As impeachment inquiry flails, is Comer waving the white flag?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

The point of the anti-Biden impeachment inquiry was to work towards an impeachment vote. James Comer now realizes that’s no longer a realistic option.

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Soon after, Rep. Tim Burchett was asked about a possible impeachment vote on the House floor targeting the Democratic incumbent. “Yeah, that’s not gonna happen,” the far-right Tennessee Republican replied.

Comer appears to have come to a similar conclusion. The Hill reported:

House Oversight and Accountability Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) suggested the impeachment vote against President Biden may not be the “best path” and said he instead thinks criminal referrals will be the way to go. “I believe that the best path to accountability is criminal referrals,” Comer told Newsmax hosts Thursday.

Right off the bat, it’s worth noting that making criminal referrals to the Justice Department in this matter will almost certainly be pointless. It’s been the Kentucky congressman’s Plan B for quite a while, but the strategy is rooted in the idea that Comer and his cohorts will package what they’ve come up with, send it federal prosecutors, and include a note effectively asking law enforcement to take the matter seriously.

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.....It’s why Comer’s “best path” comments stood out: It was the GOP lawmaker’s way of acknowledging that the path he wanted to take is now effectively closed, leaving him with no choice but to ask the Justice Department to give him a hand.

When prosecutors put Comer’s pitch in a circular file, it will quietly bring the entire fiasco to an ignominious end.

[nature-lover]

1. Would probably work best if there was a crime. Seems to be the rub here.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Ridiculous question. How would Comer know?

I mean, "Duh! I don't know what I'm doing!"

[angrychair]

3. His "referral" is failed before it starts

If they haven't been able to articulate what "high crimes and misdemeanors" were for the impeachment of the president, what specific crime(s) are going to be in the "criminal" referral to DOJ?

[nakocal]

4. The idiot Garland will

probably think that he has to appear fair and assign far right, integrity-less special counsel to "investigate".

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. What does a Chinese foreign agent, Russian disinformation, and a felon in jail have in common?

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[sheshe2]

6. All our tax dollars wasted on their clown show.

SMDH

[marble falls]

7. If there's a way to force the vote, we ought to do it. When DoJ drops it, they'll be screaming.

[Johonny]

8. Comer states he will nail Socks the cat befor FY24 is out

There's no fucking way a cat wrote those letters, Comer is quoted as saying.