{"id":1029367,"date":"2024-01-24T20:19:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T20:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1029367"},"modified":"2024-05-20T03:49:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T03:49:03","slug":"icymi-the-messenger-republicans-turn-on-their-impeachment-chairman-parade-of-embarrassments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-the-messenger-republicans-turn-on-their-impeachment-chairman-parade-of-embarrassments\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: The Messenger: Republicans Turn on Their Impeachment Chairman: \u2018Parade of Embarrassments\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point: <\/strong>\u201cHouse Republicans are increasingly disenchanted with Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., saying his leadership of the Biden impeachment inquiry has become a \u2018clueless investigation\u2019 at best and \u2014 at worst \u2014 \u2018a disaster.\u2019 \u2026 Republicans also have grown tired of Comer\u2019s frequent TV hits on conservative networks like Fox News and Newsmax in which they say he promises bombshell information, but then fails to produce impeachable evidence to meet the bar he himself has set too high.\u201d<br><strong><br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/themessenger.com\/politics\/republicans-turn-on-their-impeachment-chairman-a-parade-of-embarrassments-exclusive\"><strong>The Messenger<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Republicans Turn on Their Impeachment Chairman: \u2018Parade of Embarrassments\u2019 (Exclusive)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By: Stephen Neukam<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>House Republicans are increasingly disenchanted with Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., saying his leadership of the Biden impeachment inquiry has become a &#8220;clueless investigation&#8221; at best and \u2014 at worst \u2014 &#8220;a disaster.&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Less than 10 months away from the 2024 election, his impeachment investigation is barreling toward its conclusion, with no smoking gun to bring the president to his knees. <strong>Only one thing is clear: Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has lost the trust of some in his own party.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cOne would be hard pressed to find the best moment for James Comer in the Oversight Committee,\u201d one House Republican lawmaker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to maintain internal relationships, told The Messenger. <strong>\u201cIt\u2019s been a parade of embarrassments.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Republican sources have a problem with what the investigation has not accomplished. \u2026 Republicans at the highest level of the party criticize the chairman&#8217;s unfocused investigation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cComer has cast a wide net and caught very little fish. That is a big problem for him,\u201d one personal ally of former President Donald Trump told The Messenger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u201cJames Comer continues to embarrass himself and House Republicans. He screws up over and over and over,\u201d <\/strong>the source said. \u201cI don\u2019t know how Republicans actually impeach the president based on his clueless investigation and lack of leadership.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Republicans also have grown tired of Comer\u2019s frequent TV hits on conservative networks like Fox News and Newsmax in which they say he promises bombshell information, but then fails to produce impeachable evidence to meet the bar he himself has set too high.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One Republican pointed to the Oversight panel\u2019s first impeachment hearing in September, which Comer said would be a venue for the committee to lay out its findings to date. But<strong> the hearing was widely panned as a disaster, with Jonathan Turley, one of the GOP\u2019s star witnesses at the hearing, admitting there was not yet enough evidence to impeach the president.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., who has become a darling of the online left for outfoxing Comer, said Republicans privately aired their grievances to him about the committee&#8217;s latest hearing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Republican angst over Comer\u2019s performance has been shared directly with Speaker Mike Johnson, according to one lawmaker who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to speak freely about internal meetings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Republican lawmaker who took his complaints of Comer to the speaker&#8217;s office was told that <strong>Johnson is aware of the problem, agrees with the criticism<\/strong> but can\u2019t really do much other than watch and shake his head, the lawmaker told The Messenger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;You have to start producing,&#8221; a Trump ally said. &#8220;The base is starting to get more and more frustrated with him because they see all this smoke but they don\u2019t see the movement.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cHouse Republicans are increasingly disenchanted with Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., saying his leadership of the Biden impeachment inquiry has become a \u2018clueless investigation\u2019 at best and \u2014 at worst \u2014 \u2018a disaster.\u2019 \u2026 Republicans also have grown tired of Comer\u2019s frequent TV hits on conservative networks like Fox News and Newsmax in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: The Messenger: Republicans Turn on Their Impeachment Chairman: \u2018Parade of Embarrassments\u2019 - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-the-messenger-republicans-turn-on-their-impeachment-chairman-parade-of-embarrassments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-01-24T20:19:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-20T03:49:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-the-messenger-republicans-turn-on-their-impeachment-chairman-parade-of-embarrassments\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-the-messenger-republicans-turn-on-their-impeachment-chairman-parade-of-embarrassments\/\",\"name\":\"ICYMI: The Messenger: Republicans Turn on Their Impeachment Chairman: \u2018Parade of Embarrassments\u2019 - 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