House GOP would dig own grave by rushing to impeach Biden

One of the worst mistakes political movements can make, at least in a constitutional republic, is the error of overkill. In that light, it would be monumentally stupid for House Republicans to rush into an impeachment inquiry regarding President Joe Biden.

To be clear, the mistake would be of both substance and politics. The former ought to be more important, but it is the latter consideration that should convince most Republican politicians not to slake their political bloodlust so quickly in this way.

House Republicans (and some Senate Republicans) already are doing a good job, in their legitimate oversight capacity, of exposing the Biden family’s ethical problems. They need no impeachment inquiry to keep doing so. By prematurely turning their investigations into an impeachment investigation, they make the substantive mistake of treating political grifting as a constitutional matter worthy of a major disruption of representative governance. They simultaneously make the political error of looking overeager for a political scalp rather than reluctantly carrying out a sobering and solemn task, for which there is no other alternative, to serve the public weal.