A week or so back, Hunter Biden was subpoenaed by Rep Comer’s (R-SC) House Oversight to appear for a private hearing, a hearing from which the press and other news media is excluded.
Hunter declined, but offered to appear at a public meeting, one open to the media. He was perhaps undiplomatic in noting Comer’s inclination to misrepresent the findings of such meetings. Rep Comer (R-SC) declined this offer, which is to say he expressed outrage and made various claims of impeachment of the President over the matter, the heaps of evidence, and a few other trivialities.
Which leads to a joint meeting of the Oversight and Judiciary committees to begin the process of holding Biden in contempt of Congress a day or two ago in which … Hunter Biden showed up. Reactions reported by CNN/Politics:
On Wednesday morning, Hunter Biden entered the committee room, creating a tumultuous scene inside and outside the committee room as lawmakers debated what to do.
“You are the epitome of White privilege,” GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina told Hunter Biden from her committee seat. “Coming into the Oversight Committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed. What are you afraid of? You have no balls.”
It was quite a meeting according to CNN.
“I think it’s clear and obvious for everyone watching this hearing today that Hunter Biden is terrified of strong, conservative, Republican women because he can’t even face my words as I was about to speak to him,” [Rep MT] Greene [R-GA] said.
More likely, it was to keep from laughing. In fact, you know you’re in trouble when Rep Andy Biggs (R-AZ) is the reasonable guy in the room:
Reacting to all of the members interrupting each other, GOP Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona implored his colleagues “don’t act like a bunch of nimrods.”
But, seriously, as noted by others this is what happens when politicians trained to be publicity hounds are elected. They should be seen as object lessons on the attributes of who does not deserve to be elected. Far-right pundit Erick Erickson, in a paywall piece that he sent to unpaid subscribers like me, recognizes this was an entire room of preferably ex-Representatives:
I will not be surprised if, by this afternoon, Rep. Nancy Mace has out a fundraising appeal that she told Hunter Biden to his face that he has no balls. The GOP has a problem. This morning’s hearing about Biden turned into a clown show. I bet a lot of you loved it. But a lot of Democrats loved it too. Both sides get to rile up their base and fundraise. …
The Republicans, and to some extent the Democrats, believe that it’s now campaign time at all times, and worse yet that governing performance is not part of campaigning.
It’s going to be a rough time for Americans until they figure out that Mace, Greene, etc et al must be ejected before responsible governance will be possible.
