{"id":62650,"date":"2024-08-16T13:14:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T20:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=62650"},"modified":"2024-08-16T13:14:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T20:14:42","slug":"weaponizing-congress-gop-hack-comer-launches-phony-probes-into-both-kamala-harris-and-tim-walz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=62650","title":{"rendered":"Weaponizing Congress? GOP Hack Comer Launches Phony Probes Into Both Kamala Harris and Tim Walz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone is wondering why the American people have a such a poor opinion of Congress, it might have something to do with how little it has done on their behalf under the current &#8211; albeit slim &#8211; GOP majority. They actually seem to be proud of their ineffectualness. It\u2019s hard to argue that they haven\u2019t been purposefully determined to be political slackers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Weaponizing Congress? GOP Hack Comer Launches Phony Probes Into Both Kamala Harris and Tim Walz%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=62650\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-baby-congress.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Congress, Mike Johnson\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Republican <em>&#8220;leaders&#8221;<\/em> of the House of Representatives have spent the past two years utterly ignoring their responsibilities to advancing the interests of the citizens they are supposed to be serving. In fact, they have succeeded only at achieving a new record for passing fewer bills than any Congress in modern times. Congratulations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=59399\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DO-NOTHING CONGRESS? The Republican House of Representatives is the Most Productive Ever (LOL)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are many Republican members who can shar the blame for this deliberate neglect. At the top of the list is the GOP Speaker, MAGA Mike Johnson, who has exhibited no management aptitude whatsoever. He only got the job when no else could muster enough votes following the ouster of the previous GOP Speaker, Kevin McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>And right below Johnson in the congressional Dereliction Derby is the chair of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer. He has made it his personal mission to devote all of his time to presiding over ludicrous investigations of Democrats, particularly President Biden and his family. And all to no avail. After wasting months of hearings, and millions of taxpayer dollars, Comer hasn&#8217;t found a shred of evidence of any wrongdoing. He&#8217;s been so inept that even Fox News took him to task&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61781\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News is Steaming Mad at GOP Chairman Comer for Being an Incompetent Biden Persecutor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now that President Biden has passed the torch to Vice-President Kamala Harris, Comer &#038; Co. have abandoned the pitiful failures that they have been obsessed with for so long. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that he is taking a rest. Nope. Comer has already initiated investigations of both Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz. Last week he posted this announcement&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">James Comer announced a very conveniently timed investigation into Kamala Harris.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lOW5rJ69mh\">https:\/\/t.co\/lOW5rJ69mh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The New Republic (@newrepublic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newrepublic\/status\/1823053110668853360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is Comer&#8217;s contribution to the brazen lie that Harris was a <em>&#8220;Border Czar&#8221;<\/em> (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2024\/08\/trump-tv-ad-repeats-false-border-czar-illegal-immigration-claims\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she never was<\/a><\/strong>), and that there must be some impropriety that he can manufacture with regard to that lie.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Comer&#8217;s grossly partisan attack on Harris, this week he added Gov. Walz to his hit list.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">?BREAKING?<\/p>\n<p>Chairman James Comer has launched an investigation into Minnesota Governor Timothy Walz, Kamala Harris\u2019s recently announced vice-presidential running mate, following reports detailing the Governor\u2019s longstanding connections to Chinese Communist Party entities and\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPoversight\/status\/1824448087223370135?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s ironic that Republicans are trying to falsely associate Walz with some sort of collusion with China, when it is Donald Trump and his family who have been doing business there for decades, including while he was occupying the White House. The truth about Walz is that he had a purely educational role in China, as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/tim-walz-kamala-harris-vp-china-connection-explained-1935361\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported by Newsweek<\/a><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Following his graduation, the Minnesota governor and former Congressman spent approximately one year teaching high school in China as part of Harvard University&#8217;s WorldTeach program.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These blatant attempts to weaponize Congress by using it to attack their political foes is a reprehensible perversion of their sworn duties. But it is consistent with their past misbehavior. In the past couple of years they introduced more preposterous articles of impeachment (for Biden, DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas, FBI Director Chris Wray, U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves, and Attorney General Merrick Garland) than any session of Congress ever.<\/p>\n<p>And now they are turning their aim toward Harris and Walz in the final months of this election year. The good news is that Comer and his cohorts are too feeble-minded to succeed at anything other than humiliating themselves. They inherited that mental defect from their Dear Leader Trump. And in the end all of them will wind up achieving the only outcome that they are capable of: FAILURE!<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57497\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GOP Wants a Government Shutdown Because \u2018Most of What We Do is Bad, Hurts the American People\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=58954\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GOP Speaker Admits the Purpose of the Biden Impeachment Inquiry is to Hurt Biden Politically<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56328\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New GOP Subcommittee Chair Openly Admits His Only Purpose is to \u2018Make Life Hell\u2019 for Democrats<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone is wondering why the American people have a such a poor opinion of Congress, it might have something to do with how little it has done on their behalf under the current &#8211; albeit slim &#8211; GOP majority. 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