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This hearing was a major tactical mistake by Comer, Jordan, and McCarthy. The whole point is to damage the President politically, but the first hearing totally backfired. Having started this it's hard to stop, and it will get harder as they go, for all of them. Real risk here imo
https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1707408720227910138
The Biden-district guys are in a bad spot here. McCarthy gave a green light over their objections to win cool points with the right (a total failure, it turned out), but now that it's going, it has to end somehow. Are they just gonna stop if they keep striking out? Seems unlikely
It's already a terribly unpopular impeachment, they have no evidence and as yet haven't even agreed what accusation they are making. Do they make the "moderates" vote on something? If they do they have to twist their arms all the way, losing that vote will look terrible for them.
The logic here leads inexorably to impeachment, one that their Biden-district people will be herded into with all possible political force. They have tried to hem and haw and put the brakes on but now their fate is inextricably bound up in the whole enterprise. They can't stop it
Republicans' first witness opened with “I do not believe that the current evidence would support articles of impeachment.” That's the tone Comer and Jordan set for an impeachment that could decide political futures for their colleagues, who are now powerless to stop or control it
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