House Republicans say that investigating Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, will be their number one priority after taking the chamber. BBC. Hunter Biden is already under federal investigation but has not faced any scrutiny from congress. The committee will explore the Biden family and their business deals, including those with Ukraine. The Republicans have accused Hunter Biden of wire fraud and tax evasion. The White House says the investigation is "politically motivated".
My Comment:
I have mixed feelings about this. My gut says that focusing on Joe Biden, who has a very good chance of being totally irrelevant in 2024, is not a good use of extremely limited GOP resources. Voters priorities right now are nor corruption in the White House. It's things like inflation, pay raises, crime, war and the LGBT culture war. This investigation isn't going to help with that at all.
Indeed, it's taking a page out of the Democrat's playbook. The Democrats put a huge amount of energy into attacking Donald Trump through the January 6th Committee (which is finally getting shut down). It accomplished very little outside of the beltway and it's probably a major reason why the Democrats lost the house. Instead of helping out the people that voted for them, they went for a vendetta and it didn't pay off for them. I think if the Republicans focus on it they could be in trouble.
Of course the problem with this is that there isn't much the Republicans can do with the Democrats in control of the Senate. I can't see much in the way of legislation being passed during the next two years. There is almost no chance of anything happening so what else are the Republicans can do? The Democrats will simply block any legislation they pass.
On the other hand I do think that the Biden family is essentially a crime family and people need to realize that. The committee won't need to prove it but they will accomplish something that they have failed with these accusations before. They will get publicity for Biden's corruption. The censorship campaign back in 2020 where Hunter Biden's laptop from hell was essentially banned from being discussed on every major website won't happen again after Elon Musk bought Twitter.
And I do think that Biden's corruption is a major foreign policy issue. Right now we are giving Ukraine billions of dollars and the laptop from hell proved that Hunter Biden had major links to Ukraine. We essentially went to war with Russia over Ukraine and it's very important that people realize that we may doing it to protect Biden's investments in the country. And with the FTX story raising the possibility that US aid is being laundered there and transferred to the Democrats, it's hugely important.
Still, I have limited hopes of this investigation actually taking down Biden. Biden's corruption has been widely known for two years now and it hasn't really affected him. And even if rock solid proof of impeachable offensives are found, Biden would not be removed from office because there aren't anywhere near enough votes in the Senate to remove him. Plus, even if there was, nobody on either side wants Kamala Harris to be President...
My gut says that this will just be a sideshow without much meaning, just like the January 6th committee. Biden's crimes will be exposed but I don't think much else will happen. The problem is that there is nothing else for the Republicans to do with their failure to capture the Senate (or, more accurately, prevent the Democrats from stealing it). I wish that they could do something about the various serious problems that are rocking the country right now, but essentially their hands are tied, and I doubt the Democrats will actually work with them on any of these issues.
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