Democrats Should Not Be So Confident the Biden Impeachment Inquiry Will Be a Bust

Given the evidence the GOP’s investigations have already produced, the White House’s defenders would be wise to hedge their bets.

Following the news that Speaker Kevin McCarthy has lent his imprimatur to an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden, Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman summed up the conventional wisdom to which Democratic partisans are partial in his reliably theatrical and sophomoric style. Pretending to reel from the news, the senator clutched his head in feigned shock. “It’s devastating,” he scoffed, quaking dramatically. “Please don’t do it.”