CHASING MOBY DICK

James Comer's Biden obsession

Five years ago James Comer was a middle of the pack House Republican, a Mitch McConnell disciple, who occasionally worked with Democrats, and harbored statewide ambitions.
Today the Kentucky Republican is more like a madman, obsessed with Joe Biden, hoping that serves the interests of his now political hero, Donald Trump.
In the process he has been caught in lies, made absurd accusations and in his third year as Chairman of the House Oversight Committee has produced only embarrassments.
"He is like Captain Ahab, singularly focused on going after Biden and his family," charges Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna, alluding to Herman's Melville's maniacal character, obsessed with destroying a white male, Moby Dick. Adds Khanna: "There is nothing there except an attempt to distract from Trump's problems."
In the last Congress Comer sought to prove the Bidens were crooks who made a financial fortune from his high government posts. This year he's adding the "scandal" that Biden's cognitive decline as President was covered up.
On the money front, it was widely known, well before Comer's inquest, that the President's son, Hunter, engaged in sleazy practices, making money chiefly because of his father's position. The former President's brother, Jim, long traded on the family name.
However Comer and other Republican critics produced no evidence that as President or Vice President Joe Biden lined his pockets through those associations.
Comer, on more than one occasion, made a fool of himself. In a book he told about famed journalist, Bob Woodward, over dinner, suggesting Biden was culpable but it would be hard to prove. Woodward said that was fiction, he never said it, Comer made it up.
And one of Comer's key witnesses on the Biden conspiracy turned out to be on the Chinese payroll and was indicted.
Moreover, it's comical to talk about any alleged Biden financial shenanigans when Trump and his family are record setting grifters, promoting his crypto currency business, making new Trump real estate developments in countries whose governments are seeking stuff from the United States, and shaking down law firms, media companies and Universities.
After failing on any Joe Biden financial scandal, Comer is focusing on the alleged conspiracy to hide the former President's cognitive decline. |