“The coming House hearings on Hunter Biden will be a repeat dose of Whitewater delusion: a Republican circus act that won’t impress voters.“
“The leader of the Democratic majority elected in 2006 and 2018 was Nancy Pelosi. She restrained emotions in her caucus. After 2006, many Democrats burned with anger against the Bush administration—some even talked of impeaching George W. Bush over the Iraq War. Speaker Pelosi would not allow it. Her vision was to use control of the House to prepare the way for the impending presidential election so that Democrats could then legislate. The passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 rewarded her strategy.”
“By contrast, the Republican majority elected in 1994 and 2010 lunged immediately into total war. In 1994, the leaders, Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay, wanted and led the total war. In 2010, Speaker John Boehner opposed the lunge and tried, largely in vain, to control it. In both cases, the result was the same: a government shutdown in 1995, a near default on U.S. debt obligations in 2011, and a conspiratorial extremism that frightened mainstream voters back to the party of the president.”
“The signs strongly indicate that the next Republican House majority will follow the pattern of its predecessors.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/republicans-house-hearings-hunter-biden/672197/
Going to be like the Durham “investigation” on TV, just like 2010 and Obama, it will set the Democrats up perfectly for 2024, and would be even funnier if Biden decides he doesn’t want to run again, all that wasted “investigating” for nothing, little Jimmy Jordan would want to “investigate” why Biden ain’t running
“The leader of the Democratic majority elected in 2006 and 2018 was Nancy Pelosi. She restrained emotions in her caucus. After 2006, many Democrats burned with anger against the Bush administration—some even talked of impeaching George W. Bush over the Iraq War. Speaker Pelosi would not allow it. Her vision was to use control of the House to prepare the way for the impending presidential election so that Democrats could then legislate. The passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 rewarded her strategy.”
“By contrast, the Republican majority elected in 1994 and 2010 lunged immediately into total war. In 1994, the leaders, Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay, wanted and led the total war. In 2010, Speaker John Boehner opposed the lunge and tried, largely in vain, to control it. In both cases, the result was the same: a government shutdown in 1995, a near default on U.S. debt obligations in 2011, and a conspiratorial extremism that frightened mainstream voters back to the party of the president.”
“The signs strongly indicate that the next Republican House majority will follow the pattern of its predecessors.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/republicans-house-hearings-hunter-biden/672197/
Going to be like the Durham “investigation” on TV, just like 2010 and Obama, it will set the Democrats up perfectly for 2024, and would be even funnier if Biden decides he doesn’t want to run again, all that wasted “investigating” for nothing, little Jimmy Jordan would want to “investigate” why Biden ain’t running