Rep. Tim Burchett, told Newsmax that House Oversight Chair James Comer's invitation to President Joe Biden to testify before the committee is a serious offer, but he doesn't think the president will take him up on it.https://t.co/hzJRNxqFok https://t.co/J8yA1cHdJ6

— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) March 29, 2024

If we’re talking about doing the work to boost their candidate in the presidential election and flexing the power to set an investigative agenda they have with a majority, Senate Dems have been utterly chickenshit in comparison to the House GOP this Congress – “comparison” doing a lot of lifting there because there is none. At least something would have been nice to see.

That being said, it would be fucking stupid for a Dem Senate committee chair to invite fat former President Trump to come testify publicly about his corruption, knowing full well that he wouldn’t show up, the only “victory” there being able to say that he’s too much of coward to face them. Far too few of the Dem voter base would give a shit. Obviously the incentives are different for the House GOP, that in a vacuum they can actually get the kind of favorable coverage from Newsmax from it.

But this isn’t happening in a vacuum, it’s happening after 15 months of just absolutely humiliating failure and simply further telegraphing their weakness and impotence. The returns have diminished to nothing and it’s at the point where the MAGA base are beyond fed up with them.