'Off the deep end': Columnist gives a rundown of 'looney tunes behavior going on day after day' in Congress

The U.S. House of Representatives has been even crazier than expected since Republicans took back the majority in last year's elections, and a columnist laid out the 'looney tunes' details.

Republican-led committees have tried to find evidence that President Joe Biden, his family and his administration are engaged in criminal corruption, and while they haven't turned up any smoking guns themselves they're throwing a fit because Hunter Biden was only given probation on misdemeanor tax charges instead of "being immediately marched off to solitary confinement," wrote Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton.

"It's very lucky that the Democrats managed to hold on to the Senate in the last election and that President Joe Biden is in the White House right now because I shudder to think of what would become of this country if these people had a monopoly on power," Parton wrote.

"They have completely gone off the deep end."

GOP committee chairs have scheduled hearings involving top Biden administration officials with an eye on possible impeachment inquiries, as Reps. Elise Stefanik and Marjorie Taylor Greene call for a symbolic "expungement" of Donald Trump's impeachments -- and Parton blasted House speaker Kevin McCarthy's attempts to maintain control of his caucus.

"This is just a partial rundown of the looney tunes behavior going on day after day in the House of Representatives under Speaker McCarthy," Parton wrote. "Aside from all the other preposterous maneuvers he's endorsing, he won the week's Profile in Courage award for the 18th week in a row when he stuck his neck out and said to a reporter that he wasn't sure if Donald Trump would be the strongest candidate in the general election in 2024 and then immediately groveled like a beaten dog, begging for forgiveness from Dear Leader for uttering the unthinkable."

"This is the person who is second in line to the presidency," she concluded. "We must all fervently hope that both President Biden and Vice President Harris remain in good health and stay safe so McCarthy can stay where he is and keep doing the work of the Freedom Caucus and Donald Trump's reelection campaign."