Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday announced that the House of Representatives would open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. The inquiry comes comically late, as Biden’s rampant corruption has been evident for years. But it is nice when Republicans at least pretend to fight the left.

The inquiry is unlikely to go anywhere despite Biden’s obvious guilt, and if the Republicans were any form of serious political opposition, they would be using their formal power of the purse to defund the administration’s partisan and malicious abuse of agencies like the FBI. While impotent half-measures from GOP leadership are unsurprising, the far more interesting aspect of this news cycle was the response from the left and its media lickspittles. Shortly after McCarthy announced the impeachment inquiry, the White House rushed out a memo to the press instructing them to increase the scrutiny they were applying to the charges. The amazing thing was watching how quickly and blatantly the press complied with the order in real time.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday announced that the House of Representatives would open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. The inquiry comes comically late, as Biden’s rampant corruption has been evident for years. But it is nice when Republicans at least pretend to fight the left.

The inquiry is unlikely to go anywhere despite Biden’s obvious guilt, and if the Republicans were any form of serious political opposition, they would be using their formal power of the purse to defund the administration’s partisan and malicious abuse of agencies like the FBI. While impotent half-measures from GOP leadership are unsurprising, the far more interesting aspect of this news cycle was the response from the left and its media lickspittles. Shortly after McCarthy announced the impeachment inquiry, the White House rushed out a memo to the press instructing them to increase the scrutiny they were applying to the charges. The amazing thing was watching how quickly and blatantly the press complied with the order in real time.