After a long wait, the Republicans in the House of Representatives finally got the majority, a razor thin, but still a majority.
It took days of dealing and whining for the Republicans to finally select the “heir apparent” to the Speakership, Kevin McCarthy. The House of Representatives made history by holding the most rounds of voting in 100 years.
This is probably the most amount of time I have dedicated to watch CSPAN in my entire life, but it was entertaining. Also, I have never seen members of Congress actually working for a change. This is probably the most they have worked since the Covid-19 shutdowns.
Let us fast forward a few weeks. Republicans in the House are preparing all kind of bills, going on Twitter and other social media platforms to brag about how much they are doing for the American people. They are also creating committees to investigate several things, from investigating the FBI, Covid-19, and the United States relationship with China.
I am sure people are cheering these investigations, but as every other investigation conducted by Republicans have shown, this will end up the same way, a lot of nothing and millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money wasted.
Who can forget when then congressman, Trey Gowdy, got humiliated on national television by Hillary Clinton while investigating the attack on the United States Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya. Several Americans were killed, including Ambassador John Christopher Stevens.
The reality is without the Senate, the Republicans have close to zero chance of passing any meaningful legislation without getting stomped by Senator Chuck Schumer the minute it hits his desk.
This is typical of the Republicans. I cannot remember the Republicans getting anything done since Speaker Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America” and later on during the Trump presidency.
Republicans should be concentrating on things they can actually do. For example, there is plenty of evidence pointing to President Biden’s alleged corruption. There is also the failure of the Biden administration in protecting the Southern border from illegal aliens.
These two along are strong enough to begin impeachment proceedings against President Biden. Sure, they do not have the Senate, and the chances of obtaining a conviction are nonexistent, but one thing it will do is expose President Biden to the American people and the failure of his administration.
It may not sound like much, but it will show the Republicans are not afraid of holding a sitting president accountable.
When President Trump was elected in 2016, the Democrats in the House wasted no time working and putting together so-called evidence to draft articles of impeachment, and by 2019, he was impeached.
The Democrats were clear about what they were going to do to President Trump, and they did it, not once, but twice in his four-year presidency.
Have you heard the Republicans even bringing the subject up? No, they continue promoting pieces of legislation that will never become law and only gets them airtime on Fox News and Hannity.
The Republicans have a little under two years to get things done and to have any chance of holding the House in 2024.
Right now, all they are doing is being histrionic because they think we are that kind of stupid. They think we are not smart enough to understand how our system of government works and they are banking on that stupidity to just get by until the next election cycle.
When it comes to the fighting spirit, I wish the Republicans were like the Democrats. The Democrats know how to win, even when in the minority.
In the meantime, we can expect from the Republicans and their leadership more of the same, the “Potomac Two Step.”