Quick(ish) take: Is the Biden impeachment dead?

 With so many consequential events in the world, it would be easy to miss the rather less serious business of the US House of Representatives, the study of which was the focus of my professional life when a) calling the institution "a joke" was, itself, a joke, and b) the problems of the world were proportionately less daunting.  In the intervening decades, the joke became a self-fulfilling prophesy, and as per my Sunday observations on Dostoevsky's Notes From The Underground, some ignoble gentleman came to the stage, arms akimbo, and amid a time of prosperity, suggested that we scatter the whole thing to the winds to live according to our sweet foolish will.  Less poetically, everyone went batty, and no one more pettily than the US Congress.  After akimboman's impeachment (his first impeachment), the Republican Party announced that it would just turn around and conduct a revenge impeachment of the next Democrat.  So, after Trump was removed from the White House, claw-marks still defacing the building, and [INSERT DEMOCRAT HERE]'s midterm election, the laws of political mathematics kicked in, giving the House to the Republican Party.  Impeach!  Impeach!

Would the lack of anything even remotely resembling an impeachable offense matter?  I did not think so.  Enter Hunter Biden.  Decades ago, I actually did... watch... television.  I watched the first season of 24.  It jumped the shark rather quickly, but it had some amusement value.  Anyway, there was, what I considered, a gaping plot hole.  There was a presidential candidate whose son had some stuff, that needed to be covered up to avoid hurting his campaign.  My reaction, decades ago, was that it was his son.  Why was this a thing?  But if you have nothing, you use the nothing you have, which is what the GOP has been doing.  Which was nothing.

The news of the stupid is that the big, star witness for the GOP in their "get Biden" campaign has been criminally charged with lying to the FBI.  Oops.  Enough Republicans may be backing out of the impeachment to prevent passage of articles of impeachment.

Remember why Mayorkas was impeached.  Republican leaders have understood the stupidity of a Biden impeachment from the get-go, but akimboman cares not for such things, nor does the base, which seeks to live in its own sweet foolish will.

Johnson already got rolled once on Mayorkas, and in all likelihood, he does not want to go through with a Biden impeachment and face the electoral backlash, which would just make it harder to steal the election for Trump.  After all, Trump may just win outright, so don't do anything to fuck it up.  In some ways, this is a gift, because if just a couple of Republicans tell Johnson they're a no on impeaching Biden, firm no, then he has to refuse to bring articles to the floor to avoid getting rolled again.  Otherwise, he brings articles of impeachment to the floor, Biden gets the House up-vote, and laughs the laugh of a vindicated old man in a House controlled by the other party.

Johnson has to tell the GOP to be satisfied with the Mayorkas impeachment, which was the whole point of that Kabuki theater anyway.  Does this stop the Biden impeachment?  I thought Biden's impeachment was near-inevitable when the GOP took the House, but right now, I doubt he gets impeached.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled worldwide catastrophes.

Gurf Morlix, "I Blunder On," from Toad of Titicaca.