Thread by @KevinMKruse

The House GOP has been riling up its base by repeatedly insisting it has the goods to get Joe Biden.

This works fine in the short term, but repeatedly overpromising and underdelivering is only going to make the base mad at them, more than anyone else.

You can see this with today's tweets from the Oversight Committee.

It's framed as a huge hit on Biden but once you read it, it's clear the "Biden FAMILY AND ASSOCIATES" framing is a load-bearing beam.

It's a showy announcement meant to suggest much more than is actually there.

But the base doesn't get that -- they're riled up and they expect action.

Action that Republican politicians can't *actually* deliver because they (or at least their very patient legal counsel) understand there's really no there there.

So there are lots of QTs and replies on their tweets, demanding "so what are you going to do?!?"

And the answer is, well, nothing.

If they impeach, this nothingburger becomes obvious.

If they sit on it, hoping rumors hurt Biden, the base will be furious at their inaction.

Doesn't seem like the smartest plan to me.

But then again, trusting a pair of clowns like Jim Jordan and James Comer to lead congressional investigations didn't either.

Glad that Eric brought some history to bear here:

https://twitter.com/EricMGarcia/status/1689432292211523584?s=20