Republican House members who are trying to use public hearings on Hunter Biden's legal problems, in an effort to damage President Joe Biden's re-election prospects, are finding the Democrats are more than willing to fight fire with fire.
House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) along with House Judiciary Committee head Jim Jordan(R-OH) have allowed members of their caucus free rein to make attacks on the Bidens only to receive return fire from Democrats Like Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL).
According to a report from the Daily Beast's Riley Rogerson, Republicans are finding themselves back on their heels at the unexpected pushback from Democrats on what they thought was a winning strategy, with Moskowitz explaining his party is "giving them a taste of their own medicine."
As he explained, following his holding up enlarged pictures of Donald Trump with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein at a recent hearing, “They’ve decided to turn it into Cirque Du Soleil Oversight where literally, it’s just a total show. If that is the game that they are going to play, then game on."
As the Beast's Rogerson wrote, "... the young, spunky cohort of Democrats—mentored by the leader of Trump’s second impeachment, Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) — are refusing to take it. Where past generations of Democrats might have sat back, preferring to let Republican dysfunction speak for itself, the Oversight Dems are hitting Republicans hard."
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), who got the expression "d--k pics" entered into the Congressional Record during a verbal battle with far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), cut right to the chase about the Democrats' strategy.
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“We’re calling out their bulls--t like every single time, and I think they’re surprised by it. I think they’re not used to it. And I think that we are causing them great embarrassment,” he explained.
That strategy, and lack of success by Comer in leading the inquiry, is reportedly making the membership sour on his machinations.
One House Republican who asked to remain anonymous told the Messenger this week, "One would be hard-pressed to find the best moment for James Comer in the Oversight Committee. It’s been a parade of embarrassments.”
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