House Republicans should pay a price this November for a failure that transcends ideology, rhetoric or partisanship: their gross incompetence.

“Circus” doesn’t begin to describe the conduct by the majority party in Congress over the past 20 months. It took 15 ballots – a record since the Civil War era – for Republicans to elect a speaker, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, only to dump him nine months later. Others tried and failed to win the leadership, forcing the GOP to settle on a backbencher, Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana, who is in over his head and barely treading water.

And forget about the separation of powers; former President Donald Trump hovers over their every move. The Donald's enforcer is Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, a former wrestling coach and wannabe tough guy.

Jordan's mission – leading investigations and impeachments of President Joe Biden and others – has been an utter time-wasting fiasco. The Republicans cooked up smears, innuendos and discredited charges galore, mostly from crooks associated with foreign adversaries. One thing they didn't produce? Any evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden.

Rep. Gerry Connolly, an eight-term House Democrat from Virginia who has made plenty of bipartisan deals with Republicans in his time, has a ringside view, as a member of the bizarrely-named House subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, on the antics of the “Cirque du GOP." Republicans created the subcommittee last year to root out alleged bias and corruption in the so-called “deep state.”

Connolly tells me he’s never seen anything like this batch of Republican “cranks and misfits” who haven’t “had a single breakthrough."

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