Republicans’, um, dedication to governing leaves a lot to be desired.  From failing to reveal any relevant evidence justifying the multitude of hearings about impeaching Hunter Biden, to LB² Lauren Boebert being embarrassingly lying about missing a vote because she was too busy doing social media posts (but claiming she didn’t vote as a protest against overspending Socialist, Marxist, LGBTQ people or somesuch nonsense), to Ted Cruz’s famous vacation to Cancun when he abandoned his dog in a heat-less house during a winter power outage not to mention abandoning his constituents, Republican leadership is lacking.

But nothing is more embarrassing than calling a hearing in which you claim Constitution-rattling information about bribery of the President of the United States would be disclosed… but you don’t bother to show up.  And that’s where Republican House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer sits now.  Having skipped the hearing where Hunter Biden’s business partner Devon Archer was supposed to blow the lid off the Biden Crime Family [Spoiler alert:  he didn’t], Comer is now in damage control mode.

According to the Daily Beast, Comer is now claiming he participated in the hearing via conference call.  It’s an unusual claim for the committee chairman, given that during the hearing he wasn’t heard making a single comment or asking a single question.  And it’s even more curious given that all the participants in the hearing–even members who participated via video calls–are listed on the hearing minutes; Comer is not listed as attending the July 31st closed-door hearing.

In the immediate aftermath and embarrassment, Comer staff said that constituent issues prevented Comer from attending.  But that didn’t stop Comer from appearing on television programs asserting he learned a lot about the alleged Biden crimes by participating in the meeting.