From Rae Hodge writing in Salon.com regarding the upcoming "investigations" contemplated by the Republican House:
"The Biden administration has been gearing up for the GOP's promised investigations at least since May, when presumed GOP targets like the Department of Homeland Security began a process that might be described as legal waterproofing. After recruiting a slate of veteran white-collar lawyers and former political advisers, Biden officials built the administration's response strategy last summer in a series of meetings.
Democrats will meet this investigative onslaught with essentially the same playbook Republicans used to defend Donald Trump and his coterie, ironically enough — along with a battery of legal defenses meant to guard against overly broad demands for Justice Department intelligence. Democrats also know first-hand how hard it is to turn investigative findings into a pair of handcuffs. That experience, some argue, may offer Democrats the advantage in landing a balance of public favor."
In a thorough article, Hodge goes on to examine what's involved in these multiple "investigations," which are aimed at stirring up the right-wing rubes that put them in office, smearing Dems, and raising money for 2024. The template for these hearings is the manufactured "Benghazi BENGHAZI!" hearings, which were aimed at taking down Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's poll numbers, as clueless Rep. Kevin McCarthy blurted out to Fox's propagandist Sean Hannity in 2015, giving the game away. There's no difference in 2023, with a Presidential election coming up, and with an even more radical and reckless Republican caucus looking for revenge and conspiracies.
