According to former White House press secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki, House Republicans endured one of their most embarrassing weeks since taking power after the 2022 midterms.
With House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) holding a hearing with special counsel John Durham that shed more light on his investigative deficiencies than it did on exposing the FBI, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) publicly getting in the face of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) over who was first to propose impeaching President Joe Biden, Psaki pointed out that House Republicans are not doing themselves any favors with the 2024 election looming.
In her column for MSNBC, Psaki wrote, "... despite all that effort, they still failed to produce something — anything — the GOP can use to help keep control of the House next year."
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Pointing to the Durham hearing that "went nowhere," the GOP-led House vote to censure Rep. Adam Schiff that the California Democrat called a "badge of honor," to Greene and Boebert squabbling in front of their colleagues, Psaki suggested the GOP caucus is flailing about and ignoring the work voters sent them to Congress to do.
"So if this week has revealed anything, it’s that the GOP’s downward spiral is fueled almost entirely by grievance and revenge," she wrote before quoting former GOP senior aide Brendan Buck telling MSNBC, "The most useful thing President Biden has going for himself right now is a House absolutely incapable of not overreaching. Oversight can be effective for Republicans, but not when it’s focused on conspiracy theories and vendettas.”
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