After 15 months of attempting to drag a Biden household crime spree out of skinny air, lead impeachment zealot James Comer has watched his desires of MAGA glory crumble into mud. Comer, the Home Oversight Committee chair, instructed a Republican colleague that he’s able to be “achieved with” the entire fiasco, in keeping with CNN.
“Comer is hoping Jesus comes so he can get out. He’s fed up,” one other GOP lawmaker mentioned.
There’s simply a lot humiliation one man can take, I assume. The hassle by Comer and co-zealot Jim Jordan, chair of the Judiciary Committee, to search out dust on President Joe Biden and his son Hunter has ended up with the 2 coated in mud. It’s turn into so pathetic that even Sean Hannity has stopped propping it up.
However how did it come to this?
Begin with the truth that a full yr in the past, even Comer needed to admit that there wasn’t any proof of Biden crimes. However that didn’t cease him and Jordan from plowing on and making all of it extra ridiculous. They introduced in IRS whistleblowers who produced nothing however sizzling air. The most important information story to return out of that listening to was extremist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s porn stunt, displaying nude photographs of Hunter Biden—not the same old C-SPAN fare.
Regardless of these early fiascos, then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy determined he’d attempt to save his personal bacon by making the impeachment effort official. (The extent to which that didn’t work is a complete different story.) The primary official listening to proved to be one other full farce.
“By way of the course of the day, not solely did Republicans showcase their lack of curiosity in details, additionally they demonstrated that they’re completely terrified of something that appears like a truth witness,” Every day Kos’ Mark Sumner wrote.
It didn’t get any higher for Comer and Jordan. They had been performed by Hunter Biden when he confirmed as much as testify on digital camera regardless of their efforts to do it in secret. Comer nonetheless plowed on with the hearings solely to be embarrassed once more within the notorious Russian mole and sawdust debacle. He then tried transferring the goalposts, suggesting that impeachment wasn’t their aim in spite of everything. Quite, they had been gathering proof for future prosecutions in a would-be Trump administration, Comer claimed.
That was after they tried to pivot the story to a categorized paperwork scandal, that includes a report on Biden’s outdated age, which was one other complete flop. They even tried to question a Cupboard secretary in one other debasing catastrophe for Republicans.
All of which has served primarily to show extremist Republicans in opposition to Comer for not working laborious sufficient at impeaching Biden.
“I really feel like this was slow-rolled, and it’s been very irritating for me as a brand new member as a result of I really feel like there’s far more that we might have achieved, and it simply hasn’t been achieved in a well timed style,” a pissed off GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna instructed CNN.
“I don’t even wish to discuss to you. … Should you don’t suppose they had been influence-peddling, there’s nothing to say. My God,” Comer responded to CNN.
Formally, a Home Oversight Committee spokesperson says that “the impeachment inquiry is ongoing, and impeachment is 100% nonetheless on the desk.” Uh-huh.
All Comer has gotten out of that is the animosity of colleagues and exhibiting himself to be a idiot in entrance of a nationwide viewers. Oh, and the unearthing of a few of his personal little scandals.
The superbly hilarious cherry on prime of all of this? The Kentucky Republican’s dream of redemption.
“Comer, a five-term congressman, has one other matter on his thoughts: ambitions to run for larger workplace sooner or later,” CNN studies, “together with doubtlessly operating for governor, in keeping with lawmakers who’ve spoken to him.”
Positive, dude. Positive.
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