GOP Rep. James Comer held a Home Accountability and Oversight Committee listening to on Thursday titled, “A Legacy of Incompetence: Consequences of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Policy Failures.” The laughably biased show is the newest Republican try and bash President Joe Biden, tarnish Vice President Kamala Harris’ document, and bolster Donald Trump’s flailing presidential marketing campaign.
Not not like the committee’s abject failure to discover a single shred of proof to question Biden, this new try didn’t go the Republican Celebration’s approach. As an alternative of making offended and aggrieved sound bites for MAGA minions to salivate over, the listening to was principally a boring stream of conservative lies.
Enter Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia, who used his time to element the Biden administration’s many accomplishments on behalf of the American individuals. Connolly enlisted Skye Perryman, CEO of public coverage group Democracy Ahead and the one witness the Democrats had been allowed to name throughout the listening to, as his keen confederate on this transient historical past lesson.
He started by countering the GOP claims that the Biden administration’s environmental rules stopping power industries from drilling for oil willy-nilly are “impeding energy production.”
Not solely are Trump and Republicans mendacity about how superior they’re relating to American power manufacturing, they’re mendacity concerning the Biden administration’s historic success in reaching new ranges of power independence.
Connolly moved on from there, asking Perryman concerning the Trump administration’s makes an attempt to cross an infrastructure invoice.
Connolly: Did they ever cross an infrastructure invoice?
Perryman: They didn’t.
Connolly: Did President Biden cross an infrastructure invoice?
Perryman: He did.
Connolly: Is it additionally the biggest infrastructure invoice in American historical past?
Perryman: The Biden-Harris infrastructure invoice is the biggest in American historical past.
Connolly: And fairly complete, covers a lot of completely different sorts of infrastructure. Is that appropriate?
Perryman: Many infrastructure and plenty of funding.
The Biden administration did certainly cross an infrastructure invoice with almost zero help from the Republican Celebration.
Connolly then detailed the Trump administration’s failures in Afghanistan, together with the rushed withdrawal timeline that Republicans now decry and blame on Biden. Trump tried to make his already horrible plan catastrophic by ordering a speedy withdrawal from Afghanistan after he misplaced the election in 2020. Fortunately, senior navy workers didn’t observe by means of.
The GOP and Trump have additionally blamed Biden for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s determination to invade Ukraine. So Connolly walked down reminiscence lane to recall why, not like Biden, Trump was first impeached in 2019. All of us bear in mind how Trump tried to extort Ukraine into interfering within the 2020 election by withholding weapons for the nation’s protection.
“Would it be fair to say that that development, that threat and that withholding of weapons, might be construed—if you were Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin—as a sign of weakness on the part of Ukraine and a sign that maybe the United States wasn’t going to be there should something bad happen between Russia and Ukraine?” Connolly requested.
“It seems plausible,” Perryman agreed.
Lastly, in gentle of the correct wing’s frequent fearmongering over nuclear warfare and Iran, Connolly gave everybody watching the listening to a fast historical past lesson.
Connolly: Iran and nuclear weapons: Was there not an settlement that america really led that concerned Russia and China, Europe and Iran, to restrict nuclear weapon manufacturing in Iran?
Perryman: There was a historic settlement.
Connolly: And was it working?
Perryman: Sure.
Connolly: In all respects?
Perryman: I consider so.
Connolly: Inspected by IAEA [the International Atomic Energy Agency] and the Trump administration, and authorized by each.
Perryman: Sure.
Connolly: Is that appropriate? And what occurred to that treaty?
Perryman: President Trump pulled out.
Connolly: And has Iran been much less energetic in producing nuclear weapons, or extra?
Perryman: Iran is now a higher risk due to that failure.
Connolly: A lot for efficacy. Simply thought I might revisit that revisionist historical past.
Comer appears to have discovered a novel technique to waste taxpayer cash: utilizing his place as chairman of the Accountability and Oversight Committee to nakedly marketing campaign in opposition to the Biden-Harris administration and prop up Trump’s dogged quest to return to the White Home.
If Thursday’s show was any indication, this newest effort shall be about as efficient as Comer’s final set of bogus hearings.
