Dan Goldman, a newly minted Democrat congressman from New York, is the latest of the ultra-obnoxious Democrats to give oral to every microphone he can.

Goldman is worth — no, scratch that, he has — some $250 million, thanks to his status as an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune. That unearned money defines him; it oozes out of his pores like body odor. Spend 30 seconds watching him on camera, and you’ll notice that he carries himself with an air of superiority — one that is more like a force field, according to a couple of House colleagues your author talked to about the subject at hand.

“Rich prick,” was how one described him.

Which seems pretty accurate:

Goldman is a walking personification of the old lawyer admonition that if you’ve got ’em on the law, pound the law, and if you’ve got ’em on the facts, pound the facts, but if you don’t have ’em on either, pound the table.

He pounds the table. It’s all he does.

And Goldman, who as a congressional staffer played a sizable role in enmeshing the country in the contrived web of lies that was the Trump–Russia hoax, has stepped forward as the top shill for Joe and Hunter Biden. To listen to Goldman is like watching a bad child stair-step excuses and lies in an effort to avoid responsibility for breaking the china.

To set the predicate here, this was Goldman six months ago explaining that Joe Biden was completely on the level in keeping classified documents at his Chinese-funded think tank and in his garage next to his Corvette:

It was embarrassing then. But Goldman is far beyond embarrassment, something he’s been making quite clear.

Goldman’s initial position was that the New York Post’s reporting was “100 percent false,” particularly with respect to Burisma and Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor Biden bragged about inducing his firing after Biden and his son were paid to, and asked to, pressure the government to fire him:

Here’s how that went. It descended into gibberish with one question asked of him:

Well, that didn’t hold up very well, did it?

Then there was this, which was hilarious:

Then there was Goldman going on TV babbling about the Hunter Biden plea deal falling apart, which had all kinds of fun self-owns in it:

The absurdity borders on hilarity.

Dan Goldman is here to tell you that Burisma paid the Bidens eight figures and then asked them to intercede to fire Shokin … because Shokin was not active enough in prosecuting Burisma.

Seriously, that’s his position.

And on Monday, when Hunter Biden business associate Devon Archer — who the Biden Department of Justice was attempting to arrest and imprison before he could testify in front of a House committee — disclosed multiple bombshells of information, including that on more than 20 occasions he saw Hunter putting his business contacts in front of Joe Biden, making a liar out of Joe when he declared he had nothing to do with Hunter’s business dealings, this was the result from Goldman:

Did this guy draw the short straw when they decided someone had to arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic? #PoorDanGoldman pic.twitter.com/ZzuEF2O7Ce

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) August 1, 2023

Is it outrageous? Well, it would be if we were still capable of outrage.

Thanks to people like Goldman’s New York predecessors, the Chuck Schumers, Anthony Weiners, Jerry Nadlers, and AOC’s of the world, this is more or less old hat.

But at the risk of coming off as being as over-the-top as Goldman is, you’re going to see a lot more of this guy going forward.

Why? Because today’s Democrat Party is not about merit. It’s about audacity. It’s about being willing to do the things that others simply refuse to do.

Dan Goldman has no fear of failure. That $250 million silver spoon he was born with made sure of that. What Goldman wants with his inheritance is power, and the means with which he seeks to get it is to suck up to the Bidens and white-knight for them more than anyone else. And if it all goes to hell, at least they’ll remember him for being the guy willing to fight to the end.

They need all the Dan Goldmans they can get. But the problem with those good loyal soldiers, for those of us not invested in the success of their party, is that audacity and zeal have to be paid off — and, ultimately, its possessor will pair them with ruthlessness.

Joseph Stalin wasn’t the smartest, wisest, most moral, or most capable member of Lenin’s politburo, after all. He was the one willing to do the dirty work.

So is Goldman.

He comes off as a trust-fund dunce — that’s certainly true. But the Democrats don’t offer a lot of smart people on Capitol Hill. Long ago they traded smarts for glib babbling as priority traits.

He’s awful, and he’s unimpressive. But he shouldn’t be dismissed as an idiot. An idiot with a maniacal will to power and an immunity to shame can do a world of damage in a dying republic, and Dan Goldman seems absolutely made for the moment.

Here’s hoping he disqualifies himself even more demonstrably as this train of revelations about the Biden bribes chugs along.