Nobody has ever accused the modern Republican Party of shying away from the dramatic. The House GOP caucus in particular has turned histrionics into an art form, honing its craft over years of horrifying symbiosis with conservative media. From that unending reservoir of dudgeon comes its latest affront to governance: two subcommittees designed to lend patinas of credibility to some of the right’s darkest conspiracies.
The innocuous-sounding “select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic” will be housed under the Oversight Committee. The much more aggressively named “select subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government” will reside under the auspices of the Judiciary Committee. Both will be overwhelmingly packed with Republicans and will have absolutely no lasting legislative impact. But, unfortunately, we can’t outright ignore either of them.
Both of these ideas are bazonkers and obviously targeted at the more conspiratorial-minded among the GOP’s base.
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