Invasion of the Southern Border" and "Financial Compromise from CCP (Chinese Communist Party)."

Newsweek reached out to Representatives Greene and Cole's offices for comment.