Will the gamble pay off, or blow up in their face?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gops-phony-impeachment-backfire-trump-094501932.html
GOP's phony impeachment will backfire — Trump and McCarthy will pay the price

On Tuesday, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz and their Freedom Caucus allies, along with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, announced an evidence-free impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden. They were doing what members of the MAGA cult do — taking their marching orders from Donald Trump.

They are not motivated by a devotion to their public duty or by a desire to protect the Republic. Instead, as Greene admitted, they only want to make the impeachment inquiry "long and excruciatingly painful for Joe Biden."

In two significant respects, this has every prospect of backfiring.

It may well ensure that Republicans lose control of the House in 2024, as already looks likely. And it could also give Joe Biden a boost as he runs for re-election, presumably against Donald Trump himself or, hypothetically, some MAGA-infused successor.

The framers of the U. S. Constitution intended impeachment as the most serious charge the legislative branch could launch against a member of another branch. It was meant only for "High Crimes and Misdemeanors," not for charges based on smoke, mirrors and a desire for political retaliation.

As Alexander Hamilton wrote, if the impeachment power is misused it can "agitate the passions of the whole community, and … divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused." Hamilton called on those who wield this power to act with due regard for its "delicacy and magnitude."

But there is nothing delicate about what the Republicans are now doing.